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Vendor: Harold Bindloss
Prescott of Saskatchewan
The air was cooling down toward evening at Sebastian, where an unpicturesque collection of wooden houses stand upon a branch line on the Canadian prairie. The place is not attractive during the earlier portion of the short northern summer, when for the greater part...- $7.49
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Vendor: James Otis
Peter of New Amsterdam
If I ever attempted to set down a story in words, it would be concerning the time when I was much the same as a slave among the Dutch of New Amsterdam, meaning a certain part of the world in that America where so...- $6.99
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Vendor: William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: Unabridged edition
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847-48, satirising society in early 19th-century Britain. It follows the lives of two women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family. The...- $18.50
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Vendor: John Fox
In Happy Valley
Preaching at the open-air meeting-house was just over and the citizens of Happy Valley were pouring out of the benched enclosure within living walls of rhododendron. Men, women, children, babes in arms mounted horse or mule or strolled in family groups homeward up or...- $6.99
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Vendor: Jean Paul
Titan: A Romance, Volume 2 of 2
What a universal joy of the people could now ring and roar, for a space of eight days, from one frontier of the land to the other For so long was the public sorrow suspended; the bells sounded for something better than a march...- $7.49
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Vendor: Jean Paul
Titan: A Romance, Volume 1 of 2
In my opinion, what made the Head-forester Von Kn r so incredibly sharp-set upon chess was, that from one year's end to the other, he had nothing to do but to be, once during that time, the guest, the Santa Hermandad or Holy Brotherhood...- $7.99
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Vendor: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What Diantha Did
First published serially in Gilman's magazine the Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fianc to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise...- $10.99
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Vendor: William Andrews
Bygone Punishments
The usual mode of capital punishment in England for many centuries has been, and still is, hanging. Other means of execution have been exercised, but none have been so general as death at the hands of the hangman. In the Middle Ages every town,...- $7.99
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Vendor: Dion Boucicault
The Octoroon: (Dion Boucicault Classics Collection)
Pete. Guess they nebber was born-dem tings what, dem?-get away Born here-dem darkies? What, on Terrebonne Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George; dem black tings never was born at all; dey swarmed one mornin' on a sassafras tree in the swamp: I cotched 'em; dey...- $9.99
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Vendor: Stephen Crane
Men, Women, and Boats
It hardly profits us to conjecture what Stephen Crane might have written about the World War had he lived. Certainly, he would have been in it, in one capacity or another. No man had a greater talent for war and personal adventure, nor a...- $6.99
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Vendor: Hilaire Belloc
Hills and the Sea
There were once two men. They were men of might and breeding. They were young, they were intolerant, they were hale. Were there for humans as there is for dogs a tribunal to determine excellence; were there judges of anthropoidal points and juries to,...- $6.99
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Vendor: Hilaire Belloc
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
I call you bad, my little child, Upon the title page, Because a manner rude and wild Is common at your age.Author: Hilaire BellocISBN-10: 1517354609ISBN-13: 9781517354602Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2015Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d- $6.99
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Vendor: Jack London
Love of Life & Other Stories
Under this title the author has grouped eight short stories. The tale which gives the book its name is a description of a man dying in the wilds of the Northwest by slow starvation. The concluding story, "Negore, the Coward," relates to the old...- $7.99
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Vendor: Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon,...- $6.00
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Vendor: D. H. Lawrence
The Prussian Officer
They had marched more than thirty kilometres since dawn, along the white, hot road where occasional thickets of trees threw a moment of shade, then out into the glare again. On either hand, the valley, wide and shallow, glittered with heat; dark green patches...- $6.99
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Vendor: John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new...- $5.99
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Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes
The celebrated name which forms the title to this work will sufficiently apprise the reader that it is in the earlier half of the fourteenth century that my story opens. It was on a summer evening that two youths might be seen walking beside...- $8.49
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Vendor: Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study In Scarlet
