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Vendor: Frederick Marryat
Jacob Faithful
Excerpt from Jacob Faithful: The Mission, or Scenes in Africa Jacob faithf UL is the first of a trio of novels which Captain Marryat wrote in the course of the year 1834, the other two being Mr. Midshipman Easy and Japhet in Search of...- $8.49
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Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday: Illustrated
The illustrated copy Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday. Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday is the 1909 novel by the famous author Frances Hodgson Burnett. The novel continues the story of Robin Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing...- $5.99
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Vendor: Isabel F. Hapgood
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Notre-Dame de Paris
The Hunchback of Notre DameNotre-Dame de ParisVictor HugoTranslated by Isabel F. HapgoodParis, 1482. The gypsy Esmeralda captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his...- $12.95
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Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland By Olive SchreinerAuthor: Olive SchreinerISBN-10: 1976176476ISBN-13: 9781976176470Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2017Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13d- $6.99
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Vendor: Jay Singh
The Butterfly and other fables
The Butterfly and other fables The caterpillars have isolated themselves from the rest of the forest. Industrious and technologically advanced, they built a Silk Palace to protect themselves from the outside world. Eventually they forget that they are as much a part of the...- $16.95
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Vendor: Jane Austen
Persuasion
Anne Elliot was nobody with her father or her sisters. She was only Anne. Seven or more years ago she was persuaded to give up her understanding with a young naval officer; for Captain Frederick Wentworth, RN, had risen without trace and therefore could...- $11.95
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Pomfret Towers: A Virago Modern Classic
Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire seat of the earls of Pomfret, was constructed, with great pomp and want of concern for creature comforts, in the once-fashionable style of Sir Gilbert Scott's St Pancras station. It makes a grand setting for a house party at which gamine...- $15.99
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Vendor: L. Frank Baum
The Marvellous Land of Oz: Volume 2
The sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, set shortly after the events in the first book A fantastical tale of endless imagination, this story follows the adventures of a young boy named Tip, who, for as long as he can remember has been...- $12.95
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Vendor: George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion: A Brand New BBC Radio 4 Drama Plus the Story of the Play's Scandalous Opening Night
A star-studded BBC radio production of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion - plus bonus drama The 'B' Word, telling the story of the play's scandalous opening night Irascible phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can train Cockney flower...- $32.95
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D.H. Lawrence - The White Peacock: "Be a good animal, true to your instincts."
For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of 'Women In Love' or 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally...- $17.24
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Vendor: Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Title: FrankensteinAuthor: Mary ShelleyDescription: "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley is a groundbreaking work of science fiction and gothic literature that continues to captivate readers with its timeless exploration of the consequences of unchecked scientific ambition and the nature of humanity. First published in 1818, this...- $31.88
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Vendor: George Henry Borrow
The Bible in Spain
Published in 1843, The Bible in Spain by George Borrow offers a unique window into the political and religious climate of 19th-century Spain. Borrow, a controversial figure and agent for the British and Foreign Bible Society, faced considerable hostility as he ventured to distribute...- $19.99
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Vendor: Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard-having gained power and success...- $33.99
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Vendor: Robert Louis Stevenson
The Silverado Squatters
The scene of this little book is on a high mountain. There are, indeed, many higher; there are many of a nobler outline. It is no place of pilgrimage for the summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena...- $7.99
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Vendor: Wilkie Collins
The Haunted Hotel A Mystery of Modern Venice
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern...- $5.95
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Vendor: Edith Wharton
The Marne
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...- $6.99
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Vendor: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
First Love: (Novella)
First Love was published in March 1860 in the Reader's Library. Like many of Turgenev's works, this one is highly autobiographical. Indeed, the author claimed it was the most autobiographical of all his works. Here Turgenev is retelling an incident from his own life,...- $5.99
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Vendor: Kate Chopin
