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  Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka

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  Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is an allegorical novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing interpretations being offered. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insect is commonly depicted as a cockroach.

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  A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens, John Stainer,...

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  A fantastic story in Prose  or simply being a Ghost Story of Christmas.  This timeless classic was written by Charles Dickens in 1843 and recounts the imaginative, heartwarming tale about the eerie encounters of Ebenezer Scrooge, an arrogant and insensitive miser, whose ghostly journeys through the past, the present and the future ultimately transform him into a kind and caring individual.  The ultimate Christmas story for every age. From the youngest to the oldest.

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  The Old Curiosity Shop

  Charles Dickens

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  In London, Little Nell lives in The Old Curiosity Shop with her grandfather, who has a weakness for gambling. Hoping to mend his finances, the old man borrows money from Quilp, a moneylender and swindler. After losing that money as well, the grandfather flees to the country with Nell in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches of Quilp, who has designs on Nell and believes that the grandfather is secretly a rich miser. Out of devotion to Nell, Kit Nubbles, the shop' s errand boy, pursues the pair and in the process earning the wrath of Quilp.

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  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...

  Lewis Carroll

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  A golden afternoon, a frantic White Rabbit, and a subterranean leap into the impossible. 
  When young Alice spots a waistcoat-wearing rabbit checking his pocket watch and lamenting that he is late, her burning curiosity compels her to follow him down a very deep rabbit hole. What awaits her at the bottom is a breathtaking realm where the laws of logic are gleefully dismantled. Suddenly, shrinking to the size of a mouse and growing as tall as a house are matters of simply knowing what to eat and drink. 
  In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll constructs an unforgettable tapestry of satirical fiction, literary nonsense, and untamed imagination. You'll sit at a maddening, never-ending tea party with the Hatter and the March Hare, seek cryptic advice from a hookah-smoking Caterpillar, and struggle to keep your head around a tyrannical Queen of Hearts who settles every dispute with the swing of an executioner's blade. 
  Brought to vibrant, theatrical life by the masterful narration of Andre Reaves, this isn't just a children's tale—it is a dazzling, surreal exploration of identity, curiosity, and the absurdity of the adult world. Will you join the dance?

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  The Necronomicon - Complete edition

  Abdul Al-Hazred

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  The mysterious and forbidden Necronomicon is a cursed writing of arcane knowledge, forbidden magic and knowledge of dangerous things whose reading provokes madness and death itself. In addition, the book itself has a record of forgotten phrases and incantations that allow contact with beings of inconceivable power, but at the same time it entails an unimaginably horrifying danger to mention them. In short, it is the blasphemy of life. It seemed to be a rumor, but one of the few surviving editions was discovered in 1845 in the desert near Babylon in the caves of Larbit where a remnant of King Ashurbanipal's descendants had been buried.The Necronomicon was written in the ancient city of Damascus by the Arab poet Abdul Al-Hazred according to dates between 730 AD, and it is rumored that he died dismembered and his bones broken into a thousand pieces by an unknown being. Like all those who came in contact with the blasphemies and curses of this noxious book suffered similar fates; mysterious deaths of a cruel and indescribable horror.If you are of a curious spirit, I advise you for your own sake; that you dare not read this book, for if you should do so, only one thing I can tell you as a consolation and assurance: "That death you will never meet it before the horror that awaits you..."

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  The Red Badge of Courage

  Stephen Crane

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  The Red Badge of Courage is the story of an eighteen-year-old boy whose romantic ideas about military life move him to join the Civil War, a conflict that is, to this day, the deadliest war in American history. Henry Fleming, the boy, often referred to as “the youth,” is from New York, the state to suffer the most casualties. When “the youth” finds himself in the middle of his first battle against a regiment of Confederate soldiers, he panics and deserts his regiment. From this premise, Stephen Crane explores the boy’s struggle to gain courage and maturity. There is no critical consensus on if and how Henry comes to better understand himself and the world. But readers have long praised the novel’s depiction of the chaos and psychological intensity of war. 
  Cover illustrated by: Sheila Wong 
  Sheila Wong is a graphic designer and illustrator based in the Pacific Northwest. Her work often pulls from a variety of experiences - from growing up as a child of Chinese immigrants in the Midwest, to years working in tech support and then design in the heart of Silicon Valley. When not at work, she is usually looking for new places to go camping, or building mechanical keyboards.

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