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Vendor: G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Hardback)
Author: G. K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1849028788ISBN-13: 9781849028783Publisher: Benediction BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2010Pages: 188Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d- $16.99
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Vendor: Zane Grey
Zane Grey's Westerns (Volume 1), including The Last of the Plainsmen, The Heritage of the Desert, The Young Forester, Riders of the Purple Sage, Ken W
Pearl Zane Grey (1872-1939) is a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, "combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture." Consequently he is the best known author of novels about the Wild West. His great storytelling...- $58.99
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Vendor: Robert Louis Stevenson
Seven Robert Louis Stevenson Novels, Complete and Unabridged: Treasure Island, Prince Otto, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde, Kidnapped, the
Robert Louis Stevenson is a famous Scottish writer and many of his novels are well known and have been adapted for film and television. This compendium is a collection of his seven best novels. Treasure Island (1883) is his famous pirate story, featuring buried...- $56.99
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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...- $14.71
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Vendor: Summer Hanford
The Long Road to Longbourn: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
Fitzwilliam Darcy has nearly everything a gentleman could want. Looks, wealth, connections. He lacks but one aspect of a perfect life, a bride. He's chosen Miss Elizabeth Bennet to fill the role but when he proposes, to his utmost chagrin, she refuses him in...- $12.75
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Vendor: Anthony Trollope
Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope, Fiction, Literary, Romance
MISS MACKENZIEI fear that Miss Mackenzie had no sufficiently settled plan of life. She wished to live pleasantly, and perhaps fashionably; but she also desired to live respectably, and with a due regard to religion. How she was to set about doing this at...- $20.95
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Vendor: L. Frank Baum
The Woggle-Bug Book by L. Frank Baum, Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
One day, Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug, became separated from his comrades who had accompanied him from the Land of Oz. Finding that time hung heavy on his hands -- and he had four of them! -- he decided to walk down the Main Street...- $11.95
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Vendor: H. Beam Piper
Time and Time Again and Other Science Fiction by H. Beam Piper, Adventure
When they published the title story of this collection in April 1947, Astounding Science Fiction said, "To upset the stable, mighty stream of time would probably take an enormous concentration of energy. And it's not to be expected that a man would get a...- $13.95
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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...- $28.95
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Vendor: Thomas Hardy
A Changed Man and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy, Fiction, Literary, Short Stories
Hardy, among other things, was the author of the poem, "The Dead Man Walking." Considered the "writer of Dorset," Hardy's fictional Wessex is perhaps bleaker than the real Dorset itself, long possessed of a hard, cold, lonely beauty.A Changed Man and Other Tales is...- $17.95
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Vendor: Algernon Blackwood
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Fiction, Horror, Classics
From The Empty House: "Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. With houses it is the aroma of evil deeds committed under a particular roof, long after the actual doers have passed away, that makes the...- $15.95
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Vendor: H. Beam Piper
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper, Science Fiction, Adventure
The planet Zarathustra is listed as uninhabited -- which means that the entire planet can be owned by a corporation. That owner is the rich and happy Zarathustra Company -- rich and happy, that is, until a prospector named Jack Holloway comes across undocumented...- $14.95
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Historical
Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being the relationship of my...- $38.95
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Vendor: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Fiction, Literary
The Insulted and Injured is that tale of a love quadrangle -- an improbably unpossessive and uninvidious love quadrangle, at that -- told by a young novelist not too unlike Dostoevsky himself. (A young author who has just published a novel so much like...- $25.95
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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. He was learned, wise, brave, prudent, and pious; devoted to his people, clement to his conquered enemies. He was...- $20.95
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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...- $20.95
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Vendor: Oliver Onions
The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions, Fiction, Horror
"As far as the chief business of his life--his writing--was concerned, Paul Oleron treated the world a good deal better than he was treated by it; but he seldom took the trouble to strike a balance, or to compute how far, at forty-four years...- $15.95
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Vendor: Walter Scott
Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott, Fiction, Historical, Literary
The plot centers on the medieval rivalry between Louis XI of France and Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. Louis incites the citizens of Li鑒e to revolt against Charles, and they seize and murder Charles's brother-in-law, Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Li鑒e, under the...- $50.95
