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1) Kates Choice
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RiverOak Publishing
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English
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In this heartwarming story, Kate is faced with a difficult choice. Her father's dying wish was for her to live with each of his estranged brothers--- ultimately choosing one family with which to make her home.
2) King John
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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First published in the "First Folio" in 1623 and likely written in the 1590s, "King John" is one of William Shakespeare's best historical plays. It centers on the events of King John's reign of England during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. King John, son of Henry I of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, inherits the throne after the death of his older brother, King Richard I. John's claim to the throne is challenged by the King of...
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Love's Labours Lost - William Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to forswear the company of women for three years of study and fasting, and their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of Aquitaine and her ladies. In...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1884 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This book features a collection of Cather's short stories, including Peter, On the Divide, Eric Hermannson's Soul, The Sentimentality of William Tavener, The Namesake, The Enchanted Bluff, The Joy of Nelly Deane, The Bohemian Girl, Consequences, The Bookkeeper's Wife, Ardessa, and Her Boss. A collection of reviews and essays by Cather are also included. Authors covered by the reviews include Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Charles Dickens wrote short stories and essays that are comical, satirical, and morally earnest. This collection of over thirty of Dickens's stories and essays is an invaluable addition to the library of all fans and students of the preeminent Victorian-era writer. The volume includes "The Lamplighter," "To Be Read at Dusk," "Sunday Under Three Heads," along with such short pieces as "Prince Bull, A Fairy Tale," "Our Honorable Friend," and "The Ghost...
7) Une vie
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Project Gutenberg
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Français
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Une vie de Guy de Maupassant est un roman qui raconte le destin tragique de Jeanne, une jeune femme innocente et idéaliste qui se marie avec un homme médiocre et tombe peu à peu dans la désillusion et l'amertume. À travers une prose élégante et nuancée, Maupassant explore les thèmes de l'amour, de la trahison et de la condition féminine dans la société bourgeoise française du XIXe siècle. Avec une sensibilité délicate et une observation...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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In Charles Dickens' "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" a ship makes a thrilling voyage around Cape Horn, then heads north to the coast of California. When the ship strikes an iceberg, the Captain exhorts his passengers and crew not to give up hope. This short story was first published in the Christmas issue of "All The Year Round" in 1856.
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed (1911) is a novel by Edna Ferber. Written while the author was recovering from a bout of anemia, Ferber's debut marked the beginning of an illustrious literary career. Inspired by her experience as a reporter in the city and countryside, Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed is the story of a young woman who recognizes the unhappiness in her life and decides to risk it all for something better. Lighthearted in nature,...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad
First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad's two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book "a very intimate revelation. . . . I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour's confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and...
11) Zelda
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Harper & Row
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English
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"Profound, overwhelmingly moving . . . a richly complex love story." - New York Times
Acclaimed biographer Nancy Milford brings to life the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda Sayre and clarifies as never before Zelda's relationship with her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald-tracing the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent.
Zelda Sayre's stormy life spanned from notoriety...
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Project Gutenberg
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Français
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Découvrez "Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine", le roman captivant de Jules Verne qui vous entraîne dans un tourbillon d'aventures exotiques et d'humour délicieux. Suivez les pas de Kin-Fo, un riche Chinois décidé à dépenser sa fortune avant de mourir, et embarquez pour un voyage palpitant à travers la Chine. Entre péripéties rocambolesques, rencontres surprenantes et rebondissements inattendus, ce récit vous fera rire, réfléchir...
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Grove Press
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English
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Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.
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St. Martin's Press
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First Edition.
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English
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Follows the experiences of a wounded World War II soldier who falls in love with a mysterious Danish woman during his convalescence in London before realizing that she may not be who she claims to be.SOMETHING TO REMEMBER YOU BY, begins on Christmas, 1944. In a foxhole in Bastogne, Belgium, the innocent yet charmingly clever protagonist, Corporal Tom Cole, is injured. Wilder moves the action to a romantic wartime London with dimly lit blackout-compliant...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Rob is an electrical experimenter whose father encourages him and sees that he "never lacked batteries, motors or supplies of any sort." A "net-work of wires soon ran throughout the house". He loses track of the elaborately interconnected wires, and trying to get a cardboard house to light up, he "experimented in a rather haphazard fashion, connecting this and that wire blindly and by guesswork, in the hope that he would strike the right combination."...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Lost Despatch" by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Project Gutenberg
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Français
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Accusé de subversion politique, Dostoïevski fut à l'âge de vingt-huit ans condamné aux travaux forcés dans un bagne de Sibérie. Il fit dans ces Souvenirs le récit de cette terrible expérience dans la maison des morts qui allait transformer sa vision du monde et du peuple russe et le « ressusciter ».
« Je me sentais un peu souffrant ces jours-ci, et je lisais la Maison des morts. Je n'en avais gardé qu'un souvenir incertain et j'ai...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Ranald Macdonald's roots are in the forest of Ontario's easternmost county and his character was forged in the small Presbyterian church near his home. When he leaves to test his idealism and faith in the rough world of the lumber business, he brings pride to the minister's wife who was the model for his life. Met with international acclaim when published in 1901, The Man from Glengarry is a tale of courage and an exciting portrait of life in 19th-century...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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"Christie Redfern's Troubles" by Margaret M. Robertson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Writing of the Short Story" by Lewis Worthington Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature....
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