'Child of Storm' is a novel by H. Rider Haggard. The Child of Storm is a Zulu woman of charming personality. There is sexual chemistry between her and Allan Quatermain. Allan helps his Zulu friend Saduko to win 100 cattles to purchase his true love Mameena (Child of Storm). She is very attractive and brilliant Zulu daughter of a lower level chief and she has intentions to become the top lady in all Zululand. She employs her charm to bewitch males as she ascends the power ladder with the consequence civil war and thousands of Zulu deaths. Luckily, Allan sees through her witchcraft.
'Colonel Quaritch', a novel written by H. Rider Haggard. The story is one of demanding financial times for the Squire and his dependants, puriend and lost family wealth, love triangles, desire for money and status, attempted murder, blackmail, and finally man or woman killing combined with scandal. In the end, good accomplishes over evil. Colonel Quaritch is full of mystery and fascinate including a forced marriage, disloyalty, murder and a love story.
Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story is a novel by American author Jack London. Jerry of the Islands was at first distributed in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a piece of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 turned into a British protectorate. The legend of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a sibling of canine named Michael, about whom London composed another novel - Michael, Brother of Jerry. In the introduction, Jack London tells about the boat Minota on which he voyaged and which destroyed in the Solomon Islands. Skipper Kellar of Eugenie transport protected Jack London after the wreck yet later passed on by the hands of the man-eaters. London makes reference to a letter that he got from C. M. Woodford, the Resident Commissioner of the British Solomons. In this letter, Woodford expounded on a correctional undertaking on the adjoining island. The second point of the activity was looking for the remaining parts of Jack London's companions. During the journey on Minota, Jack London and his significant other observed a canine on board the boat, an Irish terrier named Peggy. The couple connected to Peggy such a lot of that London's better half took the canine after the disaster area of t
Lady Windermere's Fan' is a social satire or a comedy that glances at the social practices, assumptions, and mannerisms of a time frame. It is likewise a satire or a piece that utilizes humour to condemn what is going on. Written by the well-known and infamous, Oscar Wilde, the play was first placed in London in 1892. Wilde is mocking the privileged and moral perspectives (or scarcity in that department) of that time frame. In the play, the standard tropes of mixed-up personality and lost child found are never settled, and it's inferred that characters don't change, proceeding with their obscure ways. The play jabs fun at the social assumptions of Victorian England's high society and the affinity for its 'do as we say, not as we do attitudes.'
'The Forged Coupon and Other Stories is a novella in two sections by Leo Tolstoy. However, the genesis of the story took place in the last part of the 1890s, but he didn't start writing it until 1902. After battling for quite a long time, he finished the story in 1904. But, it was not published until some of Tolstoy's other works were gathered and anthologized after his passing in 1910. The story is separated into two sections. In Part, I, student Mitya, requires money to reimburse a debt, yet his dad indignantly denies supporting him. Disheartened, under the affectation of a friend Makhin, Mitya just changes a $2.50 note to read $12.50, however, this one detestable deed sets off a chain of occasions that influences the existence of many others, when his one misrepresentation in a roundabout way makes a man murder a lady toward the finish of Part I, and afterward look for recovery through religion in Part II. Having composed the novella in his withering years, after his suspension, Tolstoy savors the opportunity to reveal the "pseudo-pity and hypocrisy and false reverence of organized religion." Yet, he keeps immovable confidence in man's ability to track down the truth, so the story stays confident, particularly in Part II, which demonstrates the way that acts of kindness can influence one more in a cascading type of influence, similarly as in Part I. The novella has additionally been interpreted with the title "The Counterfeit Note" and "The Forged Banknote."
"The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories" gathers six of Tolstoy's best brief tales into one release. In "How Much Land Does a Man Need?", Tolstoy investigates this very question through the tale of a worker with a rising craving for land- - a hunger that turns into his ruin. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", one of Tolstoy's short stories, recounts the early demise of a high-court judge in nineteenth-century Russian. "Family Happiness" investigates the female personality inside changing close connections with her loved ones. Described as a personal narrative by the heroine Masha, the story is a gifted and engaging tale of a lady's troublesome situation in a constantly changing society. "The Kreutzer Sonata" is a serious story of adoration, marriage, sex, and desire. At first, restricted by the Russian controls, the novella has given birth to many movies, theater creations, and compositions. In "The Devil", Evgeni Irtenev battles with another legacy filled with obligations when abrupt sentiment and desire take steps to flip around his reality. Ultimately, "Father Sergius" recounts a youthful blue-blood, endless supply of his life partner's betrayal, withdraws into the existence of a devout Orthodox Christian, however, this profoundly new life ends up being troublesome. This depiction of brief tales displays why Leo Tolstoy is viewed as one of the world's most prestigious creators. This release is imprinted on premium corrosive free paper.
