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Curious, If True: Strange Tales
CURIOUS, IF TRUE: Strange Tales is a collection of five dark Victorian tales of suspense, horror, mood and mystery by Elizabeth Gaskell, published variously between 1852 and 1861. Includes "The Old Nurse's Story," "The Poor Clare," "Lois The Witch," "The Grey Woman," and "Curious,...- $29.95
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Thomas Love Peacock - Crotchet Castle: "A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything."
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Vendor: Howard Sturgis
Belchamber
Charles Edwin William Augustus Chambers--Marquis and Earl of Belchamber, Viscount Charmington, and Baron St. Edmunds and Chambers--known familiarly as Sainty, is the scion of an ancient English aristocratic family. Behind him stretches a rogues' gallery of picturesque upper-crust scoundrels. But he is uninterested in...- $15.95
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Vendor: Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Author: Henry David ThoreauISBN-10: 1548296651ISBN-13: 9781548296650Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2017Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.24d- $7.49
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Vendor: Walter Scott
Guy Mannering
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Vendor: Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Lesser Bourgeoisie
This story opens with a description of the house owned by Mademoiselle Thuillier and details some of the residents. She, a very capable money-manager, lives there with her brother and his family. M. Colleville is her brother's most intimate friend and the families spend...- $17.20
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Vendor: William Henry Frost
Fairies and Folk of Ireland
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Vendor: George T. Ferris
Great Violinists And Pianists
The ancestry of the violin, considering this as the type of stringed instruments played with a bow, goes back to the earliest antiquity; and innumerable passages might be quoted from the Oriental and classical writers illustrating the important part taken by the forefathers of...- $7.49
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The War of the Worlds
'The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one..." Before man had even learned the secret of powered flight, humanity finds itself in a desperate battle for survival against a merciless alien foe, intent upon wiping man from the face of...- $9.99
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By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic
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The Texan Star
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Vendor: G. a. Henty
The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib
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Vendor: Oliver Optic
Try Again; Or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks
"Boy, come here " Squire Walker was a very pompous man; one of the most notable persons in the little town of Redfield, which, the inquiring young reader will need to be informed, as it is not laid down on any map of Massachusetts...- $6.99
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Vendor: Ramon Reyes Lala
The Philippine Islands
The absolute present necessity for accurate information by the people of the United States respecting the Philippines has been met in no more satisfactory manner than by this book. The author, Mr. Ramon Reyes Lala, is a Filipino and was born in Manila. His...- $7.99
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Vendor: Thomas Bulfinch
The Age of Chivalry
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Vendor: Anthony Trollope
John Caldigate
Perhaps it was more the fault of Daniel Caldigate the father than of his son John Caldigate, that they two could not live together in comfort in the days of the young man's early youth. And yet it would have been much for both...- $8.99
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Mad King
All Lustadt was in an uproar. The mad king had escaped. Little knots of excited men stood upon the street corners listening to each latest rumor concerning this most absorbing occurrence. Before the palace a great crowd surged to and fro, awaiting they knew...- $7.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Ruth
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Vendor: Mahatma Gandhi
A Guide to Health
For more than twenty years past I have been paying special attention to the question of Health. While in England, I had to make my own arrangements for food and drink, and I can say, therefore, that my experience is quite reliable.Author: Mahatma GandhiISBN-10:...- $6.99
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Vendor: P. G. Wodehouse
A Man of Means
First of a Series of Six Stories First published in Pictorial Review, May 1916] When a seed-merchant of cautious disposition and an eye to the main chance receives from an eminent firm of jam-manufacturers an extremely large order for clover-seed, his emotions are mixed....- $6.99
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Vendor: Richmal Crompton
Journeying Wave
When Viola learned of her husband Humphrey's affair, it seemed obvious that she must divorce him so he could be with the woman soon to bear him a child, but now she must deal with her highly-strung and sensitive son Hilary and her sister...- $30.99
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Vendor: Henry James
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June-July 1879, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Frederick Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His...- $7.00
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Vendor: Lewis Carroll
Alice In Wonderland: Adventures In Wonderland
One of the most popular childern's book s in history, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Written for younger readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the wonderfully fantastic tale is credited with...- $16.59
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Vendor: Alex Struik
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey...- $26.99
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Vendor: M. Y. Lermontov
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time is divided into five novellas and was written originally in Russian. The book is a It is a portrait built up of all the author generation's vices in full bloom.Author: M. Y. LermontovISBN-10: 1449547567ISBN-13: 9781449547561Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...- $8.99
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Vendor: George Gissing
By the Ionian Sea
"By The Ionian Sea" is a 1901 work by George Gissing that contains notes and diary entries from his time spent travelling around Italy. Contents include: "From Naples", "Paola", "The Grave Of Alaric", "Taranto", "Dulce Galaesi Flumen", "The Table Of The Paladins", "Cotrone", "Faces...- $31.99
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Vendor: Green Polonius Hamilton
