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  The Belovéd Vagabond - The Story...

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  Paragot — vagabond, drunkard, violinist, once something else entirely — takes a boy out of a London gutter, names him Asticot, and teaches him the world from the roads of France. Locke was born in British Guiana and kept an architect's ledgers for a decade before his fiction took hold; the beloved vagabond was his invention and his fortune, and this is the book where the trick is done perfectly.

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  Daughters of Nijo - A Romance of...

  Onoto Watanna

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  Two daughters of the Prince of Nijo, one raised a princess and the other a commoner, brought together by a marriage neither controls. Onoto Watanna was the pen name of a Canadian-born writer of Chinese and English parentage who published as Japanese because the market wanted Japan - one of the first novelists of Asian descent in North America.

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  The Fiction Factory - Being the...

  William Wallace Cook

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  A working writer's ledger: twenty-two years of dime novels and pulps, with the plots, the rates per word, the rejections, the editors, and exactly how much money each story made. Cook wrote at a pace few pulp writers ever matched, and he later published his system of plotting as Plotto. There is no other book like it — the machinery of popular fiction, itemised by the man feeding it.

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  Behind a Mask or a Woman's Power

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Beautiful Girlhood, a timeless treasure, beckons young hearts toward noble ideals and virtuous living. Written by Mabel Hale and later revised by Karen Andreola, this cherished book has left an indelible mark on generations of girls.

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  Swallows And Amazons

  Arthur Ransome

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  The four Walker children—John, Susan, Titty, and Roger—are spending the summer with their mother in the Lake District while their father's away on duty in the navy. After getting permission to use their accommodation's dinghy, the Swallow , they also beg to be allowed to camp alone on a nearby island. With permission granted by their understanding (and trusting) mother, their adventures begin. For one thing, they're not the first to camp on the island. They soon encounter the prior inhabitants: Captain Nancy and her sister Peggy who sail the Amazon . While war between them is declared at first, they soon find themselves allies against a common enemy—the uncle of the Amazons, Captain Flint. Swallows and Amazons was the first of what became a series of a dozen novels , known collectively under its title. While the fashion for juvenile fiction of this kind faded, Ransome's novel has achieved classic status. It has frequently been adapted for television, film, and radio, and ranked 57th in the BBC's "Big Read," a search in 2003 for "the nation's best-loved novel." As Kate Haas noted in her essay on it in the Washington Post , its "celebration of friendship, imagination, fair play, and exploration" helps to explain its enduring appeal. Arthur Ransome (died 1922) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Swallows And Amazons exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  Candide and Zadig - Two...

  Voltaire

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  A young man raised to believe this is the best of all possible worlds is thrown out of the castle and spends the book being flogged, shipwrecked, robbed and hanged across three continents to test the theory. Voltaire wrote it in three days, published it under a false name in five cities at once, and denied authorship for the rest of his life. It was banned almost everywhere and never out of print. Zadig, the earlier tale of a Babylonian sage whose good sense brings him nothing but trouble, keeps it company.

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