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  • av Thomas Hardy
    375,-

    A Pair of Blue Eyes is a novel by Thomas Hardy printed in 1873. This is the story of Elfride Swancourt, a blue-eyed heroine. Elfride is divided between two lovers, the young, kind-hearted, socially inferior Stephen Smith, an architect; and much older and honest Londoner, Henry Knight, a literary man and Stephen's mentor. She also has to assure the belief of her father, the Rector of Endelstow. This is a moving and touching story about love, social protocols, limitations women faced in the 19th century, honour, sacrifice and loss. This book is set in Hardy's fictional Wessex of southwestern England. Characters are very well illustrated and developed. A Pair of Blue Eyes beyond its fun romance is Hardy's brand commentary on a rebellious shift in English life and culture. It mainly noteworthy as exclusive work of remarkable boldness and originality. A fascinating feature of this book is that it's nearly based on Hardy's relationship with his first wife, Emma Gifford.

  • av George Eliot
    545,-

    Adam Bede is George Eliot's ( Mary Ann Evans), first novel published in 1859. The story is laid in a village Hayslope. There are youthful and lively characters, in a quest of true love. Adam Bede is a young carpenter lives in this village. He is an honest and hardworking man so, that his master Jonathan Burger choose him for his daughter. But Adam loves a charming and pretty girl Hetty Sorel. Hetty is unaware of Adam's love, she is interested in Captain Arthur Donnithrown. Adam's brother loves Hetty's cousin Dinah Morris, she is a Methodist preacher. For his love Adam confronts with Arthur and as a agreement he leaves Hetty. Adam and Hetty's marriage is settled but before the marriage she came to know about her pregnancy. In fear of social consequences, she leaves the village, wanders in search of Arthur. She delivers the baby but unfortunately she dies. Hetty is found guilty and imprisoned. Eventually, Adam and Dinah realize their love bonds, they pass out their life in peace and happiness.

  • av Sax Rohmer
    285,-

    Sax Rohmer's thriller adventure and most beloved hero-villain character are back in the series. Fu-Manchu is a cunning, manipulative, evil genius attempting to control the world and destroy his enemy Nayland Smith and his loyal companion, Dr. Petrie. The tricky doctor gets back to Great Britain with his alliance of professional killers, the feared Si-Fan. Smith has come back to Burma and has heard that Fu Manchu is still alive and has gotten back to England to take his revenge on them. The book is a series of episodes that find Smith and Petrie attempting to find Manchu and fight his dacoits and different executions of his terror. In the era of Sherlock Homes, the author has created a character and his tales of adventure that are appreciated by many people around the globe.

  • av Rabindranath Tagore
    169

    Sadhana The Retaliation of Life is India's ancient heritage written by Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore. It is one of the profound books on spirituality and is highly recommended for spiritual wisdom. The book answers some profound questions like; why God created the world? Why devil exists? Does beauty has a purpose? Etc.He also describes mother nature and says if the earth does not pull us with the exact force we could have not been able to walk on earth. With this decision to understand the complexity of this effort and the effort required to solve the conditions that the world of work shows outside, there is a meditation session every day. This is not "Let me figure it out; Let me take it." Everything you do is running. There is a surge of energy through yourself as if you are being lifted up. You will be like if you raise the ground itself in a spiritual way, and flood it with power that is not on your side or on the side of the world, but in 'the whole part.Tagore gives beautiful answers to these questions with Sanskrit verses from the Upanishad and the teachings of Lord Buddha. It will keep you happy, joyful, and breathless. Sadhana is one of those books which needs to be read slowly because every sentence contains an immense amount of knowledge.

