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Tension

by E. M. Delafield ...

Series series World Classics
A Miss Pauline Marchrose applies for the position of "Lady Superintendent" at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, where Sir Julian Rossiter is the college director. He is greatly impressed by her and soon this admiration turns to adoration. But his wife, Lady Edna Rossiter, discovers that Marchrose was the very same woman who jilted her cousin Clarence after he was ... Read more

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A Miss Pauline Marchrose applies for the position of "Lady Superintendent" at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, where Sir Julian Rossiter is the college director. He is greatly impressed by her and soon this admiration turns to adoration. But his wife, Lady Edna Rossiter, discovers that Marchrose was the very same woman who jilted her cousin Clarence after he was
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Consequences

by E. M. Delafield ...

Series series World Classics
"Consequences" (1919) follows the life of Alexandra Clare, an upper class Catholic girl from London, after she turns down her only suitor. Alex is a misfit and having failed to meet her family's expectations, she joins a convent. Partly autobiographical, Delafield writes this story in a deeply ironic tone, turning Alex's plight into a condemnation of the suffocating expectations Victorian society ... Read more

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"Consequences" (1919) follows the life of Alexandra Clare, an upper class Catholic girl from London, after she turns down her only suitor. Alex is a misfit and having failed to meet her family's expectations, she joins a convent. Partly autobiographical, Delafield writes this story in a deeply ironic tone, turning Alex's plight into a condemnation of the suffocating expectations Victorian society
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The Ambassadors

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Originally serialised within the North American Review in 1903 and published in book form later the same year, The Ambassadors uses a rather contrived plot to further examine European society through the eyes of an innocent American. Here the principal expatriate is represented by Lambert Strether who is sent off to Europe by his rich fiancé in search of her wayward son Chad. During his trip, ... Read more

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Originally serialised within the North American Review in 1903 and published in book form later the same year, The Ambassadors uses a rather contrived plot to further examine European society through the eyes of an innocent American. Here the principal expatriate is represented by Lambert Strether who is sent off to Europe by his rich fiancé in search of her wayward son Chad. During his trip,
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The Metamorphosis

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“As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself in his bed transformed into a monstrous vermin” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own ... Read more

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“As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself in his bed transformed into a monstrous vermin” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own
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In the Shadow of Agatha Christie

Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917

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Before Agatha Christie became the world’s Queen of Crime, she stood on the talented shoulders of the female crime authors who came before her. This splendid new anthology by Leslie S. Klinger brings these exceptional writers out of Christie’s shadow and back into the spotlight they deserve.Agatha Christie is undoubtedly the world’s best-selling mystery author, hailed as the “Queen of Crime,” with ... Read more

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Before Agatha Christie became the world’s Queen of Crime, she stood on the talented shoulders of the female crime authors who came before her. This splendid new anthology by Leslie S. Klinger brings these exceptional writers out of Christie’s shadow and back into the spotlight they deserve.Agatha Christie is undoubtedly the world’s best-selling mystery author, hailed as the “Queen of Crime,” with
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Henry James: 40 Books

by Henry James ...

This file includes: The Ambassadors, The American, The Aspern Papers, The Author of Beltraffio, The Awkward Age, The Beast in the Jungle, The Bostonians volume 1, The Bostonians volume 2, Confidence, The Coxon Fund, Daisy Miller, Embarrassments, Eugene Pickering, The Europeans, The Finer Grain, Georgina's Reasons, Glasses, The Golden Bowl, In the Cage, An International Episode, Italian Hours, The ... Read more

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This file includes: The Ambassadors, The American, The Aspern Papers, The Author of Beltraffio, The Awkward Age, The Beast in the Jungle, The Bostonians volume 1, The Bostonians volume 2, Confidence, The Coxon Fund, Daisy Miller, Embarrassments, Eugene Pickering, The Europeans, The Finer Grain, Georgina's Reasons, Glasses, The Golden Bowl, In the Cage, An International Episode, Italian Hours, The
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British Mystery Multipack Volume 3

by Agatha Christie, Joseph Conrad, Wilkie Collins ...

The Ultimate British Mystery Multipack!FIVE AWESOME MYSTERIES FOR ONE LOW PRICE!From five Masters of British Mystery including Agatha Christie and Wilkie Collins.Extras include essays, free audio recordings, author bios, original illustrations and more…THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES By Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie introduces the world to her detective extraordinaire Hercule Poirot... ... Read more

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The Ultimate British Mystery Multipack!FIVE AWESOME MYSTERIES FOR ONE LOW PRICE!From five Masters of British Mystery including Agatha Christie and Wilkie Collins.Extras include essays, free audio recordings, author bios, original illustrations and more…THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES By Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie introduces the world to her detective extraordinaire Hercule Poirot...
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Swan Song

by Edmund Crispin ...

Series Book 4 - The Gervase Fen Mysteries
This playful whodunit featuring an Oxford don and a permanently silenced opera singer is "a splendidly intricate and superior locked-room mystery" ( The New York Times).When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first postwar production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, its happiness is soon soured by the discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly ... Read more

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This playful whodunit featuring an Oxford don and a permanently silenced opera singer is "a splendidly intricate and superior locked-room mystery" ( The New York Times).When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first postwar production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, its happiness is soon soured by the discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly
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An Unsocial Socialist

by George Bernard Shaw ...

Classic novel, first published in 1887, According to Wikipedia: "George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. ... Read more

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Classic novel, first published in 1887, According to Wikipedia: "George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays.
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The Chain of Destiny (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

by Bram Stoker ...

A young man inherits a peculiar family trait: a series of psychic visions that bind his life to the past. As spectral signs and ominous coincidences unravel, he discovers that a deadly reckoning foretold in his ancestors' lives is now closing in on his own. A chilling epistolary tale of psychological tension.From the mind of Bram Stoker, the undisputed master of gothic horror and creator of the ... Read more

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A young man inherits a peculiar family trait: a series of psychic visions that bind his life to the past. As spectral signs and ominous coincidences unravel, he discovers that a deadly reckoning foretold in his ancestors' lives is now closing in on his own. A chilling epistolary tale of psychological tension.From the mind of Bram Stoker, the undisputed master of gothic horror and creator of the
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The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave

by Henry James ...

Series series Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Henry James’s classic ghost stories features an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE.A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country ... Read more

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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Henry James’s classic ghost stories features an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE.A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country
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The Death of the Lion

by Henry James ...

Series series Henry James Collection
This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, sets out to interview a minor author, and in his own quest for glory, turns the author into the celebrity of the day. The sudden and untimely death of the author, with his latest work unfinished, presents a troubling dilemma for the narrator, which he ... Read more

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This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, sets out to interview a minor author, and in his own quest for glory, turns the author into the celebrity of the day. The sudden and untimely death of the author, with his latest work unfinished, presents a troubling dilemma for the narrator, which he
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