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Vendor: John Polidori
Polidori's Vampyre by John Polidori, Fiction, Horror
The weather went from being beautiful to tempestuous: torrential thunderstorms plagued the Shelleys, Byron and Polidori. The weather -- along with the company and the eerie ambiance of the locale -- contributed to the genesis of Frankenstein, Polidori's "The Vampyre" and in all likelihood,...- $14.95
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Vendor: Rudyard Kipling
Kim by Rudyard Kipling, Fiction, Literary
KIM is an utterly enchanting tale of personal growth, filial love, and the joy of life -- set in India during the British Raj. Kim O'Hara, a cunning and street-wise orphaned Sahib, a child of India in all but blood, embarks upon a journey...- $40.95
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Vendor: Theodor Fontane
Irretrievable
Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the appealing married couple at the center of this engrossing book by one of Germany's greatest novelists, could not be less alike. Christine is a serious soul from a devout background. She is brooding and beautiful...- $17.95
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Vendor: John Galsworthy
Maid in Waiting
This sweeping family saga now moves to the lives and loves of the Cherrells in the early 30s, cousins by marriage to the Forsytes. An old English family, their one constant in an age of change and uncertainty is their ancestral home, Condaford Grange....- $13.95
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Vendor: Rudolf Erich Raspe
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Baron Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman. The character is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von M?chhausen (1720-1797) Born in Bodenwerder, Electorate of Brunswick-L?eburg, the real-life M?chhausen fought for the Russian Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of 1735-1739. Upon...- $20.95
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Vendor: Anatole France
The Red Lily by Anatole France, Fiction, Fantasy
"To represent Anatole France as one of the undying names in literature would hardly be extravagant. Not that I would endow Ariel with the stature and sinews of a Titan; this were to miss his distinctive qualities: delicacy, elegance, charm. He belongs to a...- $21.95
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Vendor: Vicente Blasco Ibanez
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ib瘻ez, Fiction, Literary
The novel, first published in 1916, tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.When Julio finally decided to fight, the world and his family knew him...- $21.95
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Vendor: Alexandre Dumas
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Action & Adventure
Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers and so many sequels, all but invented the action adventure novel, and certainly he has few peers, in all the years since. His stories are thrilling works of dering-do, foul deeds, close escapes, and glorious victories. Like...- $33.95
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Vendor: George MacDonald
Lilith by George Macdonald, Fiction, Fantasy
Lilith is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation.After he followed the old man through the mirror, nothing in his life was ever right again. It was a special mirror and the man he followed was a special man -- a...- $21.95
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Vendor: William Hope Hodgson
Carnacki the Ghost Finder
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of occult detective short stories and is listed as No. 53 in Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story As Revealed by the 100 Most Important Books Published in this Field Since 1845 by Ellery Queen.During...- $17.95
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Vendor: Andrew Lang
Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa
MANY years ago a book on the Folk-Tales of the Eskimo was published, and the editor of The Academy (Dr. Appleton) told one of his minions to send it to me for revision. By mischance it was sent to an eminent expert in Political...- $6.97
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Vendor: Timothy Underwood
The Return: A Pride and Prejudice Story
What if Mr. Bingley defied convention, ignored Darcy's counsel, and married Jane Bennet straight away? This unexpected twist sets the stage for a delightful Pride and Prejudice variation filled with humor, wit, and romance.Elizabeth Bennet, ever perceptive, believes she knows the real reason behind...- $12.95
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Vendor: Samuel Butler
Erewhon & Erewhon Revisited
"For the inconsistencies in the book, and I am aware that there are not a few, I must ask the indulgence of the reader. The blame, however, lies chiefly with the Erewhonians themselves, for they were really a very difficult people to understand." (Preface)...- $16.99
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Vendor: Walter Scott
The Surgeon's Daughter
In the 19th century, the world's best known writer was probably Sir Walter Scott, who was one of the first writers to have a following across the globe in his lifetime. The Scottish writer still pops up in literature classes across the world, with...- $5.99
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Vendor: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Dead Souls
The exploits of Chichikov, a middle-aged gentleman of middling social class and means. Chichikov arrives in a small town and turns on the charm to woo key local officials and landowners. He reveals little about his past, or his purpose, as he sets about...- $15.00
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Vendor: Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook
Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart -- one of PBS's "Great American Reads".Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes...- $29.99
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Vendor: Marquis de Sade
120 Days of Sodom