The Awakening
The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a novel set in New Orleans and the Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century. The story centers around a woman's unhappy marriage, her adultery, and her struggle to reconcile her unorthodox views on femininity and...- $12.95
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Vendor: Henri Barbusse
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (French: Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) by Henri Barbusse (December 1916), was one of the first novels about World War I to be published. Although it is fiction, the novel was based on Barbusse's experiences as a...- $13.95
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Vendor: William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress. Vanity fair refers to a stop along the pilgrim's progress: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things. The novel...- $19.99
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Vendor: Loudon Douglas
The Bacillus of Long Life
According to Layard,1 "the Bedouins do not make cheese. The milk of their sheep and goats is shaken into butter or turned into curds; it is rarely or never drunk fresh, new milk being thought very unwholesome, as soon by experience I found it...- $8.80
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Vendor: Max Farrand
The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union
"The United States of America"! It was in the Declaration of Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the world, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought. Americans like to think that they were then assuming...- $6.99
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Vendor: The Perfect Library
Tales from Shakespeare
"Tales from Shakespeare" from Mary Lamb. English writer, best remembered for Tales from Shakespeare, which she wrote in collaboration with her brother, Charles (1764-1847).Author: The Perfect Library, Mary LambISBN-10: 152286668XISBN-13: 9781522866688Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2015Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x...- $17.90
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Vendor: D. Gardner
A Sherlock Holmes Double-Header: "a Study in Scarlet" and "the Sign of Four"
A STUDY IN SCARLET was Sherlock Holmes' first adventure, and the first sale for the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. We immediately see that Dr. Watson, Holmes confidante and "side-kick" has a background very similar to the author's. The good doctor enumerates Holmes; faults...- $13.99
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Vendor: Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Yellow Thunder, Our Little Indian Cousin
They call him Yellow Thunder. Do not be afraid of your little cousin because he bears such a terrible name. It is not his fault, I assure you. His grandmother had a dream the night he was born. She believed the Great Spirit, as...- $6.99
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Vendor: Andrew Carnegie
Round the World
It seems almost unnecessary to say that "Round the World," like "An American Four-in-Hand in Britain," was originally printed for private circulation. My publishers having asked permission to give it to the public, I have been induced to undertake the slight revision, and to...- $7.99
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Vendor: Jane Austen
Persuasion
Anne Elliot, a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19-year-old, accepts a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. Clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and no family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne's snobbish father and her self-involved older sister Elizabeth...- $9.99
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Vendor: Edgar Wallace
The Duke In The Suburbs
Part I THE DUKE ARRIVES I The local directory is a useful institution to the stranger, but the intimate directory of suburbia, the libellous "Who's Who," has never and will never be printed. Set in parallel columns, it must be clear to the meanest...- $5.75
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Vendor: M. E. Braddon
Mount Royal, Complete
"And he was a widower," said Christabel. She was listening to an oft-told tale, kneeling in the firelight, at her aunt's knee, the ruddy glow tenderly touching her fair soft hair and fairer forehead, her big blue eyes lifted lovingly to Mrs. Tregonell's face....- $7.99
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Vendor: Theophile Gautier
My Private Menagerie
I have often been caricatured in Turkish dress seated upon cushions, and surrounded by cats so familiar that they did not hesitate to climb upon my shoulders and even upon my head. The caricature is truth slightly exaggerated, and I must own that all...- $6.99
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Vendor: Thomas Fillebrown
Resonance in Singing and Speaking
Efforts to develop my own voice, and the voices of my patients after operations for cleft palate, aided by anatomical study, resulted in a plan for the focusing and development of the human voice quite different from any other yet published, or, so far...- $6.99
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Vendor: Orison Swett Marden
An Iron Will
"The education of the will is the object of our existence," says Emerson. Nor is this putting it too strongly, if we take into account the human will in its relations to the divine. This accords with the saying of J. Stuart Mill, that...- $6.99
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Vendor: George Moore
The Lake
The concern of this preface is with the mistake that was made when 'The Lake' was excluded from the volume entitled 'The Untilled Field, ' reducing it to too slight dimensions, for bulk counts; and 'The Lake, ' too, in being published in a...- $6.99
