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A Double Barrelled Detective Story Book by Mark Twain (HARDCOVER)
A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west.Summary The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a rich young woman is abused, humiliated and abandoned by her new husband, Jacob Fuller, whom she married against the wishes of her father. The young Fuller resents her father’s rejection and dismissal of him as a neer-do-well and resolves to exact his revenge by mis-treating his new bride. After his abandonment, she bears a son who she names Archy Stillman. When the child gets older, the mother discovers that he possesses an incredible ability of smell, like a bloodhound. The mother instructs her child, now sixteen, to seek out his biological father with the intent of destroying that man’s peace and reputation, and hence extracting satisfaction for her.
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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Alice Gerstenberg
When Alice spots a rabbit running frantically to a rabbit hole, she follows him to stumble into a strange world where animals talk, cat’s wield strange magic and cards walk around like humans. As if that is not enough, she must stand up to testify for new friends in a court against the wicked souled, Queen of Hearts.
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Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw (Hardback)
Arms and the Man, romantic comedy in three acts by George Bernard Shaw, produced in 1894 and published in 1898. The play is set in the Petkoff household in Bulgaria and satirizes romantic ideas concerning war and heroism. A battle-weary officer, a Swiss mercenary fighting for the Serbian army, takes refuge in Raina Petkoff’s bedchamber, where she agrees to hide him from the authorities. In response to his matter-of-fact account of the war, in which he debunks her fiancé Sergius’ heroism, Raina at first ridicules the intruder’s cowardliness but ultimately appreciates his honesty. Sometime later, after the war is over, the officer, Captain Bluntschli, returns. By the end of the play, Sergius has promised himself to the maidservant Louka, whose fiancé, the manservant Nicola, willingly forgoes his claim to her, and Raina has become engaged to Bluntschli, who has just inherited a number of Swiss hotels.
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Confessions of a Thug: Philip Meadows Taylor
Confessions of a Thug is an English novel written by Philip Meadows Taylor in 1839 based on the Thuggee cult in British India.12 It was a best-seller in 19th-century Britain, becoming the British Empire‘s most sensational ethnographic fiction in the first half of the 19th century; its avid readers included Queen Victoria.
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Crime and Punishment (Original Classic Collector’s Edition) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Hardback)
English ClassicsCrime and Punishment (Original Classic Collector’s Edition) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Hardback)
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182479098
- Page : 628 pages
- Dimensions : 21.5 x 14.5 x 5 cm
Crime and Punishment is set in St Petersburg and paints a vivid picture 18th century Russia before the revolution brought with it the winds of change. The book portrays the rampant poverty and unending pain and suffering of the proletariat. It is in such ghastly circumstances that the character of Raskolnikov is born.
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Desert Gold by Zane Grey (HARDCOVER)
Pulse-pounding action and adventure, while at the same time philosophical and sophisticated, Desert Gold packs a western- style punch! A face haunted Cameron-a woman’s face. It was there in the white heart of the dying campfire; it hung in the shadows that hovered over the flickering light; it drifted in the darkness beyond. This hour, when the day had closed and the lonely desert night set in with its dead silence, was one in which Cameron’s mind was thronged with mmories of a time long past-of a home back in Peoria, of a woman he had wronged and lost, and loved too late. He was a prospector for gold, a hunter of solitude, a lover of the drear, rock-ribbed infinitude, because he wanted to be alone to remember.
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Emma (An Original Classic Edition) by Jane Austen, Hardback
- ISBN: 9788182478718
- Pages: 460
- “Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.” Emma Woodhouse, a headstrong, beautiful and witty twenty-year-old resident of the village of Highbury, is overconfident about her matchmaking skills. Conjuring successful love matches is an art she thinks she has mastered—especially after her self-proclaimed accomplishment at finding Miss Taylor, her governess, a suitable partner in Mr. Weston, a village Widower next, she takes it upon herself to find a perfect match for her friend Harriet Smith. She even convinces her to refuse the proposal of Robert Martin, a well-to-do farmer. While Harriet cannot deny her feelings for Mr. Martin, Emma wishes her friend to be a gentleman wife. Mr. Knightley, Emma’s brother-in-law, observes Emma’s matchmaking efforts and is contemptuous of her meddling. What follows in this circuit of misconstrued romances is a series of conflicts, misunderstandings and suspicions. Is Emma overestimating her ability as a matchmaker or Mr. Knightley being unnecessarily critical of her motive? Emma (1815) was Jane Austen last novel to be completed and published during her lifetime.