"The 120 Days of Sodom" is a 1785 novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse Fran ois. It is the story of four aristocratic male libertines who decide to seek out ultimate sexual gratification in the form of orgies. To this end,...- $29.99
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Vendor: Ivan Turgenev
Mumu
""Mumu"" is a novella written by the famous Russian author Ivan Turgenev. The story revolves around a deaf-mute serf woman named Mumu and her relationship with her owner, Gerasim, who is a loyal servant of a wealthy landowner. Mumu is fiercely devoted to Gerasim,...- $18.95
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Vendor: Louisa May Alcott
The Abbot's Ghost Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation
The Abbot's Ghost Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation is a novel written by Louisa May Alcott, the author of the famous novel Little Women. The story revolves around the life of Maurice Treherne, a young man who inherits a large estate from his grandfather, the...- $19.95
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Vendor: Frances Sheridan
Memoirs Of Miss Sidney Bidulph
The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph is a novel written by Frances Sheridan. The story follows the life of the titular character, Miss Sidney Bidulph, who is a young and beautiful woman from a wealthy family in England. The novel is set in the...- $36.95
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Vendor: Fitz Hugh Ludlow
The Hasheesh Eater
First published in 1857, American author Fitz Hugh Ludlow's The Hasheesh Eater is one of the first examples of addiction literature. The book recounts Ludlow's initial fascination and subsequent addiction to hasheesh, and includes many detailed descriptions of the hallucinations he experienced while under...- $31.62
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Vendor: Charles Williams
The Greater Trumps
THE GREATER TRUMPS by Charles Williams The original Tarot deck is used to unlock enormous metaphysical powers by allowing the possessors to see across space and time, create matter, and raise powerful natural storms. Upon an ancient golden table, golden figurines perpetually move "by...- $40.36
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Vendor: Thorne Smith
The Night Life of the Gods
The madcap story of a scientist who instigates a nocturnal spree with the Greek gods is arguably his most sparkling comedic achievement. Hunter Hawk has a knack for annoying his ultra respectable relatives. He likes to experiment and he particularly likes to experiment with...- $48.97
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Vendor: Rudyard Kipling
Kim
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Filled with lyrical, exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard Kipling's native India, Kim is widely acknowledged as the author's greatest novel and a key element in his winning the...- $8.00
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Vendor: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Tish by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Fiction
The ill nature of the cartoon, for instance, which showed Tish in a pair of khaki trousers on her back under a racing-car was quite uncalled for. Tish did not wear the khaki trousers; she merely took them along in case of emergency. Nor...- $18.95
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Vendor: John Dos Passos
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, Fiction, Classics, Literary, War & Military
H.L. Mencken, then practising primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of The Smart Set: "Until Three Soldiers is forgotten and fancy achieves its inevitable victory over fact, no war story can be written in the United States without...- $46.95
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Vendor: P. G. Wodehouse
The Swoop! by P. G. Wodehouse, Fiction, Literary
It may be thought by some that in the pages which follow I have painted in too lurid colors the horrors of a foreign invasion of England. Realism in art, it may be argued, can be carried too far. I prefer to think that...- $13.95
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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...- $35.95
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Vendor: G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton, Fiction, Classics
In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Syme meets an anarchistic poet at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. The poet argues that revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs,...- $35.95
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Vendor: Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Knights of the Cross by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Fiction, Historical
A historical novel by the eminent Polish Positivist writer and the 1905 Nobel laureate, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Its first English translation was published in the same year as the original. Before its first complete printed edition appeared in 1900. The book was first translated into...- $54.95
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Cave Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Literary
For the twenty-second time since the great wave had washed him from the steamer's deck and hurled him, choking and sputtering, upon this inhospitable shore, Waldo Emerson saw the sun sinking rapidly toward the western horizon. Suddenly Waldo became conscious from the corner of...- $36.95
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Vendor: P. G. Wodehouse
The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. Wodehouse, Fiction, Literary, Short Stories
"This book marks an epoch in my literary career. It is written in blood. It is the outpouring of a soul as deeply seared by Fate's unkindness as the pretty on the dog-leg hole of the second nine was ever seared by my iron....- $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.
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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"
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.
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