| (Guy Boothby)
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| This is the first of five stories featuring Dr. Nikola, an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination. Nikola hatches a plot in his quest for immortality. The hero, Richard Hatteras, seeks to thwart him.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| There are two parts to this book. The first is an adventure story set in West Africa involving John Osmond. Then, in the second part, Dr Thorndyke is involved in solving a jewel robbery in order to clear Osmond of suspicion so that he can return home and marry his true love.
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| (Arthur Morrison)
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| Living conditions in the East End of London at the end of the 19th century are described in graphic detail as we follow the life of Dicky Perrott and his family as they try to survive in the urban jungle that is the Jago. The story builds to its inevitable tragic climax.
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| (George Orwell)
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| This novel tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside-down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form. [Wikipedia]
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| The seventh of the famous "Barsoom" series of stories. Hadron of Hastor, a warrior in the service of Warlord John Carter, must battle his way across the dead seas of Barsoom evading or slaughtering cruel tyrants, mad scientists, and formidably-tusked green warriors while avoiding a ship armed with a new weapon that disintegrates the metal of a pursuing flier in the search to rescue his love, Sanoma Tora.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| Oscar Trevors had come to see Dr Arnold Eversham, an acknowledged authority on nervous disorders, and the author of the standard text-book on mental diseases. Trevors seemed to be a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A week after his visit, Trevors had vanished and, six months later, a letter was received by a firm of lawyers that acted for him, instructing them to sell some property. Simultaneously there came a letter to his bankers, instructing them to forward his half-yearly income to two banks. Now the search is on to find him as there is a suspicion that he is being held prisoner in Bonginda.
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| (Bess Streeter Aldrich)
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| The story begins in 1854 when Abbie Mackenzie is a small girl. She and her family move to a homestead in Iowa, in the United States. Hostile Indians, prairie fires, blizzards, and the ever-present threat of accidents and illness are part of the daily life. As the story unfold, Abbie grows to adulthood, finds romance and raises a family of her own.
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| (Willa Cather)
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| The novel is written in the third person, but is mostly written from the perspective of Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester, for whom he feels very deeply, and also of the West itself from the idealized age of noble pioneers to the age of capitalist exploitation. [Wikipedia]
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| (Ford Madox Ford)
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| This is the third novel in the tetralogy "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford, published between 1924 and 1928. "Parade's End" is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. "Parade's End" has been ranked as one of the one hundred best English-language works of the 20th century. [Wikipedia]
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| (John Galsworthy)
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| Following her marriage to Michael Mont, Fleur Forsyte "kicks up her heels" in the Roaring Twenties. However, her marriage is haunted by the memory of a past love affair, and those closest to her sense her unhappiness. Michael, devoted to Fleur but not blind to her faults, is determined to stand by her.
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| (John Galsworthy)
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| Fleur and Michael Mont entertain society people in their fashionable house. Fleur's father, Soames Forsyte, dotes on his daughter, spoiling and watching over her. But London in the 1920s is a place alarming and baffling to old Soames.
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| (John Galsworthy)
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| Jon Forsyte, after living in the United States, is back in England and is eager to show off his 'home' to his new bride. When Fleur Mont, who was once in love with Jon, hears that he is back, she wonders if she still loves him. She, formerly a Forsyte, is now also married.
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| (James Joyce)
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| This semi-autobiographical novel describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce. The surname is an allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| The first of his famous Barsoom series, this was also Burroughs' first novel, predating his Tarzan stories. The story is full of swordplay and daring feats, and is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| The body of a young woman, clad in a bright green swimsuit, is found on a beach. Inspector Grant has the help of Erica Burgoyne, the local Chief Constable's daughter, in solving the murder. This is an engrossing story from the doyenne of crime and mystery writers.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| The fourth of the Dr Thornyke novels. A young doctor stumbles upon disappearing corpses and patients who die under mysterious circumstances. He, himself, is almost killed because of his knowledge.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This is one of the few novels which Montgomery wrote primarily for adults. It centres on a community consisting mainly of two families, the Penhallows and the Darks. For several generations marriages between Penhallows and Darks were common. [Wikipedia]
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| (Bess Streeter Aldrich)
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| A coming of age story in the early decades of the 20th century. The matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, dies leaving to her grand-daughter, Laura, her dream of finer things. The grandmother's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura, vows that nothing will deter her from a successful writing career.
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| (Hervey Allen)
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| During the American Civil War, Colonel Nathaniel Franklin, a Union officer, is reluctant to burn the house of a Confederate officer named Crittenden. As the campaign progresses, Franklin realizes that he is in love with Mrs. Crittenden, the officer's widow. This novel was a bestseller when first published.
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| (Anne Bronte)
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| The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Bronte suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Bronte's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman. [Wikipedia]
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| (Lewis Carroll)
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| This classic story tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by unforgettable characters including the the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| Franklin wrote throughout her life, however "My Brilliant Career" and "All that Swagger" were the only novels which had literary success. The book contains memorable characters and paints a picture of the Australian outback in the early twentieth century.
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| (Rachel Field)
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| Henriette Desportes, the main character, was a great-aunt of Rachel Field, the author of the novel. Henriette was, at one time, the governess of the children of the Duchesse de Choiseul-Praslin and her husband, the Duc Theobald de Praslin. She later went to the United States as a French teacher and while there she married Henry Martyn Field, a minister of religion. The American Civil War and the laying of the intercontinental telegraph cable provided a backdrop to their lives together. They also became acquainted with many of the notable people of the time. The book was made into a film starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer.
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| (Theodore Dreiser)
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| In this modern classic, Clyde, child of religious parents, is led into a dissolute lifestyle by acquaintances. When a stolen car in which he is travelling kills a young child, his life is changed and he begins working for a wealthy uncle and becomes a person of relative importance in the business. However, his attraction to women begins to cause problems.
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| (Rachel Field)
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| A best-seller when first published, this novel centres on a doctor's attempt to find a cure for deafness. In a note at the beginning of the novel, Field points out that "the place, action, and characters of this book are purely fictional. There is no Vance method of treatment to restore hearing, nor is the theory based on any actual medical findings." The book was made into a film in 1944, starring Alan Ladd and Susan Hayward.
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| (George Orwell)
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| This modern classic is an allegory on social revolution. When the animals take over the farm it soon transpires that, while all animals are created equal, some are more equal than others.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This is the sequel to Anne of Green Gables. The story follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well as new ones including Mr. Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy.[Wikipedia]
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This was a best selling novel when published in 1908. It was written as fiction for readers of all ages, but in recent decades has been considered a children's book. Montgomery found her inspiration for the book on an old piece of paper that she had written at a young age, describing a couple that were mistakenly sent an orphan girl instead of a boy, yet decided to keep her. Montgomery also drew upon her own childhood experiences in rural Prince Edward Island. She used a photograph of Evelyn Nesbit, which she had clipped from New York's Metropolitan Magazine, and pasted the framed clipping on the wall of her bedroom, as the model for the face of Anne Shirley, the book's main character.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This is one of a series of books featuring the character Anne Shirley, a fictional character introduced first in the novel Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery wrote in her journal that the idea for Anne's story came from relatives who, planning to adopt an orphaned boy, received a girl instead.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This is the third book in the "Anne" series, following the publication of "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlea".
The book was published seven years after the best selling Anne of Green Gables and continues the story of Anne Shirley. Anne attends Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her Bachelor of Arts degree.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This is one of a series of books featuring the character Anne Shirley, a fictional character introduced first in the novel Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery wrote in her journal that the idea for Anne's story came from relatives who, planning to adopt an orphaned boy, received a girl instead.
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| (Hervey Allen)
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| This historical novel set in the 18th century was a best-seller when first published. It follows the globe-trotting adventures of the title character, the illegitimate offspring of Maria Bonnyfeather, the bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged nobleman Marquis Don Luis.
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| (Hervey Allen)
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| This historical novel set in the 18th century was a best-seller when first published. It follows the globe-trotting adventures of the title character, the illegitimate offspring of Maria Bonnyfeather, the bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged nobleman Marquis Don Luis.
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| (Hervey Allen)
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| This historical novel set in the 18th century was a best-seller when first published. It follows the globe-trotting adventures of the title character, the illegitimate offspring of Maria Bonnyfeather, the bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged nobleman Marquis Don Luis.
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| (Jules Verne)
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| In this classic story Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club.
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| (Sinclair Lewis)
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| This novel won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize, though Lewis refused to accept it. It tells the story of the bright, scientifically-minded, Martin Arrowsmith as he makes his way from a small town in Midwest USA to the upper echelons of the scientific community.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Harold Monkhouse is found dead from arsenic poisoning. His wife, Barbara, is the prime suspect. As usual in a Dr Thorndyke mystery, the plot twists and turns right up to the surprising conclusion.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| The first story in the "Pellucidar" series. While travelling in the Sahara desert, the narrator has encountered a remarkable vehicle and its pilot, David Innes, a mining heir who finances the experimental "iron mole," an excavating vehicle designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. In a test run, they discover the vehicle cannot be turned, and it burrows 500 miles into the Earth's crust, emerging into the unknown interior world of Pellucidar.
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| (Sinclair Lewis)
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| A bestseller when first published, Babbitt is a satire of American culture, society, and behavior. It critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure on individuals toward conformity. (Wikipedia.)
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| Though published in 1931, before two of the (chronologically) earlier novels in the saga, this story is the final part in the series which follows the lives of Australian pioneering families appearing in four earlier novels by Franklin, using the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin"--"Up the Country", "Ten Creeks Run", "Cockatoos" and "Gentleman at Gyang Gyang". The fortunes of the Mazeres, Pooles, Stantons, Brennans and others are continued up to the late 1920s.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the fifth story set in the interior world of Pellucidar and centres on the exploits of Von Horst with strange beasts and even stranger beings. The love interest is La-ja of Lo-har.
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| (Ellen Glasgow)
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| This novel documents thirty years in the life of Dorinda Oakley, a woman who gradually returns the "barren ground" of the family farm to fertility and creates a prosperous dairy farm. Ellen Glasgow writes, in the preface to the novel, that Dorinda "exists wherever a human being has learned to live without joy, wherever the spirit of fortitude has triumphed over the sense of
futility."
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| (P C Wren)
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| This is the first in the "Beau Geste" series. The three Geste brothers are orphans and have been brought up by their aunt. When a precious jewel known as the "Blue Water" goes missing, suspicion falls on the young people, and Beau leaves Britain to join the French Foreign Legion, followed by his brothers, Digby (his twin) and John.
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| (P C Wren)
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| The third in the Beau Geste series, Beau Ideal concerns the efforts by Foreign Legionnaire Otis Madison to locate his childhood chum John Geste. The two men are reunited in the Arabian desert, where Geste is doing penance in a stockade reserved for discredited Legionnaires.
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| (P C Wren)
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| The second in the Beau Geste series, Beau Sabreur begins as three Legionnaires do not return promptly from furlough and end up in the poky. There, the hero duels with a traitor and wins, causing him to gain the designation "Beau Sabreur." Later he is sent into the desert to learn the ways of the Arabs and to help forge a peace treaty.
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| (Earl Derr Biggers)
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| A former head of Scotland Yard is pursuing the long-cold trail of a murderer. Fifteen years before, a London solicitor has been killed in circumstances in which the only clue was a pair of Chinese slippers, which he apparently donned just before his death. [Wikipedia.]
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This was the final novel written by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. The story is laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play (hence the title) in a small English village just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Much of it looks forward to the war, with veiled allusions to connection with the continent by flight, swallows representing aircraft, and plunging into darkness. The pageant is a play within a play, representing a rather cynical view of English history. Woolf links together many different threads and ideas with a particularly interesting technique being the use of rhyme words to suggest hidden meanings. Relationships between the characters and aspects of their personalities are explored. The English village bonds throughout the play through their differences and similarities. [Wikipedia]
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| (Herman Melville)
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| Billy Budd is a novella which Melville left unfinished at the time of his death in 1891. It was not published until 1924. When Budd strikes and accidentally kills Claggart, the Master-at-Arms, he is court-martialed. This story is often interpreted as being about good and evil, with Billy representing Christ or Adam (before the Fall), and Claggart (who is compared to a snake several times in the text) representing Evil. Part of Claggart's hatred towards Billy comes because of Billy's goodness rather than in spite of it. [Wikipedia]
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| Who is the sender of the mysterious notes warning the young woman to leave the house of the sinister Doctor Groat? Add the Thirteen Gang and the Danton fortune into the mix and we have a typical Edgar Wallace mystery.
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| (Helen Simpson)
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| Boomerang won the James Tait Black memorial prize and marked Simpson's arrival as a significant contemporary novelist. It was her first book to deal with Australia. The novel begins in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century, and is then set in other parts of the world, including Australia. It ends in the trenches in France during the 1914-18 war.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| When Simon turns twenty-one, things will change--he will come into a large inheritance. Simon had a twin brother, Patrick, who was fifteen minutes older. But Patrick disappeared, leaving what was taken as a suicide note. The title character, Brat Farrar, has recently returned to England from America. He was a foundling and, at the age of 13, the orphanage placed him in an office job, but he ran away. He worked at ranches and stables for several years and became an expert horseman.
