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Vendor: M. R. James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Fiction, Literary
The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. James' style of writing can be considered as "gothic".After Jonathan Miller adapted "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My...- $14.95
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Vendor: Tessa Hadley
Everything Will Be All Right
When Joyce Stevenson is thirteen, her family moves to the south of England to live with their aunt Vera. Vera and her sister Lil aren't at all alike. Vera, a teacher, has unquestioning belief in the powers of education and reason; Lil puts her...- $23.00
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Vendor: Pat Frank
An Affair of State
The insightful political thriller first published at the dawn of the Cold War, from the author of the postapocalyptic classic, Alas, BabylonIn Pat Frank's riveting, insightful, and thought-provoking novel, young, outspoken Jeff Baker comes out of World War II determined to work for the...- $14.99
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Vendor: Augusta Gregory
Irish Myths and Legends Vol 2: Cuchulain and the Red Branch of Ulster
Lady Augusta Gregory's collection and translation of Irish folk legends brings, as Yeats observed, 'Ireland's gift of imagination to the world'.Following on from the bestselling Irish Myths and Legends: Gods and Fighting Men, this second volume, originally titled Cuchulain of Muirthemne, tells of the...- $24.99
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Vendor: Joseph Roth
The Emperor's Tomb
Joseph Roth's The Emperor's Tomb is a continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March. This novel presents both a powerful, moving look at a decaying society and its journey through World War I and its devastating aftermath, and...- $14.95
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Vendor: Erica Jong
Parachutes & Kisses
Married (again) and divorced (again), Isadora Wing is a single parent with an adorable daughter, an irritating ex-husband, and a startling assortment of suitors: an unorthodox rabbi, a poetic disc jockey, the son of a famous sex therapist, and WASPily handsomest of all: Berkeley...- $22.00
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Vendor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana Robinson Benediction - Head and Shoulders - Bernice Bobs Her Hair - The Ice Palace - The Offshore Pirate - May Day - The Jelly Bean - The Diamond as Big as the Ritz...- $19.00
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Vendor: E. C. R. Lorac
Post After Post-Mortem: An Oxfordshire Mystery
Now tell us about your crime novel. Take my advice and don't try to be intellectual over it. What the public likes is blood.The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews, and crime thrillers published under...- $14.99
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Vendor: Thomas de Quincey
Miscellaneous Essays
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.Author: Thomas de QuinceyISBN-10: 3375082037ISBN-13: 9783375082031Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2022Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d- $79.90
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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
The Making of a Saint
Is set in Italy of the 15th-century, where rivalry, intrigue, jealousy, and murder were a part of everyday life. This novel portrays a heroic tale of love, adventure, and politics. It is the life story of Beato Giuliano, brother of the Order of St...- $7.30
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Vendor: Mayne Reid
The Tiger Hunter
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.Author: Mayne ReidISBN-10: 3375054157ISBN-13: 9783375054151Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2022Pages: 376Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d- $89.90
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Vendor: Meg Osborne
To Mend Mr Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
With his family fractured, Fitzwilliam Darcy does not know where to turn. Can he learn to trust his heart, even if it means overcoming his own stubborn opinions? If Elizabeth Bennet's happiness is ruined - perhaps forever - she is determined to work a...- $10.99
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Vendor: Rudyard Kipling
The Very Best of Rudyard Kipling - Short Stories
Rudyard Kipling is considered to be one of the most popular English writers. He was born in Bombay and spent the first five years of his life soaking in the colonial life. He was however, sent back to England by his parents to receive...- $17.99
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoyevski
The Very Best Dostoveski-Short Stories
Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived.He was also known as a journalist who left a strong impression on people's mind through his writings. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia's revolutionaries...- $19.99
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Vendor: Sharath Komarraju
The Queens of Hastinapur
For she is the giver of life, the oldest, kindest, wisest of mothers. She has seen this land take form, swell with power. She has witnessed people pillage it, and bring about the end to the age of kings in a great, futile war....- $12.00
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Vendor: Horace Fletcher
Menticulture
Reproduction of the original: Menticulture by Horace FletcherAuthor: Horace FletcherISBN-10: 3752394102ISBN-13: 9783752394108Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2020Pages: 50Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d- $52.90
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Vendor: Maria Edgeworth
The Bracelets
Reproduction of the original: The Bracelets by Maria EdgeworthAuthor: Maria EdgeworthISBN-10: 3734053048ISBN-13: 9783734053047Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2018Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.10d- $19.90
