Literature & Fiction
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A Room of One’s Own [hardcover] Virginia Woolf
literary fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction, Non-fictionA Room of One’s Own [hardcover] Virginia Woolf
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Considered as one of the classics of twentieth century feminist literature, The Room of One’s Own is a book-length essay written by Virginia Woolf. Delineating the basic requirements of a woman to write, the author incorporates detailed revelations of the various power structures that stop a woman to excel and elucidate her creative capabilities. Illustrating the importance of women’s literacy through a fictional character named Judith Shakespeare, The Room of One’s Own encourages women to rise above patriarchal monotony and set a unique literary tradition of their own!
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Classic Fiction, Fiction, literary fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction, Novel
Anne of Green Gables, Complete 8-Books Box Set
Classic Fiction, Fiction, literary fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction, NovelAnne of Green Gables, Complete 8-Books Box Set
The only complete Anne of Green Gables box set! Makes a great gift and is a must-have for any longtime reader or fan of the Netflix series Anne with an E. Favorites for nearly 100 years, these classic novels follow the adventures of the spirited redhead Anne Shirley, who comes to stay at Green Gables and wins the hearts of everyone she meets. Includes the following beloved eight titles: Anne of Green Gables Anne of the Island Anne of Avonlea Anne of Windy Poplar Anne’s House of Dreams Anne of Ingleside Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside
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Anne of Ingleside [hardcover] by L M Montgomery
Classic Fiction, Fiction, literary fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction, Non-fiction, NovelAnne of Ingleside [hardcover] by L M Montgomery
Anne of Ingleside is a children’s novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Chronologically, Anne of Ingleside precedes Rainbow Valley. Seven years on from ‘Anne’s House of Dreams’ the Blythes have set up home in a house they affectionately name Ingleside. Anne and Gilbert now have several children who engage in a series of adventures and mishaps with the other local youngsters. Anne begins to worry that her husband no longer loves her but vows to make him fall for her again.
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Anne of Windy Poplars [hardcover] by L M Montgomery
Fiction, literary fiction, literature, Literature & FictionAnne of Windy Poplars [hardcover] by L M Montgomery
Anne of Windy Poplars published as Anne of Windy Willows in the UK, Australia, and Japan is an epistolary novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They’re known as the royal family of Summerside and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. As Anne learns Summerside’s strangest secrets, winning the support of the prickly Pringles becomes only the first of her triumphs.
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Arrowsmith [hardcover] Sinclair Lewis
Classic Fiction, Fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction, Non-fiction, NovelArrowsmith [hardcover] Sinclair Lewis
With an afterword by E. L. Doctorow—the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one man’s pursuit of intellectual freedom in the face of ignorance and corruption, from the author of BabbitArrowsmith, the most widely read of Sinclair Lewis’s novels, is the incisive portrait of a man passionately devoted to science. As a bright, curious boy in a small Midwestern town, Martin Arrowsmith spends his free time in old Doc Vickerson’s office avidly devouring medical texts. Destined to become a physician and a researcher, he discovers that societal forces of ignorance, greed, and corruption can be as life-threatening as the plague. Part satire, part morality tale, Lewis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel illuminates the mystery and power of science while giving enduring life to a singular American hero’s struggle for integrity and intellectual freedom in a small-minded world.With an Introduction by Sally E. Parry and an Afterword by E. L. Doctorow
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History, literature, Literature & Fiction
Aspects of The Novel [Hardcover] E.M. Foster
Aspects of the Novel is a book compiled from a series of lectures delivered by E.M. Forster at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1927, in which he discussed the English language novel. By using examples from classic texts, he highlights the seven universal aspects of the novel: story, characters, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm.
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Babbitt [hardcover] Sinclair Lewis
Realising that his life is devoid of meaning, he grows determined to transcend his trivial existence and search for a greater purpose. In the economic boom years of 1920s America, Babbitt became a symbol of middle-class mediocrity, and his name was an enduring part of the American lexicon.
