Classic Fiction
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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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Classic Fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction
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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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 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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