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Join us for an outing with the master of the short story. Written during the author's "middle period" from the mid-1880s to the mid-1890s, Chekhov shows his great understanding of human nature during times of great difficulty in ten thought-provoking stories.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many novels and works of nonfiction, including the immortal tales of Sherlock Holmes. His interests, also, were broad-ranging. Conan Doyle became outraged upon learning of the abuses of human life that were committed as a result of Belgian King Leopold II's efforts to conquer and strip the Congo of its natural resources. In little more than a week in 1909, he documented the human rights abuses in The Crime of the Congo. It is considered "the most powerful indictment yet launched against the Belgian rulers of this bloodstained colony. After reviewing the early...