  • av Willa Cather
    235,-

    O Pioneers is a novel written by Willa Sibert Cather in 1903. In this book, Cather unfolds the story of Bergson, are Swedish-American immigrant in the farm country near the town of Hanover, Nebraska.Alexandra Bergson is the leading character of the story; she inherits the family farmland when her father dies. She devotes her life in making the farm an enterprise when other immigrant families are leaving the prairie.The story also revolves around the relationship between Alexandra and her family friend Carl Linstrum and Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.O Pioneers is divided into five parts.Alexandra's father is dying. His last wish is that his daughter runs the farm after he is gone. The story showcases the struggles of Alexandra and how she mortgages the farm to buy more land in the hope to become rich as a landowner.Although, Alexandra gets financial success but fails in her love life. Carl Linstrum leaves Alexandra and lives in a different city. After 16 years he makes a surprise visit to her. Lou and Oscar are married and they both hold their separate farms. Also, things started getting nasty between Emil, Alexandra's favorite youngest brother, and Marie Shabata. Later, Emil decides the best thing for him is to get away.

  • av Frederic Stewart Isham
    279

    Half a Chance is written by an American author and playwright Frederic Stewart Isham and published in 1909. This novel is a fast and enjoyable story with not too much reality in it which well compiles the general theme of Isham's work. It relates with the age-old question of nature vs nature; that given 'half a chance' a person, of whatever line, can be a noble, ethical human being and, on the other side, a gentleman of high birth can be a complete rascal. In this story Frisco Pet, an ex-prize fighter, is plaintiff of the murder of a woman of the underworld because he is spotted in her room in a drunken condition, alone with her body. In actuality Lord Ronsdale, a nobleman, had come to break with this woman, who, in a effort to blackmail him, took out a revolver which by accident went off. Frisco Pet is sent to the territories in a convict ship on which Lord Ronsdale also starts with Lord and Lady Wray and their six year old niece Jocelyn. A storm comes up but all the characters are saved and after many years there is much drama in this story and after that Wrays consent to Jocelyn's engagement with John Steele.

  • av Baroness Orczy
    359,-

    Eldorado is a continuation book to The Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1913. The plot starts in 1794, Sir Percy consents to take Armand St Just, brother of his wife, Marguerite, to France as a part of an arrangement to save the young Dauphin.The plot starts in 1794, Sir Percy consents to take Armand St Only, sibling of his better half, Marguerite, to France as a feature of an arrangement to save the youthful Dauphin. He falls in love with an entertainer named Jeanne L'Ange and fails to remember his promise to his leader. She is captured and Armand fails to trust Sir Percy who has let him know that he will safeguard her and fails to remember his promise to his leader. Sir Percy is caught by Chauvelin and Heron in the cell that was home to Marie Antoinette in her last days. Armand, desperate to share Jeanne's destiny, runs to the entryway of the Temple jail and shouts, "Long Live the King".The Pimpernel has proactively gotten Jeanne's freedom. After 17 days in jail, Percy is certain that the dauphin has been shipped securely into Holland. He then, imagines, by professing to break and admit his whereabouts, to make his departure.

  • av Henry Fielding
    179,-

    While the author was hoisted on board the Queen of Portugal bound for Lisbon in June 1754, he had a small desire to survive the milder Portuguese winter.Fielding was dying from different kinds of disorders, and the weight of his sickness sets up the adventurous humour and tragedy of the journal. In this essay, Fielding examines his body's decay and the corruption of English society, destroying with irony his own high claims for former conduct as a London magistrate. He has described the daily events of the difficult journey, the abuses faced by the sailors, the dedication of his wife and daughter, the terror of cyclones, the sunset and the moonrise at sea, and the description of his food and drink.Tom Keymer gives an enlightening introduction to this volume, which finally gets popular and is available in a scholarly edition of the journal.

  • av H. C. Bailey
    285,-

    The Highwaymen by H.C. Bailey is a highly entertaining historical novel filled with drama, mystery, and humor. This is an engaging novel set not long before Georgia's time. Its protagonist is Harry Boyce, a sharp young man with a reasonable character plan who is hampered by financial crises and the fact that he is the illegitimate child of an adventurer who lives just barely on the right side of the law - and not always.This book shows some pretty valid information on the early part of the eighteenth century. The style and cadence of the composition are both beguiling and entertaining, helping me to remember the works of Georgette Heyer; however, the topic is hazier and fiercer. Integral to the book is this sort of adoration. This book shows some pretty valid information on the early part of the eighteenth century. The style and rhythm of the composition are both beguiling and entertaining. The main theme of the book is violence and darkness, but central to the book is a kind of love and affection.