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
White Nights
In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies...- $17.99
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Vendor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Birth-Mark
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, where his birthplace is now a museum. William Hathorne, who emigrated from England in 1630, was the first of Hawthorne's ancestors to arrive in the colonies. After arriving, William persecuted Quakers. William's son...- $6.25
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Vendor: Mary Anne Mushatt
Taken
Taken from her home as a young child, Elizabeth Bennet's sense of self is shaken when the mystery behind her true identity is unraveled. Discovering her place as the daughter of a duke, she confronts reclaimed memories of her brutal abduction while making her...- $16.95
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Vendor: R. Austin Freeman
The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta
When the wife of Humphrey Challoner, criminal anthropologist, is senselessly murdered during a robbery, he chooses a most unusual means of seeking vengeance. R. Austin Freeman, author of the Dr. John Thorndyke series, turns to the macabre in this story of the lengths a...- $11.99
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Vendor: G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Paperback)
Author: G. K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1849028796ISBN-13: 9781849028790Publisher: Benediction BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2009Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d- $7.99
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Vendor: Hugh Walpole
The Herries Chronicle
Author: Hugh WalpoleISBN-10: 1849028532ISBN-13: 9781849028530Publisher: Benediction BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2010Pages: 814Format: PaperbackWeight: 3.05lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.62d- $36.99
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Vendor: Horacio Quiroga
The Feather Pillow and the Permanent Stiletto
A combined volume of the two short stories, The Feather Pillow and The Permanent Stiletto.Author: Horacio Quiroga, William Chambers MorrowISBN-10: 1849025428ISBN-13: 9781849025423Publisher: Oxford City PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/26/2011Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d- $4.99
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Vendor: Ann Scott-Moncrieff
Auntie Robbo (Hardback)
The wonderful tale of Hector, an orphan boy of 11 who lives happily with his 81 year-old feisty and eccentric great-aunt Robina. When his stepmother turns up to claim him, the pair go on the run, picking up some other stray children and having...- $16.99
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Vendor: Lucy Maud Montgomery
A Tangled Web
The beloved author of Anne of Green Gables tells the classic tale of two remarkable families bound together by an uncommon legacy. Through the years, sixty Darks have married sixty Penhallows. Now the matriarch of the family has left a most unusual inheritance--an old...- $17.99
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Vendor: Jose Rizal
El Filibusterismo
El Filibusterismo (Continuación del Noli me tángere) author: José Rizal Facilmente se puede suponer que un filibustero ha hechizado en secreto á la liga de los fraileros y retrógrados para que, siguiendo inconscientes sus inspiraciones, favorezcan y fomenten aquella política que solo ambiciona un...- $21.83
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Vendor: Mark Twain
Is Shakespeare Dead?
Mark Twain has deserted the camp of the Shakespearites, and if he has not exactly committed himself to the cause of the Baconians, he comes very close to it. "Is Shakespeare Dead?" is a semi-serious consideration of the old controversy, and Ignatius Donnelly would...- $12.00
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Vendor: Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the...- $19.95
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Vendor: Mabel Quiller-Couch
The Story of Jessie by Mabel Quiller-Couch, Fiction, Romance, Historical
Patience is delighted at having a grandchild about, but Thomas is troubled. Jessie, when she arrives, is the image of Lizzie as a child. Thomas and Patience must deal with their feelings about their daughter, starting with the need to house Jessie in Lizzie's...- $12.95
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Vendor: Zane Grey
The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey, Fiction, Westerns, Historical
Pearl Zane Gray studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship, and later played with a minor league team. He met and later married Lina Roth, whose inheritance helped support his efforts to become a writer. He pioneered the Western genre....- $33.95
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Vendor: H. Beam Piper
Ministry of Disturbance and Other Science Fiction by H. Beam Piper, Adventure
Also included are "A Slave is a Slave," from the April 1962 issue of Analog ("There has always been strong sympathy for the poor," said JWC, "meek, downtrodden slave -- the kindly little man, oppressed by cruel and overbearing masters. Could it possibly have...- $15.95
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Vendor: J. S. Fletcher
The Talleyrand Maxim by J. S. Fletcher, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical
Linford Pratt had once during one of his visits to the town Reference Library, lighted on a maxim of that other unscrupulous person, Prince Talleyrand: "With time and patience the mulberry leaf is turned into satin." This seemed to Linford Pratt one of the...- $15.95
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Vendor: E. F. Benson