On a street in London, Alec Loding, a complete stranger greets Brat as "Simon" and the plot thickens. Could he be Patrick?
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| (George Orwell)
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| This is a story about the days of waning British imperialism after World War I. As the story opens, U Po Kyin, a corrupt Burmese magistrate is planning to destroy the reputation of the Indian Dr. Veraswami. The Doctor's main protection is his friendship with John Flory who, as a pukka sahib (European white man), has higher prestige. U Po Kyin begins his campaign by sending anonymous letters with false stories about the doctor, and he even sends a subtly threatening letter to Flory. [Wikipedia]
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| (Barbara Baynton)
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| A collection of several short stories including: A Dreamer, Squeaker's Mate, Scrammy 'And, Billy Skywonkie, Bush Church, and The Chosen Vessel. The stories display a grim realism and depiction of female suffering which represents an alternative view to the romanticism of the bush.
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| (Louis Becke)
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| A collection of short stories. Becke published about thirty-five books during his lifetime and his speciality was the south sea tale. The stories are still very readable.
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| (Fanny Burney)
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| This story is deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people: Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the sweet tempered Lavinia and the deformed, but extremely kind, Eugenia, and their cousin, the beautiful Indiana Lynmere. In particular it describes the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. There are, however, many obstacles in the path of true love, caused by misunderstandings and mistakes.
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| (Rudyard Kipling)
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| Harvey Cheyne is the indulged son of a wealthy railroad magnate. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen on the Grand Banks, the young Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth. However, the captain of the fishing boat, Disko Troop, offers him a job as part of the crew until they return to port. With no other choice, Harvey accepts. [Wikipedia]
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the third book in the "Venus" series. Carson Napier the first Earthman to reach Venus, has resolved to restore a native princess to her lost homeland. To fulfil his promise he must cross oceans where sea-monsters dwell, and pass through forests where the sense of terror is tangible.
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| (Sinclair Lewis)
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| A former Congressman, now Judge, Cass Timberlane is a respected figure in the community. He marries a much younger woman from a lower social class. At first the marriage is happy but Jinny, his wife, becomes bored with the small town and with the judge's friends and has an affair.
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| (Earl Derr Biggers)
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| Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, is pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage, following killings in London, France, Italy and Japan. While his ship is docked in Honolulu, Duff is shot and wounded by his quarry. Though he survives, he is unable to continue with the cruise, and Chan takes his place. [Wikipedia]
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| (B M Bower)
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| A western story in the "Flying U" series.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| In this, the third novel in the saga of Australian pioneering days, following "Up the country" and "Ten Creeks Run", Miles Franklin, using the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin", tells a tale of restless youth, soaring ambition and thwarted dreams.
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| (M R James)
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| An omnibus collection of classic ghost stories, published in 1931, bringing together all but three of James' ghost stories (which had yet to be published).
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| A collection of more than 20 short stories by one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Includes Kew Gardens, A Haunted House, Monday or Tuesday, A Summing Up.
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| (F Scott Fitzgerald)
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| This is a collection of more than fifty stories which originally appeared in 'The Saturday Evening Post' and other magazines.
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| (H P Lovecraft)
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| Lovecraft is regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. Stephen King has called him "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." More than sixty stories are collected here.
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| (Henry Handel Richardson)
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| The stories in this collection include "The End of a Childhood," "Growing Pains," and a number of others.
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| (George Orwell)
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| The themes of the book are nostalgia, the folly of trying to go back and recapture past glories and the easy way the dreams and aspirations of one's youth can be smothered by the humdrum routine of work, marriage and getting old. It is written in the first person, with George Bowling, the forty-five-year-old protagonist, revealing his life and experiences while undertaking a trip back to his boyhood home as an adult. [Wikipedia]
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| (Robert Ervin Howard)
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| Conspirators plan to depose Conan as King of Aquilonia. He is captured and is set to be executed when a slave girl, Zenobia, risks her life to free him. This was Howard's only full length novel about Conan, and is considered by many to be one of his best works. [Wikipedia]
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| (Marjorie Bowen)
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| When Irish patriots were dreaming of the day when their country would be free from English tyranny, the United Irishmen hatched a plot to overthrow the Government.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald, brother of the Duke of Leinster was approached to was approached to lead the plot. Fitzgerald's acceptance led to his betrayal.
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| (Charles Dickens)
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| This classic story deals with the life of David Copperfield, from childhood to maturity.David's father died six months before he was born, and seven years later, his mother remarried. His step-father thrashed David for falling behind with his studies and, following one of these thrashings, David retaliated and was sent away to a boarding school. Will David eventually find happiness?
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| (Willa Cather)
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| This novel concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. It was included on the "Time" magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 and the "Modern Library" list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
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| (Sherwood Anderson)
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| Ray Lewis White, editor of "The Achievement of Sherwood Anderson" stated that "In only one case were critics of Anderson's later work seriously wrong in their judgment. Death in the Woods (1933), Anderson's last collection of short stories, contains works that are among our finest short fiction...Perhaps because these were stories and not extended writing, Anderson recaptured the tender charm of Winesburg, Ohio, The Triumph of the Egg, and Horses and Men."
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| Gavin Dordress, a famous playwright, is giving a party. He is not well liked by many of his guests and jealousy and greed are part of the problem. The next morning brings the death of a celebrity and Amos Lee Mappin is on the case.
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| (Eugene O'Neill)
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| This classic American play features three sons. Their father has left their farm to find a wife. Eben, the youngest, maintains that the farm is his birthright. He buys out his half-brothers' shares with money stolen from his father. The other sons, Peter and Simeon, head off to California to seek their fortune. Later, the father returns with a new wife and things become complicated.
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| (E M Delafield)
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| Delafield was a director of 'Time and Tide' magazine. When the editor wanted some light content, preferably in serial form, Delafield promised to think of something to submit. It was thus in 1930 that her most popular and enduring work, 'Diary of a Provincial Lady', was born. This largely autobiographical novel substituted the names of "Robin" and "Vicky" for her own children. It has never been out of print.
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| (Marjorie Bowen)
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| This is a story about Richard III of England, believed by some to be a murderer, by others to be a great king. Dickon, the name used throughout the story for Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, afterwards King Richard III of England, was the one familiarly used in his lifetime.
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| (Lloyd C Douglas)
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| A young doctor, John Wesley Beaven, jeopardises his medical studies when he becomes infatuated with a Chinese girl and the girl returns to China. However, they meets again again when she is in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid. He must choose between his career and marriage.
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| (Sinclair Lewis)
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| Samuel Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer. He marries Fran Voelker, a beautiful young socialite. At the age of fifty and facing retirement after selling his successful automobile company, he sets out on a leisurely trip to Europe with his wife.
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| (Warwick Deeping)
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| Arnold Furze has worked hard to establish his farm, "Doomsday," and now proposes to Mary Viner. However, Mary cannot envisage the life of drudgery which she imagines will be hers if she accepts. She visits her married sister and accepts a proposal of marriage by a wealthy landowner in the district. The plot takes many twists and turns before reaching a surprising conclusion.
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| (L Frank Baum)
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| This is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz. Dorothy is reunited with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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| (Ethel Pedley)
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| Dot, a young girl, gets lost in the outback after chasing a rabbit into the bush and losing sight of her home. She is approached by a red kangaroo who gives her some berries to eat. Upon eating the berries, Dot is able to understand the language of all animals, and she tells the kangaroo her plight. The kangaroo, who has lost her own joey, decides to help Dot despite her own fear of humans.
Pedley dedicated the book "To the children of Australia in the hope of enlisting their sympathies for the many beautiful, amiable, and frolicsome creatures of their fair land,
whose extinction, through ruthless destruction,
is being surely accomplished."
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| (George Orwell)
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| This is a story in two parts on the theme of poverty in Paris and London. The first part is an account of living on the breadline in Paris and the experiences of a casual labourer in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins. Orwell gives it an autobiographical feel by interposing chapters presenting his personal opinions. [from Wikipedia]
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| (Guy Boothby)
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| This is the second story in the series about the the multi-talented Dr Nikola--master of disguise; hypnotist; skilled chemist--is a master criminal. Handsome, charming and genial he pursues his dream of immortality, which he believes is known to a sect of monks somewhere in Tibet. His nemesis is a Mongolian assassin missing half of one ear.
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| (Guy Boothby)
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| This is the fourth novel in the Dr Nikola series which began with "A Bid for Fortune." Dr Nikola is an anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| An American goes to England to lay claim to the estate and title of the Earl of Winsborough. Thorndyke is called upon to assist in the legal action. However, when firstly a case is opened, and then later, a coffin, the interested parties are in for some surprises.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| A collection of seven short stories which showcase Dr Thorndykes's methods of solving seemingly insoluble mysteries: THE BLUE SEQUIN; THE NEW JERSEY SPHINX; THE MAGIC CASKET; THE PATHOLOGIST TO THE RESCUE; THE TOUCHSTONE; PERCIVAL BLAND'S PROXY; THE MISSING MORTGAGEE.
One can't help being amused by Freeman's prose. Sometimes the plots are a little far-fetchedd, as in 'The Pathologist to the Rescue', where a blood sample reveals that a person has filaria nocturna, or elephantiasis).However there is such good humour and fun, in equal measure, that all is forgiven by this reviewer. Furthermore, though the descriptions of London's streets throughout the stories may not be accurate (this reviewer has not been to London to check) they evoke London as one can imagine it would have been in the nineteen-twenties.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Seven stories featuring Dr Thorndyke: THE CASE OF THE WHITE FOOTPRINTS; THE BLUE SCARAB; THE NEW JERSEY SPHINX; THE TOUCHSTONE; A FISHER OF MEN; THE STOLEN INGOTS; THE FUNERAL PYRE.
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| (Bram Stoker)
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| The classic story of the vampire from Transylvania who feeds on human blood.
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| (James Joyce)
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| "Dubliners" is a collection of 15 short stories depicting Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| In this investigation Mme. Storey is contacted by a society couple to investigate a stand-over racket.
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| (Sinclair Lewis)
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| This is the story of a young, womanising college athlete who abandons his early ambition to become a lawyer. He is mistakenly ordained as a Baptist minister and becomes the manager for Sharon Falconer, an itinerant evangelist. He becomes her lover but loses both her and his position when she is killed in a fire at her new tabernacle.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| Similar to her earlier and more famous Anne of Green Gables series, the Emily novels depict life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of consumption. Emily is sent to live at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray and her Cousin Jimmy. She makes friends with Ilse Burnley, Teddy Kent, and Perry Miller, the hired boy, who Aunt Elizabeth looks down upon because he was born in 'Stovepipe Town', a poorer district.
This is the second story in the series.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| Similar to her earlier and more famous Anne of Green Gables series, the Emily novels depict life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of consumption.
This is the first story in the series.
Emily is sent to live at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray and her Cousin Jimmy. She makes friends with Ilse Burnley, Teddy Kent, and Perry Miller, the hired boy, who Aunt Elizabeth looks down upon because he was born in 'Stovepipe Town', a poorer district.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| Similar to her earlier and more famous Anne of Green Gables series, the Emily novels depict life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of consumption.
This is the third and final story in the series.
Emily is sent to live at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray and her Cousin Jimmy. She makes friends with Ilse Burnley, Teddy Kent, and Perry Miller, the hired boy, who Aunt Elizabeth looks down upon because he was born in 'Stovepipe Town', a poorer district.
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| (Jane Austen)
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| This classic novel is concerned with the perils of misconstrued romance. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma, however, is also rather spoiled; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; and she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives and is often mistaken about the meanings of others' actions.
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| (John Galsworthy)
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| This is the first novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this, the seventh instalment, the story of the lives and times of the Forsytes continues and a member of an old English family, the Cherrells, faces extradition to South America, after being falsely accused of murder.
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| (John Galsworthy)
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| Dinny Cherrell and Wilfred Desert first met at Fleur and Michael Mont's wedding and the attraction later develops into an all-consuming love. But Wilfred, an ex-soldier, is haunted by his past actions.
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| (John Galsworthy)
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| Clare Corven (nee Cherrell) is pursued by her husband. She vows never to return to him and begins divorce proceedings. Meanwhile, Dinny Cherrell, Clare's sister, has her own unhappiness to deal with. Appropriately, in this, the final part of the Forsyte Chronicles, a number of Forsytes still make up part of the story.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the fourth book in the "Venus" series. It is comprised of four related stories: "Slaves of the Fishmen," "Goddess of Fire," "The Living Dead," and "War on Venus."
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| (Thomas Hardy)
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| In this story of unrequited love, Gabriel Oak, unsuccessfully proposes marriage to Bathsheba Everdene. After his sheep are killed in an accident he finds himself working at Weatherby Farm, owned by Bathsheba. However her romantic interest is with William Boldwood and Sergeant Troy. The rivalry between Bathsheba's three suitors has a timeless quality.
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| (Guy Boothby)
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| This is the fifth and final story in the series about the multi-talented Dr Nikola--master of disguise; hypnotist; skilled chemist--is a master criminal. Handsome, charming and genial he pursues his dream of immortality, which he believes is known to a sect of monks somewhere in Tibet. His nemesis is a Mongolian assassin missing half of one ear.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| 'Felo de se' translates as 'a felon of himself,' or a self-murderer. John Gillam apparently commits suicide in his living-room. It is thought that he did it because he was bankrupt, after gambling away a small fortune. However, Dr Thorndyke is on hand to unearth the true facts of the case.