  • av Daniel Defoe
    335

    Robinson Crusoe is a famous novel by Daniel Defoe, first printed in 1719. Defoe's first long work of fiction presented most eternal character in English literature is Robinson Crusoe, a real English seamen who is shipwrecked on an island for 28 years. Crusoe is the story's narrator. He expresses how, as a headstrong young man, he neglected his family's advice and left his cosy middle-class home in England to go to sea. His first experience on a ship almost kills him, he is sweeped ashore on a deserted island after the shipwreck but he persists, and a journey to Guinea made him both a sailor and a merchant. An ordinary man fighting to survive in exceptional circumstances, Robinson Crusoe struggles with fate and the nature of God. He is a confidant man who uses his practical intelligence and ability to survive on the deserted island. The book is presented as an autobiography of the title character. This story shows survival is the most important prize for the last majority of living being called people of the Earth.

  • av Captain Marryat
    325,-

    The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel printed in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is place in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story accompanies the fortunes of the four Beverley children (Edward, Humphrey, Alice and Edith) who are orphaned during the war, and hide from their Roundhead tyrants in the shelter of the New Forest where they grasp to live off the land. These four children in the novel usually become ideal models of manhood and womanhood, and even the gypsy boy Pablo is trained into their civilising ways. The peril they build to bait cattle catches more than they deal for, leading to one experience after another. Against all chances they dextrously exercise through the traitorous landscape of the times, usually recovering their family estate. Their deeds and efforts to live in the forest form the center of this novel. This book is a celebration of genteel ness, courage and tolerance.

  • av Aka - Lewis Carroll Charles Dodgson
    179,-

    Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking- Glass was published in 1871, it's a sequel to Alice Adventures in Wonderland. It's a valuable amusing pearl in the children's literature. Carroll includes themes like reverse viewing and time running backward. While reading this book every child wishes to explore such a hilarious, fantastic and venturesome world of Alice. Alice was playing with kittens suddenly she became curious to see the world beyond the mirror. She climbed over the fire mantle place to see beyond the hanging mirror and in a great surprise she stepped down in a magical world. It is a snowy winter night, she enters in a house, finds an exciting poetry book Jabberwocky there. She leaves the house and enters in a garden flowers are lively they speak with Alice. In her full happiness, she meets a queen. She bewilders that chess pieces can interacts with her and these are very small to pick.

  • av Zane Grey
    285,-

    Zane Grey's Western fiction, To the Last Man, is an adventurous love story in the wilds of Arizona. A crisis builds between two fighting clans of farmers and sheepherders that started years ago in Texas, where the two bad-tempered and opposing patriarchs grew up together. The beautiful natural atmosphere is described wonderfully. As the pretty girl, raised among rough cattle rustlers, the daughter of the clan's leader, and the handsome and bold fighter/half-Indian son of the other leader, the love story has many twists and turns.This romance is consistent with Grey's creation of the pleasurable Valley War, and he puts it all together with respect so that he gets to learn about how to love so well from the strange interests of ancient people.

  • av Walt Whitman
    269,-

    The Wound-Dresser is one of Walt Whitman's most popular poem, published in 1865 in his collection Drum Taps. It is a personal, graphic, and absolutely moving poem that centres on the theme of nursing the sick and dying and gives a realistic view of war and the unexciting side of what happens to the men who go to the fight it. This poem is extraordinary for its lack of extreme portrayals of pain and suffering. The poem features Whitman's experiences during the Civil War as a volunteer in Washington's hospitals. The Wound Dresser is then, a poem of the Civil War, a poem of our country's history, a poem of the poet's 'specimen interior', a poem based in Washington D.C., and a poem that reviews 'the narrow of the tragedy' that is war. It is a poem of remembering, of memory, of memory reviewed through dream. This is a remarkable collection of articles and letters about Walt Whitman's skills volunteering as a nurse in the Civil War. In the book, there is three articles. The articles tell about his time in the Civil War and many of his experiences with injured soldiers he met.