Wilkie Collins' novel The Evil Genius is first published in the year 1886. He highlights various social and family issues like class stigma, religion, remarriage, child custody, heritance right, divorce and infidelity in this novel. In the beginning of the story, Captain Roderick Westerfield faced a trial of diamond theft and insurance fraud. His wife left her daughter Sydeny with her aunt and moves to States with her son. After distressing childhood and youth Sydney Westerfield becomes the governess of pretty Kitty, daughter of Herbert and Catherine Linely. Story takes a turn when Sydney and Herbert fall in love, situations become crucial, Sydney leaves the house but due to illness of Kitty she comes back. Seeing the adversity Catherine leaves Herbert and asks for divorce. But things are not easy for her because society behaves differently to a divorced woman and her child. Meanwhile Captain Bennydeck meets Catherine feeling love for her, he wants to marry her but when he came to know about her divorce he withdraws his proposal. In the end Sydney left Herbert, Kitty unites Catherine and Herbert. Sydeny becomes Bennydeck's secretary and hopefully his life partner.
'Ayesha' is written by H. Rider Haggard. A evocative story of love and magic that spans the centuries to challenge death and time. Ayesha is an attractive and majestic woman with supernatural powers who spends centuries waiting for the rebirth of a lover from past ages. Ayesha, the strange and eternal white queen of a Central African tribe. She is the personification of the mythical female figure who is heinous, desirable, and mortal. Leo is on a search for Ayesha and once again with Holly he reaches far and wide into the East.
In light of a couple of comic shows from old Rome, The Comedy of Errors presents a scene of an unadulterated joke in the soul of most extreme tomfoolery and - as the title proposes - entertaining disarray. One of Shakespeare's earliest sensational endeavors, the play has large amounts of his brand name vanities, quips, and different types of whimsical pleasantry. It additionally hints at his later and most noteworthy comedies, offering understudies and researchers an important key to the writer's turn of events in the play.
Helena, a ward of the Countess of Roussillon, becomes hopelessly enamored with the Countess's son, Bertram. A little girl of a renowned specialist, and a gifted doctor, Helena cures the King of France-who dreaded he was destined to die and married her. Bertram. The disparity of the marriage gave rise to a war swearing he won't live with his spouse until she can give him a son as a child, and with his ring-two assignments which he trusts not to be possible. Anyway, with the guide of a bed trick, Helena satisfies his errands. But Bertram understands the blunder of his methodologies, and they are reconciled. We are glad to distribute this exemplary book as a feature of our broad Classic Library assortment. A significant number of the books in our assortment have been no longer in production for a long time, and in this way have not been open to the overall population. The point of our publishing program is to work with fast admittance to this immense repository of writing, and our view is that this is a huge artistic work, which should be brought once more into print after numerous many years. The books in by far most of the titles in the Classic Library have been examined from the first works. To guarantee an excellent item, each title has been carefully handled and organized by our staff. Our way of thinking has been directed by a longing to give the reader a book that is just about as close as conceivable to responsibility for unique work. We trust that you will partake in this magnificent exemplary work and that for you it turns into an advancing encounter.
'Children of the Frost's, first printed in 1902, is a good collection of short stories of Jack London. Previously, most of these stories were published in, reputed weekly or monthly magazines. Most of the stories, knitted around North America and the Klondike Gold Rush. Exhibiting London's exemplary composing style, he imparts to us stories of Native Americans and Europeans struggling against difficult terrain and severe climatic conditions in Alaska.