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| (Andrew Caldecott)
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| In the thirteen short stories in this collection, believable scenarios are used to turn ordinary events into unsettling situations. This is the second series of stories by Caldecott, following "Not Exactly Ghosts".
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and non-fiction. It traces the life of Flush from his carefree existence in the country, to his adoption by Ms. Browning and his travails in London, leading up to his final days in a bucolic Italy. Woolf uses the life of a dog as a means of social criticism, ranging across topics from feminism, and environmentalism, to class conflict. [Wikipedia]
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| (B M Bower)
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| One of the "Flying U" westerns which also include Chip of the Flying U, The Flying U Strikes and The Flying U's Last Stand.
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| (B M Bower)
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| When Dale Emery withdraws his inheritance and takes the cash with him on a trip out West in search of adventure and opportunities, he encounters more than he bargains for.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Andrew, an artist, witnesses a man being shot one night by two masked assailants. On the advice of his wife he remains silent about it. However, when things get complicated, Dr Thorndyke becomes involved.
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| (Marcus Clarke)
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| This is the best known novel of life as a convict in early Australian history. The story follows the fortunes of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder that he did not commit. The book clearly conveys the harsh and inhumane treatment meted out to the convicts, some of whom were transported for relatively minor crimes, and graphically describes the conditions the convicts experienced. The novel was based on research by the author as well as a visit to the penal settlement of Port Arthur. [Wikipedia]
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| (Marjorie Bowen)
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| This book was also issued under the title "The Strange Case of Lucile Clery." The author notes that "this novel is based on a fact--that of a crime so incredible that it caused amazement equal to the horror it inspired; the public sentiment aroused by this atrocity went far to provoke the sudden French Revolution of 1848." As usual, Marjorie Bowen's presents us with an entirely believable plot and her characters are beautifully realised.
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| (Lloyd C Douglas)
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| This is a story of a bitter young man, Dinny Brumm. His mother died giving birth to him and his father was denied contact with him by the relatives who reared him. Throughout the story Douglas shows the doctrines, practices and prejudices of both Catholic and Protestant believers of the time after the First World War. Dinny's chaste romances with four likeable women add to the interest of the work.
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| (Mary Shelley)
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| The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended incorrectly to refer to the monster as "Frankenstein". Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. It was also a warning against the expansion of modern man in the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. [Wikipedia]
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| (Charles Yale Harrison)
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| This is a first person account of trench warfare in World War I. Behind the lines the men go on leave and unwind. It makes for compelling reading and, when first published in 1930, was an international bestseller.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| This story, which Franklin wrote using the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin", continues the saga which began with "Up the Country", "Ten Creeks Run" and "Cockatoos".
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| (James Hilton)
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| A much-loved school teacher at Brookfield, a fictional boys' boarding school, Mr. Chipping ("Mr Chips") is an inspiring educator. He is also witness to sweeping social changes throughout his life.
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| (Charles Dickens)
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| This classic story includes the famous Dickens characters Pip, Miss Havisham, Estella, Magwitch and Mr Jaggers.
At the outset Pip finds food for a convict to eat and a file so that the convict can undo his leg shackles. Many years later, the convict repays this kindness in a surprising way.
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| (Lloyd C Douglas)
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| When a young surgeon accepts the blame for his mentor's mistake during surgery, he is dismissed from the hospital staff. His career in ruins, he sets out with a new identity.
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| (John Buchan)
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| This is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring Richard Hannay. Set in World War I, Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war.
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| (Jonathan Swift)
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| This novel, a classic of English fiction, introduces us to the country of Lilliput where the inhabitants are 6 inches (15cm) high. It became very popular upon first publication and has never since been out of print.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Dr Thorndyke sets to work to solve a mystery involving blackmail, fraud and death.
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| (Lennie Lower)
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| Eighty short, humorous pieces from the author of "Here's Luck."
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| (Lennie Lower)
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| An instant best-seller when it first appeared, this is an account of the riotous adventures of a suburban battler in Sydney. An Australian classic.
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| (Jeffery Farnol)
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| Soon after the death of Admiral Nelson a young seaman becomes heir to an earldom. The relatives resent the fact that they have missed out. Andromeda, a red-haired beauty provides the love interest.
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| (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
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| A collection of five horror and mystery stories by the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century, whose work is still widely read today.
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| (Brian Penton)
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| This is the sequel to "Landtakers", the story of pioneering life in Queensland in the first half of the 19th century.
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| (Sinclair Lewis)
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| Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a charismatic and power-hungry politician, is elected President of the United States on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and, more importantly, promising each citizen five thousand dollars a year. Once in power, however, he becomes a dictator; outlawing dissent, putting his political enemies in concentration camps, and creating a paramilitary force called the Minute Men who terrorize the citizens. (from: Wikipedia.)
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The story is told through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy, then Greece. [Wikipedia]
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| (Charlotte Bronte)
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| This is a first-person narrative of the title character. The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family at Marsh's End (or Moor House) and Morton, where her cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her; and her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester. Partly autobiographical, the novel abounds with social criticism. It is a novel considered ahead of its time. In spite of the dark, brooding elements, it has a strong sense of right and wrong, of morality at its core. [Wikipedia]
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| Jane lives with her mother, grandmother, and aunt. A letter arrives from her estranged father, asking that Jane stay with him for the summer on Prince Edward Island, her birthplace. There she has many adventures.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| This ebook contains 8 short pieces featuring Dr Thorndyke solving various mysteries: The Man with the Nailed Shoes; The Stranger's Latchkey; The Anthropologist at Large; The Blue Sequin; The Moabite Cipher; The Mandarin's Pearl; The Aluminium Dagger; A Message from the Deep Sea.
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| (Louis Stone)
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| 'Jonah' is a novel set in Sydney in the early 1900s. Many of the places described--Chinatown and Paddy's markets, Botany Road, Sydney Harbour and its foreshores--are icons of Sydney. The characters--members of the 'Push', rags-to-riches businessmen like Jonah and battlers like Chook and Pinky--are as recognisable today as when Stone wrote about them. This novel has been described as the first great novel about Sydney. It has been the subject of a television series and has been adapted for the stage.
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| (Hugh Walpole)
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| This is the second novel in the "Herries Chronicle," comprising four titles: Rogue Herries; Judith Paris; The Fortress; Vanessa. The story covers four generations of the Herries family in London and in the Lake District of England.
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| (Rudyard Kipling)
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| The Just So Stories for Little Children tell how various things came about. There are twelve stories, beginning with 'How the Whale got his Throat.'
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| (George Orwell)
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| Gordon Comstock has 'declared war' on what he sees as an 'overarching dependence' on money by leaving a promising job as a copywriter for an advertising company called 'New Albion'--at which he shows great dexterity--and taking a low-paying job instead, ostensibly so he can write poetry. Coming from a respectable family background in which the inherited wealth has now become dissipated, Gordon resents having to work for a living. The 'war' (and the poetry), however, aren't going particularly well and, under the stress of his 'self-imposed exile' from affluence, Gordon has become absurd, petty and deeply neurotic. [Wikipedia]
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| (Earl Derr Biggers)
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| When a prima donna is shot there is likely to be something doing in the detective line. When the shooting is done at Reno, and there are several people who may reasonably be suspected of having had an interest in the crime, or who have been so close to it that, visible interest or not, they can be asked to explain themselves, the detective--especially if he is the celebrated Charlie Chan--is likely to sit up and take notice. So he does; and those who have met this prince of sleuths in some other of his exploits will follow his feat in tracking down his latest quarry with full appreciation.
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| (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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| David Balfour, whose parents have recently died, is out to make his way in the world. He has an introduction to his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour. When David enquires about the location of House of Shaws, where his uncle lives, people speak of it as a place of fear and evil. When David arrives at the house, he is confronted by Ebenezer who armed with a blunderbuss. While staying at the house David begins to suspect that he might be the legitimate heir to the estate. He is subsequently kidnapped and his adventures begin.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| Writing under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot, Tey's first novel describes the life of Kif. As a farm labourer he hates the repetition and boredom of farm life and so joins up as a soldier during World War I. After the war, unable to find an honest job, Kif drifts into a life of crime.
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| (Rudyard Kipling)
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| Kim (Kimball O'Hara) is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother. He lives a hand-to-mouth existence by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. He befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who is on a quest to find the legendary 'River of the Arrow'. Kim accompanies the Llama on his journey and along the way is recruited by the British to carry a message to the British commander in Umballa. Kim's trip with the Lama is the beginning of his adventures.
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| (H Rider Haggard)
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| This classic adventure story 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 of the party. It is the first English fictional adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre. [Wikipedia]
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| (Sinclair Lewis)
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| Neil Kingsblood, a white middle class man, discovers that he is partly of African American descent. He begins to see himself as black, despite his lack of racial features, and is forced to choose between continuing what he now sees as a hollow existence in the white community and the oppressed minority existence of the black community. After he admits his heritage to several white friends, the news quickly spreads, and he engages in a quixotic struggle against the racism prevalent in the community.
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| (D H Lawrence)
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| The first edition of this novel was published in Italy. It could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960. The novel concerns the affair between a a working-class man and an aristocratic woman. Its descriptions of sex, including the use of "four letter words," ensured that it was controversial.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the sixth story set in the interior world of Pellucidar and relates the adventures of David Innes on his return from Lo-Har to Sari in the wake of the events of "Back to the Stone Age." [Wikipedia]
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| (Brian Penton)
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| A story of pioneering life in Queensland from 1824-64. Derek Cabell, an Englishman of good family, has come to Australia to make his fortune and then return "home". As with so many, he makes his life in Australia.
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| (W Olaf Stapledon)
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| This is a science fiction novel of unprecedented scale in the genre. It describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first and most primitive.
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| (Ford Madox Ford)
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| This is the fourth novel in the tetralogy "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford, published between 1924 and 1928. "Parade's End" is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. "Parade's End" has been ranked as one of the one hundred best English-language works of the 20th century. [Wikipedia]
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| (Thomas Wolfe)
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| In this, his first novel, Wolfe covers the life of Eugene Gant to the age of 19. The setting is the fictional town of Altamont, Catawba, which is considered to be a thinly veiled depiction of Wolfe's home town, Asheville, North Carolina.
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| (James Hilton)
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| This novel is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet. Robert Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the second book in the "Venus" series. Carson Napier must rescue the princess from her sworn enemies. He passes through the streets of the City of the Dead and comes face to face with fantastic creatures.
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| (Zane Grey)
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| A spoiled young millionaire's daughter is forced to join an archaeological expedition. However, there is more to the abduction than meets the eye. In the meantime, love blossoms amid the ruins.
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| (E F Benson)
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| One of the "Mapp and Lucia" series of novels which relate humorous incidents in the lives of upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and "one-upmanship" in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery.
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| (E F Benson)
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| One of the "Mapp and Lucia" series of novels which relate humorous incidents in the lives of upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and "one-upmanship" in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery.
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| (Willa Cather)
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| Lucy Gayheart is a young and beautiful girl from a small prairie town in the United States. She is a talented pianist and is enthusiastic about everything. Her father sends her off to Chicago to study piano and while there she is recruited as a substitute accompanist for an older man, a famous singer. A romance begins.
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| (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
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| A collection of twelve horror and mystery stories by the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century, whose work is still widely read today.
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| Madame Storey is one of the most popular women detectives in crime fiction. In the four short stories in this collection she is called upon to solve crimes and mysteries in her own inimitable fashion.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This story centres on a young girl, Marigold Lesley, who grew up in Cloud of Spruce as the only child in a well-to-do farming family. Marigold's father died before she was born, however she had a loving but "bossed" mother, steely Young Grandmother, shrewd Old Grandmother, former sailor Uncle Klondike, and former doctor Aunt Marigold who had saved Marigold's life and had hence become her namesake and aunt. These people made Marigold's life mostly pleasant and carefree, but she nonetheless had her share of adventures, fancies and troubles, such as her seemingly incurable jealousy to father's first wife Clementine, an encounter with a Russian princess, several attempts to be "good", and a surprising cooking triumph, many of which were related to the peculiar environment she grew up in. [Wikipedia]
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| (Lloyd C Douglas)
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| Robert Merrick is resuscitated by a rescue crew after a boating accident. The crew is unable to save the life of Dr. Hudson, a doctor renowned for his ability to help people. Hudson was on the other side of the lake having a heart attack at the same time. Merrick then decides to devote his life to making up for the doctor's, and so he decides to become a physician (specifically a brain surgeon). [Wikipedia]
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| (Helen Simpson)
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| This ebook concerns the relations of Mary Askill, a fanatical Puritan and John Conisby, who help release some negro slaves from a ship and then spend some time on a tropical island. It appears to be set in the 16th century and opens with women being whipped for their beliefs, while a poset, in an upstairs room, composes verse. The significance of the opening is revealed piecemenal as the story progresses. There are scenes of violence, fanaticism and superstition, yet this is a spiritual story about faith and the relationship between Mary Askill and her God. Simpson is said to have collected books about witchcraft and we see glimpses of her knowledge in this story.
