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Vendor: Anton Chekhov
The Beauties: Essential Stories
A beautiful collection of 13 classic Russian short stories by "the greatest short story writer who has ever lived" (Raymond Chandler)Without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity, Chekhov's short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. His...- $16.95
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Vendor: Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native
This is the first complete scholarly edition of one of Hardy's greatest novels. The Return of the Native engages ambitiously with contemporary ideas and problems of existence, and would go on to become one of the major 'Wessex novels'. When composed in 1878, however,...- $140.00
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Vendor: Traditional
The Nibelungenlied, Traditional, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Quoth the translator, "This translation of the Nibelungenlied is published with the simple purpose of placing one of the world's great epic poems within the reach of English readers." George Henry Needler attempted not just to transliterate the original, but to reproduce its poetic...- $39.95
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Vendor: Frederick Rolfe
The Weird of the Wanderer by Frederick Rolfe, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
The mummy -- which is not less than nineteen hundred years old -- is that of a very handsome lad indeed, of about nineteen years of age and most magnificently made. There is absolutely no trace of decay about it; and it looks as...- $18.95
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Vendor: Guy De Maupassant
The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant Part One
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...- $42.95
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Vendor: Vernon Lee
Miss Brown by Vernon Lee, Fiction
Towards the end of the sitting, he suddenly looked up. "Have you ever read the 'Vita Nuova, ' Miss Brown?" he asked. "What's the 'Vita Nuova'?" "It is a little book by Dante, in prose and verse, telling how he met Beatrice, and then...- $27.95
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Vendor: Elizabeth Gaskell
The Manchester Marriage
""The Manchester Marriage"" is a novella written by Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1858. The story revolves around the marriage of a young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Openshaw, who come from different social classes. Mr. Openshaw is a wealthy businessman who is used to living...- $17.95
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Vendor: Henry James
Crawfords Consistency
Crawford's Consistency is a novel written by the renowned American author, Henry James. The book is set in the early 20th century and tells the story of a wealthy American businessman named Spencer Brydon. After living abroad in Europe for many years, Brydon returns...- $17.95
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Vendor: Aphra Behn
Emperor Of The Moon
""Emperor of the Moon"" is a play written by Aphra Behn that was first performed in 1687. The play is a comedy that satirizes the scientific and philosophical beliefs of the time, as well as the social and political climate of England during the...- $24.95
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Vendor: Philander Deming
The Best Adirondack Stories of Philander Deming
In simple, darkly faceted stories, Philander Deming writes as a person whose childhood knowledge of the Adirondacks has been honed to a fine sense for its potential human tragedy. In this, the first collection of his best work, a haunting vision of the Adirondacks...- $24.95
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Vendor: Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde, Fiction, Literary
This is Oscar Wilde's long -- and remarkable -- essay on socialism. It's not what you'd think, if you know just a little of his biography. Wilde foresaw -- from his time, long before it'd been tried as a principle of governance -- that...- $12.95
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Vendor: Gaston Louis Alfred LeRoux
The Phantom of the Opera
Living in hiding beneath the infamous Paris Opera House, a mysterious figure secretly tutors the beautiful young singer, Christine Daae. With the legend of his disfigured face, he is promptly smitten and develops an obsessive affection for his beautiful protÃ(c)gÃ(c). While she has fallen...- $16.99
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction, Literary
When Abner Perry invents a vehicle that essentially drills through the earth, he takes it to his good friend (and independently wealthy man about town) David Ennis. And what else can they do? Drill down into the earth, of course. What they find there...- $14.95
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Vendor: Bram Stoker
Dracula's Guest
"I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth, which chilled me to the heart and sent the blood surging up through my brain." In this intriguing literary fragment--published seventeen years after Bram Stoker's most famous novel--an...- $6.00
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Vendor: Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust." Jonathan Swift's 1729 pamphlet...- $6.00
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Vendor: Desmond Bagley
The Tightrope Men
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Norway and Finland.When Giles Denison of Hampstead wakes up in an Oslo hotel room and finds the face looking back at him in the mirror is not his own, things could surely get no more...- $12.99
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Vendor: Wendy Webb
Tale of Halcyon Crane
A young woman travels alone to a remote island to uncover a past she never knew was hers in this thrilling modern ghost story When a mysterious letter lands in Hallie James's mailbox, her life is upended. Hallie was raised by her loving father,...- $24.99
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Vendor: Anzia Yezierska
Bread Givers
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle...- $37.00
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Vendor: Arthur Machen
Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen, Fiction, Fantasy
Lucian Taylor is damned - either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he...- $20.95
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Vendor: G. K. Chesterton
Manalive by G. K. Chesterton, Fiction, Literary
"A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. It a million holes and corners it refreshed a man like...- $14.95
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Vendor: Charles Brockden Brown
Arthur Mervyn or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown, Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
When Dr. Stevens finds a young man sitting alone in Phildelphia, he takes pity on him and invites him into his home. The young man's name is Arthur Mervyn and he is suffering from yellow fever, an illness that has swept through the city....- $22.95
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Vendor: William Hope Hodgson
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson, Fiction, Horror
