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Vendor: Murray Leinster
This World Is Taboo
Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 - June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds...- $29.95
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This World Is Taboo
Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 - June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds...- $16.95
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Operation: Outer Space
Operation: Outer Space is a science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was first published in 1954 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,042 copies. The novel concerns the first interstellar flight, financed by making it into a television show. Galaxy...- $29.95
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Vendor: Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes
Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919 and first played at the Garrick Theatre in November 1920. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured...- $16.95
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley,...- $19.95
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, and in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co. in March 1855....- $16.95
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Vendor: Maurice LeBlanc
The Tremendous Event
Maurice Marie ノmile Leblanc (11 December 1864 - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Ars鈩e Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's...- $16.95
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Vendor: Knut Hamsun
Growth of the Soil
Growth of the Soil (Norwegian Markens Gr de), is a novel by Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. It follows the story of a man who settles and lives in rural Norway. First published in 1917, it has...- $19.95
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Vendor: Sinclair Lewis
The Innocents: A Story for Lovers
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for...- $16.95
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Vendor: Leonid Andreyev
Satan's Diary
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 - 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific...- $16.95
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Vendor: Mary Rinehart
Love Stories
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler...- $29.95
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K
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler...- $29.95
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Vendor: Arthur W. Marchmont
By Right of Sword
A.W. Marchmont was a popular British author who wrote several best-selling novels around the turn of the century. Unfortunately, biographical details are scarce. A New York Times obit merely states that upon leaving Oxford he engaged in journalism, which field he left in 1894...- $17.95
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Vendor: Aldous Huxley
Those Barren Leaves
Those Barren Leaves is a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1925. The title is derived from the poem "The Tables Turned" by William Wordsworth which ends with the words: Enough of Science and of Art;Close up those barren leaves;Come forth, and bring...- $33.95
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Vendor: Aldous Huxley
The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books-both novels and non-fiction works-as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with...- $29.95
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Vendor: William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy...- $14.95
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Vendor: Wilkie Collins
No Name
No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. Illegitimacy is a major theme of the novel. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round before book publication. The story is told in eight major parts, called...- $39.95
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Vendor: Rafael Sabatini
Love-at-Arms
Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 - 13 February 1950) was an Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels.Rafael Sabatini was born in Iesi, Italy, to an English mother, Anna Trafford, and Italian father, Vincenzo Sabatini. His parents were opera singers who then became teachers.After...- $33.95
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Vendor: Gustave Flaubert
Salammbo
Salammbo (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC, immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War. Flaubert's main source was Book I of Polybius's Histories....- $33.95
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Vendor: A. A. Milne
The Sunny Side
The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, he also wrote extensively for adults, most notably in Punch, to which he was a contributor and later Assistant...- $16.95
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Vendor: Nat Gould
Fast as the Wind
Nathaniel Gould (21 December 1857 - 25 July 1919), commonly known as Nat Gould, was a British novelist. Gould was born at Manchester, Lancashire, the only surviving child of Nathaniel Gould, a tea merchant, and his wife Mary, n e Wright. Both parents came...- $16.95
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Vendor: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Poor Clare and The Doom of the Griffiths
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (n e Stevenson; 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including...- $16.95
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Vendor: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Sylvia's Lovers - Complete
Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is a novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, which she called "the saddest story I ever wrote". The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during...- $21.95
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Vendor: H. P. Lovecraft
At the Mountains of Madness
At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March,...- $29.95
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Vendor: E. F. Benson
Visible and Invisible
Benson's second collection of ghost stories contains three powerful tales featuring the type of "spectres" that Benson seems to have been most haunted by: large ("Junonian," as he might say), attractive, cheerful, outgoing, middle-aged women. In "The Outcast" she is a reincarnation of Judas,...- $29.95
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Vendor: Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United...- $29.95
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Vendor: Rudyard Kipling
'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi'
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 anthology The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. It has often been anthologised, and has been published several times as a short book. The Book 5 of Panchatantra,...- $29.95
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Mucker
The Mucker is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was originally formed by two stories: "The Mucker", begun in August 1913 and published by All-Story Weekly in October and November 1914; and "The Return of the Mucker", begun in January 1916...- $33.95