  • av Walt Whitman
    169

    Drum-Taps, is a collection of poetry written by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War, published in 1865. Eighteen more poems were added later in the year to make Sequel to Drum-Taps. In the first group of poems, Whitman shows both eagerness and doubts in regard to the close conflict. These poems also reveal Whitman's trust that this war is a good thing for American ideals. It is the complete Civil War poem collection, including the celebrated, "Oh, Captain, My Captain!" and expanded with Whitman's essays from the period on subjects such as Secession, Abraham Lincoln, working in the Civil War hospitals, and the murder of the president. Whitman begins in a glorious mode. These victorious poems seem to reflect an excitement in the nation as a whole that evil would be defeat by good. Drum-Taps perhaps comes closest to naming the concern that Whitman feels for his country and for his society. It included poems that bother witness to the violence of war with a sense of closeness and fear. The mood of the poetry moves for enthusiasm at the falling-in and equipping of the young soldiers at the beginning of the war to the disturbed recognition of the war's true importance.

  • av Frederic Stewart Isham
    319,-

    Frederic Stewart Isham was an American novelist and playwright. He has written mainly historical romances and fantasy novels. Under the Rose is such a historical and fantasy novel, set in 16th century Europe, published in 1903. It's a beautiful amusing novel though depicted events are not relevant historically. The story is set around the court of Charles Vth ruler of the Holy Roman Empire and Francis I of France. Kings Francis niece marriage with the Duke of Friedwald is proposed as an alliance between France and Empire. But Duke's Jester impressed the Princess Louise, won her heart and they fell in love. Then situations became odd, problems emerged after some twists ended happily.

  • av Daniel Defoe
    389,-

    Moll Flanders was born in Newate Prison, she was self-sufficient, intelligent and practical female protagonist. Daniel Defoe's novel "Moll Flanders" was first published in the year 1722. This work shows us the life of a courageous Moll, starting from her birth until her old age. Female protagonist moll has some unusual and most striking features which keeps reader's hooked. Moll always craved for stability in her life, but fate was unkind with her, which makes it the story of a survivor. As a writer who has written hundreds of books Daniel used his expertise to add details about Moll's marriages and about her ill fate. Let's read this story of a Survivor by Daniel Defoe to find out how Moll survived with her ill fate.

  • av Garrett P. Serviss
    279

    'Edison's Conquest of Mars' was printed in 1898 as a subsequence to H.G.Wells's 'The War of the Worlds'. It concerns Edison's efforts to hold off a Martian attack on Earth, with his own occupation of Mars. It also, as is visible in the title reveres Thomas Edison as the main hero of the story. This is the first literary presence of a spacesuit and the magnetic force he uses to move his ships through interplanetary space is more credible and founded in Science than the giant canon that the Martians use to throw their cylinders towards the Earth. This book consist of the first space battle to ever show in print. It is the first alien kidnapping story. It has asteroid mining and the first truly useful spacesuits. Serviss acquire the collaboration of the famous innovator Thomas Edison and invented a totally different and amazing tale of humans conquering Mars. Together, this army of Science Heroes start the longest journey in human history, in an effort to save the world. It has a position in the history of science fiction for its early employment of themes and concepts that later became standards of the class.

  • av Rudyard Kipling
    195,-

    'Under the Deodars' is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling and printed in 1889. These stories illustrating British life in Shimla and similar regions around India during the British rule. This book has consist of eight short stories: The Education of Otis Yeere, At the Pit's Mouth, A Wayside Comedy, The Hill of Illusion, A Second-Rate Woman, Only a Subaltern, In the Matter of a Private, The Enlightenments of Pagett. M.P. In the first story, The Education of Otis Yeere, a brief look into how the smart, bored wives of government officials in India dealt with their boredom by fertilizing fortunes of hapless men from the rank and life. 'At the Pit's Mouth' is a tragic warning against conducting infidelities in a graveyard. 'A Wayside Comedy' is similar example against conducting adulteries in a hidden little circle, and 'The Hill of Illusion' rounds off a loose tripartition, with a deficient dialogue between nervous womanizer. The next two stories are based in the camps, both ending in death. 'Only a Subaltern' features a motivating young officer who goes beyond the call of duty for his men, then 'In the Matter of a Private' is a case of threatening where the worm turns. The final story 'The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P.', is the one to look at the India question as a whole and is primarily an exercise in informing the good people back home that they don't understand a thing about the country.