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| (Warwick Deeping)
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| Jack Cobourn lives on the outskirts of a village in Kent, England. He has an injured spine as a result of a wartime incident. As he attempts to get on with his life he becomes involved with a high spirited young woman who convinces him that he may be able to get treatment for his injury.
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| (Jane Austen)
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| Fanny Price, a young girl from a relatively poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, lives at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, Tom Bertram, Edmund Bertram, Maria Bertram and Julia, but is always treated as inferior to them. Over time, Fanny's gratitude for Edmund's kindness secretly grows into romantic love.
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| (E F Benson)
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| One of the "Mapp and Lucia" series of novels which relate humorous incidents in the lives of upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and "one-upmanship" in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery.
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| (Charles Dickens)
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| Young Martin Chuzzlewit was raised by his grandfather and namesake. The senior Martin, a very wealthy man, has been long convinced that everyone around him is after his money, and so takes the precaution, years before the book begins, of raising an orphaned girl, Mary, to be his nursemaid, with the understanding that she would be well cared for as long as he lived, but upon his death be thrown out onto the streets, penniless. She would thus have great motivation to care for his well-being and safeguard him from harm, in contrast to his relatives, who want him to die. However, his grandson and heir, Martin, falls in love with Mary and wishes to marry her, ruining the senior Martin's plans to keep her uninterested in his fortune. He demands his grandson give up the engagement, but the latter refuses, prompting his grandfather to disinherit him.
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| (Arthur Morrison)
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| This is the first book of Martin Hewitt stories written by Morrison. Hewitt is an imitation of Sherlock Holmes, but in reverse. He is ordinary, short, and good tempered and gladly cooperates with the police. He plays both ends against the middle, sometimes behaving as badly as the criminals. [Wikipedia]
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| (Henry Handel Richardson)
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| Hugh Walpole wrote of this novel: "In the first place, it is one of the most truthful novels that have ever been written, and, in the second place, it creates men and women who are so alive that once you have met them they never leave you again...Louise is a creation of such undoubted truth that it is easy to say that Richardson must have known her, but we all have also known her, and when the book is finished she remains with us as Marie Louise Dufrayer, known to us long before Richardson met her, to remain with us as part of our life experience until we die. Maurice, too, we have known, because he is in all of us: 'For him, Maurice, the opportune moment simply did not exist; he was one of those people who are always inopportune, come and go as they will. He might have waited for days; he would never have caught Schwarz in the right mood, or in the nick of time. How he envied those fortunate mortals who always arrived at the right moment, and instinctively said the right thing!'"
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| (Charles NordhoffJames Norman Hall)
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| This is the second book in "The Bounty Trilogy", which began with "Mutiny on the Bounty," and concludes with "Pitcairn's Island." The Trilogy is based on the actual mutiny which took place
against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the "Bounty," in 1789.
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| (George Eliot)
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| Subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life," the story is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 1830-32. It has a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. The pace is leisurely, the tone is mildly didactic (with an authorial voice that occasionally bursts through the narrative), and the canvas is very broad. [Wikipedia]
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| (Bess Streeter Aldrich)
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| Bess Streeter Aldrich was one of the highest paid women writers in the period after the World War I. This novel concerns a spinster teacher who devotes her life to her family and her students. It was made into a film, 'Cheers for Miss Bishop.'
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| (Nathanael West)
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| In this black comedy set in New York in the Great Depression. A male newspaper columnist writes an advice column which is seen by the newspaper staff as a joke. As "Miss Lonelyhearts" reads letters from desperate New Yorkers, he feels burdened and falls into a cycle of deep depression, accompanied by heavy drinking and occasional bar fights. He is also the victim of the pranks and cynical advice of his feature editor at the newspaper. His attempts to escape from the mental anguish brought on by the letters leads to a unexpected climax. [Wikipedia]
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| (E F Benson)
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| One of the "Mapp and Lucia" series of novels which relate humorous incidents in the lives of upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and "one-upmanship" in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| From the doyenne of crime and mystery writers, this story centres on Lucy Pym. Miss Pym has had an unexpected best-seller with a treatise on psychology, as a result of which she has been invited to a girls' school to speak to the pupils. Her stay is extended and days turn into weeks. When tragedy strikes, it is Miss Pym who disposes, that is, who puts things in order.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| In this sequel to Pat of Silver Bush, Pat Gardiner's life in her twenties and early thirties is covered. Pat remains single and takes care of her beloved home, Silver Bush. However, changes happen--new servants, new neighbours and new lovers come and go and her brothers and sisters all get married. Pat finally finds where her heart belongs for the rest of her life. [Wikipedia]
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| (Herman Melville)
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| The classic story of the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whale ship 'Pequod,' commanded by Captain Ahab. Ahab is seeking to find and kill Moby Dick, a white sperm whale which had previously destroyed his boat and bitten off his leg.
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| (Daniel Defoe)
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| Defoe's foreword to this novel tells the story:
"The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and dies a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums..."
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| A collection of eight early short stories highly representative of Woolf's stream-of-consciousness style, including :- A Haunted House, A Society, Monday or Tuesday, An Unwritten Novel, The String Quartet, Blue & Green, Kew Gardens,The Mark on the Wall.
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| (Bess Streeter Aldrich)
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| The first novel by this Canadian writer follows the life of Molly Mason, the wife of the bank president and mother of four children. Molly is involved in the life of the town until she decides that she needs a change.
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| (Eugene O'Neill)
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| As an updated Greek tragedy, the play features murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, and even a group of townspeople who function as a kind of Greek chorus. Though fate alone guides characters' actions in Greek tragedies, O'Neill's characters have motivations grounded in 1930s-era psychological theory as well.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| John Maxell is a barrister who has business dealings with the shady Cartwright. Maxell later becomes a judge and when Cartwright's financial empire collapses, it is Maxell who sends him to jail for twenty years. The plot twists and weaves until the final unexpected outcome.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Dr Thorndyke is faced with a mystery involving a mysterious fire in a Soho house filled with inflammable objects.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Mr Pottermack seems to be a law abiding citizen with nothing to hide, but appearances can be deceptive. A crime is committed and Dr Thorndyke comes onto the scene to solve the mystery.
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| (Elizabeth Von Arnim)
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| Fanny--Mrs. Skeffington--tries in vain to recapture her lost looks, and to assure herself, from the eyes of her former professed adorers, that to them she is still beautiful. But the assurance, even from the best of them, is no more than half-hearted. In this story, the author deals with the complex emotions of ageing and the re-evaluation of self-worth.
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| (John Buchan)
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| Set in the later years of World War I, Richard 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 pacifist, roaming the country incognito to investigate the deadly spy and his agents, and then heads to the Swiss Alps to save Europe from being overwhelmed by the German army.
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| (E F Benson)
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| This story covers similar ground to that covered in Bensons other creations concerning Miss Mapp and Lucia. It is centred on Mrs Ames, queen of Riseborough society and is full to the brim of high teas, gossip and plots and counter-plots.
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This novel details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. "Mrs Dalloway" is one of Woolf's best-known novels.
Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and out of the characters' minds to construct an image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure.
In 2005 the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present. [Wikipedia]
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| (Jan Struther)
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| The 37 short pieces included in this book originally appeared in the London Times between 1937 and 1939. They provide an intimate glimpse into the life of an upper middle class English woman and her family who live in London and also own a country house in Kent. The book was a bestseller when published in 1940.
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| Millionaire mill owner James Beardmore is blackmailing his secretary Freda Rollin to force her to agree to marry him when his divorce becomes final. Meanwhile, Lance McCrea, who lives in the building where Freda lives, becomes involved and gives Beardmore a beating. When Beardmore is found dead, McCrea fins himself involved.
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| (Charles NordhoffJames Norman Hall)
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| This is the first book in "The Bounty Trilogy", which continues with "Men Against the Sea," and concludes with "Pitcairn's Island." The Trilogy is based on the actual mutiny which took place
against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the "Bounty," in 1789.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| Written while she was still a teenager, the novel gained immediate popularity. The perceived closeness of many of the characters to her own family and circumstances as small farmers in New South Wales led Franklin to withdraw the novel from publication until after her death. The story concerns the experiences of an imaginative girl growing up in Australia in the 1890s.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| Following the publication of "My Brilliant Career" in 1901 Franklin tried a career in nursing, and then as a housemaid in Sydney and Melbourne. Whilst working in these jobs she contributed pieces to The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald under the pseudonyms "An Old Bachelor" and "Vernacular." During this period she wrote a sequel to "My Brilliant Career" ("My Career Goes Bung") which proved too contentious to publish and did not become available to the public until 1946. [Wikipedia]
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| (Zane Grey)
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| A restless Ben Ide moves his family to Arizona. He buys a beautiful ranch, in a territory known for cattle rustling. The deal soon sours as he struggles to keep his cattle and prize horses from the network of rustlers about the wild country of Arizona, not sure who he can trust and who he can't. Hettie Ide pines away for Ben's friend, Nevada, who has gone missing. She also has to contend with a number of suitors. Meanwhile Nevada has taken up the life of an outlaw.
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. [Wikipedia.]
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| (George Orwell)
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| This classic novel about a totalitarian regime describes a society where government surveillance, public mind control, and the denial of rights are the norm. Big Brother is always watching.
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| (Ford Madox Ford)
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| This is the second novel in the tetralogy "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford, published between 1924 and 1928. "Parade's End" is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. "Parade's End" has been ranked as one of the one hundred best English-language works of the 20th century. [Wikipedia]
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| (Jane Austen)
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| This novel follows seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Catherine is in Bath for the first time. There she meets her friends such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isabella's brother, the rather rough-mannered, slovenly John Thorpe, and by her real love interest, Henry Tilney. She also becomes friends with Eleanor Tilney, Henry's younger sister. Henry captivates her with his view on novels and his knowledge of history and the world. General Tilney (Henry and Eleanor's father) invites Catherine to visit their estate, Northanger Abbey, which, from her reading of Ann Radcliffe's gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, she expects to be dark, ancient and full of Gothic horrors and fantastical mystery. [Wikipedia]
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| (Andrew Caldecott)
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| There are twelve short stories in this collection. Believable scenarios are used to turn ordinary events into unsettling situations.
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| (James Hilton)
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| Set immediately before and during World War II, this book is about a scientist's struggles. It is told from the perspective of a wealthy young woman who unexpectedly comes into his life. It is well written, as are all of Hilton's books.
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| (W Olaf Stapledon)
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| The novel explores the theme of the "superman" in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian colony founded by John and other super-humans.
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| (Thomas Wolfe)
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| A bestseller when first published, this is a fictionalized autobiography, detailing the protagonist's early and mid-twenties, during which time he attends Harvard University, moves to New York City and teaches English at a university there. He then travels overseas. The book is divided into eight sections, or "books" and is a continuation of Wolfe?s earlier work, "Look Homeward, Angel."
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| (Warwick Deeping)
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| Pybus disowns his sons after the World War I, but later, as a result of a chance meeting with his grandson, makes a friend of him. Misunderstanding is replaced by understanding and sympathy in the course of three generations.
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| (Steele Rudd)
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| A collection of anecdotal stories describing life on a rural "selection" (a small farm) in Queensland. Subsequently produced as a movie and the radio series 'Dad and Dave' spanning 20 years.
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| This book was Footner's final mystery novel and was published posthumously. It features his famous creation, Amos Lee Mappin.
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This is a semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West. It is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels. The novel has been influential stylistically, and is considered important in literature generally, and particularly in the history of women's writing and gender studies.
The story concerns a young man, Orlando, born in England during the reign of Elizabeth I, who decides not to grow old. He is briefly a lover to the decrepit queen, but after her death has a brief, intense love affair with Sasha, a princess in the entourage of the Russian embassy. This episode, of love and excitement against the background of the Great Frost, is one of the best known, and is said to represent Vita Sackville-West's affair with Violet Trefusis. [Wikipedia]
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| (Steele Rudd)
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| The sequel to "On Our Selection." A book of anecdotal stories describing life on a rural "selection" (a small farm) in Queensland. Subsequently produced as a movie and the radio series 'Dad and Dave' spanning 20 years.
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| (Erle Cox)
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| This novel is a science fiction classic. A gigantic sphere is discovered buried in the ground. The sphere contains the knowledge of a past civilization and also a beautiful woman, who is in a state of suspended animation. Then the fun really starts.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the third story of the Caspak trilogy. The book begins with Bradley, who had left Fort Dinosaur on an expedition in the first novel and never returned. Bradley and his party are attempting to return to Fort Dinosaur. Along the way they encounter a creature which appears to be a flying dead man. Some of the members of the party consider it to be a ghost or banshee. Wikipedia]
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| (L Frank Baum)
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| This is the third book set in the Land of Oz and the first where the majority of the action takes place outside of the Land of Oz. Only the final two chapters take place in Oz itself. Uncle Henry has been ordered by his doctor to take a vacation from his Kansas farm to Australia. He and his niece Dorothy are aboard a steamship travelling there when they are caught in a fierce storm and separated. Dorothy is blown overboard along with a yellow hen from her uncle's farm that was on the ship. [Wikipedia]
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| (Louis Becke)
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| This is a collection of eighteen stories of people and events on and around the islands of the Pacific Ocean.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This is the story of Patricia Gardiner, who dislikes change and loves her home, Silver Bush, more than anything else in the world. She is very devoted to her family: her father and mother, her brothers Joe and Sid, and her sisters Winnie and Rachel(Cuddles). The book begins when Pat is 7 years old and ends when she is 18. [Wikipedia]
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| (E F Benson)
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| This story is told in that typical Benson style, later employed so successfully in the "Mapp and Lucia" series. The setting is a guest house, where paying guests come to sample the waters. One-upmanship abounds as does the need of the guests to show that they are better and richer than those around them.
