Title: Dreams Date Read: 7th February 2012 Briefly: While tramping towards the district town, peasant constables Ptaha and Sapozhnikov get to know something of the person they're escorting - a tramp who doesn't look anything like a tramp, who's … [Read more...]
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Chekhov Shorts: Mire
Title: Mire Date Read: 7th February 2012 Briefly: Lieutenant Alexandr Grigoryevitch Sokolsky arrives at the home of a young wealthy Jewess to collect money owed to his cousin, Kryukov. Keen to collect the money because it is getting loaned to him … [Read more...]
Devouring De Maupassant: The First Snowfall
Title: The First Snowfall Date Read: 06 February 2012 Available Online?: YES Briefly: When a Norman gentleman takes his young Parisian wife home to live in his chateau, she becomes sad and melancholic about the loneliness of the place, and the … [Read more...]
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Devouring De Maupassant: Legend of Mont St. Michel
Title: Legend of Mont St. Michel Date Read: 06 February 2012 Available Online?: YES Briefly: The narrator recounts the legend of Saint Michel, and how the saint managed to vanquish the devil and expel him from Normandy. Afterthoughts: In … [Read more...]
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Devouring De Maupassant: The Father
Title: The Father Date Read: 09 January 2012 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Clerk, Francois Tessier falls in love with a woman (Lousie) on his daily commute. Despite the woman's shy and cautious nature the couple eventually take a day trip to … [Read more...]
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Devouring De Maupassant: Useless Beauty
Title: Useless Beauty Date Read: 09 January 2012 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Livid at the treatment meted out by her oppressive and jealous husband, the stunningly attractive Comtesse de Mascaret confronts the Comte, telling him that she knows … [Read more...]
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Devouring De Maupassant: Moiron
Title: Moiron . Date Read: 12th December 2011 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Monsieur Maloureau recounts his time as a district attorney, and the case involving mild-mannered teacher, Monsieur Moiron. … [Read more...]
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Devouring De Maupassant: A Meeting
Title: A Meeting. Date Read: 12th December 2011 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Finding his wife in the embrace of another man, Baron d'Etraille informs his wife that they are going to split, amicably. They meet again by chance six years later, … [Read more...]
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31 Shots of Shock #9: ‘Pop Art’ by Joe Hill
*Title: 'Pop Art' by Joe Hill. Date Read: 09 October 2011 Available Online?: NO, taken from, 20th Century Ghosts (PS Publishing). Briefly: The narrator has a best friend called Arthur Roth, who is a little different than most. You see Arthur … [Read more...]
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31 Shots of Shock #8: ‘A Warning to the Curious’ by M. R. James
*Title: 'A Warning to the Curious' by M.R. James. Date Read: 08 October 2011 Available Online?: YES, but for this review I read from, M.R. James: The Collected Ghost Stories (Oxford University Press) Briefly: The narrator relates a story … [Read more...]
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