By Robert Louis Stevenson
A gripping story of sibling contention and greed takes readers on a fast paced event that encompasses sea voyages, encounters with pirates, intrigue on the French courtroom, unique existence in India, buried treasure, and a stunning discovery within the American wasteland.
An engrossing story, performed out opposed to the backdrop of three continents.
By William Shakespeare
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By Joseph Conrad
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line relies upon occasions and stories from twenty-seven years prior to which Conrad again obsessively in his fiction. a tender sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the group laid low by means of fever, and his deranged first mate is confident that the send is haunted by means of the malignant spirit of a prior captain.
this can be certainly a piece filled with "sudden passions," during which Conrad is ready to express how the complete depth of life will be skilled by way of the guy who, within the phrases of the older Captain Giles, is ready to "stand as much as his undesirable good fortune, to his blunders, to his conscience." A sophisticated and penetrating research of the character of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates forms of masculinity and hope in a subtext that counters the tale's likely traditional floor.
By John Milton
With the 3 works incorporated during this volume--Paradise misplaced, Samson Agonistes, and Lycidas—Milton put himself subsequent to Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer as one of many maximum literary genius in background.
By Wilkie Collins
Along Edgar Allan Poe in the USA, Britain's Wilkie Collins stands because the inventor of the trendy detective tale. The Moonstone introduces all of the materials: a homey, English nation environment, and a colorfully unique historical past in colonial India; the robbery of a wonderful diamond from the beautiful heroine; a bloody homicide and a sad suicide; a terrible hero in love with the heroine yet suspected of the crime, who can't consider whatever in regards to the evening the jewel used to be stolen; different pals, family members, servants, a attorney, a physician, a sea captain—suspects, all; and, so much primarily, a bumbling neighborhood policeman and an excellent if eccentric London detective. including spice to the recipe are unforeseen twists, a bit darkish satire, a touch of social remark, and an strange yet powerful narrative structure—eleven assorted voices relate components of the story, each one revealing as a lot approximately himself (and, in a single case, herself) as concerning the secret of the lacking Moonstone.
Filled with suspense, motion, and romance, The Moonstone is as riveting and intoxicating this present day because it was once whilst it first seemed greater than a century ago.
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By Evelyn Vaughn
The Marian priestesses as soon as secure the Madonna mosaic, key to a legacy of peace and womanly strength. They have been hunted down via forces who didn't comprehend their calling. Now their descendants are trying to find the past — and stirring an enemy who will kill to maintain them silent....
Museum curator Catrina Dauvergne knew the earthquakes couldn't be her fault. however the beheaded our bodies and valuable artifacts printed by means of the cracks within the earth have been her destiny to discover. to guard them, she needs to possibility her life — and hand over the single guy whose love and appreciate she so much wants. but if future calls and forgotten heritage waits to be reclaimed or misplaced without end, this girl will answer....
By Angela Carter
Desiderio, an worker of the town lower than a strange truth assault from health care provider Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. yet Albertina, a stunning lady made up of glass, turns out simply to seem to him in his desires. assembly on his adventures a bunch of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio needs to conflict opposed to unreality and the warping of time and house to be along with her, because the health care provider reduces Desiderio's urban to a chaotic nation of emergency -- one ridden with insanity, crime and sexual extra. A satirical story of magic and intercourse, The Infernal hope Machines of general practitioner Hoffman is a stunning quest for fact, love and id.
By William Shakespeare
After Prince Pericles puzzles out a negative mystery concerning the king of Antioch, he flees town and units sail on his send.
His adventures convey him love and marriage, yet his maximum tragedies and triumps lay forward as he voyages domestic.
By G. K. Chesterton
The exciting allegorical novel from the writer of The guy Who used to be Thursday and the daddy Brown Stories
First serialized in the Commonwealth, G. okay. Chesterton’s fantastical 3rd novel opens with a debate among Professor Lucifer and Brother Michael as they leap around the sky above London.
Part farce, half theological exploration, The Ball and the Cross quickly settles at the tale of one other pair of contraries. whilst ameliorations of opinion lead an atheist and a religious Roman Catholic to devise a duel to the dying, destiny intervenes and propels the 2 males towards deeper understanding.
generally thought of to be one in every of Chesterton’s such a lot available and substantial works, The Ball and the Cross used to be counseled via Pope John Paul I for the profound truths it unearths. Readers for over 100 years have marveled on the brilliance of this exhilarating story approximately trust, nonbelief, and our collective look for the truth.
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By Paula Byrne, Sara Mulvanny
Overview
The genuine Jane Austen: A existence in Small Things deals a startlingly unique examine the respected author via a number of key moments, scenes, and items in her lifestyles and paintings. Going past past conventional biographies that have traced Austen’s lifestyle from Steventon to bathtub to Chawton to Winchester, Paula Byrne’s portrait—organized thematically and drawn from the main updated scholarship and unexplored sources—explores the lives of Austen’s , acquaintances, and buddies. via their soaking up tales, we view Austen on a much broader level and detect unforeseen points of her lifestyles and personality. Byrne transports us to diversified worlds—the East Indies and innovative Paris—and various events—from a excessive society scandal to a petty case of shoplifting, She follows Austen on her vast travels, environment her in contexts either international and English, city and rural, political and old, social and domestic—wider views of significant and nonetheless under-estimated significance to her artistic life.
Literary scholarship has printed that letters and tokens in Austen’s novel’s usually sign key turning issues within the unfolding narrative. This groundbreaking biography explores Jane's personal tale following an analogous precept. As Byrne unearths, small issues within the writer's world—a scrap of paper, an easy gold chain, an ivory miniature, a washing machine—hold importance in her emotional and inventive improvement. The genuine Jane Austen: A lifestyles in Small Things introduces us to a lady deeply immersed on the earth round her, but a long way prior to her time in her independence and ambition; to an writer who used to be an astute commentator on human nature and the foibles of her personal age. wealthy and compelling, it's a clean, insightful, and sometimes striking portrait of an artist and a vibrant evocation of the complicated international that formed her.