  • av Leo Tolstoy
    145,-

    Master and Man" (Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) is a story by Leo Tolstoy (1895).It occurred in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas' Day. There was a fete in the church and the landlord, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being an elder member of the church needed to go to the chapel and had to look after his family members and friends at home. Yet, when the last of them had gone, he without a moment's delay started to get ready to drive over to see an adjoining owner about woods which he had been dealing with for quite a while. He was present in a rush to begin, in case purchasers from the town could prevent him from making a beneficial purchase.

  • av Oscar Wilde
    179,-

    The Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde contains entries from his short sonnets, essays, plays, and letters. There is an immense number of poems from de Profundis which was written while Wilde was in jail. Wilde composed many essays on different authors in which he would reprimand them or acclaim them. Contents:Preface by Robert Ross The Quality of George Meredith Life in the Fallacious Model Life the Disciple Life the Plagiarist The Indispensable East The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate An Exposure to Naturalism Thomas Griffiths Wainewright Wainewright at Hobart Town Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers Robert Browning ...

  • av William Shakespeare
    169

    The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare. Acted in 1611, it might have been the last play that Shakespeare at any point composed. It was surely among the last. Since it was among Shakespeare's later works, some read The Tempest as a sort of goodbye to a dramatic profession. However it is in no way, shape, or form sure that Shakespeare knew that he would before long quit composing plays at the time that he wrote The Tempest. Even though it is more obscure in tone than a portion of Shakespeare's different plays, The Tempest is by and large viewed as a satire, as it closes with characters drawn in to be hitched as opposed to others in which lovers faced an awful passing.

  • av H. Rider Haggard
    309,-

    'Moon of Israel', first printed in 1918 by John Murray, is a novel by H. Rider Haggard. Haggard devoted his book to Sir Gaston Maspero, an Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum. This book includes adventure, romance, action, historical information and struggles with in the Egyptians and Hebrews and Hebrews and Egyptians. The primary story whirls around Prince Seti, who is disowned because he doesn't continued his father's aim of killing the Jews. This book is a hypothetical account of the Israelites' servitude and escape from Egypt.

  • av William Shakespeare
    169

    The Life and Death of King John, a historical play by William Shakespeare, portrays the rule of John, King of England (ruled 1199-1216), child of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England. It is believed to be written during the 1590s but was not published until it showed up in the First Folio in 1623. John (24 December 1166 - 19 October 1216), also known as John Lackland or Softsword, was the King of England from 6 April 1199 until he died. His rule saw the loss of the duchy of Normandy to the French ruler Philip II in 1204, bringing about the breakdown of the vast majority of the Angevin Empire and the development in the force of the Capetian line over the next of the thirteenth 100 years. The baronial revolt toward the finish of John's rule saw the marking of the Magna Carta, a record frequently viewed as an early advance in the development of the constitution of the United Kingdom. Contemporary chroniclers were generally condemning John's activities as lord, and his rule has been an important topic for discussion and intermittent modification by historians from the sixteenth century onwards. Antiquarian Jim Bradbury has summed up the contemporary authentic assessment of John's positive characteristics, it is today typically viewed as a "focused overseer, a capable man, a capable general to see that John". In any case, present-day students of history concur that he likewise had many deficiencies as lord, including what antiquarian Ralph Turner depicts as "disagreeable, even perilous character attributes", like insignificance, resentment, and brutality.