The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions. American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft listed The House on...- $18.95
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Vendor: Arthur Desmond
Caesar's Column: A Story of the Future
Ignatius Donnelly's Caesar's Column: A Story of the FutureIntroduction by Arthur DesmondA dangerously revolutionary futuristic novel with a dystopian theme in a New York setting.The book is luridly fascinating. 1988, New York, the scene of the story, is an earthly heaven, where man (or...- $16.95
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Vendor: Max Beerbohm
Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story
Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story by Max Beerbohm. Zuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by Max Beerbohm, a very successful satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911. It includes the famous line...- $8.95
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Vendor: G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton, Fiction, Mystery & Detective
The Man Who Knew Too Much: From behind the overhanging rock came a noise and rush like that of a railway train; and a great motorcar appeared. For the fraction of a flash it seemed to leave the ledge of rock like a flying...- $14.95
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Vendor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
It's the Roaring Twenties, and New York City is the place to be. Everything can be purchased, everyone can be bought. But, can you make money erase your past?It's the Roaring Twenties, and it is the time of over-indulgence. As far as the eyes...- $14.99
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Vendor: H. Beam Piper
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper, Science Fiction, Adventure
Protagonist Jack Holloway lives a solitary life in a wilderness of planet Zarathustra, itself "owned" by the Chartered Zarathustra Corporation (under Victor Grego), which installed basic services and colonial outposts initially, and now reaps the benefits of new discoveries, such as the valuable 'sunstones'...- $28.95
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Vendor: Matthew G. Lewis
The Monk by Matthew G. Lewis, Fiction, Horror
"Horror in literature attains a new malignity in the work of Matthew Gregory Lewis (1773-1818), whose novel The Monk (1796) achieved marvelous popularity and earned him the nickname 'Monk' Lewis. This young author, educated in Germany and saturated with a body of wild Teuton...- $45.95
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Vendor: G. a. Henty
The Dragon and the Raven by G. A. Henty, Fiction, Historical
In all subsequent ages England has produced no single man who united in himself so many great qualities as did this first of great Englishmen. King Alfred was learned, wise, brave, prudent and pious; devoted to his people, clement to his conquered enemies. He...- $40.95
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Vendor: Arthur Machen
Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, Fiction, Horror
In Supernatural Horror in Literature, H. P. Lovecraft praised the story Great God Pan, saying: "No one could begin to describe the cumulative suspense and ultimate horror with which every paragraph abounds"; he added that "the sensitive reader" reaches the end with "an appreciative...- $14.95
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Vendor: Frederick Rolfe
Hadrian the Seventh
The book "" Hadrian the Seventh "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This...- $14.94
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Vendor: Alma Lutz
Susan B. Anthony: Rebel; Crusader; Humanitarian
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $38.95
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Vendor: P. G. Wodehouse
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, Fiction, Literary, Humorous
I would urge you to get hold of the complete novel Right Ho, Jeeves, where you will encounter it fully in context and find that it leaps even more magnificently to life. I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the...- $18.95
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Vendor: Harpsworth and Adamson
The Call of Cthulhu, Dagon, and Other Stories: Official Edition
This official edition of H.P. Lovecraft includes the following stories: The Call of Cthulhu, Dagon, Celephais, The Shadow Out of Time. These are the original texts without any change, additions, notes, prologue, or censorship. The official texts as they were published by the author.Author:...- $13.15
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Vendor: Stephen Leacock
Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacck, Fiction, Literary
Leacock (1869-1944) did have his serious side -- for he wrote learnedly of Twain and Dickens, and was a professor of political science and economics at McGill University . . . but it was when he set aside seriousness for levity, with such sketches...- $14.95
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Vendor: Rebecca West
The Judge by Rebecca West, Fiction, Literary, Romance, Historical
Rebecca West was a pseudonym for Cicily Isabel Fairfield, a woman who had love affairs with Charlie Chaplin, H.G. Wells, and businessman, politician and newspaper magnate Max Beaverbrook. She published her first novel, The Return of the Soldier, in 1918. Her works also include...- $25.95
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Vendor: Rudyard Kipling
The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling, Fiction, Historical
The Light that Failed follows the life of Dick Heldar. Dick Heldar is a war correspondent and an artist, well-known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts...- $21.95
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Vendor: Eliza Parsons
The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons, Fiction, Horror, Literary
In her novel NORTHANGER ABBEY, Jane Austen mentions several Gothic novels by name. By the time the book saw print, these lesser works were already deservedly obscure (as, indeed, almost all disposable popular fiction soon becomes). For years they were assumed to be not...- $18.95
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Vendor: R. M. Ballantyne
The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
One night, soon after we entered the tropics, an awful storm burst upon our ship. The first squall of wind carried away two of our masts, and left only the foremast standing. There was no room for me upon the lifeboat; but being left...- $40.95
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Vendor: Vernon Lee
Hauntings by Vernon Lee, Fiction, Horror
From the preface: We were talking last evening-as the blue moon-mist poured in through the old-fashioned grated window, and mingled with our yellow lamplight at table-we were talking of a certain castle whose heir is initiated (as folk tell) on his twenty-first birthday to...- $20.95
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Vendor: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu, Fiction, Literary, Horror, Fantasy