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is a brief tale by Oscar Wilde. This story was first published in The Court and Society Review, in the late 1887. The primary character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced to the readers by Lady Windermere with Mr. Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who peruses his palm and lets him know that it is his fate to be a killer Master Arthur needs to wed, yet concludes he has no option to do as such until he has carried out the murder. His previously endeavored murder casualty is his older Aunt Clementina, who experiences acid reflux. Imagining it is medication, Lord Arthur gives her a container of a toxic substance, advising her to take it just when she has an assault of indigestion. Perusing a message in Venice sometime later, he observes that she has kicked the bucket and triumphantly returns to London to discover that she has given him some property. Figuring out the legacy, his future spouse, Sybil Merton, tracks down the death wish, immaculate; consequently Lord Arthur's aunt kicked the bucket from normal causes and he ends up needing another casualty. After some consideration, he gets a bomb from a cordial German revolutionary, masked as a carriage clock and sends it secretly to a far-off family member, the Dean of Chichester. At the point when the bomb goes off, in any case, the main harm done appears to be a curiosity stunt, and the Dean's child spends his evenings making little, innocuous blasts with the clock. Hopelessly, Lord Arthur agrees that his marriage plans are ill-fated, just to experience a similar palm-peruser who had told his fortune around dusk on the bank of the River Thames. Understanding the most ideal result, he pushes the man off a railing into the stream where he kicks the bucket. A decision of self-destruction is returned at the investigation and Lord Arthur joyfully proceeds to wed. In a slight wind, the palmister is censured as a fake, surrendering it to the peruser with regards to whether the story is an after math of thorough freedom or destiny. The story was the premise of the second piece of the three-section 1943 film, Flesh and Fantasy.
Lost Face is an assortment of seven brief tales by Jack London. It takes its named from the primary brief tale in the book, about an European swashbuckler in the Yukon who outmaneuvers his Indian capturers' arrangements to torment him. This assortment incorporates London's most popular brief tale, To Build a Fire. It recounts the tale of another explorer in the Klondike who overlooks alerts about traveling solo and whose life relies upon the capacity to construct a fire. Additionally included are Trust, That Spot, Flush of Gold, The Passing of Marcus O'Brien, and The Wit of Porportuk.
Henry VI, Part 1 is a solid festival of early English patriotism that stands out the English from the French, depicted here as feminine and conspiring. A kid ruler, Henry VI, is on the English lofty position, and the dauntless Talbot drives the English reason in France. Joan La Pucelle (Joan of Arc), who becomes skipper of the French, cases to be picked by the Virgin Mary to free France. The English, notwithstanding, think of her as an erotic witch. Large numbers of the English respectability remain, quarreling, at home. Once in France, a look for authorization to battle each other there. Talbot and his child can't win; the English loss themselves by going after one another.
It is a classic Victorian era mystery thriller, written by author Wilkie Collins, published in 1875. The story is all about the mystery solving efforts of Valeria Woodville. Valeria Briton marries to Eustace Woodville facing the opposition of his family. While she is ready to go on her honeymoon trip, she discovers some secrets of her husband's past life. He doesn't want to discuss the things, they postpones their honeymoon. She came to know that he has been using a false name Woodville, his real surname is Macallan. He is a married man and accused of poisoning his first wife. Feeling ashamed he is hiding his true identity. Due to unproven verdict, he is a suspecting culprit, neither convicted nor cleared. Valeria trusts him so she decides to prove her husband's innocence. She sets out to find out the truth with the help from her true old friend and mother-in-law. Even though Eustace doesn't co-operate Valeria, she has incredible love, strength and determination.
First distributed in 1913, John Barleycorn is the principal keen abstract composition on liquor in American writing. London offers intense speculations on Barleycorn along with his very own nearby story drinking vocation, which was chivalrous in scale. It is, notwithstanding, as a practice in life account that his book chiefly draws in the advanced peruser. London's life was unfortunately short however loaded with episode and experience. In John Barleycorn he keeps his initial difficulties in Oakland, his encounters as clam privateer, remote ocean sealer, homeless person, Yukon goldminer, understudy, nonconformist, and - eventually - top of the line creator. Long ignored by London hardliners (who wish he had never composed it) and utilized against him by pundits who might see him as a self-admitted inebriated, John Barleycorn should be commended for what it is: an exemplary of American life account.
Shakespeare's King Lear challenges us with the size, force, and sheer span of the aggravation that it addresses. Its figures solidify their hearts, participate in savagery, or attempt to reduce the enduring of others. Lear himself seethes until his mental soundness breaks. What, then, continues taking us back to King Lear? For all the power of its language, King Lear is similarly strong while interpreted, recommending that it is the story, to a great extent, that attracts us to the play. The play educates us regarding families battling among insatiability and savagery, from one viewpoint, and backing and encouragement, on the other. Feelings are outrageous, amplified to monstrous extents. We likewise see advanced age depicted in the entirety of its weakness, pride, and, maybe, shrewdness one explanation this generally annihilating of Shakespeare's misfortunes is additionally maybe his generally moving.