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Vendor: Jack London
The Night-Born
Written by the beloved author, Jack London, The Night-Born is a compelling collection of ten short works of fiction, each featuring an interesting protagonist. The Madness of John Harned is narrated by a wealthy Ecuadorian man who attends a bull fight with his cousin,...- $12.99
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Vendor: Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur
In a time when there were damsels in distress to save, and mythical dragons to slay, King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table were there to render justice in the face of any danger. From the incredible wizardry of Merlin to the...- $26.30
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Vendor: Richard Henry Dana
Two Years Before the Mast
Born into a comfortable and affluent New England family, Richard Henry Dana (who once studied under the great Ralph Waldo Emerson) disconcertingly took to the high seas in 1834 as a common sailor, an experience that would color his classic memoir Two Years Before...- $12.15
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Vendor: P. G. Wodehouse
Something New
The sunshine of a fair Spring morning fell graciously on London town. Out in Piccadilly its heartening warmth seemed to infuse into traffic and pedestrians alike a novel jauntiness, so that bus drivers jested and even the lips of chauffeurs uncurled into not unkindly...- $7.49
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Vendor: The Perfect Library
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
"Random Reminiscences of Men and Events" from John D. Rockefeller. American business magnate and philanthropist (1839-1937).Author: The Perfect Library, John D. RockefellerISBN-10: 1512218243ISBN-13: 9781512218244Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2015Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.19d- $14.90
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Vendor: Edith Wharton
Autres Temps...
Mrs. Lidcote, as the huge menacing mass of New York defined itself far off across the waters, shrank back into her corner of the deck and sat listening with a kind of unreasoning terror to the steady onward drive of the screws.Author: Edith WhartonISBN-10:...- $6.99
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Vendor: L. M. Montgomery
Chronicles of Avonlea
Anne Shirley was curled up on the window-seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair starland beyond the hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation at Echo Lodge, where Mr. and Mrs. Stephen...- $6.94
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Vendor: Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious person to escape...- $6.94
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Vendor: The Perfect Library
The Young Pitcher
"The Young Pitcher" from Zane Grey. American author best known for his popular adventure novels (1872-1939).Author: The Perfect Library, Zane GreyISBN-10: 1511758600ISBN-13: 9781511758604Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2015Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d- $15.90
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White Shadows in the South Seas
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Frederick O'BrienISBN-10: 151158730XISBN-13: 9781511587303Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...- $14.99
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend: (Charles Dickens Classics Collection)
In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which...- $15.99
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Three Men In A Boat: To Say Nothing Of The Dog
The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave and Carl Hentschel, called Harris in the book, with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out...- $11.24
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Vendor: Kate Chopin
The Awakening: Original and Unabridged
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, is set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century. Edna Pontellier struggles to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American...- $9.95
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Vendor: Kate Chopin
The Awakening
The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile...- $10.24
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Vendor: Martin Edwards
The Measure of Malice: Scientific Detection Stories
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Edwards combines the well-known (Conan Doyle, Dorothy Sayers) with the obscure (former actor Ernest Dudley) in this impressive anthology of 14 short stories featuring scientific and technical know-how...fans of TV's CSI will enjoy seeing the...- $14.99
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The Sussex Downs Murder
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Superintendent Meredith, in these pre-forensic days, relies on his interrogation techniques and common deductive sense to find motive and murderer." --Booklist STARRED review'Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned...- $14.99
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Minzkala
The Digvi'ja, red-faced Warlords, have determined to take control the world of Gael. They have enslaved, murdered, and destroyed whole villages. In an attempt to escape this evil, the people in Gael have left their homes, seeking a new life on another continent in...- $25.99
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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
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4. Leo Tolstoy
5. Mark Twain
6. Charlotte Brontë
7. George Orwell
8. Emily Brontë
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