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| (Jane Austen)
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| More than seven years prior to the events in the novel, Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome young naval officer named Frederick Wentworth, who is intelligent and ambitious, but poor. Sir Walter, Anne's father and lord of the family estate of Kellynch, and her older sister Elizabeth are dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he is not distinguished enough for their family. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's deceased mother, persuades her to break off the match. Now, aged 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former fiancé when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth, now a captain, is wealthy from wartime victories in the Royal Navy and from prize-money for capturing enemy ships. However, he has not forgiven Anne for her rejection of him. The self-interested machinations of Anne's father, her older sister Elizabeth, Elizabeth's friend Mrs. Clay, and William Elliot (Anne's cousin and her f
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| (J M Barrie)
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| The classic story of the boy who never grew up, filled with such favourite storybook characters as Wendy, Tinkerbell, Captain Hook and the Lost Boys.
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| (J M Barrie)
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| This story, "Peter Pan, or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up," was first performed in 1904, well before the novel appeared. However, it was not published until much later. The novel is also available from this site.
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| (Guy Boothby)
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| Pharos, an Egyptian, appears mysteriously in Forrester's studio at one o'clock in the morning, his purpose being to obtain a mummy which he has heard is in Forrester's possession. The artist declining to part with it, Pharos hypnotises him and disappears, taking the coveted treasure with him. With some difficulty Forrester at length tracks him to Naples, where he meets him face to face, and though he loathes the Egyptian, some strange power compels him to cease his hostile attitude and to accept his invitation to dinner.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the first book in the "Venus" series created by Burroughs. The novel is set on a fictional version of the planet Venus, called Amtor.
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| (Charles NordhoffJames Norman Hall)
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| This is the final book in "The Bounty Trilogy", which begins with "Mutiny on the Bounty," and continues with "Men Against the Sea." The Trilogy is based on the actual mutiny which took place
against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the "Bounty," in 1789.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| This story has two narrators: Jasper Gray, who relates some strange adventures, and Dr Jervis, a friend of Dr Thorndyke, who is called in when a mystery needs to be solved.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| This semi-autobiographical novel, set in England and Europe was written by Miles Franklin under the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin." It was completed in 1925 but not published until 1950.
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| (Jane Austen)
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| This classic novel centres on the Bennet family. The five marriageable Bennet daughters and Mrs Bennet will be without a home and income once Mr Bennet dies.Elizabeth, the heroine, has decided to only marry only for love. Other characters include Mr Bingley, Mr Darcy and Mr Wickham.
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| (E F Benson)
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| This is the first book in the "Mapp and Lucia" series of novels which relate humorous incidents in the lives of upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and "one-upmanship" in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery.
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| (James Hilton)
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| This novel placed second on The New York Times list of best-selling novels for 1941, the year it was first published. It is set in the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Second World War. Charles Rainier, a wealthy businessman and politician, is invalided out of the army during the Great War and subsequently loses his memory.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| The fourth book in the series featuring Mr J G Reeder. Three more cases to be solved.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| This play by Gordon Daviot or Josephine Tey (both pseudonyms of Elizabeth Macintosh) depicts the story of Richard II of England in a romantic fashion, emphasizing the relationship between Richard and his queen, Anne of Bohemia. Daviot wrote the play after seeing John Gielgud play Shakespeare's Richard II at the Old Vic Theatre, and submitted it to him for production. Gielgud had reservations about the play but agreed to test it out for two matinée performances at the Arts Theatre. He then agreed to direct it and star in it and it ran for over a year in the West End (a substantial run for its time) and catapulted Gielgud to the status of superstar. [Wikipedia]
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| (Zane Grey)
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| The story of an Englishman who starts a ranch in Utah and hires a team of outlaws to protect himself and his ranch from other outlaws.
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| (Rolf Boldrewood)
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| In this classic Australian novel, written in the first person, the narrator tells the story of his life and loves and his association with the notorious bushranger, Captain Starlight. It is set in the bush and goldfields of Australia in the 1850s.
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| (Daniel Defoe)
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| This is the classic story of a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote island before being rescued.
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| (B M Bower)
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| A western story about cowboys and rodeos.
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| (Hugh Walpole)
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| This is the first book of the "Herries Chronicle." In 1730, Francis Herries brought his family to live in "Herries" a long-deserted family house in Cumberland, England. He also brought along the most recent of his many mistresses, Alice Press, under pretence of being the children?s governess. Francis, the "rogue" of the title is a violent and impetuous man, a faithless husband and a capricious father.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| The first book in the series covering 'Mr J G Reeder', an investigator in the Public Prosecutor's department.
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| (Warwick Deeping)
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| Christopher Hazzard's mother had sacrificed everything to pay her lame son's fees during his study as a medical student, and to provide him with a weekly allowance. After becoming a doctor he was persecuted by those who considered the medical profession no place for him, and was only able to survive because of the devotion and support of his mother and his wife.
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| (George Bernard Shaw)
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| Saint Joan is generally considered to be one of Shaw's better works. He had long considered writing about Joan of Arc, and her canonization in 1920 supplied a strong incentive. The play was an international success, and is believed to have led to his Nobel Prize in Literature. The play is based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc.
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| (Willa Cather)
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| This, Cather's last novel, is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a privileged but bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, one of her young slaves, whom Sapphira has previously favoured.
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| (Helen Simpson)
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| Set in seventeenth century Hanover, this novel describes the doomed romance between Philip Christoph von Königsmarck and Sophia Dorothea, the wife of the Elector of Hanover. A saraband is a stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries, or the music for such a dance.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This, the seventh and final book in the series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar, is a collection of short stories.
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| (Zane Grey)
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| This book showcases Zane Grey's ability to write about subjects other than fishing and gun-totin' cowboys. There are fifteen stories in the collection.
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| (Jane Austen)
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| This, Jane Austen's first published novel, centres on Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. When their father dies, the family estate passes to their half-brother, John, and the women are left in reduced circumstances. They move to a cottage on the property of a relative, where they experience both romance and heartbreak.
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| (Willa Cather)
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| Set in 17th century Quebec, this novel describes the quiet, isolated life of Cecile Auclair and her father, the town apothecary. [Wikipedia]
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| (George Eliot)
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| The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an un-named city in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while sitting with a very ill elder of the group. Two clues are given against him: a pocket-knife and the discovery of the bag formerly containing the money in his own house. Silas says that he last used the knife to cut some string for his friend William, who leads the campaign against him. Silas is proclaimed guilty and the woman he was to marry casts him off, and later marries William. With his life shattered and his heart broken, he leaves Lantern Yard and the city. [Wikipedia]
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| A millionaire?s widow is found dead and all her jewels are missing. It seems that she may have been murdered. With two wills, a missing nephew,and a number of suspicious employees and servants, the scene is set for a mystery to be solved.
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| (James Hilton)
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| The story of a social reformer in a fictional Lancashire mill town. The story was made into a movie in 1947.
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| (Ford Madox Ford)
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| This is the first novel in the tetralogy "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford, published between 1924 and 1928. "Parade's End" is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. "Parade's End" has been ranked as one of the one hundred best English-language works of the 20th century. [Wikipedia]
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| (Katherine Mansfield)
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| Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing. [Wikipedia]
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| (Warwick Deeping)
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| The book was a bestseller from its first publication in 1925 throughout the 1920s and 1930s. It has been made into a movie on three occasions. Set in England, the story is about a man who devotes his life to making his son's life a success.
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| (Bess Streeter Aldrich)
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| This sequel to "A Lantern in her Hand" tells the story of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. The heroine is Amalia Holmsdorfer, a German immigrant who settles on the prairie. From her late teens to her mid-eighties she deals with the forces of nature and society. The complexity, humour, endurance, and intelligence of the settlers are dealt with.
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| (W Olaf Stapledon)
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| In one of the most highly acclaimed novels in science fiction, Stapledon undertakes the immense task of describing the entire history of life in the universe. It dwarfs in scale even his 1930 book 'Last and First Men,' which is a history of the human species over two billion years. It tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. The narrator starts with a concern at the clash of ideas on Earth and finds analogies to both communism and fascism among the aliens he visits.
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| (Ethel Lina White)
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| When a Count shows a romantic interest in her, Georgia Yeo, a widow, soon reciprocates. She agrees to holiday with him on a small island off the coast of Sweden and takes her two children along. However, things are not what they seem and she soon realises that both she and her children are in mortal danger. In this thriller the reader is left guessing until the final paragraph.
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| (P C Wren)
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| Thity-six stories of the French Foreign Legion by the author of the 'Beau Geste' Novels.
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| (Eugene O'Neill)
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| Strange Interlude was completed in 1923, but was not produced on Broadway until 1928, when it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The plot centres on Nina Leeds, the daughter of an Ivy League professor, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. [Wikipedia.]
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| (Zane Grey)
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| Cattle rustling takes centre stage in this story. Trueman Rock and Thiry Preston provide the love interest when Rock lands a job at the Preston ranch.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the eighth in the "Barsoom" series. Carter relates an adventure commencing with a private war which he and his followers have been waging against the Guild of Assassins, led by Ur Jan. He travels undercover to the Assassins' base at Zodanga.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the ninth novel in the "Barsoom" series. It explores the potential dangers of cloning and genetic engineering.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| Backed by Chief Muviro and his faithful Waziri warriors, Tarzan faces Soviet agents seeking revenge and a lost tribe descended from early Christians practicing a bizarre and debased religious cult.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| This story of the horse and cattle stations of the Murrumbidgee area of New South Wales is the second in a saga which follows the fortunes of the families introduced in "Up the Country", an earlier novel written by Miles Franklin under the pen name "Brent of Bin Bin". It takes the story to the middle of the 1890s.
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| (F Scott Fitzgerald)
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| Dick and Nicole Diver, a rich couple, take a villa in the South of France. Dick, a psychoanalyst, had treated Nicole for a breakdown, after which they married. Nicole is an heiress and her sister thinks Dick is marrying her for her money. Nicole becomes stronger while Dick's life goes down-hill.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| This is the third story in the J G Reeder series. Old John Flack has escaped from prison and revenge against Reeder is on his mind.
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| (Thomas Hardy)
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| The sub-title of this novel is "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented." According to the mores of the time, Tess would not have been considered "a pure woman" as she has been either seduced or raped by Alec d'Urberville and bears a child to him, who only lives a few days. Later, after she is married to Angel Clare, Tess discloses what had happened with Alec. Angel cannot cope with this and the marriage ends. The rest of the story is concerned with what happens to her during the rest of her life.
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| Hulbert Footner's well-known character, Madame Storey, is perhaps the most celebrated woman detective in fiction. Her detective ability is aided to some extent by feminine intuition, but she achieves results--amazingly successful results, for the problems here elucidated certainly proved baffling enough to the police. This volume provides thrilling fare for all readers of detective stories, and Footner writes with his customary verve and ingenuity.
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| (James Oliver Curwood)
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| This novel, subtitled "A Novel of High Hearts and Open Woods," is a story of the backwoods of Canada. Into this is woven a fight for supremacy between two rival timber companies, and a love story. Clifton Brant returns to Canada after World War I, determined to seek out his enemy who had been the cause of his father's death, and who also had tried to bring about Clifton's early death. In finding his enemy, Clifton sets himself not only to right an ancient wrong, but to avenge a new and terrible peril to the girl who later becomes his wife.
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| (Gertrude Stein)
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| This work was written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was Gertrude Stein's lover. According to Virgil Thomson, who wrote music to libretti authored by Stein, the "book is in every way except actual authorship Alice Toklas's book; it reflects her mind, her language, her private view of Gertrude, also her unique narrative powers. Every story in it is told as Alice herself had always told it...Every story that ever came into the house eventually got told in Alice's way, and this was its definitive version." [Wikipedia.]
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (Lloyd C Douglas)
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| A best seller when first published, The Big Fisherman is an historical novel about the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus Christ. It was later made into a film. The novel is closely related to Douglas' previous book, The Robe, which was also made into a film.
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (Earl Derr Biggers)
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| This is the story of a Hollywood star who, while stopping in Hawaii after shooting a film, is murdered in the pavilion of her rented house. Her murder is linked with the three-year-old murder of another Hollywood actor. Chan, a detective with the Honolulu Police Department, investigates. "Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate. Tonight black camel has knelt here," Chan tells the suspects. [Wikipedia]
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This novel is considered one of L. M. Montgomery's few adult works of fiction, along with "A Tangled Web", and is the only book she wrote that is entirely set outside of Prince Edward Island. When twenty-nine-year-old Valancy Stirling is diagnosed with a terminal heart ailment, she rebels against her family and the life they have imposed on her. She then decides to move out of her mother's house and take a position as a housekeeper for Cissy Gay, a childhood friend. Cissy is dying of consumption, but is ostracised from society for having a child out of wedlock, and because of her father, Roaring Abel, and his reckless, sometimes drunken behaviour. [Wikipedia]
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| (Zane Grey)
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| A young woman decides to travel from Manhattan to Arizona to try to convince her finance, a veteran of the First World War who has gone to Arizona to recuperate from war injuries, to return to "civilization."
