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  Jane Austen - The Complete...

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  This book contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication.- Lady Susan Starts at Chapter 1- Sense and Sensibility Starts at Chapter 43- Pride and Prejudice Starts at Chapter 93- Mansfield Park Starts at Chapter 154- Emma Starts at Chapter 202- Persuasion Starst at Chapter 256- Northanger Abbey Starts at Chapter 280 - The Watson Starts at Chapter 310Bonus - Sanditon ''Unfinished Masterpiece'' Starts at Chapter 314

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  MS Found In A Bottle

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  MS. Found In A Bottle is an adventure short story by Edgar Allan Poe that first appeared in the May 1833 edition of Baltimore Saturday Visiter. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript, telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. Some critics believe the story was meant as a satire of typical sea tales.

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  Zuleika Dobson

  Max Beerbohm

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  Zuleika Dobson is a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. It was Beerbohm's only novel, but was nonetheless very successful. This satire includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Zuleika Dobson 59th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century!

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  The Star

  H. G. Wells

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  "The Star" is an 1897 apocalyptic short story by H. G. Wells.
  Here is an impressive story based on the inter-action of planetary bodies and of the sun upon them. A great star is seen approaching the earth. At first it is only an object of interest to the general public, but there is an astronomer on the earth, who is watching each phase and making mathematical calculations, for he knows the intimate relation of gravitation between bodies and the effect on rotating bodies of the same force from an outside source. He fears all sorts of wreckage on our earth. He warns the people, but they, as usual, discount all he says and label him mad. But he was not mad. H. G. Wells, in his own way, gives us a picturesque description of the approach of the new body through long days and nights—he tells how the earth and natural phenomena of the earth will react. Though this star never touches our sphere, the devastation and destruction wrought by it are complete and horrible. The story is correct in its astronomical aspects.

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  The Silent Cry - A Novel

  Kenzaburo Oe

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  Two brothers in post-war Japan experience an ideological conflict when they reunite at their family home in this philosophical novel by a Nobel laureate. 
   
  The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of separation, the reunited men are each preoccupied by their own personal crises. One brother grapples with the recent suicide of his dearest friend, the birth of his disabled son, and his wife’s increasing alcoholism. The other brother sets out to incite an uprising among the local youth against the disintegration of the community’s culture and economy due to the imposing franchise of a Korean businessman nicknamed the “Emperor of the Supermarkets.” Both brothers live in the shadow of the mysteries surrounding the untimely deaths of their older brother and younger sister, as well as their great-grandfather’s political heroism. When long-kept family secrets are revealed, the brothers’ strained bond is pushed to its breaking-point and their lives are irrevocably changed . . .  
   
  Considered Oe’s most essential work by the Nobel Prize committee, The Silent Cry is as powerfully relevant today as it was when first published in 1967. 
   
  Praise for The Silent Cry 
   
  “[The Silent Cry] allows us a glimpse of Oe’s narrative mastery.” —Nobel Prize citation 
   
  “Somehow—and this is what gives his art such unquestionable stature—Oe manages to smuggle a comic thread in all this tragedy.” —Independent (UK) 
   
  “A new pinnacle in post-war Japanese fiction.” —Yukio Mishima 
   
  “Oe, in the range of hope and despair he covers, seems to me to have in him a touch of Dostoevsky.” —Henry Miller 
   
  “Oe is dense, analytical, with a highly modern self-consciousness, though there’s real nostalgia here for the dying traditions of pre-Westernized supermarket culture. A picture of fragmenting identity and social breakdown as brutalizing as the 20th century itself.” —Kirkus Reviews

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  The Most Dangerous Game

  Richard Connell

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  When a world-renowned big-game hunter becomes stranded on a mad Russian's private island, the hunter quickly becomes the hunted. 
  Rainsford has always held that the animals he has hunted are simply emotionless beasts, but he will soon find that fear is not only primal but universal in the animal kingdom. Man is not the exception. 
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