Fiction
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Fiction, Short Story
The Entire Original Maupassant Short Stories By Guy De Maupassant (Hardcover)
Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 in Normandy, France. His father and mother separated when he was eleven years old and Maupassant was raised under the influence of his strong, domineering mother. Gustave Flqubert became his friend and mentor, helping him with his writing and introducing him to prestigious literary circles. Maupassant wrote six novels, three travel books, a book of verse and over 300 short stories. But in spite of his wealth and fame, he was deeply distressed as his promiscuous and colourful life had afflicted him with syphillis. He started hallucinating and in 1892 even tried to commit suicide. Confirmed to a lunatic asylum in Paris, Maupassant died on 6 July 1893.
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Coming soon, Fiction, Novel
The Gods Of Mars By Edgar Rice Burroughs (Hardcover)
The Gods of Mars’ is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and it was printed in a complete book form in 1918. The main characters in this novel are John Carter and Carter’s wife Dejan Thoris. After the long deportation on Earth, John Carter returned to his beloved Mars. But Dejan Thoris, the woman he loved, had disappeared. Now he was confined in the famous Eden of Mars. This book also holds most probably the first-ever epic air battle between flying battleships. The Black Men of Mars are aggressive democrats who eat the white men and kidnap white women to turn into slaves. They worship an old bat who calls herself the Goddess Issus. John Carter narrates the Black Men as having characteristics that are handsome in the extreme and says their bodies are spiritual. John Carter makes two new friends, Thusia the Red Maid, who likes him so much she wants to be his slaves and Xodar the Black Pirate who is pure awesomeness and the best character. Most of the first three quarters of this book are one exhausting battle scene after another or the capture of the protoganìst and his friends and their escaping. They battle, they are captured, and escape several times. In the last quarter they do escape and their captivity again. The ending is another big battle.
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Fiction, Novel
The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey (Hardback)
- Page : 237
- ISBN : 9789356520103
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel By Zane Grey Zane Grey (1872-1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. “The Heritage of the Desert” is a western focusing on Mormon culture through a group of people in 1890 Utah. The book revolves around the character, August Naab, a landowner and cattle rustler. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Fiction, Novel
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore (Hardback)
- Page : 241
- ISBN-13 : 978-9356520110
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
Set on a Bengali noble’s estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the tragic outcome foreshadows the unrest that accompanied Partition in 1947.
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Fiction, General books
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle (Hardcover)
The Hound of the Baskervilles, the third novel by Arthur Conan Doyle to feature Sherlock Holmes, is arguably the most famous detective story in fiction. The tale was a huge success upon its first appearance in The Strand Magazine where it ran from August 1901 to April 1902. Indeed the story’s popularity was such that for the first (and only) time in The Strand’s history a seventh printing of the magazine was required in order to keep up with demand. The story of a seemingly supernatural hound that haunts Dartmoor caught the public imagination, pitting as it did the supremely rational Sherlock Holmes against the unearthly family curse that terrorises the Baskervilles.
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Fiction, Novel
The House On The Borderland By William Hope Hodgson (HardCover)
Hodgson wrote a trilogy consisting of Date 1965 ModernWarfare, The House on the Borderland, and The Ghost Pirates.The setting for The House on the Borderland is an ancienthouse in a lonely part of Ireland, where an old man lives alonewith his sister and his pets. His diary is found and it tells thestory of a huge cavern below the house filled with white piglike monsters. The old man has had to fight these creatures.He then sees his house in an alternate space-time plain that isisolated from the rest of his world. This haunting tale conveysintense isolations and loneliness.SKU: n/a -
Fiction, Novel
The Inferno by August Strindberg (Hardback)
- Page : 128
- ISBN : 9789394885844
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.2 cm
“Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.”In the year 1300, on the night before Good Friday, Dante loses his way in the woods. Standing in front of a mountain, he is surrounded by three beasts-a lion, a leopard and a she-wolf. Dante cannot escape. He returns to the dark woods, unable to find a straight way and runs into the ghost of the great Roman poet Virgil. What happens when, led by Virgil, Dante embarks on his journey to Heaven through Hell?The first part of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem Divine Comedy, Inferno deftly depicts the narrator’s allegorical journey through Hell. Composed spectacularly with rich and vivid imagery, it is considered one of the finest works in the Italian language
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Fiction, Novel
The Island of Doctor Moreau ( An Original Classic ) by H. G. Wells (Hardback)
- Page : 129
- ISBN : 978-9394885646
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm
The Island of Doctor Moreau” is a science fiction, called “an exercise in youthful blasphemy”. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, who creates human-like beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature. Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
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Classic Fiction, Fiction, literary fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction
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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Fiction, Novel
The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey (H.B)
Madeline’s brother Alfred struggles to make ends meet. Madeline is overwhelmed by the refreshing experience in the open ranches, mountains, and plains away from city life. The handsome cowboy Gene Stewart is a welcome distraction, too. After some difficult times adjusting to life as a cowgirl, Madeline embraces her new life. She buys land of her own to settle down. At the same time, she finds out that cowboys can be tamed and danger is never far off. The only way to survive it all is by cooperating with the locals against attacking bandits and Mexican raiders. “He’ll rob, burn, and make off with you. He’ll murder, too, if it falls his way.”
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Fiction, Novel
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
all grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.? Its the Sahara Desert and a pilot has crashed his plane. When suddenly a young boy with golden hair and a loveable laugh and who claims to have fallen to Earthappears before him and asks him to draw a sheep. what does he do?… He draws it! Thus begins this poetic and sublime adventure, an enchanting fable, which encloses in its heart the teachings of love, loss, loneliness and friendship.The fourth-most translated book in the world, the Little Prince has been adapted to multiple art forms and has managed to resonate in the hearts of its patrons every single time.
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Fiction, Novel
The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey (Hardback)
- Page : 285
- ISBN : 9789356520271
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm
Pearl Zane Grey (1872-1939) is a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture.” Consequently he is the best known author of novels about the Wild West. His great storytelling skills have been transferred to film over and over again. The Internet Movie Database credits Grey with 115 films as of April 2015. Read these books to find spectacular adventure scenes that cause you to eagerly devour every page.d
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Fiction
The Longer Stories (Original Classic Edition) by Franz Kafka (H.B)
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182475748, Hardcover : 368 pages
- Item Weight : 594 g
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
Franz Kafka was one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia (presently the Czech Republic), Austria-Hungary. His unique body of writing much of which is incomplete and which was mainly published posthumously-is considered to be among the most influential in Western literature. His stories include “The Metamorphosis” (1912) and “In the Penal Colony” (1914), while his novels are The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927). Kafka’s first language was Germän, but he was also fluent in Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of the French language and culture; one of his favorite authors was Flaubert.
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