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (Rafael Sabatini)
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| Rafael Sabatini is a superb writer of historical fiction. This beatifully crafted story, set in Carolina, in the United States of America, at the time of the American War of Independence, tells of Harry Latimer and other "rebels" who seek liberty from the yolk of British rule. It is full of intrigue and nail-biting suspense.
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Robert Anstey hears a woman crying for help. He then sees her knocked down and her attacker running away. The woman has been stabbed and as Anstey carries her to a nearby house, he finds that a man has been murdered in the house. Dr Thorndyke is brought in to investigate.
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| (Edith Wharton)
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| On a cruise ship, Martin Boyne, a bachelor in his forties, befriends a group of children whose parents are estranged. The parents are on the cruise ship with the children in an attempt to reconcile. The children are weary of being shuttled from one parent to the other and hope that the reconciliation will be successful. Boyne is smitten by fifteen-year-old Judith, the eldest of the "children." In this story Wharton presents a picture of the manners, morals, and social behaviour of a group of Americans abroad.
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| (Earl Derr Biggers)
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| A valuable string of pearls is purchased in Hawaii by a wealthy and eccentric financier and Charlie Chan travels from Hawaii to California with the pearls. After the death of a Chinese-speaking parrot and then of the household's Chinese man-of-all-work, Chan sets out to find the killer. [Wikipedia]
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| (Dorothy Wall)
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| This children's classic includes Blinky Bill; Blinky Bill Grows Up; and Blinky Bill and Nutsy. While telling the adventures of Blinky Bill, a naughty little boy in the form of a koala, the stories also present messages of conservation. Blinky Bill is known for his mischievousness and his love for his mother. His friends include his adopted sister Nutsy, his kangaroo friend Splodge, his platypus friend Flap, Marcia the marsupial mouse, and his mentor Mr Wombat or Wombo, as Blinky prefers to call him. Wikipedia.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| A man is found floating in a pond one morning and Dr Thorndyke becomes involved in solving the case.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| Inspector Grant is recuperating in hospital, where he begins an inquiry. More than four centuries after the death of King Richard III, Grant is investigating the charge that Richard murdered his two young nephews. The title of the novel is taken from the proverb: "Truth is the Daughter of Time."
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| Madame Storey recieves a letter and $5,000 in cash from an anonymous sender, as an inducement to entice Storey to provide evidence to send Dr. Jacmer Touchon to prison. The sender maintains that the doctor is a fake healer who seeks his "victims" among well-to-do women.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| Detective-Inspector Dick Staines becomes involved when a thumb print on a beer-glass matches a print found on a gun used to commit a murder ten years earlier.
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (Elizabeth Von Arnim)
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| This is a romantic novel about love, life and relationships, set in the coastal town of San Salvatore, Italy.
The novel has been made into a stage play, and there have been three film adaptations of the story.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| Tey is best known for her crime novels. This is not one of them. The subtitle is "A Fable Without Moral," and the story concerns two brother-sister pairs who come from different social backgrounds.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Dr Thorndyke stars in his usual role and investigates the disappearance of a rich Egyptologist.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| The first mention of the Feathered Serpent got a laugh from newspaperman Peter Dewin. He reckoned that such things belonged to the theatre. However, when visiting cards bearing the symbol of the Feathered Serpent began appearing, it ceased to be a laughing matter.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| Ann Perryman returns from Switzerland after her brother is killed, and is convinced by drug smugglers that he was murdered by the Flying Squad, a police operation. Ann unwittingly becomes a courier for the smugglers, but the Flying Squad is on her trail.
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| (B M Bower)
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| Another title in the "Flying U" series by B M Bower.
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| (B M Bower)
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| Another title in the "Flying U" series by B M Bower.
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| (John Galsworthy)
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| In this first novel of the Forsyte Saga, we are introduced to the impressive array of Forsytes headed by the formidable Aunt Ann. We meet Soames Forsyte and witness his desire to own things, including his beautiful wife, Irene. He is jealous of her friendships and wants her to be his alone. He concocts a plan to move her to the country, to a house which is being built for him, away from everyone she knows and cares about. Irene resists his grasping intentions and falls in love with the architect Philip Bosinney who has been engaged by Soames to build the house. However, Bosinney is the fiance of her friend, June Forsyte, the daughter of Soames' cousin Jolyon. [Wikipedia]
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| (John Galsworthy)
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| In the 'interlude' or intervening story, "Indian Summer of a Forsyte", Galsworthy delves into the new-found friendship between Irene and Old Jolyon Forsyte. This attachment gives Old Jolyon pleasure, but exhausts his strength. He leaves Irene money in his will with Young Jolyon, his son, as trustee.
"In Chancery", the second novel in the saga, covers the marital discord of both Soames and his sister Winifred. They take steps to divorce their spouses. However, while Soames tells his sister to brave the consequences of going to court, he is not willing to go through a divorce himself. Instead he stalks and hounds Irene, following her abroad, and asking her to have his child, which is his father's wish. Ultimately, Soames remarries to Annette, the young daughter of a French Soho restaurant owner. With his new wife, he has his only child, Fleur Forsyte. [Wikipedia]
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| (John Galsworthy)
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| The subject of "Awakening", the second interlude, or intervening story, of the Forsyte Saga is the naive and exuberant lifestyle of eight-year-old Jon Forsyte. He loves, and is loved by, his parents. He has an idyllic youth, his every desire indulged.
The third novel in the series, "To Let", concerns second cousins Fleur and Jon Forsyte, who meet and fall in love, ignorant of their parents' past troubles, indiscretions and misdeeds. Once Soames, Jolyon, and Irene discover their romance, they forbid their children to see each other again. Jolyon warns his son that once he dies, there will be no one to protect Irene from her ex-husband. Jon is torn between the past and his present love for Fleur. Despite her feelings for Jon, Fleur has a very suitable suitor, Michael Mont, heir to a baronetcy. Should they marry, Fleur would elevate the status of her family from "nouveau riche" to the aristocratic upper class.
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| (Hugh Walpole)
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| This is the third novel in the "Herries Chronicle," comprising four titles: Rogue Herries; Judith Paris; The Fortress; Vanessa. The story covers four generations of the Herries family in London and in the Lake District of England.
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| (Henry Handel Richardson)
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| This trilogy comprises "Australia Felix" (1917), "The Way Home" (1925), and "Ultima Thule" (1929). The three books were collected in 1930 under the title by which it is now best known. This book is an Australian classic.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| In this crime and mystery story, Inspector Grant, who appears in several Tey novels, has only a cameo role. Two sisters are accused, by a fifteen-year-old girl, who has been missing from home for some time. She maintains that she has been held prisoner by the two ladies; tied up and beaten up, and mistreated. Even without Grant, this is an excellent crime/mystery story.
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (Katherine Mansfield)
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| Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing. [Wikipedia]
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| (Henry Handel Richardson)
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| This "coming of age" story tells of Laura Rambotham, a girl of twelve who is sent to a girls' boarding school. She is bullied and ridiculed by her fellow srudents, who are richer and also better able to deal with life.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This, the second of the "Barsoom" series, begins with John Carter's arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten year hiatus, separated from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.
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| (Ford Madox Ford)
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| This novel was described by Graham Greene as "perhaps one of the finest novels of the [20th] century." Greene goes on to say that the novel "concerns the ravages wrought by a passionate man who had all the virtues but continence. The narrator is the betrayed husband and it is through his eyes that we watch the complications and involvements left by Ashburnham's blind urge towards satisfaction."
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (F Scott Fitzgerald)
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| Jay Gatsby is a young millionaire, originally from North Dakota. he has shady business connections and an obsessive love for Daisy Fay Buchanan, whom he had met when he was a young officer in World War I. The narrator, Nick Carraway, records Gatsby's story with its backdrop of corruption, selfishness and violence.
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| (Arthur Morrison)
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| A famous diamond, "The Green Eye of Goona," is mysteriously stolen from an Indian rajah. It is said to be concealed in one of a dozen magnums of Tokay wine. A young Englishman, Harvey Crook, sets out to find the diamond.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| Dr. Van Heerden is plotting to destroy wheat harvests across the world. When he inscribes a message, of vital importance, inside a watch, and then pawns it, the heroine makes off with the pawn ticket. Seems like a fun story!
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| The the final stories about Mr. J. G. Reeder, a police officer with "the mind of a criminal".
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| (Zane Grey)
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| The Hash-knife Outfit is a band of outlaws. This story has the usual mix of ranchers, baddies and pretty women who interact in ways that fans of Zane Grey are sure to enjoy.
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| (Wilkie Collins)
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| When Lord Montbarry breaks off his engagement to Agnes Lockwood to marry the Countess Narona, the couple embark on a continental tour to Venice where they live reclusively in a large, decaying palace. When Mountbarry dies, leaving insurance of £10,000 in favour of his wife, no suspicious circumstances are uncovered. However, people sleeping in the room where Montbarry died experience insomnia, nightmares or nauseous smells. One person awakes in the night to see a disembodied head descending from the ceiling.
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| (Arthur Morrison)
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| The old East End of London was a secret and dangerous place. How much thieving and plotting, fighting and knifing and murdering, went on there nobody ever knew or ever will know. The police, who were treated as a common enemy, went about in threes. But towards its own people it could be protective and sentimental. Above all, it was alive, rich in its human texture. This was the private world which Arthur Morrison--journalist, story-teller and collector of Oriental paintings--made authentically his own.
The Hole in the Wall, which V. S. Pritchett described as "one of the minor masterpieces of this century [early 20th century]," is a thriller, or perhaps more accurately a Dickensian murder story, set in the most sinister part of London's dockland, about a hundred years ago.
Young Stephen Kemp goes to live with his grandfather, who keeps an old inn--The Hole in the Wall--leaning crazily out over the river. And it is through Stephen's eyes that we see the tale of villainy and vengean
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| (Rafael Sabatini)
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| This is a story of the Spanish Inquisition and of the English and Spanish Courts during the reign of Elizabeth I. Gervase Crosby, who has been knighted after serving with Sir Walter Raleigh, is the suitor of Margaret Trevanion.
However, Don Pedro de Mendoza y Luna, a Spanish nobleman, who washes on to the seashore near the Trevanions' house, after his ship sinks, soon vies for Margaret's affections. Don Pedro and Sir Gervase are enemies from the moment they meet and rivalry for Margaret's affections heightens their conflict.
After having spent time in close contact with Margaret Trevanion as her prisoner, Don Pedro finds himself so in love with her that when he is able to return to Spain, he carries her off with the intention of making her his wife.
Margaret is caught up in the machinations of the Inquisition and Crosby sets out to ensure her safe return to England.
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| (Earl Derr Biggers)
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| This, the first of the "Charlie Chan" mysteries, deals with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaii for a number of years. The main character is the victim's nephew, John Winterslip, who came to the islands to convince his aunt Minerva, whose holiday has extended many months, to return to Boston. Chan's role in this case is relatively small. He does arrive at the solution to the crime, but it is Winterslip who has the honour of collaring the murderer. [Wikipedia]
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| (G. K. Chesterton)
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| This ebook comprises eight short stories in which Father Brown solves the crime or mystery posed to him. Brown is a self-effacing priest who has a way of getting to the heart of the matter without necessarily visiting the scene of the crime or the place where the mystery has occurred.
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| (Robert Dean Frisbie)
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| The subtitle to the book is 'The Story of a South Sea Trader.' In the 1940s, after the death of Frisbie's wife, the Frisbie family visited the uninhabited Suwarrow atoll (Northern Cook Islands Group) and lived there for almost a year.
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| (John Buchan)
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| Richard Hannay is obliged, by an old oath, to protect the heir to the secret of a great treasure. The story is set in England, Scotland and on the Island of Sheep.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Tom Pedley, an artist, is painting in a spot where he cannot be seen, when he sees a woman who seems to be listening in on a conversation by two men walking past. Some time later the artist learns that a murder has been committed near the place where he was painting, at the time he was there. Dr Thorndyke becomes involved in solving the murder.
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| Madame Storey, the famous woman detective created by Hulbert Footner, is a character unique in detective fiction. The present volume consists of five of her most outstanding cases, and in these she proves once again how feminine intuition allied to more than ordinary deductive powers may solve some strange mysteries. The stories offer a rich diversity of scene, moving easily from New York to Monte Carlo, and even to far Peking, but Mr. Hulbert Footner is quite at home in each locale and holds our attention through the unravelling of each baffling problem.
