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Fiction, Novel
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter (Hardback)
- Page : 191
- ISBN : 9789394885318
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm
The stern MS Polly’s household is disrupted when her orphaned niece comes to live with her. The endearing child is always ready to please, but doesn’t really believe in doing what her heart rejects. She brightens the serious household with her optimistic attitude, playing what she calls ‘just being glad game. Always smiling and helpful, Pollyanna touches the lives of many people in the neighbourhood – teaching them a new way to live. Pollyanna is a story which emphasises there is always something to be glad about in life, only if one really looks for it.
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Fiction, Novel
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Hardback)
- Page : 199
- ISBN : 9789394885035
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.3 cm
I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one. ?When the kind and imaginative seven-year-old Sara Crewe reaches Miss Minchin?s Select Seminary for Young Ladies with her papa, she doesn?t quite like it. ?I don?t like it, papa,? she said. ?But then I dare say soldiers?even brave ones?don?t really like going into battle. ?The apple of her father?s eye, Sara has all the privileges at the seminary and is treated with special care. Soon enough, she befriends her classmates and is nicknamed a ?princess?, which she often pretends to be. But just after her eleventh birthday, when the news of her father?s death arrives, everything changes. Will Sara Crewe’s imagination help her cope up with the loss and hardships?One of the all-time children?s novels, Frances Hodgson Burnett?s A Little Princess is a remarkable story. It has been adapted for films, theatre, musicals, and television, and continues to remain popular more than a century after its publication.
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Fiction, Novel
Dear Enemy ( An Original Classic ) by Jean Webster (Hardback)
- Page : 188
- ISBN : 9789394885660
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm
Jean Webster (1876-1916) was an American novelist, playwright, and social activist. During the start of the twentieth century (1912), Webster wrote “Daddy-Long-Legs”, an epistolary, best-selling novel that she developed into a play. It met with much success, and the characters were sold as dolls, the money from which going to charities to help fund orphan adoptions. In 1915, Webster published the sequel, “Dear Enemy”. Written in the same epistolary form, “Dear Enemy” met with best-selling acclaim as well. The novel is unique in that the story is propelled by crude, stick-figure animations, drawn by Webster herself, that add a whimsical air to the social issues addressed, the care of orphans and women’s life choices in particular. Sadly, Webster died of childbirth fever in 1916, just a year after the success of “Dear Enemy”.
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Biography
Chaitanya’s Life and Teachings by Jadunath Sarkar (Hardback)
- Page : 236
- ISBN : 9789394885264
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm
“Chaitanya’s Life And Teachings” by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi (translated by Sir Jadunath Sarkar). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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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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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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Religion
A Guide to Mythology by Helen A. Clarke (Hardback)
- Page : 277
- ISBN : 9789394885493
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm
Excerpt: from A Guide to Mythology ‘My aim in this book on Mythology for young readers has been to give them solid knowledge on the subject, as far as it is advisable to go with im mature minds, based upon the most recent investigations of scholars, and to select the myths used in illustration of the plan, with a View to giving them interesting stories to read, which will, almost unconsciously to themselves, lay a firm foundation for the fascinating study of Comparative Mythology, should they wish to go more deeply into it in the future.’
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Fiction, Novel
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (Hardback)
- Page : 592
- ISBN : 978-9394885912
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3.7 cm
Adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in French in three volumes as L’lle mysterieuse in 1874 and included in his popular science-fiction series Voyages extraordinaires (1863-1910). The Mysterious Island follows the adventures of a group of castaways who use their survivalist savvy to build a functional community on an uncharted island. A hot air balloon carrying five passengers and a dog escapes from Richmond, Va., during the American Civil War. It is blown off course and deposited near an obscure island. One of the castaways nearly dies after a skirmish with pirates; he is saved by the unexplained appearance of medicine after the pirates are unexpectedly routed.
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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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Fiction, Novel
Thuvia Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Hardback)
- Page : 151
- ISBN : 9789394885974
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.2 cm
Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public’s imagination. Thuvia, Maid of Mars, first published in 1920, is the fourth book in Burroughs Mars series. Here, hero Carthoris goes in search of the kidnapped Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, encountering strange Martian creatures and romantic rivals along the
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Fiction, Novel
The Pickwick Papers (An Original Classic) by Charles Dickens (Hardback)
- Page : 909
- ISBN : 9789394885929
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 5.3 cm
The Pickwick PapersThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens’s first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens’ novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published as complete volumes). Dickens (still writing under the pseudonym of Boz) increasingly took over the unsuccessful monthly publication after the original illustrator Robert Seymour had committed suicide. With the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10, the book became the first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise. After the publication, the widow of Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband’s however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that “Mr Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book.”Editorial ReviewsReviewCharles Dickens’ first novel, The Pickwick Papers was first published in 1836.Samuel Pickwick is the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. He and his fellow Pickwickians travel to the far-flung corners of London in search of adventure – luckily for the gentlemen, amusement and hilarity are never in short supply. Along their way, they encounter plenty of characters – from villains who land them in deep trouble to one woman who sues Pickwick to force him into marriage, providing the Pickwickians with plenty of tales to entertain.
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Fiction, Novel
All Around The Moon by Jules Verne (Hardback)
- Page : 315
- ISBN : 978-9394885097
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm
Picking up where From the Earth to the Moon left off this sequel follows the first lunar explorers in a dangerous journey around the moon. The sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. The world’s first 3 space travellers, Impey Barbicane, Michael Ardan and Captain Nicholl attempt to become the first men on the moon, but their journey is fraught with mishap.
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Fiction, Novel
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Unabridged Classic Edition) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (HB)
- Page : 531
- ISBN : 978-9394885110
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3.3 cm
“And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honor and justice by dollars and cents.” Arthur Shelby, a Kentucky farmer, is heavily in debt. While on the verge of losing his farm and everything else that he owns, Shelby decides to cope up with the financial crisis by selling two of his slaves—the middle-aged uncle Tom whose faith is unwavering and, the son of Mrs. Emily shelby’s maid Eliza, harry—to a gruff slave trader named Haley for money. But the Shelby family shares a warm and affectionate relationship with their slaves. What happens when Eliza, who was promised by the virtuous Mrs. Emily Shelby that her son would never be sold, comes to know of the arrangement? A heart-wrenching tale giving insights into the lives of the African American slaves in the pre-Civil war America, Harriet beecher stowe’s uncle Tom’s cabin highlights the evils of slavery. At once fierce and stirring, the book is credited to have fanned the flames of the abolitionist cause. The bestselling novel and the second bestselling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, uncle Tom’s cabin continues to remain a significant part of American literature.
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