Returning injured from Afghanistan, former Army Doctor John Watson is introduced to the extraordinary figure, the world's only consulting detctive, Sherlock Holmes. Watson becomes Holmes' flatmate, friend and assistant in what would become the first extraordinary case in a long and astonishing career. This...- $10.99
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Vendor: George Bird Grinnell
Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales
ONCE the Pawnees were a great people. They were very numerous. They were undisputed masters of a vast territory. They had everything that heart could wish. Their corn and their buffalo gave them food, clothing and shelter; they had weapons for war and for...- $7.49
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Vendor: H. G. Wells
The Red Room
Clearly ahead of his time, H. G. Wells gave his great gifts to the world with his classic science fiction works, including this short story. "The Red Room," set in the late 1800s, takes the reader on a frightening experience. Enjoy Well's amazing imagination...- $7.50
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Vendor: Saki
The Unbearable Bassington
Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China tea and small cress sandwiches. The meal was of that elegant proportion which, while ministering sympathetically to the desires of the moment,...- $6.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Adventures of Elizabeth in R?en
Every one who has been to school and still remembers what he was taught there, knows that R gen is the biggest island Germany possesses, and that it lies in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Pomerania. Round this island I wished to...- $7.49
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Vendor: Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Enchanted April
It began in a Woman's Club in London on a February afternoon-an uncomfortable club, and a miserable afternoon-when Mrs. Wilkins, who had come down from Hampstead to shop and had lunched at her club, took up The Times from the table in the smoking-room,...- $7.49
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Vendor: Alexander Smith
Dreamthorp
It matters not to relate how or when I became a denizen of Dreamthorp; it will be sufficient to say that I am not a born native, but that I came to reside in it a good while ago now. The several towns and...- $6.99
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Vendor: Ben J. Viljoen
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
In offering my readers my reminiscences of the late War, I feel that it is necessary to ask their indulgence and to plead extenuating circumstances for many obvious shortcomings. It should be pointed out that the preparation of this work was attended with many...- $8.49
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Vendor: Jethro Bithell
Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck
It is not an easy task to write the life of a man who is still living. If the biographer is hostile to his subject, the slaughtering may be an exciting spectacle; if he wishes, not to lay a victim out, but to pay...- $6.99
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Vendor: Maurice Maeterlinck
The Inner Beauty
Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily. There is nothing in the world capable of such spontaneous uplifting, of such speedy ennoblement; nothing that offers more scrupulous obedience...- $6.99
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Vendor: Maurice Maeterlinck
Our Friend the Dog
I have lost, within these last few days, a little bull-dog. He had just completed the sixth month of his brief existence. He had no history. His intelligent eyes opened to look out upon the world, to love mankind, then closed again on the...- $6.99
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Vendor: Philip Gibbs
From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917
1917.... I suppose that a century hence men and women will think of that date as one of the world's black years flinging its shadow forward to the future until gradually new generations escape from its dark spell. To us now, only a few...- $7.99
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Vendor: George Manville Fenn
The New Mistress
"Remember, Hazel," said Mrs Thorne, "remember this-we may be reduced in circumstances; we may have been compelled by misfortune to come down into this wretched little town, and to live in this miserable, squeezy, poorly-furnished house or cottage, with the light kept out by...- $6.99
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Vendor: Booth Tarkington
Seventeen
William Sylvanus Baxter paused for a moment of thought in front of the drug-store at the corner of Washington Street and Central Avenue. He had an internal question to settle before he entered the store: he wished to allow the young man at the...- $7.99
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Vendor: Booth Tarkington
Penrod
Penrod sat morosely upon the back fence and gazed with envy at Duke, his wistful dog. A bitter soul dominated the various curved and angular surfaces known by a careless world as the face of Penrod Schofield. Except in solitude, that face was almost...- $7.49
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Vendor: Gertrude Stein
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
When they are very little just only a baby you can never tell which one is to be a lady. There are some when they feel it inside them that it has been with them that there was once so very little of them,...- $6.99
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Vendor: Helen Keller
The World I Live In
I HAVE just touched my dog. He was rolling on the grass, with pleasure in every muscle and limb. I wanted to catch a picture of him in my fingers, and I touched him as lightly as I would cobwebs; but lo, his fat...- $6.99
