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Hunted Down מאת Charles Dickens Dickens is considered to be one of the greatest British writers. He was a social activist who wrote plays and novels during the Victorian period. His most famous novels include Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, and David Copperfield This collection contains twelve stories, some featuring well-known ...

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Israel Potter מאת Herman Melville The authoritative edition of Melville's only historical novel Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from...

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Plays by Anton Chekhov מאת Anton Chekhov Chekhov was a Russian who wrote short stories and plays. Plays included in this volume are The Three Sisters, The Proposal, The Wedding, The Bear, A Tragedian on Spite of Himself, and The Cherry Orchard, On the High Road, and The Anniversary. The historical content and humor of the era have been a...

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The Secret Sharer מאת Joseph Conrad Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist. His success is even more amazing since he did not learn to speak English until he was in his 20's. Conrad's narrative style places him at the beginning of the Modernist period of literature. The male captain of a starship is possessed by the spirit of a dis...

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Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self מאת Marie Corelli Marie Corelli was born in England. She was the illegitimate daughter of the Scottish poet Charles Mackey and his servant. Marie was sent to a Parisian convent for her education. Ardath was one of Corelli's weirdest stories. The hero is in love with a supernatural angel. Since he is not yet wort...

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He Can Who Thinks He Can (1908) מאת Orison Swett Marden

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Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion מאת G. A. Henty G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. The Britons were known to have superior strength but it was no match for the discipline of the Roman invaders. The story is set in England, Italy and Rome in the year 61 A...

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Sidelights on Relativity מאת Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist noted for his theory of relativity. He won the Noble Prize for physics in 1921. Einstein was awarded Time magazine's person of the century award. He is by far the greatest physicist producing theories that have changed the way we look at the world. ...

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Famous Modern Ghost Stories מאת Various Large Format for easy reading. Compilation of short stories conerning ghosts and the supernatural compiled by a fan and expert in the genre...

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The Conjure Woman - Short Stories מאת Charles W. Chesnutt Charles Chesnutt was an African American writer. Chesnutt was an early pioneer is writing about African American folklore and racial identity. He wrote about lynchings, segregation and the hypocrisy of American values in the post Civil War South. The stories in The Conjure Woman are written in a f...

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Sabbath in Puritan New England מאת Alice Morse Earle Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m. BY DBUM AND HORN AND SHELL. At about nine o'clock on the Sabbath morning the Puritan colonists assembled ...

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The Hand Of Fu-Manchu - Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor מאת Sax Rohmer Sax Rohmer was the pseudonym used by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward. Ward was a British novelist born in 1883. He is most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr Fu Manchu. The evil Fu Manchu would disguise himself in order to have his victims destroy each other. Fu Manchu ...

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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come מאת John Fox Jr. John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New York. A Mountain Europa was his first novel serialized in Century Magazine. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, published in 1903, made the New York Ti...

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The Last Days of Pompeii (New Edition) מאת Sir E. Bulwer Lytton It was when the heats of noon died gradually away from the earth, that Glaucus and Ione went forth to enjoy the cooled and grateful air. At that time, various carriages were in use among the Romans; the one most used by the richer citizens, when they required no companion in their excursion, was ...

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Sybil, or the Two Nations מאת Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli was a British statesman and novelist. He was Prime Minister in 1868 and 1874. He gave the Conservative Party a policy of Tory democracy and imperialism. His travels furnished him with material for the Oriental descriptions he used in later novels and influenced his attitude toward ...

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The Light Princess And Other Fairy Stories מאת George MacDonald Once upon a time so long ago that I have quite forgotten the date there lived a king and queen who had no children.' (Excerpt)...