Beacon Lights Of The Race (1911)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $58.95
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Vendor: Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers
A young Gascon nobleman, d'Artagnan, makes his way to Paris hoping to join the Musketeers, that legion of heroes held in high esteem by the king and feared by the wicked Cardinal Richelieu. D'Artagnan quickly proves he has the heart of a Musketeer and...- $19.95
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Vendor: Bayard Taylor
Beauty and the Beast
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Vendor: George Eliot
Silas Marner
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Vendor: Johnston McCulley
The Masked Woman
The masked woman called herself Madame Madcap, and she gathered a gang of cutthroats determined to loot high society of all its riches... starting with the notorious womanizer Hamilton Brone. She worked her criminal magic... and grew rich as millionaires swooned at her feet....- $8.99
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby V2
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Vendor: Frank Hamilton Spearman
The Daughter of a Magnate
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Vendor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
Introduction by Hortense Calisher Commentary by Edmund Wilson, Henry Seidel Canby, and Arthur Mizener Fitzgerald's second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy....- $15.00
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Vendor: Agatha Christie
The Murder on the Links
In Agatha Christie's class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course. An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France. But he arrives too...- $14.99
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Vendor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Last Man
In The Last Man, Mary Shelley paints a haunting portrait of a devastated world ravaged by plague, where humanity struggles against its inexorabledemise. Through gripping narrative and vivid prose, Shelley explores themes of loss, resilience, and the fragile nature of civilization in the face...- $18.99
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
Author: Charles Dickens, Kathryn HughesISBN-10: 1843911868ISBN-13: 9781843911869Publisher: Hesperus PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2008Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 7.89h x 6.49w x 0.52d- $13.95
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Vendor: Christopher Morley
The Haunted Bookshop
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Vendor: Winifred Holtby
Poor Caroline
Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in her West Kensington bedsitter, she dreams of the Christian Cinema Company - her vehicle for reform. For Caroline sees herself as a pioneer,...- $27.99
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The Broken Land: A Historical Fantasy Series
Bestselling authors and archaeologists Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear continue their retelling of the story of the Peacemaker, one of North America's most beautiful epics. Twelve summers after the events of People of the Longhouse and The Dawn Country, the Iroquois nations...- $14.99
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Vendor: Nikolai Gogol
The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Some call him a Russian Mark Twain. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, Nikolai Gogol paved the way for his countrymen Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This sampling of Gogol's works includes the increasingly fantastic entries of "The Diary of a...- $5.95
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Men Without Women (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Men Without Women (1927), Ernest Hemingway's second collection of short stories, consists of fourteen tales that resonate with the compelling compactness and emotional force that characterizes his work. "The Killers," a stark account of two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim, "Hills Like White...- $9.99
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Vendor: Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
A rich collection of classic American literature potraying the beauty of a 19th-century New England town. A female writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal communities. Here, lives are molded by...- $6.95
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Vendor: Gerald B. Gardner
A Goddess Arrives
Delve into the ancient world of Magic and the Goddess!Robert Denvers is tired of his wife, Mina, making him a cuckold, despite the fact he still loves her. After a scathing fight with Mina, Denvers falls into a catatonic sleep that transports him to...- $19.99
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Captives of the Flame
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories from the Sketch Book
Sage, storyteller, and wit, Washington Irving created such staples of American fiction as the stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." He earned his preeminence in early American literature with the masterpieces in miniature collected here: dozens of stories, travel essays,...- $8.95
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Vendor: Robert Vaughan
Reckoning Day: A Classic Western Novella
BOUNTY HUNTER. AVENGER. LEGEND.Blood brother of the Apache, Dane Calder is more than a bounty hunter-he's a legend in the making. With the vast expanse of the Southwest as his domain, he dispenses his own brand of justice, having earned a reputation as a...- $10.99
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Classic Ghost Stories
Tales from the classic era of ghost stories, one of the most popular and enduring fiction categories. A selection of mysterious and intriguing tales from the shadows, featuring M.R. James, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edith Wharton and Algernon Blackwood, with F. Marion Crawford's The...- $12.99
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A Goddess Arrives
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Gunpowder Mountain: A Western Novel
Step into the 1860's Wild West with Gunpowder Mountain, the thrilling first installment of the new Kid Crimsonadult western series.Join Kid Crimson as he flees his abusive past, navigating the treacherous landscapes of the Confederate South to find refuge in the bustling boomtown of...- $14.99
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Fiction Classics Books
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1. "Pride and Prejudice"
2. "Moby-Dick"
3. "To Kill a Mockingbird"
4. "1984"
5. "The Great Gatsby"
6. "Jane Eyre"
7. "The Catcher in the Rye"
8. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
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1. Jane Austen
2. Charles Dickens
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Leo Tolstoy
5. Mark Twain
6. Charlotte Brontë
7. George Orwell
8. Emily Brontë
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