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Classic Fiction, Fiction
Black Beauty
“It is Good People Who make good places.”Well-born and well-bred, the handsome horse named Black Beauty spends his early days with his mother at an English farm. Treated with affection and kindness. he is encouraged to be good always.”… I hope you will fall into good hands, but a horse never knows who may buy him or drive him; it is all a chance for us; but still I say, do your best, wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”
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Games & Quizzes, Hobbies & Home
20th Century Standard Puzzles [hardcover] A. Cyril Pearson
In Albert Durer’s day, as in Milton’s, melancholy meant thoughtfulness, and on this ground, we find on his woodcut, “Melancholia, or the Genius of the Industrial Science of Mechanics,” a very early instance of a Magic Square, showing that Puzzles had a recognised place in mental gymnastics four hundred years ago.
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Fiction
Awakening And To Let [hardcover] John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy Om was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called the Forsyte Saga, and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in the Noble Prize in Literature in 1932.
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Classic Fiction, Comedy
Mosquitoes [hardcover] William Faulkner
Mosquitoescentress around a colourful assortment of passengers on a boating excursion from New Orleans. The rich and the aspiring, social butterflies and dissolute dilettantes, are all easy targets for Faulkner’s barbed wit in this engaging, high-spirited novel, which offers a fascinating glimpse of Faulkner as a young artist.
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Fiction, literature
The Moon And Sixpence [hardcover] W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published on April 15th, 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.
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Religion
The Monastry [hardcover] Sir Walter Scott
Having received a small inheritance, the retired captain Clatterbuck settles in the village of Kennakweir in southern Scotland. Out of boredom, he is interested in the ruins of an old village monastery, which attracts visitors to the village. Having studied its history and architecture, the captain becomes a local guide. Once a monk of the Order of ST. Benedict, who has more complete and accurate information about the monastery, turns to him for help. The monk wants to get from the ruins sacreddrd relics of him the hr of his distant relative buried in the monastery and transfer the relics to another place.
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History, Religion
The Rape of The Lock [hardcover] Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock (1906) is an epic poem by English literary icon alexander pope. Known for his formal expertise, the Pope is arguably the most important English poet of the eighteenth century. His work influenced such figures as William Wordsworth, Samuel Johnso, and Jonathan Swift. Drawing on his immense knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin literature, alexander pope’s The rape of the Lock is a mock epic that captures the essence of classical divinity and poetry while illuminating the absurdity and stupidity of English aristocratic life.
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