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| (Marjorie Bowen)
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| This is the story of Frances Howard and the famous "Overbury" Case, involving King James I of England. Marjorie Bowen never sentimentalises her history; she spares us nothing in sordidness and tragedy. Even her heroine is very far from spotless. She knows how to write historical romance which lives and is convincing because she does not draw impossibly good or bad people.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| Mrs. Carawood is nanny to a young "lady" and arranges for John Morlay, a private detective, to act as chaperone to this "Lady of Ascot." Though not a crime/mystery story in Edgar Wallace's usual vein, there is a secret held by Mrs. Carawood that she is prepared to go to any length not to disclose.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This story, the first of the "Caspak" trilogy, is set in World War I. A manuscript is recovered from a thermos flask, off the coast of Greenland. It purports to be the narrative of Bowen J. Tyler, an American passenger on a ship sunk in the English Channel by the U-33, a German U-boat, in 1916. He is rescued by a British tugboat with another survivor, Lys La Rue. The tug is also sunk, but its crew manages to capture the submarine when it surfaces. Unfortunately, all other British craft continue to regard the sub as an enemy, and Tyler is unable to bring it to port. Sabotage to the navigation equipment sends the U-33 astray into the South Atlantic Ocean. [Wikipedia]
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| Short stories relating the further adventures of the Four Just Men--or rather of two of them, since one has retired to Spain and another is dead. It is Gonsalez and Manfred who remain in England--with occasional side-trips--pursuing the ends of justice in these ten entertaining stories.
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| (Guy Boothby)
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| This, the third of Boothby's "Dr. Nikola" stories, has Nikola using an anaesthetic to commit multiple murders.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| There are 9 mysteries solved by Dr Thorndyke in this ebook: The Magic Casket; The Contents of a Mare's Nest; The Stalking Horse; The Naturalist at Law; Mr. Ponting's Alibi; Pandora's Box; The Trail of Behemoth; The Pathologist to the Rescue; Gleanings from the Wreckage.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| A man is stabbed and killed whilst standing in a queue outside a theatre. Inspector Grant makes his first appearance in a Tey novel when is called in to investigate. In Tey's inimitable style, the plot twists and turns until the final unexpected outcome.
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| (Rafael Sabatini)
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| During the French Revolution, London is crowded with impoverished French nobility who have escaped from France. Quentin de Morlaix becomes involved in the efforts of the Marquis de Puisaye to raise an Army to sail to France and restore the monarchy. Sabatini writes wonderful historical fiction. Here he is at his best.
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| (L Frank Baum)
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| This is the second of the "Oz" books, and the sequel to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Set shortly after the events in the first book, the protagonist is a boy named Tip, who for as long as he can remember has been under the guardianship of a witch named Mombi in Gillikin Country. As Mombi is returning home, Tip plans to frighten her with a scarecrow he has made. Since he has no straw available, Tip instead makes a man out of wood and gives him a pumpkin for a head, naming him Jack Pumpkinhead. Mombi is not fooled, and she takes this opportunity to demonstrate the Powder of Life that she bought from another sorcerer. She sprinkles the powder on Jack, bringing him to life and startling Tip, whom Mombi catches and threatens with revenge.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| In this, the sixth in the "Barsoom" series, this novel Paxton, whilst on Mars, is taken in by a mad scientist Ras Thavas, the "Master Mind" of Mars, who educates him in the ways of Barsoom and bestows on him the Martian name Vad Varo. Ras has perfected techniques of transplanting brains, which he uses to provide rich elderly Martians with youthful new bodies for a profit.
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| (Thomas Hardy)
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| Michael Henchard, a young hay-trusser, becomes intoxicated and quarrels with his wife, Susan. Spurred by alcohol, he sells his wife and baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, to a sailor, Mr. Newson, for five guineas. Once sober the next day, he is too late to recover his family, particularly since his reluctance to reveal his own bad conduct keeps him from conducting an effective search. When he realizes that his wife and daughter are gone, probably for good, he swears not to touch liquor again. Nineteen years later, Henchard, now a successful grain merchant, is the Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. He is well respected for his financial acumen and his work ethic, but he is not well liked. [Wikipedia]
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| (Frederic Manning)
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| This classic novel was considered by Ernest Hemingway and many other authors and critics to be the finest novel of World War I. The book is about the way men behave when they go into action. The Hero, Bourne, is a highly educated man and one who is able to relate to all types of men.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| The second in the 'J G Reeder' series, this is a compilation of 8 short stories.
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| (Jeffery Farnol)
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| This charming story is an adult fairy tale set in Kent, England, at the beginning of the 20th century. A rich traveller (the prince) comes upon a small village wherein lives a young woman (the princess) who is struggling to retain ownership of her farm. Other characters include the benevolent witch, the one-armed military man and the one-legged sailor. Of course there is also the small boy who needs a father.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the first of three stories in the "Moon" series. The other titles are "The Moon Men" and "The Red Hawk."
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the second of three stories in the "Moon" series. The other titles are "The Moon Maid" and "The Red Hawk."
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Dr Jarvis, as a young locum doctor, is called out to visit a patient apparently suffering from opium poisoning. He discusses the situation with his old friend and fellow-student, Dr John Thorndyke and Thorndyke becomes involved in the case. The case is the beginning of the permanent association between Thorndyke and Jarvis.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| In this story Dr Thorndyke is asked to assist when a young woman disappears. She had been hounded by her husband who had previously assaulted her. Well-plotted and beautifully written, this is a story which keeps one interested until the very end.
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| (F Scott Fitzgerald)
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| Seventeen stories featuring Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter in Hollywood. From the author of 'The Great Gatsby.'
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Penrose, an eccentric, owns some gems which he won't insure. Dr Thorndyke is called in when the gems are stolen, and proceeds to solve the case.
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the second story in the "Caspak" trilogy, and continues the story begun in "The Land That Time Forgot" The lost world's unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous story, is continued. [Wikipedia]
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| (Oscar Wilde)
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| The novel tells of Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfilment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian whimsically expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait which Basil has painted, would age rather than himself. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, plunging him into debauched acts. The portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of ageing. [Wikipedia]
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| (John Erskine)
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| This book was a best seller when first published and was made into a silent film in 1927. It has sharp insights into human behaviour and witty dialogue, which is consistent with what was written by the ancients on the subject of Helen of Troy. The lives of Helen, Menelaus, Hermione, Orestes, and the rest of the Atreus family are covered.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| Admiral Sir Henry Morgan (c.1635-1688) was a Welsh Admiral and privateer, who made a name for himself in the Caribbean, primarily raiding Spanish settlements. He was one of the most notorious and successful privateers of all time, and one of the most ruthless who worked in the Spanish Main. Wikipedia.
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| (Willa Cather)
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| When Professor Godfrey St. Peter and wife move to a new house, he becomes uncomfortable with the route his life is taking. He keeps on his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life. Also the marriages of his two daughters have removed them from the home and added two new sons-in-law, precipitating a mid-life crisis that leaves the Professor feeling as though he has lost the will to live because he has nothing to look forward to.
The novel's central section turns to Tom Outland, a friend of the professor and the fiancé of his elder daughter. It recounts in first-person the story of Outland's exploration of an ancient cliff city in New Mexico. The section is a retrospective narrative remembered by the professor. [Wikipedia]
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| (E M Delafield)
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| This sequel to "Diary of a Provincial Lady" continues the largely autobiographical account of the day to day activities of the "provincial lady."
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| (E M Delafield)
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| This sequel to "Diary of a Provincial Lady" details the "Lady's" experiences in America. She went there at the invitation of her publishers, and was forced to live at the pace expected from a successful author-visitor to the United States. Her reaction to the pace, the people, the cities, hotels, parties, the Chicago Fair, America in general, is set down in an original and witty fashion.
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| (E M Delafield)
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| E. M. Delafield took provincial England as her theme, made use of every day happenings in the life of a small community, saw humour in what another might have looked on as boredom, and so achieved success. Her small town life is really that of small towns in every country, her domestic troubles are those of every housewife who has to manage on a small income, her Robert is a thousand other Roberts and her witty, penetrating mind and ability to condense much into diary form have created books that seem deceptively simple. However, they are not as simple as they seem. Everything E. M. Delafield wrote reflects her personality, and it is that personality that enabled her to make use of small every day things.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| There are 9 short stories in this "Dr Thorndyke" ebook: The Puzzle Lock; The Green Check Jacket; The Seal of Nebuchadnezzar; Phyllis Annesley's Peril; A Sower of Pestilence; Rex V. Burnaby; A Mystery of the Sand-hills; The Apparition of Burling Court; The Mysterious Visitor.
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| (Marjorie Bowen)
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| Mary Stuart, ill-fated Queen of Scots is influenced by four men--Lord Moray, her illegitimate half-brother; Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; David Rizzio, her Italian servant; and James, Earl of Bothwell. The road leads finally to the Castle of Lochleven and Mary's terrible death.
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| (Edith Nesbit)
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| The story concerns the Waterbury family who move to "Three Chimneys", a house near the railway, after the father who works at the Foreign office, is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians. The three children, Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis, find amusement in watching the trains on the nearby railway line and waving to the passengers. They become friendly with Albert Perks, the station porter, and with the Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 down train. He is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence, and the family is reunited. [Wikipedia]
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This is the third of three stories in the "Moon" series. The other titles are "The Moon Maid" and "The Moon Men."
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| Dr Thorndyke represents Reuben Hornby, who has been accused of a theft. The accusation rests on the fact that his bloody fingerprint has been found at the scene of the crime.
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| (Arthur Morrison)
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| Six more stories of the cases of Martin Hewitt, Investigator.
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| (Lloyd C Douglas)
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| A best seller when first released, the Robe is an historical novel about the Crucifixion of Christ. It was later made into a movie.
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| (Rafael Sabatini)
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| An enthralling romance of love and chivalry in the days of conflict between Burgundy and France. Count Anthony (The Romantic Prince) is one of Sabatini's most memorable characters.
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| (G. K. Chesterton)
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| This ebook comprises nine short stories in which Father Brown solves the crime or mystery posed to him. Brown is a self-effacing priest who has a way of getting to the heart of the matter without necessarily visiting the scene of the crime or the place where the mystery has occurred.
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (G. K. Chesterton)
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| This ebook comprises nine short stories in which Father Brown solves the crime or mystery posed to him. Brown is a self-effacing priest who has a way of getting to the heart of the matter without necessarily visiting the scene of the crime or the place where the mystery has occurred.
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| (Warwick Deeping)
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| John Stetton, "damaged" by his experiences in the First World War, returns home and retreats to a country sanctuary. Even here, he is still troubled by the neighbours.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| From the outset, the reader is aware that a man has murdered another man during a voyage from Land's End to Penzance. What is more, we know the identity of the culprit. Dr Thorndyke happens to be on the scene. At first he is in the dark, but in his inimitable style he puts two and two together to solve the crime.
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| (Ellen Glasgow)
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| This is the story of two small-town Virginia families and the crumbling of their shelters--religion, convention, and social prejudice. The stately seventy-six year old, General Archbald, who never did what he wanted to do, lives with his two daughters; the wife of his dead son; and her daughter, Jennie. Jennie pleases herself and, by pleasing herself, cause mischief. Cora Archbald, Jennie's controlling mother, has made for herself a complete universe of glib and cheerful make-believe, with which to cope with an indelicate and unwelcome life, where keeping up appearances is the most important thing.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| This is a collection of short stories featuring Dr Thorndyke comprising The Case of Oscar Brodski; A Case of Premeditation; The Echo of A Mutiny; A Wastrel's Romance; The Old Lag. The accompanying extract from the Preface of the book outlines the author's intention.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| Inspector Grant accidentally picks up a newspaper which had belonged to a person found dead on a train. He cannot put out of his mind the phrase "the singing sand," written on the newspaper, and in seeking answers to the riddle of the man's death his search takes him to some remote islands.
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| (Helen Simpson)
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| At age 37, Mary I of England turned her attention to finding a husband and producing an heir, thus preventing the Protestant Elizabeth (still her successor under the terms of Henry VIII's will and more importantly the Act of Succession of 1544), from succeeding to the throne.
Mary rejected Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, as a prospect when her cousin Charles V suggested she marry his only son, the Spanish Prince Philip, later Philip II of Spain. It is said that upon viewing the Titian full-length portrait of Philip now in the Prado, which had been sent to her, Mary declared herself to be in love with him.
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| (Ethel Lina White)
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| This beautifully crafted suspense mystery describes events in a large house on the outskirts of an English town. On a dark and stormy night a serial killer is at large and the fertile imagination of one of the servants constructs numerous chilling scanios for the killer to gain entry and attack her.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| Some contemporary reviews of "The Square Emerald":
This new mystery novel is unquestionably a 'winner.' It is indeed one of the best stories he has ever written."--Daily Mail.
"Edgar Wallace is simply the wizard among mystery-mongers."--Daily Graphic
"The plot is so ingenious, mysterious, so subtly unfolded, and his characters in themselves so full of interest, that criticism is silenced until the book has been laid aside. 'The Square Emerald' lacks nothing in variety, and the action progresses with a rapidity that leaves the reader rather breathless."--Scotsman.
"This is by far the best thing Mr. Wallace has done...his talent for invention reveals an exultant vigour as though it had never known effort, and his art of writing achieves perfection. Because the story is so fresh in masterful drama of strange, thrilling experience, and because every detail of its literary construction is so sure and exact, one positively loves reading it."--Dundee Courier.
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| When Dr James Oldfield stumbles upon a policeman, struck dead by an unknown assailant, he tries to work out what happened. He finds that there has been a theft of some diamonds and the remains of another body are found in a kiln. Dr Thorndyke becomes involved and sets out to solve the mystery.
