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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Rose of Dixie", The Third Ingredient, The Hiding of Black Bill, School... more »
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: Roads of Destiny, The Guardian of the Accolade, The Discounters of Money, ... more »
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Camille
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Dumas fils, Alexandre
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A beautifully written book whose basic plot and story line are the basis of the movie Moulin Rouge. A young naive man, who falls for the most beautiful courtesan in Paris, has to contend with his fa... more »
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Last of the Troubadours; The Sleuths; Witches' Loaves; The Pride of th... more »
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Originally published in 1865, Doctor Marigold was extremely successful, as were Dickens's public performances of a play based on the story--fascinating and easy to read. Doctor (it is his given name... more »
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This late short story by Charles Dickens is a tale of a man writing about his unfulfilled life; and getting it all wrong in the telling; of a boy who tries to become an irreproachable young man but ... more »
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Short story by Charles Dickens.
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A Charles Dickens classic Christmas story.
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Described by Hardy as a tale of "mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity", his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with blackmail, murder, and romance. It rela... more »
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Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremen... more »
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Since its first publication in 1653, Izaak Walton's classic celebration of the joys of fishing has captivated anglers and nature lovers with its timeless advice and instruction.
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Three ghost stories by Charles Dickens.
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Paul Dombey is a heartless London merchant who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business. In the tight orbit of his daily life there is no room for dealing with emotions because emotion has ... more »
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In these short stories, Hardy's love of the eerie and the supernatural is brought out in full measure, as is his skill in depicting topographical detail. In the title story, set in Casterbridge, a y... more »
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Ten Thomas Hardy short stories written between 1878 and 1890.
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This book is the deeply moving and stirring story of Frederick Douglass's life--as a slave, and as a free man. Douglass wrote three autobiographies, of which the 1855 edition is the most detailed on... more »
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: Hearts and Crosses, The Ransom of Mack, Telemachus, Friend; The Handbook o... more »
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The third of Wilkie Collins's four great novels of the 1860s, coming after The Woman in White and No Name and immediately before The Moonstone, Armadale is quintessentially a novel of its decade. It... more »
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Basil
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Author:
Collins, Wilkie
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In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to Margaret Sherwin, the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the consequent shocks and horrors of betrayal, insanity, and death, Collins rev... more »
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When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husban... more »
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"This time the fiction is founded upon facts," stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal statu... more »
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The moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth birthday present, but the fabled diamond carries with it a terrible curse.more »
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Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to explore middle-class life in America as no writer had done before. These remarkable novels combine biting satire with an lin... more »
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Sinclair Lewis' first novel. A charming and insightful story of innocence abroad. Our Mr. Wrenn is as good an example of an American archetype as Tom Joad and Jay Gatsby.
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The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It has obtained undisp... more »
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