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Greatest Works of Jane Austen: Set of 5 Books (H.B)
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you!”” Jane Austen considered writing a great art. Her works paint a realistic picture of the society of her times and the position of women in it while exploring the themes of love, romance, and marriage. A comprehensive collection of the authors best-known romantic novels, this pack includes Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. This classic Jane Austen Pack is perfect for Austen lovers
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Man and Superman (Classic Edition) Hardcover by Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman, a four-act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based on the don Juan br>Theme it deserves the position of Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece. The plot revolves around a young man, John Tanner, who possesses advanced ideas and finds himself surrounded by a set of ordinary beings who are abject slaves to Convention. The main idea consists of an endeavour to show how utterly futile are modern ideas and Advanced thought when brought into practice amid the social conditions of our present civilized state. Throughout the play, the readers admire the high principles upon which Tanner is br> Endeavouring to shape his ends, but they are pleased when they see this strong-minded and exceptionally advanced young man come a cropper before the simple, hypocritical devices of an inexperienced, feather-brained young girl, Ann. She is referred to as the life force and represents Shaw’s view that in every culture, it is the women who force the men to marry them rather than the men who take the initiative.
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Mansfield Park (An Original Classic Collector’s Edition) by Jane Austen, Hardback
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182479050
- Page : 480 pages
- Dimensions : 22.7 x 14.7 x 3.8 cm
Fanny Price is ten years old when she is removed from the poverty of her parents’ house and sent to live with her aunt and her rich cousins at Mansfield Park. Never allowed to forget her humble origins, Fanny grows up in the Mansfield household with no allies except for Edmund, her aunt’s youngest son and even though she comes to possess that rare beauty which is neither vain nor weak, grounded as it is in astuteness and intelligence, she is never loved nor acknowledged by those in Mansfield Park. When the Crawford brother and sister duo arrive from London, however, to take up residence in the neighbourhood, they set in motion a series of romantic engagements within the Mansfield mansion that lead to scandal, heartbreak and much disrepute. And in the midst of everything must stand Fanny, protecting herself and all that she holds dear, from the wily schemes of Henry Crawford who is more than a bit of a rogue, even as she guards her heart for Edmund.
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Mother ( An Original Classic Collector’s Edition ) by Maxim Gorky, Hardcover
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182479074
- Page : 408 pages
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3 cm
Mother’ is the immortal classic of Maxim Gorky, one of the world’s best-loved writers. It is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated woman. From her dull peasant existence into active participation in her people’s struggle for justice. Through her work she frees herself from the cowed state into which she has been beaten and her simple motherly concern for her son becomes a motherly concern for all oppressed. The book uses simple style to make it an easy read while slowly adding thicker and thicker layers of propaganda and pro Marxist Communist theory.
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Persuasion ( An Original Classic Collector’s Edition) by Jane Austen, Hardcover
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182479722
- Page : 268 pages
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm
“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.” Eight years earlier.. Anne Elliot, the compassionate nineteen-year-old daughter of Sir Walter, is persuaded to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a young lieutenant in the Royal Navy, for he is without fortune. Now, eight years later.. Captain Wentworth has returned to England rich and successful, but is still unforgiving. Anne, independent and mature, is still in love with him. and every time they come across each other, it is painful for her. What happens when Wentworth comes to know that Anne had turned down Charles Musgrove’s marriage proposal? Will his love for her resurface? Will their relationship be renewed? Written in Austen’s inimitable style, Persuasion reveals the emerging changes in the transforming social milieu of the nineteenth century. Published posthumously, it is Austen’s last completed novel. it has been a subject of numerous adaptations across various art forms. This moving love story continues to be appreciated by its readers.
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Pride & Prejudice ( An Original Classic Editon) byJane Austen (Hardcover
- ISBN: 9788182478671
- Page: 428
- When Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy for the first time at a ball, she writes him off as an arrogant and obnoxious man. He not only acts like an insufferable snob, but she also overhears him rejecting the very idea of asking her for a dance!
As life pits them against each other again and again, Darcy begins to fall for Elizabeth’s wit and intelligence and Elizabeth begins to question her feelings about Darcy. When Darcy saves her youngest sister, Lydia, from a scandal, Elizabeth starts to wonder if her pride has prejudiced her opinion of Darcy.
Through this tale about two warring hearts, Austen weaves a witty satire about life in eighteenth century England. And though it was published more than two centuries ago, Pride and Prejudice continues to enthrall readers to this very day.
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