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Vendor: Walter Scott
Redgauntlet
Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as "in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's...- $33.95
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Vendor: Jules Verne
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later...- $31.95
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Vendor: Theodore Dreiser
The Color of a Great City
FOREWORD My only excuse for offering these very brief pictures of the City of New York as it was between and or ', or thereabout, is that they are of the very substance of the city I knew in my early adventurings in it....- $29.95
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Vendor: R. Austin Freeman
The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta
A grieving osteologist engages in a lifelong manhunt for the murderer of his beloved wife while maintaining his public persona by incorporating ingenious methods to first attain, then dispose of his victims' bodies.Weird. Nerdy to the max. Surprisingly unputdownable. (Alia Makki)Author: R. Austin FreemanISBN-10:...- $29.95
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Vendor: Kevin R. Morrison
Children of Gibeon
"Giving readers a fascinating look deep into Victorian England, this critical edition of Walter Besant's Children of Gibeon is ideally suited to courses in Victorian literature and history. The book includes several features to aid students in understanding the novel as both a literary...- $68.95
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Vendor: Lord Dunsany
A Dreamer's Tales
It was a cold winter's evening late in the Stone Age; the sun had gone down blazing over the plains of Thold; there were no clouds, only the chill blue sky and the imminence of stars; and the surface of the sleeping Earth began...- $9.99
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Time and the Gods
Once when the gods were young and only Their swarthy servant Time was without age, the gods lay sleeping by a broad river upon earth. There in a valley that from all the earth the gods had set apart for Their repose the gods...- $9.49
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Vendor: Daris Howard
Born To Run, Live To Be Free
Humorous, Inspirational Story That All Will Love In this new book in the Under Open Skies series, Tom Johnson is in his early 20's and struggling to make it through college and take care of his little family. Due to the stress created by...- $7.99
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Vendor: Terry Grosz
Crossed Arrows
In 1829, Jacob and Martin left Kentucky to become Mountain Men, trappers of the Rocky Mountains. The rugged mountains that lay beyond America's frontier remained mostly unexplored. In those days, when beaver were plentiful and the buffalo roamed freely, the killing was good. The...- $20.99
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Vendor: Terry Grosz
The Saga of Harlan Waugh
Harlan Waugh is a lone Mountain Man. He hunts in the Rocky Mountains of the early 1830s. Two Crow Indian boys in need of a family cross his path, and Harlan adopts them and teaches them the ways of beaver trapping and buffalo hunting....- $18.99
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Vendor: Gertrude Stein
The Making of Americans
In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on...- $22.95
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Vendor: Aldous Huxley
Point Counter Point
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms...- $17.95
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Vendor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The powerful story of Benjamin Button, who starts his life as an old man and gradually becomes younger, is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best known stories, and now a major motion picture. "This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to...- $6.99
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Vendor: Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
If ever the story of any private man's adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the Editor of this account thinks this will be so. The wonders of this man's life exceed all that (he thinks) is to...- $9.49
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Vendor: John Cleland
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
First published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel." One of the most prosecuted and banned books...- $10.99
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Vendor: Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd
A strong, passionate woman . . . Three anxious suitors . . . One of the greatest love stories of all time All set in the rustic English countryside of Hardy's legendary Wessex. This timeless story of Bathsheba Everdene and her lovers has been...- $17.95
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Vendor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is the classic Gothic American romance novel, generally considered to be Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece. Set in Puritan New England in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to...- $13.95
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Vendor: Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
David Balfour, a young Scotsman orphaned by the death of his father, is betrayed by his uncle, shanghaied, and carried to the New World for a life in bondage--until a swashbuckling highlander, Alan Breck Stewart, comes to his rescue. Balfour escapes to the Highlands...- $13.95
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Vendor: Aesop
Aesop's Fables
Herodotus tells of a slave named Aesop who wrote fables in 5th century BCE Greece. Socrates is said to have spent some of his time in jail versifying Aesop's fables. From "The Tortoise and the Hare" to "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", Aesop's fables...- $7.99
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Vendor: Sam Watkins
Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of Civil War
Sam Watkins joined the First Tennessee Regiment in 1861, fighting against the Yankees until the Confederacy surrendered in 1865, one of the few surviving men from his original company. Decades later, Watkins wrote an account of his days in the Confederate army. "Co. Aytch:...- $9.99
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Vendor: Jack London
White Fang
Jack London continues his exploration of the savagery inherent in men and beasts alike in this companion novel to his earlier The Call of the Wild. White Fang provides a complementary narrative of a wild wolf-dog's ability to adapt to a domesticated existence. London's...- $9.99
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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
The Explorer
The sea was very calm. There was no ship in sight, and the seagulls were motionless upon its even greyness. The sky was dark with lowering clouds, but there was no wind. The line of the horizon was clear and delicate. The shingly beach,...- $29.95
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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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