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Vendor: Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Guardian Angel
On Saturday, the 18th day of June, 1859, the "State Banner and Delphian Oracle," published weekly at Oxbow Village, one of the principal centres in a thriving river-town of New England, contained an advertisement which involved the story of a young life, and stained...- $6.99
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Vendor: John Henry Newman
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Newman was already a recognised spiritual leader of over thirty year's standing, but not yet a Cardinal, when in 1864 he wrote the Apologia. He was London born, and he had, as many Londoners have had, a foreign strain in him. His father came...- $7.49
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Vendor: George Manville Fenn
The Master of the Ceremonies
Early morning at Saltinville, with the tide down, and the calm sea shimmering like damasked and deadened silver in the sunshine. Here and there a lugger was ashore, delivering its take of iris-hued mackerel to cart and basket, as a busy throng stood round,...- $8.99
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Vendor: Clemence Housman
The Unknown Sea
A solitary fisher ploughed the lively blue of a southern sea. Strength of limb, fair hair, and clear grey eyes told of a northern race, though his skin had been tanned to a red-brown, dark as the tint of the slender, dark-eyed, olive-skinned fishers...- $6.99
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Vendor: Georg Brandes
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth
He was little and looked at the world from below. All that happened, went on over his head. Everyone looked down to him. But the big people possessed the enviable power of lifting him to their own height or above it. It might so...- $7.49
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Vendor: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
'T is like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers All the achings and the quakings of "the times that tried men's souls;" When I talk of Whig and Tory, when I tell the Rebel story, To you the words are ashes, but...- $6.99
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings/ Mrs Lirriper's Legacy (annotated)
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings/ Mrs Lirriper's Legacy is a classic short story collection by Charles Dickens. Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn't a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the...- $5.99
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Vendor: M. E. Braddon
Fenton's Quest
A warm summer evening, with a sultry haze brooding over the level landscape, and a Sabbath stillness upon all things in the village of Lidford, Midlandshire. In the remoter corners of the old gothic church the shadows are beginning to gather, as the sermon...- $7.99
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Vendor: M. E. Braddon
Phantom Fortune
People dined earlier forty years ago than they do now. Even that salt of the earth, the elect of society, represented by that little great world which lies between the narrow circle bounded by Bryanstone Square on the north and by Birdcage Walk on...- $8.49
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Vendor: Anna Katharine Green
The House of the Whispering Pines
The moon rode high; but ominous clouds were rushing towards it-clouds heavy with snow. I watched these clouds as I drove recklessly, desperately, over the winter roads. I had just missed the desire of my life, the one precious treasure which I coveted with...- $6.99
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Vendor: Anna Katharine Green
The Woman in the Alcove
I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest-up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate. I was not made for love....- $6.99
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Vendor: Edward Stratemeyer
Guns and Snowshoes; Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters
"Hurrah, boys, it's snowing at last Aren't you glad?" "Glad? You bet I'm glad, Snap Why I've been watching for this storm for about six months " "There you go, Whopper " answered Charley Dodge, with a grin. "Six months indeed Why, we haven't...- $6.99
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Vendor: Edward Stratemeyer
Young Auctioneers; Or, The Polishing of a Rolling Stone
"Now, ladies and gentlemen, what am I offered for this elegant vase, imported direct from Italy, a most marvelous piece of workmanship, worth every cent of twenty-five dollars? Who will start it at five dollars? Start it at four? Start it at three? At...- $7.49
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Vendor: C. J. Hogarth
Dead Souls
Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, "the Russian novel," not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown...- $14.99
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Vendor: Edward Stratemeyer
The Mystery at Putnam Hall: The School Chums' Strange Discovery
"Here we are again, as the clown says in the circus " "Right you are, Pepper. And I'll be glad to get back to Putnam Hall once more," responded Major Jack Ruddy, as he followed his chum from the lake steamer to the Cedarville...- $7.49
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Vendor: Maria S. Cummins
The Lamplighter
"Good God to think upon a child That has no childish days, No careless play, no frolics wild, No words of prayer and praise." -Landon. It was growing dark in the city. Out in the open country it would be light for half-an-hour or...- $7.49
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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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