The Blotting Book by E. F. Benson, Fiction, Mystery & Detective
"Darling mother," he was saying, "I really was frightened as to whether you would mind. I couldn't help remembering how you received Mr. Taynton's proposal that you should go for a drive in his car. Don't you remember, Mr. Taynton? Mother's nose did go...- $12.95
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Vendor: James Hogg
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner by James Hogg, Fiction, Literary
"I was born an outcast in the world, in which I was destined to act so conspicuous a part. My mother was a burning and a shining light. But she was married to a man all over spotted with the leprosy of sin. She...- $18.95
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Vendor: Wilkie Collins
Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins, Fiction, Classics, Mystery & Detective
The Blyths adopted her from a kindly old woman connected to a traveling circus, but everyone knew she wasn't from circus folk. All they DID know about her identity was that she'd lost her hearing in an accident, and the proprietor of the circus...- $47.95
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Vendor: Charles Brockden Brown
Wieland; or, the Transformation. An American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown, Fiction, Horror
"A light proceeding from the edifice made every part of the scene visible. A gleam diffused itself over the intermediate space, and instantly a loud report, like the explosion of a mine, followed. She uttered an involuntary shriek, but the new sounds that greeted...- $37.95
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Vendor: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Green Tea and Other Strange Tales by J. Sheridan LeFanu, Fiction, Literary, Horror, Fantasy
From "Green Tea" "The evil spirits associated with man are, indeed from the hells, but when with man they are not then in hell, but are taken out thence. The place where they then are, is in the midst between heaven and hell, and...- $35.95
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Vendor: Bram Stoker
Dracula's Guest
Includes the stories: "Dracula's Guest," "The Judge's House," "The Squaw," "The Secret of the Growing Gold", "A Gipsy Prophecy," "The Coming of Abel Behenna," "The Burial of the Rats," "A Dream of Red Hands" and "Crooken Sands" (This jacketless hardcover edition is intended for...- $33.95
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fantasy
Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a subgenre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication. Its early...- $34.95
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Vendor: Arthur Machen
Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, Fiction, Horror
Arthur Machen had an a substantial career as a novelist and storyteller, but nothing he did in the course of a lifetime made the impact he made in 1890 with The Great God Pan. The tale literally caused a furor in London -- for...- $29.95
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Vendor: Constance Garnett
Rudin
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Vendor: John W. Campbell
Islands of Space
As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island universe. Morey worked a moment with his slide rule, then said,...- $11.99
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Vendor: Edith Wharton
Summer - A Novel
This vintage book contains Edith Wharton's 1917 novel, "Summer - A Novel". It is one of only two works set in New England by Wharton, who was famous for portraying the higher strata of New York society. It deals with the sexual awakening of...- $20.99
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Vendor: Gene Stratton-Porter
Daughter of the Land
Like A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, and Laddie, A Daughter of the Land is a romantic novel with a message. It was written by Gene Stratton-Porter, American feminist, environmentalist, author, and photographer. In it, protagonist Kate Bates leaves home and family to strike...- $25.99
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Vendor: Alexander Pushkin
The Shot
The Shot is a short story written by the renowned Russian author, Alexander Pushkin. The story revolves around a young officer named Silvio who is seeking revenge against a fellow officer named Lushin. Silvio believes that Lushin has wronged him and is determined to...- $16.95
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Vendor: Wilkie Collins
A Terribly Strange Bed
""A Terribly Strange Bed"" is a short story by the renowned English author, Wilkie Collins. The story is set in Paris and follows the protagonist, a young Englishman named Faulkner, who is staying in a hotel. One evening, he decides to go out to...- $17.95
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Vendor: Washington Irving
Wolfert Webber Or Golden Dreams
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...- $18.95
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Vendor: Henry Fielding
The Tragedy Of Tragedies Or The Life And Death Of Tom Thumb The Great
""The Tragedy of Tragedies, or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great"" is a satirical play written by Henry Fielding in 1730. The play is a parody of the popular tragic plays of the time and tells the story of Tom Thumb,...- $17.95
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Vendor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rappaccini's Daughter
Rappaccini's Daughter is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1844. The story takes place in Padua, Italy, and centers around a young man named Giovanni Guasconti who becomes enamored with his neighbor, Beatrice Rappaccini. Beatrice is the daughter of a...- $17.95
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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.
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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.

