| (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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| (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 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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (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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