Fiction
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Fiction, Novel
The Sun Also Rises ( Original Classic Edition) by Ernest Hemingway (HB)
- Hardcover : 197 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182478923
- Item Weight : 357 g
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.7 cm
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway. The novel is a roman à clef: the characters are based on real people in Hemingway’s circle, and the action is based on real events, particularly Hemingway’s life in Paris in the 1920s and a trip to Spain in 1925 for the Pamplona festival and fishing in the Pyrenees. Hemingway presents his notion that the “Lost Generation”-considered to have been decadent, dissolute, and irretrievably damaged by World War I-was in fact resilient and strong. Hemingway investigates the themes of love and death, the revivifying power of nature, and the concept of masculinity.
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Fiction, Novel
The Talisman by Walter Scott (Hardback)
- Page : 376
- ISBN : 978-9394885882
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm
The main characters are the Scottish knight Kenneth, a fictional version of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, who returned from the third Crusade in 1190; Richard the Lionheart; Saladin; and Edith Plantagenet, a relative of Richard. In Scott’s own words: “. . . the warlike character of Richard I, wild and generous, a pattern of chivalry, with all its extravagant virtues and its no less absurd errors, was opposed to that of Saladin, in which the Christian and English monarch showed all the cruelty and violence of an Eastern sultan, and Saladin, on the other hand, displayed the deep policy and prudence of a European sovereign, whilst each contended which should excel the other in the knightly qualities of bravery and generosity. This singular contrast afforded, as the author conceived, materials for a work of fiction possessing peculiar interest.”
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Classic Fiction, Fiction, Novel
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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Fiction, Play
The Three Musketeers (Un-Abridged Classic Collector’s Edition) by Alexandre Dumas (HB)
- Page : 649
- ISBN : 9789394885899
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 4 cm
17th century France: Young D’Artagnan leaves his home and travels to Paris with dreams of joining The Musketeers of Guard—the glamourous and gallant group of men who guard Louis XIII, the King of France. There he meets Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the three best musketeers and inseparable friends who believe with all their heart in the words ‘all for one, one for all.’ D’Artagnan rents an apartment above the shop of one Monsieur Bonacieux, hoping to settle into Parisian life and become a proper musketeer quickly. What the young and gallant D’Artagnan does not realise is that he has, inadvertently, landed himself in the very centre of one of the foulest conspiracies in monarchist France. There are love affairs and intrigues, ambushes and wild rides, duels and murders. And as the famous American author and editor Clifton Fadiman says, ‘it is all impossible and it is all magnificient.’
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Classic Fiction, Fiction, Novel
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 Torrents Of Spring By Ernest Hemingway (Hardcover)
Returning to Russia from a tour in italy, twenty- three-year-old dimitry saning breaks his journey in frankfurt. The Torrents of Spring is a burlesque of Sherwood Anderson’s Dark Laughter, but in the course of the narrative, other literary tendencies associated with American and British writers akin to Anderson—such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and John Dos Passos—come in for satirical comment. A highly entertaining story, The Torrents of Spring offers a rare glimpse into Hemingway’s early career as a storyteller and stylist.
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Fiction
The Trial by Franz Kafka (Hardcover)
- ISBN-: 978-8182479043
- Editon-: 2021
- Page-: 202
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis–an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life–including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door–becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.
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Fiction, Novel
The Truth about Woman by C. Gasquoine Hartley (H.B)
Catherine Gasquoine Hartley 1867? – 1928 Author, journalist, headmistress; also known as Mrs. Walter M. Gallichan and Mrs. Arthur D. Lewis. Born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Hartley was the second daughter of Reverend Richard Griffiths Hartley and Catherine Gasquoine. She was schooled privately and had no formal education until she was 16. Her first job was teaching, and in 1894 she became headmistress at Babington House School in Kent, England-a position she held until about 1903, when she left Kent and her job to begin a career as a writer in London. After composing an unsuccessful novel, Hartley went on to become a prolific journalist and author of non-fiction. She published books on art, Spanish culture and society, feminist issues, human sexuality, and children. She also wrote articles for the New Age, Art Journal, Connoisseur, the English Review, and the Daily Express. Her first marriage was to Walter M. Gallichan; her second, to Arthur D. Lewis.
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Classic Fiction, Fiction
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 -
Fiction, Novel
The U. P. Trail by Zane Grey (Hardback)
- Page : 387
- ISBN : 9789393198983
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm
“The U.P. Trail,” by Zane Grey, is a classic western set in and around the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming. The main characters are Allie, a young woman who is the sole survivor of an Indian attack on a wagon train, and Neale, an ambitious young engineer with the U.P. who falls in love with Allie. The novel follows Neale from one crisis to the next – Allie’s kidnapping by her abusive father, mismanagement and corruption on the railroad, engineering challenges, and Indian raids. As the book is primarily set in and around towns and the railroad, it doesn’t have as much of the beautifully detailed descriptions of nature that make some of Grey’s other novels (e.g. “Riders of the Purple Sage” and “The Rainbow Trail”) stand out. Nonetheless, “The U.P. Trail” is a solidly entertaining western that will be of particular interest to readers who enjoyed watching AMC’s “Hell on Wheels.” (Geoffrey Benn)
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Coming soon, Fiction, literature
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle By Hugh Lofting (Hardcover)
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle was the second of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle books. The novel is divided into six parts where Doctor Dolittle meets Tommy Stubbins, the young son of a cobbler, who becomes his new assistant. Tommy learns how to speak animal languages and becomes involved in the Doctor’s quest to find Long Arrow, the greatest naturalist in the world. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle takes the reader to the Mediterranean, South America, and even under the sea. Hugh John Lofting was a British author who created the character of Doctor Dolittle – one of the classics of children’s literature
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Classic Fiction, Fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction
The White Company [hardcover] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Classic Fiction, Fiction, literature, Literature & FictionThe White Company [hardcover] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A historical adventure set during the Hundred Years’ War. The story follows a young man as he leaves the shelter of an abbey in England and becomes involved with Edward, the Black Prince’s campaign in Spain.
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Fiction, Novel
The Wind in the Willows : Original Un-Abridged Collector’s Edition by Kenneth Grahame (Hardback)
Fiction, NovelThe Wind in the Willows : Original Un-Abridged Collector’s Edition by Kenneth Grahame (Hardback)
- Page : 160
- ISBN : 978-9394885653
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.2 cm
The Wind in the Willows is a children’s book by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternatingly slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals: Mole, Rat (a European water vole), Toad, and Badger. They live in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The book was based on bedtime stories Grahame told his son Alastair. It has been adapted numerous times for both stage and screen
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Fiction, Novel
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (H.B)
‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.’ One of the earliest works of ‘detective’ fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. In 1859, the story caused a sensation with its readers, hooking their attention with the ghostly first scene where the mysterious ‘Woman in White’ Anne Catherick comes across Walter Hartright.
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