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A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.

The story takes the form of a long letter written by one old university friend to another.

"Victor had refused his bride at the altar! That was the brute fact which agitated the little party in the vestry. No amount of explanation could mitigate it.

Star Maker is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937.

Rachel is a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia. At fourteen, she has dreams of being a writer.

It is 1904, and Rachel and her family are leaving Russia to escape the continuing riots against Jews. They take the Trans-Siberian Railway across the country and board a ship to Shanghai.

Rachel, a young Jewish woman from a small town in Russia, has made an incredible journey.