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The Penguins' Rock

A group of old friends gathers for their annual hunting rendezvous on the coast of Normandy. Time may have passed, but their passion remains strong. One of them arrives dressed in ...


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The Patron

Jean Marin has always been diligent. Not just in his studies but in his job as a handyman too. He is by no means used to luxury. When he lands a government job, it's like a dream c ...


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The Monomaniac

'The Monomaniac' narrates Jacques Lantiere’s perpetual yet ultimately catastrophic descent into a maelstrom of madness unfolding upon the railroads between Paris and Le Havre durin ...


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Ptomaine Street

Orphan Warble Mildew has successfully managed to get herself expelled from school. She becomes a waitress and learns how to make the best cream pie around, attracting the attention ...


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The Disappearance Of Kimball Webb

Playwright Kimball Webb is due to be married to the beautiful heiress Elsie Powell. One morning Kimball fails to appear, and when his family go to investigate they find his door lo ...


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Antonia; or, The Fall of Rome

In case you've never taken a moment to stop looking at cat videos and arguing with strangers on the Internet to appreciate the readily accessible cornucopia of collected human know ...


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The Fallen Leaves

'The Fallen Leaves' is a British garage rock group that formed in Richmond, London in 2004. Their most commercially successful release was 2013's 'If Only We'd Known' with their to ...


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The Haunted Hotel

Old-timey horror is often a hard sell to a modern, visually-oriented audience whose palettes have long been cleansed, and numbed, by jumpscares, the gorefests of SAW-movies and the ...


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Suden poika

Klondiken kultaryntäys houkuttelee paikalle monenlaisia onnenonkijoita. Toiset heistä ovat paremmin valmistautuneita kuin toiset. Klondiken vaikeat olosuhteet ovat yllätys Carter W ...


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Djungelboken

Det prasslade bland buskarna och Vargfar gjorde sig färdig till språng. Men när han skymtade vad som dolde sig bland löven hindrade han sig i sista sekund. Framför vargen stod en l ...


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Levoton lapsuus

Vuosi 1917. Kansalaissota varjostaa tamperelaista pihapiiriä, jossa varttuu joukko lapsia. Yhdeksänvuotiasta Lauria huolestuttaa, mitä hänen äidilleen on tapahtunut. Poika kastelee ...


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Christmas Fairy Tales

A selection of wonderful Christmas fairy tales by the beloved author Hans Christian Andersen to enjoy in the cozy winter evenings. Let one of the best-known children’s authors of a ...


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The Road

"The Road" is an autobiographical memoir recounting London’s time as a vagabond in America in the 1890’s during the worst economic depression the nation had ever seen. It is a wild ...


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The Captain of the Pole Star & Other Tales

"The Captain of the Pole Star & Other Tales" is a collection of ten short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, comprising various themes and topics. From the melodramatic "John Huxford’s ...


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Novel in Nine Letters

‘Novel in Nine Letters’ is an incredibly inventive short story by Dostoevsky about a comical miscommunication between two friends. The story unfolds through letters as we learn tha ...


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A Nasty Story

‘A Nasty Story’ is a hilarious look into the world of humanitarian high society by Dostoevsky. This farcical story revolves around Pralinski, a kind-hearted aristocrat, who decides ...


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The Eternal Husband

‘The Eternal Husband’ is a tragicomic novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky about Trusotsky, a widower who discovers that his wife had an affair with an old friend, Velchaninov. The story f ...


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The Duchess of Palliano

Sibling rivalry was no joke in 16th Century Italy. Giovanni Carafa is the Duke of Palliano and one of the heirs to the throne. He and his two brothers, Carlo and Antonio, achieve f ...


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The Abbess of Castro

'The Abbess of Castro' is a novella by Stendhal which recounts the untimely tragic romance between the daughter of the wealthiest man in Lazio and a penniless gangster. It may be a ...


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Within the Tides

'Within the Tides' is a collection of four short stories devoted to a motley crew of sailors scattered across all corners of the globe exchanging tales sharply punctuated by leitmo ...


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The Schoolmistress

Follows Maria’s tumultuous journey home after receiving her salary from the school board. 'The Schoolmistress' features Chekhov’s much-celebrated realist prose as he illustrates th ...


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Neighbours

‘Neighbours’ is a short drama by Chekhov about Zina, a young woman who leaves her home for a married man. This scandalous behaviour plagues the mind of Zina’s brother, Pyotr, who b ...


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Gone Astray

‘Gone Astray’ is one of Chekhov’s earlier comedic short stories that is a light-hearted romp about two drunken lawyers trying to find their way home at night. Chekhov’s masterful u ...


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Beauties

‘Beauties’ is a short story by Chekhov that tells the tale of a young schoolboy travelling through the countryside with his grandfather on a sweltering summer day. The boy is unint ...


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At Christmas Time

‘At Christmas Time’ is a masterful short story written late in Chekhov’s career that is divided into two parts. The first half follows an illiterate peasant family hiring an ex-sol ...