De Profundis' is a 50,000-word letter composed by Oscar Wilde during his detainment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas, his sweetheart. Wilde composed the letter between January and March in the year 1897; he was not permitted to send it yet took it with him upon discharge. In it he renounces Lord Alfred for what Wilde, at last, sees as his haughtiness and vanity; he had not forgotten Douglas' comment, when he was sick, "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting." He felt reclamation and satisfaction in his difficult times, understanding that his difficulty had filled the spirit with the product of involvement, but unpleasant it tasted at that point.
Intentions Initially published in 1891 when Wilde was at the peak of his writing career, these splendid articles on art, writing, literature, criticism, and society show the confident poseur's well-known mind and wide learning. The main representative of the English Esthetic development, Wilde promoted "art for art's sake" against critics who contended that art should dive into the morals of every human being. On each page of this assortment, the skilled artistic beautician splendidly exhibits not only the attributes of art are "distinction, charm, beauty, and imaginative power," in addition to that, criticism itself can be raised to a fine art having these very characteristics. In the initial article, Wilde regrets the " decay of Lying as an art, a science, and a social pleasure." He berates present-day artistic pragmatists like Henry James and Emile Zola for their " monstrous worship of facts" and smothering of the creative mind. What makes craftsmanship awesome, he says, is that it is "absolutely indifferent to fact, [art] invents, imagines, dreams, and keeps between herself and reality the impenetrable barrier of beautiful style, of decorative or ideal treatment."The following article, "Pen, Pencil, and Poison," is an entrancing artistic enthusiasm for the existence of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, a gifted painter, art critic, classicist, fellow of Charles Lamb, and - a murderer. The core of the collection is the long two-section article named "The Critic as Artist." In an endless series of important entries, Wilde takes incredible measures to show that the pundit is just as much a craftsman as the craftsman himself, sometimes more so. A skilled critic resembles a virtuoso mediator: "When Rubinstein plays ... he gives us not merely Beethoven, but also himself, and so gives us Beethoven absolutely...made vivid and wonderful to us by a new and intense personality. When a great actor plays Shakespeare we have the same experience" At long last, in "The Truth of Masks," Wilde gets back to the topic of art as artifice and creative deception. This article centers around the utilization of veils, camouflages, and outfits in Shakespeare. For novices to Wilde and the people who know his popular plays and fiction, this brilliant assortment of his analysis offers many pleasures.
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 .
'The Cossacks' by Leo Tolstoy is a short novel published in 1863 in the famous artistic magazine called 'The Russian Messenger. The novel is accepted to be fairly personal, with many accepting that the personality of Olenin, a well-off Muscovite who enlists in the military looking for a more legitimate life, was propelled by the creator's wild ways in his youth. The occasions of the book are approximately founded on Tolstoy's encounters in the Caucasus during the Caucasian conflict.
My Lady's Money is a social parody about the robbery. A monetary certificate from the bank is taken from Lady Lydiard, and an unacceptable individual is thought of. To find the genuine criminal, Robert Moody, who is infatuated with Lady Lydiard's little girl Isabel who is taken care of by her, draws in a messy agent, Old Sharon. The clever mixes investigator fiction with social parody.
The Jacket - The Star-Rover by Jack London - The Star Rover is a novel by American essayist Jack London distributed in 1915 (distributed in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is an account of reincarnation.A outlining story is told in the principal individual by Darrell Standing, a college teacher serving life detainment in San Quentin State Prison for homicide. Jail authorities attempt to break his soul through a torment gadget called "the coat," a material coat which can be firmly bound to pack the entire body, initiating angina. Standing finds how to endure the torment by entering a sort of daze state, in which he strolls among the stars and encounters parts of past lives.I trample interstellar space, commended by the information that I was bound on immense experience, where, toward the end, I would track down every one of the inestimable formulae and have clarified to me a definitive mystery of the universe. In my grasp I conveyed a long glass wand. It was borne in upon me that with the tip of this wand I should contact each star in passing. Also, I knew, in everything completeness, that did I however miss one star I ought to be accelerated into some unplummeted pit of unbelievable and timeless discipline and culpability.