  • av Jane Austen
    359,-

    Since its rapid fame in 1813, Pride and Prejudice have stayed one of the most famous books in the English language. Jane Austen referred to this splendid work as "her own darling child" and its enthusiastic and courageous woman, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The heartfelt conflict between the perceptive Elizabeth and her beloved lover, Mr. Darcy, is an amazing presentation of acculturated striking. What's more, Jane Austen's brilliant mind shines as her characters dance a sensitive quadrille of tease and interest, making this book the most wonderful satire of the habits of Regency England.

  • av William Shakespeare
    249

    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a misfortunate tale by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play sensationalizes the retribution Prince Hamlet demands on his uncle Claudius for killing King Hamlet, Claudius' sibling and Prince Hamlet's dad, and afterward prevailing to the lofty position and taking as his better half Gertrude, the old ruler's widow, and Prince Hamlet's mom. The play distinctively depicts both valid and pretended franticness - from overpowering sorrow to fuming rage - and investigates topics of bad form, vengeance, interbreeding, and moral defilement.

  • av Leo Tolstoy
    169

    The book 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy depends on story of novel archives of French assault on Russia in 1812 and the impact of Napoleonic period on Tsarist society through the accounts of pedigreed families in Russia.Tremendous portions of this writing are philosophical discussions instead of account. This exploration paper splendidly follows the characters, from different foundations, as military assaults from grouped establishments laborers and aristocrats, customary people and heroes. As they fight with issues novel to their period and their lifestyle, it portrays speculations and characters transcend their identity. This investigates scholarly gadgets used in the book that are styles of novel that arose in mid-nineteenth century that look like panning, wide shots and close-ups and furthermore explores striking similitudes in 'War and Peace'. This study perceives the reason why novel is everything except an undeniable novel, yet a clever that analyzes events of the new past with the characters of certified people living in the public eye. The contemporary significance of this book in cognizance in feeling, mental strength, and enthusiastic greatness being developed of mankind .

  • av Jack London
    279

    The Cruise of the Snark is a non-fictitious, represented book by Jack London chronicling his cruising experience across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Going with London on this journey was his better half Charmian and a little group. London showed himself heavenly route and the fundamentals of cruising and of boats throughout this experience and portrays these subtleties to the peruser. During the journey they visited fascinating areas including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii. His first-individual records and photos give knowledge into these remote spots toward the start of the twentieth hundred years.

  • av William Shakespeare
    195,-

    The Taming of the Shrew is a satire by William Shakespeare, accepted to have been composed somewhere in the range of 1590 and 1592. The play starts with an outlining gadget, frequently alluded to as the enlistment, wherein a wicked aristocrat deceives a tanked tinker named Christopher Sly into accepting he is an aristocrat himself. The aristocrat then has the play performed for Sly's redirection. The fundamental plot portrays the romance of Petruchio and Katherina, the willful, resolved wench. At first, Katherina is a reluctant member of the relationship; nonetheless, Petruchio "restrains" her with different mental and actual tortures, like holding her back from eating and drinking, until she turns into an attractive, agreeable, and respectful lady for him to marry. The subplot highlights a rivalry between the admirers of Katherina's more youthful sister, Bianca, who is viewed as the "ideal" lady. Whether or not the play is sexist has turned into the subject of significant contention, especially among current researchers, crowds, and perusers. The Taming of the Shrew has been adjusted various times for stage, screen, drama, artful dance, and melodic theater. The most renowned transformations are Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate; McLintock, a 1963 American Western satire film, featuring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara; and the 1967 film of the play, featuring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The 1999 secondary school satire film 10 Things I Hate About You, and the 2003 lighthearted comedy Deliver Us from Eva are likewise inexactly inspired by the play.

  • av H. Rider Haggard
    365,-

    In 1908, H. R. Haggard wrote a mysterious adventurous novel 'The Ghost Kings'. The novel depicts a fantasy story of Zulu tribes and their belief in supernatural powers. The story of the novel is based on a strange myth of Zulu people. They believe that on 'reconciliation day', a white girl named Rachel Dove 'hold the spirit' of some pious and legendary goddesses. It is their belief, that the girl whom they called 'zoola' is very pretty, courageous and powerful before the battle of the Blood River.

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