Before DRACULA came CARMILLA A Strange Agony. The exquisite and deadly vampire Carmilla haunts J. Sheridan LeFanu's influential novel. A Gothic tale of blood and terror, Carmilla inspired later classics by Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson, ever shadowed by a love that dare...- $17.95
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Vendor: Saki
The Unbearable Bassington
The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro) and contains much of the elegant wit found in his short stories. Comus (The Unbearable) Bassington, is a charming young man about town. His perversity however thwarts all his mother's efforts...- $5.99
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Vendor: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father....- $6.25
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837-39. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into...- $24.24
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Vendor: Summer Hanford
A Death at Rosings: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
The world of Rosings is turned on its head with the sudden death of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Not yet up to the challenge of managing the estate on her own, Anne de Bourgh enlists the aid of Elizabeth Bennet, who is staying with...- $9.95
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Vendor: Stephen Crane
Last Words
This posthumously published collection of stories, sketches, and articles includes the story "An Episode of War," one of Crane's most important works, plus "The Reluctant Voyagers," "Spitzbergen Tales," "Wyoming Valley Tales," "London Impressions," "New York Sketches," "Irish Notes," "Sullivan County Sketches," and much more.Author:...- $6.55
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Vendor: Bram Stoker
The Burial of the Rats (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Many of the earliest and most interesting vampire stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Bram...- $16.99
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Vendor: Bram Stoker
The Whispering Mummy (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Many of the horror stories of monsters and ghouls, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Bram...- $16.99
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Vendor: Edith Wharton
The Valley of Decision - A Novel
This antiquarian book contains Edith Wharton's first serious novel, "The Valley of Decision". Within this text Wharton juxtaposes characters inspired by the anti-religious writings of Voltaire and Rousseau with the orthodox leaders of the day. As in many of Wharton's writings, it becomes evident...- $39.99
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Vendor: Maurice LeBlanc
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar
Maurice-Marie- mile Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin. Lupin is often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.Includes an new introduction...- $24.99
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Fiction Classics Books
Fiction Classics Books is a remarkable collection that brings together timeless literary works from various genres of fiction. This collection encompasses an extensive range of novels, short stories, and plays that have stood the test of time and continue to captivate readers worldwide.
The collection showcases a diverse array of literary masterpieces from different periods and cultures. It includes iconic works from renowned authors such as Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and many more. From the romantic intrigues of Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" to the thought-provoking symbolism of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," these books have become cornerstones of literary history.
Fiction Classics Books offers readers a chance to explore a multitude of genres, including romance, mystery, adventure, science fiction, and historical fiction. Each work presents a unique narrative that transports readers to different worlds and eras, allowing them to delve into captivating stories and explore complex characters that have become classics in their own right.
In addition to the wide range of genres, Fiction Classics Books offers something for readers of all ages and backgrounds. The collection includes books suitable for young readers, such as Lewis Carroll's whimsical "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," as well as profound and thought-provoking novels like George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, "1984."
Regardless of literary preferences, Fiction Classics Books is an invaluable collection for any avid reader or lover of literature. It not only presents an opportunity to appreciate the works of esteemed authors but also provides a gateway into understanding the cultural and social contexts in which these books were written. Through Fiction Classics Books, readers can embark on literary journeys that span centuries and continents. Whether one seeks adventure, romance, tragedy, or simply a thought-provoking read, this collection has it all. These books have endured the test of time, captivating generation after generation, and continue to inspire readers to explore and appreciate the world of fiction.
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The fiction classics book collection offers a wide array of timeless and popular books that have captivated readers for generations. These books have stood the test of time, enchanting readers with their compelling narratives, vivid characters, and thought-provoking themes. From celebrated authors to renowned literary treasures, here are some of the popular books you can find within the fiction classics collection:
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"
These are just a few examples of the popular books you can find within the fiction classics book collection. Each one offers a unique perspective on the human experience and continues to captivate readers with their enduring relevance and literary brilliance. Whether you are a dedicated fan of classic literature or new to this genre, these books will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression.
Popular Fiction Classics Authors
The world of literature is enriched with countless authors who have gifted us with timeless stories and unforgettable characters. Within the realm of fiction classics, there are several authors whose contributions to literature have left an indelible mark. Here, we explore some of the most popular authors of the book collections 'fiction classics books'.
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
These authors have made invaluable contributions to literature by crafting stories that have stood the test of time. Their keen observations of society, complex characterizations, and exploration of universal themes continue to resonate with readers around the globe, making their books a cherished part of any fiction classics collection.
The fiction classics collection at White Rain Book House encapsulates the timeless tales that have shaped literature and captivated readers for generations. From the enchanting worlds of Jane Austen to the thrilling adventures of Jules Verne, this collection offers a treasure trove of literary gems that will transport readers to different eras and immerse them in unforgettable narratives.

