Classic Fiction
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Classic Fiction, Fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction
The End of Paradise [hardcover] John Milton
Classic Fiction, Fiction, literature, Literature & FictionThe End of Paradise [hardcover] John Milton
The future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country’s northeastern coast where Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people, have resided for over two hundred years. In The Ends of Paradise, Christopher A. Loperena examines the Garifuna struggle for life and collective autonomy and demonstrates how this struggle challenges concerted efforts by the state and Multilateral institutions, such as the World Bank, to render both their lands and their culture into fungible tourism products. Using a combination of participant observation, courtroom ethnography, and archival research, Loperena reveals how purportedly inclusive tourism projects form part of a larger neoliberal, extractivist development regime, which remakes Black and Indigenous territories into frontiers of progress for the mestizo majority. The book offers a trenchant analysis of how Black dispossession and displacement are carried forth through the conferral of individual rights and freedoms, a prerequisite for resource exploitation under contemporary capitalism.
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Classic Fiction, Literature & Fiction
The Forsyte Saga Complete
John Galsworthy’s celebrated Forsyte Saga, consisting of three novels and two interludes, completely reinvented and revitalised the family saga in the early twentieth century. Masterfully written and utterly absorbing to read, it tells the multi-generational story of a sprawling upper-middle-class family, centred on the frustrated, possessive Soames and his disastrous marriage with the beautiful, enigmatic Irene. This new edition from Benediction Classics conveniently unites the first complete 3-volume compilation of 1922 into a single book, containing all of The Man of Property, Indian Summer of a Forsyte, In Chancery, Awakening and To Let.
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The House of Mirth [hardcover] Edith Wharton
A bestseller when it was originally published nearly a century ago, Wharton’s first literary success was set amid the previously unexplored territory of fashionable, turn-of-the-century New York society, an area with which she was intimately familiar. The tragic love story reveals the destructive effects of wealth and social hypocrisy on Lily Bart, a ravishing beauty.
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Classic Fiction, English Classics
The Joy of Life By Emile Zola (Hard Cover)
The Joy of Life is the twelfth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. A popular novel of the 19th and 20th Centuries was was adapted as a 2012 French TV film, also called La joie de vivre, directed by Jean-Pierre Améris. The main character is Pauline Quenu, the daughter of Parisian charioteers Lisa Macquart and M. Quenu, who are central characters in Le ventre de Paris (published 1873). Pauline plays a small part in that novel.
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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Classic Fiction, Fiction, literary fiction, literature, Literature & FictionThe Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
L. Frank Baum and Mary Cowles Clark collaborated on the 1902 children’s novel The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World, discovers Santa Claus while he is a little child in the Forest of Burzee. As an adult, he is unable to live in Burzee, so he moves to the adjacent Laughing Valley of Hohaho. To avoid mentioning Necile to the kids, he creates a clay figurine that looks a lot like Necile and calls it a “dolly.” Two deer named Glossie and Flossie help him by pulling his toy-filled sleigh. The gifts that Claus is giving the kids are stolen by the Awgwas, malevolent creatures with the ability to become invisible because the toys keep the kids from misbehaving. Claus gains the label “Santa” as he keeps providing gifts. As Santa Claus approaches the end of his life, the Immortals decide to bestow immortality on him. After considerable discussion, he receives immortality just as the Spirit of Death approaches him. Four special deputies are assigned to Santa Claus: Wisk the Fairy, Peter the Knook, Kilter the Pixie, and Nuter the Ryl.
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Classic Fiction, Fiction
The Metamorphosis ( An Original Classic) by Franz Kafka
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182478688
The metamorphosis’ Is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a travelling salesman, Gregor SA MS a, waking to find himself transformed into an insect. “When Gregor SA MS a woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” with this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, ‘the metamorphosis’. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, ‘the metamorphosis’ Has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.
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The Mystery
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White, a mystery novel and early “sensation novel”, and for The Moonstone, which established many of the
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The Party and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov (Hardcover)
- ISBN : 978-8182479777
- Page : 200
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 12.5 x 2 cm
This beautiful compilation of the selected works of Anton Chekhov. It consists of a few of his renowned works like, The Party, Terror, A Woman’s Kingdom, A Problem, The Kiss, Anna on The Neck, The Teacher of Literature, Not Wanted, Typhus and A Misfortune and A triffle from Life. This original compilation of classic stories of Chekhov keeps the spirit of his original writings alive.
