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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,...- $16.95
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Orientations
William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.Both...- $16.95
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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia
CONTENTSThe Spirit of Andalusia The Churches of Ronda Ronda The Swineherd Medinat Az-Zahra The Mosque The Court of Oranges Cordova The Bridge of Calahorra Puerta del Puente Seville The Alcazar Calle de las Sierpes Characteristics Don Juan Tenorio Women of Andalusia The Dance A...- $16.95
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The Hero
William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.Both...- $29.95
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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
The Making of a Saint
William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.Both...- $16.95
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Vendor: Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes
Under Western Eyes is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia and Geneva, Switzerland and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment; Conrad being reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It is also,...- $31.95
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Hard Times
Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It...- $19.95
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Vendor: Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond is G. K. Chesterton's final collection of detective stories, published after his death in 1936. The main characters in the book are Mr. Pond, his friend Captain Peter Gahagan, a romantic and impulsive Irishman, and a well-known government official,...- $16.95
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Vendor: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It was...- $29.95
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Vendor: Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer and Other Stories
Joseph Conrad (born J zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was...- $16.95
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Victory: An Island Tale
Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The New York Times, however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr....- $33.95
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Lord Jim
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a...- $33.95
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Vendor: Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance & Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his...- $15.95
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Vendor: Henry James
The Europeans
Henry James OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the...- $29.95
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Vendor: Willa Cather
Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark is a novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. The title comes from a painting of the same name by Jules Adolphe Aim Louis Breton. The book's cover art]Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place...- $19.95
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Vendor: Henry James
Washington Square
Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional...- $29.95
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Vendor: Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Dying Detective and Other Stories
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer, who created the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty...- $14.95
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Vendor: Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. It was originally published serially in the Strand Magazine...- $29.95
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Vendor: Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. It was originally published serially in the Strand Magazine...- $16.95
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Vendor: Harold Bell Wright
That Printer of Udell's: A Story of the Middle West
That Printer of Udell's is a 1903 work of fiction by Harold Bell Wright.Wright, who served as a minister before becoming a writer, created a story with Christian themes. In the story, Dick Falkner, who comes from a broken home, sees his father under...- $31.95
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That Printer of Udell's: A Story of the Middle West
That Printer of Udell's is a 1903 work of fiction by Harold Bell Wright.Wright, who served as a minister before becoming a writer, created a story with Christian themes. In the story, Dick Falkner, who comes from a broken home, sees his father under...- $19.95
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Vendor: Joseph A. Altsheler
The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 - June 5, 1919) was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty-one novels and at least fifty-three short stories. Thirty-two of his novels were part...- $33.95
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Vendor: Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Amazing Interlude
It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle's home, knitting a baby afghan. Her beau's name is Harvey. He has his eye on a little house that...- $16.95
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Vendor: Lucy M. Montgomery
Emily's Quest
Emily's Quest is a novel and the last of the Emily trilogy by Lucy Maud Montgomery.Emily Starr and Teddy Kent have been friends since childhood, and as Teddy is about to leave to further his education as an artist, Emily believes that their friendship...- $31.95
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Vendor: George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman; a Comedy and a Philosophy
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw was written in 1903 as a four act drama, responding to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based on the Don Juan theme. Man and Superman opened at The...- $31.95
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Vendor: Kathleen Norris
Mother
Mother is the fictional tale of a young lady who leaves home and repudiates family life in the hope of finding personal fulfillment through independence and a career. She decides that home life is a poor choice in the face of life in the...- $12.95
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Vendor: Lucy M. Montgomery
Rainbow Valley
Rainbow Valley is the seventh book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well...- $16.95
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Vendor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Several of the stories had...- $33.95
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Vendor: Lucy M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside
Rilla of Ingleside is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "Anne" novels she wrote. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter...- $31.95
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Chronicles of Avonlea
Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L. M. Montgomery, related to the Anne of Green Gables series. It features a number of stories relating to the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, and was first published in 1912.The book is dedicated:...- $16.95
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Vendor: Lucy M. Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne's House of Dreams is a novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The novel is from a series of books written primarily for girls and young women, about a young girl named Anne Shirley. The books follow the course of Anne's life. It...- $16.95
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Vendor: Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne
Anthony Trollope, (born April 24, 1815, London, Eng.--died Dec. 6, 1882, London), English novelist whose popular success concealed until long after his death the nature and extent of his literary merit. A series of books set in the imaginary English county of Barsetshire remains...- $36.95
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The Warden
Anthony Trollope, (born April 24, 1815, London, Eng.--died Dec. 6, 1882, London), English novelist whose popular success concealed until long after his death the nature and extent of his literary merit. A series of books set in the imaginary English county of Barsetshire remains...- $29.95
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Vendor: Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly...- $36.95
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Vendor: H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one...- $16.95
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Vendor: H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games....- $29.95
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Vendor: William T. Stead
Real Ghost Stories
William Thomas Stead (5 July 1849 - 15 April 1912) was an English newspaper editor who, as a pioneer of investigative journalism, became a controversial figure of the Victorian era. Stead published a series of hugely influential campaigns whilst editor of The Pall Mall...- $19.95
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Vendor: Montesquieu
Persian Letters
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Br de et de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 - 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher.He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation...- $33.95
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Vendor: Dorothy L. Sayers
Whose Body?
Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. Lord Peter is intrigued by the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect, and investigates. A noted financier has also gone...- $16.95
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Vendor: Willa Cather
Obscure Destinies
Obscure Destinies is a collection of three short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932. Each story deals with the death of a central character and asks how the ordinary lives of these characters can be valued and how "beauty was found or created...- $14.95
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Vendor: Herman Hesse
Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of a boy known as Siddhartha from Nepal during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple yet powerful and lyrical...- $14.95
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Vendor: Marshall Saunders
Beautiful Joe: A Dog's Own Story
Saunders' most famous novel Beautiful Joe, tells the true story of dog that has had a difficult puppyhood with many obstacles including a cruel owner. It is told from the dog's point of view. When the book was published, both the book and its...- $19.95
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Vendor: Arthur Hughes
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
This is an captivating work of high fantasy. Anodos, the narrator, takes us to a place of great beauty and horrifying evil, mischievous fairies, goblins, nurturing spirits, and wicked entities.Author: Arthur Hughes, George MacDonaldISBN-10: 1617430579ISBN-13: 9781617430572Publisher: Greenbook Publications, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2012Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize:...- $9.49
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Vendor: George Meredith
The Egoist
The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton. More importantly, the novel follows Clara's attempts to escape from her engagement...- $16.99
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Vendor: Ambrose Bierce
Civil War Stories
Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote in a variety of literary genres. His short stories are held among the...- $7.99
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Vendor: Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones
Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy, in Somerset in England's West Country. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbour's daughter, Sophia Western....- $24.99
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The Vicar of Wakefield
There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of...- $10.99
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Mr. Standfast
Set in the later years of World War I, Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret mission hunting for a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. He is forced to work undercover disguised as a...- $10.99
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Vendor: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote Vol. 1
Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it...- $14.99
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Agnes Grey
The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. The choice of central character allows Anne to deal with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation and ideas of empathy. An additional theme is the fair...- $7.99
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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.
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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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