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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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Self Help
Foundation Stone To Happiness and Success [hardcover] James Allen
Where do we search to find Happiness and Success? The deep happiness, the fulfilling and peaceful place we all desire. In Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success, James Allen shows us where to begin to search and how to start building a strong foundation on which to build our happiness and success. “It is wise to know what comes first, and what to do first. To begin anything in the middle or at the end is to make a muddle of it.” James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. Allen’s practical philosophy for successful living has awakened millions to the discovery that “they are makers of themselves”. Allen insists that it is within the power of each person to form his character and create his happiness.
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Classic Fiction, literature, Novel
The Suspense Trail [hardcover] Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author dramatist, journalist, and political activist. He received the 1957 Nobel Prize in litPrizere Literature 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, the Fall, and The Rebel.
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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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