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Classic Fiction, Fiction, Novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray : Original Classic Collector’s Edition by Oscar Wilde
Classic Fiction, Fiction, NovelThe Picture of Dorian Gray : Original Classic Collector’s Edition by Oscar Wilde
The soul is a Terrible reality. it can be bought And sold and bartered away.?Meet Dorian Gray, the beautiful young man with an impossibly charming face and spirit. as he sits for Basil Hallward?a deeply moral artist and a friend of the impish Lord Henry?who becomes obsessed with his beauty and wants to paint him, Dorian is enchanted by the perfection of his portrait. But, influenced by the well-phrased epigrams of the hedonist Lord Henry on the transience of youth and beauty, Dorian becomes jealous of it and wishes that the portrait bear the scars of his passing youth and age, while he would remain young forever. And Alas, his wish comes true!Enticed into dissolution and degradation while his portrait is aging in the attic, Dorian engages in scandals and sinful pleasures. We see him go from good to evil. But is he any happier? The only novel written by Oscar Wilde, the Picture of Dorian Gray is an arresting moral commentary and a classic example of Gothic fiction. with an unparalleled depiction of the Faustian bargain, this parable of aesthetic ideal remains a literary masterpiece almost 125 years after its publication.
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The Prince And The Pauper [hardcover] Mark Twain
Classic Fiction, Fiction, literature, Literature & FictionThe Prince And The Pauper [hardcover] Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper is a timeless tale by Mark Twain that explores the thrilling adventure of two boys from different social backgrounds who switch places. Set in Tudor England, this enchanting story showcases themes of identity, friendship, and the stark contrasts between the privileged and the impoverished. A classic tale of mistaken identity and unexpected friendship. Provides valuable lessons about life and society. Captivates exploration of social class and the human spirit. A thought-provoking and heartwarming tale that resonates with readers across generations. A must-have for fans of Mark Twain and classic literature.
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The Suspense Trail [hardcover] Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author dramatist, journalist, and political activist. He received the 1957 Nobel Prize in litPrizere Literature 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, the Fall, and The Rebel.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (H.B)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is an 1848 novel by the youngest of the Bronte sisters, Anne, published under the pseudonym Acton Bell. A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son and servant. She lives there in strict seclusion under the assumed name Helen Graham and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham, a young farmer, discovers her dark secrets. In her diary, Helen writes about her husband’s physical and moral decline through alcohol, and the world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled.
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The Time Machine: An Invention by H. G. Wells (H.B)
- Hardcover : 88 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182478459
- Item Weight : 248 g
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm
A compelling science fiction, the Time Machine is a first-hand account of a Time Traveler’s journey into the future. a pull of the lever and the machine sends him to the year 802,701, when humanity has split into two bizarre races?the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. Here, his machine is stolen and with the help of Weena, an Eloi he saved from drowning, the traveler is able to retrieve it. Whizzing thirty million years further into the future, he finds a slowly dying earth, where the bloated red sun sits motionless in the sky and the only sign of life is a black blob with tentacles. He returns to the Victorian time, overwhelmed, just three hours after he originally left.. Credited with inventing the time machine in this masterpiece, the provocative insight of H. G. Wells continues to enthrall the readers. The Time Machine has since been adapted into many feature films and television series and has inspired many more works of fiction.
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The Turn of The Screw By Henry James (Hard cover)
Widely recognized as one of literature’s most gripping ghoststories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns thesinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liarsand hypocrites. The story begins when a governess arrives at anEnglish country estate to look after Miles, aged ten, and Flora,eight. At first, everything appears normal but then eventsgradually begin to weave a spell of psychological terror.One night a ghost appears before the governess. It is the deadlover of Miss Jessel, the former governess, Later, the ghost ofMiss Jessel herself appears before the governess and the littlegirl. Moreover, both the governess and the housekeeper suspectthat the two spirits have appeared to the boy in private. Thechildren, however, adamantly refuse to acknowledge thepresence of the two spirits, in spite of indications that there issome sort of evil communication going on between the childrenand the ghosts.SKU: n/a