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| (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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| This classic story tells of a lawyer, Gabriel John Utterson, who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality. Within the same person dwells both a good and an evil personality, each being quite distinct from the other. In the English language, the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has come to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. [Wikipedia]
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| (Anne Bronte)
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| This is the second and final novel by Anne Bronte, published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. It is framed as a letter from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events leading to his meeting his wife. The novel is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. In escaping from her husband, she violated not only social conventions, but also English law. [Wikipedia]
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| (Marjorie Bowen)
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| The charm of Eugenie casts a spell on those around her including De Sarcey, her lover, and De Rochefort, her rejected fiancé. Lust and jealousy are at play, with the French Revolution providing a background.
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| (John Buchan)
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| In May 1914, Europe was close to war and spies were everywhere. Richard Hannay is called on for help when a German plot is discovered, to murder the Greek Premier and steal British plans for the outbreak of war.
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| (John Buchan)
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| After World War I, Richard Hannay has married and is living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. With few clues, Hannay, assisted by friends, must track down the villains.
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| (Zane Grey)
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| Tom Doan takes up as a buffalo hunter and must fight indians and unscrupulous whites who want the hides he has accumulated. His thoughts often return to Milly whom he met by chance when looking for a wandering horse. On another level, this book is a lament for the passing of the buffalo, as a result of the wanton destruction of the herds by white men.
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| (H G Wells)
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| An English scientist and inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, England, is identified by the narrator as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension. The Traveller demonstrates a tabletop model of a machine for travelling through that fourth dimension and reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person. He returns for dinner the following week to recount a remarkable tale, becoming the new narrator. [Wikipedia]
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| The amazing detective Madame Rosika Storey, alias Jessie Seipp weaves a net with which to snare the greatest crime organisation in America. She faces great peril and hardship, and the greatest demands are made upon her courage and intelligence, but in the end her triumph is complete.
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| This collection of four Madame Storey cases includes: The Viper; The Steerers; The Pot of Pansies; and The Legacy Hounds.
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| (D H Lawrence)
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| This is the story of two daughters of an Anglican vicar, who return from overseas to a drab, lifeless vicarage in the post-war East Midlands. The girls risk being suffocated by the life they now lead at the Vicarage and they try their utmost every day to bring colour and fun into their lives. On a day out, one of the girls encounters a Gypsy and his family and this meeting reinforces her disenchantment with the oppressive domesticity of the vicarage. It also awakens in her a sexual curiosity she has not felt before, despite having admirers. [Wikipedia]
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. [Wikipedia.]
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| (H G Wells)
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| This story describes the experiences of an unnamed narrator who travels through the suburbs of London as the Earth is invaded by Martians. It is one of the earliest stories that details a conflict between mankind and an alien race. The book consists of two parts: The Coming of the Martians; and The Earth under the Martians. The narrator struggles to reunite with his wife, while witnessing the Martians rampaging through the southern English counties. [Wikipedia]
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| In this, the third novel in the "Barsoom" series, John Carter discovers that a First Born knows the secret of the Temple of the Sun and he and the Holy Hekkador Matai Shang want to rescue the Holy Thern's daughter who is imprisoned with Dejah Thoris and another Barsoomian princess, Thuvia of Ptarth. Carter follows them in the hope of liberating his wife. His antagonists manage to stay ahead of him and flee to the north, taking the three prisoners along.
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel, 'The Waves' consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak through his own voice. The monologues that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset. [Wikipedia.]
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| (Radclyffe Hall)
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| This novel follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose lesbianism is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as having a debilitating effect on inverts. The novel portrays lesbianism as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence". [Wikipedia]
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| (Ethel Lina White)
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| Iris Carr is a young socialite on her way back to England, after holidaying in Europe. She feels alone and finds comfort in the company of an elderly stranger, Miss Froy. When Miss Froy vanishes without a trace, Iris sets out to solve the mystery of her disappearance. Strangely, no one else on the journey seems to remember seeing Miss Froy at all.
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| (S S Van Dine)
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| Van Dine's "Murder Case" stories feature Philo Vance. In "The Benson Murder Case' Van Dine states that "Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct, he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds."
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| (Helen Simpson)
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| Simpson herself remarks, in the foreword to this book:
"This book tries to interpret a contradiction, that the most hateful actions are, as often as not, performed for the best of reasons. In the Prologue a Divine promise is made and, for good cause, broken. The three stories that follow have only this same idea in common, that men are driven to persecute and betray, not by malice or folly, but by the good they passionately wish their fellow men; that energy of which St. John speaks, sweet as honey in the mouth, bitter to the belly. The Epilogue shows Heaven defeated because divided against itself.
One personage needs explanation, the hermaphrodite who embodies this contradiction; Johannes of the first story, St. Esprit, the Grand Master, of the second, Mrs. Sopwith of the third. He-she is Antichrist, the false prophet of Revelation, who deceived with miracles all those having the mark of the beast on which the woman rode.
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| (D H Lawrence)
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| There are fourteen stories in this collection.
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| (L Frank Baum)
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| This classic story is the first of fourteen "Oz Books" written by L Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures in the Land of Oz, of a girl named Dorothy .
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| (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
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| This novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1939. Jody Baxter lives with his parents in the central Florida backwoods. Jody loves the outdoors and has wanted a pet for as long as he can remember, yet his mother Ora says that they only have enough food to feed themselves. However, when a deer is shot, the family raises its fawn and it becomes Jody's constant companion.
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This novel traces the history of the genteel Pargiter family from the 1880s to themid-1930s. It focuses on the small private details of the characters' lives. Except for the first, each section takes place on a single day of its titular year, and each year is defined by a particular moment in the cycle of seasons. At the beginning of each section, and sometimes as a transition within sections, Woolf describes the changing weather all over Britain, taking in both London and countryside as if in a bird's-eye-view before focusing in on her characters. Although these descriptions move across the whole of England in a paragraph, Woolf only rarely and briefly broadens her view to the world outside Britain. [Wikipedia]
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| (Zane Grey)
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| One of the 'Ken Ward' series of books for boys. Ken and his brother spend an exciting summer hunting mountain lions in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
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| (Zane Grey)
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| Logan Huett and his young wife Lucinda face the challenges of raising their children and struggling to achieve financial security. The story's climax brings a surprising change in the Huett's fortunes.
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| (Edgar Wallace)
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| In a departure from his crime and mystery stories, in this book Wallace paints a picture of the early Victorian Methodists. Dr. Anthony Manton, a clever scientist and modern thinker comes to Bulboro', a town set in its ways, to take the place of a fellow-doctor who has died.
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| (Lewis Carroll)
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| This is the sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The story starts on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months after the end of the first story. Alice is playing with her kittens--a white kitten (whom she calls "Snowdrop") and a black kitten (whom she calls "Kitty"), the offspring of Dinah, Alice's cat in the first book--when she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection. Climbing up on the fireplace mantel, she pokes at the wall-hung mirror behind the fireplace and discovers, to her surprise, that she is able to step through it to an alternative world, the Looking-Glass Land. In this reflected version of her own house, she finds a book with looking-glass poetry, "Jabberwocky", whose reversed printing she can read only by holding it up to a mirror. She also observes that the chess-pieces have come to life, though they remain small enough for her to pick up. [Wikipedia]
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| (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
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| This, the fourth of the 'Barsoom' series, continues the story. Principal characters are the Son of John Carter of Mars, Carthoris, and Thuvia of Ptarth, each of whom appeared in the previous two novels.
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| (James Hilton)
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| This was James Hilton's final novel and is concerned with the ordinary life of an ordinary man. Told in flashbacks, a diplomat outlines the major events in his life.
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| (Rachel Field)
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| Kate Ferald falls in love with Christopher Fortune, who is part of a wealthy New England shipping family. Chistopher returns her interest but the class structure of the 19th century precludes their marriage. The story is set against the decline of the New England shipbuilding industry.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| When Leslie Searle disappears, after an argument, Inspector Alan Grant is called in to take charge of a possible case of murder. However, Grant begins to think that Searle is not dead and that he, Grant, is being "taken for a ride." As the cover of an early edition states: "Will keep you up all night to finish it!"
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This landmark novel, named one of the hundred best English-language novels of the 20th Century, is centred on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The plot is secondary to philosophical introspection and there is little dialogue and little action. Rather, it is concerned with thoughts and observations, the power of childhood emotions and the impermanence of adult relationships.
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| (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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| This classic novel of adventure features characters with such well-known names as Jim Hawkins, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Long John Silver. It is as readable now as it must have been when it first appeared in the 1880s. The search for buried treasure makes the book difficult to put down.
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| (E F Benson)
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| One of the "Mapp and Lucia" series of novels which relate humorous incidents in the lives of upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and "one-upmanship" in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery.
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| (Edith Wharton)
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| Edith Wharton paints a picture of New York Society in the 1920s. The plot centres on the Manford family and the attempts by Pauline Manford to ignore the problems besetting the family by conducting an endless round of non-stop, unimportant activity.
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| (Zane Grey)
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| This story concerns identical twins, sisters of Allen Neece who has been murdered. "Eighteen years old--the prettiest gurls in all the West. An' you cain't tell them apart--not to save yore life. June an' Janis, they're called."
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| (Helen Simpson)
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| Helen Simpson herself said of this book:
"It will be seen that Sydney, in the year 1831, may very well serve as setting for a highly-coloured, improbable, and yet simple story."
The setting is Sydney in the 1830s. Charles Adare has arrived in Sydney with his uncle, the new governor. Adare hopes to make his fortune. He is befriended by Samson Flusky a prosperous businessman who is a former transported convict.
If the story is improbable and highly-coloured, it is certainly not a simple one. Furthermore,
the characters are wonderfully drawn so that any improbability in the mind of the reader is
soon suspended. A picture emerges of the diminishing class differences which were evolving
in Australia in the nineteenth century.
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| (Zane Grey)
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| A social worker takes up a position in a remote area with a view to improving the lives of the inhabitants. The story moves along with some feuding, some romance, and a gun fight.
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| (Miles Franklin)
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| This is a story of settlement in the Monaro district of New South Wales from about 1830 to 1870 and is the first of a series of five novels about pioneering and country life, covering the period from the 1830s to the 1920s. Miles Franklin wrote the stories using the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin."
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| (Hugh Walpole)
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| This is the fourth novel in the "Herries Chronicle," comprising four titles: Rogue Herries; Judith Paris; The Fortress; Vanessa. The story covers four generations of the Herries family in London and in the Lake District of England.
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| (Ellen Glasgow)
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| This is a love story told against the background of a Scotish-Irish family through three generations in a Virginia village. It also describes life in rural Virginia, and the growth of the urban South, during the first three decades of the 20th century.
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| (Charlotte Bronte)
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| After an unspecified family disaster, Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. The novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as its acute tracing of Lucy's psychology, particularly Bronte's use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her protagonist is suffering internally. [Wikipedia]
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| (R Austin Freeman)
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| There are three cases for Dr Thorndyke to solve in this ebook: The Three Rogues; Inspector Badger Deceased; and The Missing Collector.
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| (Ethel Lina White)
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| While Miss Loveapple sleeps alone in an empty gloomy mansion a ruthless killer threatens her safety. She escapes this first attempt and sets out for a holiday in Switzerland. Will she be as lucky when she returns home on the thirteenth of September?
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| (H C F Morant)
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| Helen and her pet Koala, Tirri, are taken on an adventure through the ages of time by Whirlaway, an elf-like creature. This story has not been in print since it was first published in 1937.
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| (Lloyd C Douglas)
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| This story is about a woman who influences the lives of people around her in a most delightful and compelling way. It also illustrates the practical applications of the tenets of forgiveness and turning the other cheek.
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| (Hulbert Footner)
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| Amos Lee Mappin becomes involved in a case which has made newspaper headlines. Jules Gartrey, prominent banker and president of the famous Hasbrouck firm, has been found shot dead in his apartment.
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| (Zane Grey)
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| Two American cowboys come to Australia, after one of them takes the blame for a shooting which he did not commit. They join a party of drovers making the long journey to the Kimberleys, encountering dust storms, drought and other adventures along the way. Pure Zane Grey western!
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| (Hugh Walpole)
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| The sub-title of this novel is "Passages in the Lives of Two Sisters: Janet and Rosalind Grandison." The story illustrates the clash between traditionalism and modernism. The author's own sympathies, though not spelled out, were clearly with the traditionalists. [Wikipedia]
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| (Sinclair Lewis)
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| This novel, a best-seller at the time of first publication, deals with three generations of the Weagle family, who live and work in boarding houses and hotels. Two brothers of the second generation are the main focus of the story: the mercurial Ora and the plodding Myron, who dreams of running the perfect hotel.
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| (Thomas Wolfe)
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| This novel tells the story of George Webber, a budding author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill. When the residents of Libya Hill read the book and see the egregious distortions Webber has penned, they begin sending Webber death threats and menacing letters expressing their discontent with the novel, even though it is held in high regard in the rest of the country. Wolfe, as in many of his other novels, explores the themes of a changing America, including the stock market crash and the illusion of prosperity, and the passing of time, which inhibits George from being able to go "home again". [Wikipedia]
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