Armadale (1866) is an imaginative novel of 19th century by Wilkie Collins, dedicated to John Forster. This novel featuring a stunningly wicked female villain was regarded by T.S.Eliot as 'the best of his romances'. It consists of an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. This is the story of Alan Armadale. 'Armadale' is a long Victorian classic from the golden age of exciting fiction. It denotes a detailed interest in human psychology with dreams arising at many points in the book. The story comprises two generations of the Armadale families and the complicated plot combines several themes, including the supernatural, identity, murder and detection. The villain of this novel is Lydia Gwylt, a beautiful wicked governess, who is a adulterer, murderer, and drug addict, who creates a web of fraud in order to execute Allan's death. Character of Lydia makes this book so valuable. Armadale from beginning to end is a sensational labyrinth of uncertainties. As an appendix to this story Collins shares an anecdote with reference to The Dream that figures generally in the novel.
'The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses' is an 1888 novel by Scottish novelist and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson. It is both a romantic novel and a historical adventure novel. This novel tells the story of Richard Shelton during the War of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, saves his lady Joanna Sedley and gets justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. This story is familiar. It is maiden hidden and prized. A young man taking a journey into adulthood and his discovery of truth. The Black Arrow, who handles it and is killing the young man's friends. It had narrow escapes, battles, and military scenes. Set in England during the 15th century Wars of the Roses, these wars were a chains of civil wars between the houses of Lancaster and York, who were fighting for the English throne. This book tells the story of young Dick Shelton, whose loyalties are torn between a guardian and the leader of the secret fellowship, 'The Black Arrow'. It is a portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. A bandit named Ellis Duckworth armed with a black arrow as his trademark weapon assures Dick that his own personal guardian, Sir Daniel Blackley, unfaithful. As a consequence, Dick helps a fellowship of outlaws called 'The Black Arrow' to beat Brackley and win back his lady.
'The Son of the Wolf' was Jack London's first book, printed in 1900. He had written some short stories about Klondike gold rush and life in the remote North. In these stories he reflects the experiences of, miners and trappers life in Yukon. These stories tell us speculation of life, struggle, patience, and sacrifices. Exceptional qualities of women and on the relations between the white adventures and the native tribes. These stories also narrates the heroic deeds of men, pious and loving qualities of women and bond of friendship.
[THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH ] . Henry VIII is a cooperative history play, composed by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, in light of the existence of Henry VIII. An elective title, All Is True, is kept in contemporary records, with the title Henry VIII holding off on showing up until the play's distribution in the First Folio of 1623. Expressive proof demonstrates that singular scenes were composed by one or the other Shakespeare or his partner and replacement, John Fletcher. It is likewise to some degree normal for the late sentiments in its construction. It is noted for having more stage bearings than any of Shakespeare's different plays. During a presentation of Henry VIII at the Globe Theater in 1613, a cannon shot utilized for embellishments touched off the theater's covered rooftop (and the bars), setting the first Globe building ablaze.
Hide and Seek is a novel written by Wilkie Collins. Written withinside the aftermath of Antonina his a hit debut, Hide and Seek reveals the writer honing the trademark experience of thriller and mental unease that might make him a family call across the world. Recognized as an critical Victorian novelist and pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins changed into a author with a present for considerate entertainment, testimonies written for a famous target target market that preserve to resonate with pupils and readers today. Mary Grice, a younger girl of wealth and social standing, will become pregnant after a quick affair with a person calling himself Arthur Carr. Banished from her home, she dies throughout childbirth withinside the care of a set of circus performers, who undertake the toddler as their own. Raised with the aid of using Martha Peckover, the spouse of a clown, younger Mary is exploited with the aid of using the circus proprietor following an coincidence with a horse, which leaves her deaf and mute. In order to store her, Martha brings Mary to a minister, who guarantees she is followed into a very good home. Taken in with the aid of using the Blyth family, Mary will become called Madonna for her splendor and grace, and shortly catches the attention of Zack Thorpe. As the tale unfolds, a thriller regarding Mary's father starts to take shape, with implications for her blossoming romance with Zack. Beyond its sensational plot, Hide and Seek is a masterpiece of Gothic suspense and thriller for pro readers of Victorian fiction and rookies alike.
Brown Wolf is a story written by Jack London. While living in radiant California, the dog wolf, is feeling the call of the wild nature, stark, ruined and bone chilling North. Neither the warmth that encompasses him, nor the great everyday environments can cause him to defeat his deepest craving to return to his underlying inception. In the story, Jack London, gives a wide outlook to understand mother nature and human nature. He also boosts emotional, curious and adventurous spirit of readers.
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 .
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