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Best of Children’s Classics (Set of 8 Books) – Gift Set for Kids – Peter Pan, Heidi, The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, The Railway Children, Black Beauty, Pollyanna, The Secret Garden, The Little Prince [hardcover] Various Authors
Classic Fiction, Fiction, literature, Literature & FictionBest of Children’s Classics (Set of 8 Books) – Gift Set for Kids – Peter Pan, Heidi, The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, The Railway Children, Black Beauty, Pollyanna, The Secret Garden, The Little Prince [hardcover] Various Authors
This amazing collection contains eight of the best books from the timeless classics for children. Be it entering into the magical world of Oz – The Great Wizard, exploring the Swiss Alps with young and vivacious Heidi, flying with Peter Pan to Neverland, living in “the three chimneys house”, running across the English farm with black beauty, crash landing in Sahara and meeting the little prince, playing “the glad game” with Pollyanna Whittier and finding the secret garden with Mary, children will enjoy reading these exciting stories.
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Dodsworth [hardcover] Sinclair Lewis
Samuel Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer, who builds his fortunes in fictional Zenith, Winnemac. In addition to his success in the business world, he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances ‘Fran’ Voelker, a beautiful young socialite. While the novel provides the courtship as a backstory, the real story begins upon his retirement. Retiring at the age of fifty as a result of his selling of his successful automobile company (The Revelation Motor Company) to a far larger competitor, he sets out to do what he had always wanted to experience: a leisurely trip to Europe with his wife, with aspirations to visit some manufacturing plants looking for his next challenge.
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Fate or chance [hardcover] Wilkie Collins
Fiction, literary fiction, literature, Literature & FictionFate or chance [hardcover] Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824-23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in white (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel and for The Moonstone(1868)
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Five Weeks in a Balloon [hardcover] Jules Verne
Classic Fiction, Fiction, literary fiction, Literature & Fiction, Non-fictionFive Weeks in a Balloon [hardcover] Jules Verne
A journey of discovery by three Englishmen in Africa: Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, published in 1863. Readers get a peek at the discovery of Africa in this book, which was still mostly unknown to Europeans at the time. The mission of Samuel Fergusson aims to connect the expeditions of Heinrich Barth in the Sahara and Chad with those of Sir Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke in East Africa. Although it is truly a savanna, the novel refers to the uncharted interior of Africa around the present-day Central African Republic as a desert. Starting in Zanzibar, the journey continues through Agadez, Timbuktu, Djenné, Lake Victoria, Lake Chad, and Ségou.Finding the source of the Nile was a major goal of the early expedition. Bringing together the other explorers is the second leg. There are several action-packed sequences that either feature a battle with a local or one with the environment
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Free Air [hardcover] Sinclair Lewis
Classic Fiction, Fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction, NovelFree Air [hardcover] Sinclair Lewis
This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting and reformatting: the complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high-quality images and table elements, giving our readers The feel of holding a ‘fresh and newly’ reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned and printed (optical character recognition – ocr) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: as the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, Punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. Happy Reading!.
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Greatest Short Stories For Children [hardcover] by Various
literary fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction, Novel, Short StoryGreatest Short Stories For Children [hardcover] by Various
Have no fear,” said Gold, “while I am at your side. In my heart, however, is great sorrow, which I beg you to remove by telling your story.” This edition encompasses the best short fiction ever written for children. The beloved, enchanting fairy tales, such as of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, thrilling stories packed with the adventures of Sindbad and Aladdin, excerpts from iconic works such as Oliver Twist and Gulliver’s Travels—all this and many more stories that inform, educate, entertain, and enthral children and fill them with wonder and fire up their imagination, have been included in this covetable collection.
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His Masterpiece [hardcover] Emile Zola
His masterpiece which in the original French bears the little of leuveree is a strikingly accurate story of artistic life in Paris during the latter years of the Second Empire. Amusing at times, extremely pathetic and even painful at others, it not only contributes a necessary element to the rougon0 macquart series of novels a series illustrative of all phases of life in France within certain dates but also represents a particular piece of m. Zola”s career and work
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