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  Hunger - A Winter of Starvation...

  Knut Hamsun

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  A young writer walks the streets of Christiania with nothing in his stomach, pawning his waistcoat, refusing help, and narrating his own mind as it comes apart. Hamsun had lived it — road laborer, tram conductor, farmhand in America — and the book made him famous in 1890 for a kind of attention nobody had used before. His later politics were disgraceful: he gave his Nobel medal to Goebbels. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Edvard Munch and Peder Severin Krøyer follow the northern street through rain, snow and wind, matching the novel's cold, exposed wandering.

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  War and Peace - Five Families...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Five families, three battles and one invasion, held together by the argument that history is not made by great men at all. Tolstoy rewrote the book seven times, his wife copying each draft by hand, and denied to the end that it was a novel. It contains the best-known account of the burning of Moscow and one of the few battle scenes in literature written by a man who had been shelled. Its 163 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

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  Aleph the Chaldean - or The...

  E. F. Burr

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  A Chaldean astronomer, learned and unpersuaded, argues his way through Alexandria toward the question of who Christ was — a novel written as a sustained debate rather than an adventure. Burr was a Connecticut minister who was also a working astronomer and spent thirty years lecturing on science and scripture; this is that lecture turned into a man with a name. For readers who want the nineteenth century's religious argument in its own voice. Fifty-nine plates of Roman ruins and classical figures, from Panini and Alma-Tadema to Munch, carry the ancient world the astronomer moves through.

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  The Hollow Needle

  Maurice Leblanc

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  A legendary secret, a hidden treasure, and Arsène Lupin on the trail of an extraordinary mystery.
  
  In The Hollow Needle, Maurice Leblanc brings readers another unforgettable adventure featuring Arsène Lupin, the brilliant gentleman thief whose intelligence and daring schemes have made him a classic figure in crime fiction.
  
  When a mysterious secret connected to lost treasure and French history comes to light, Lupin becomes involved in a dangerous race to uncover its hidden truth. His pursuit brings him into conflict with determined investigators and unexpected rivals, creating a thrilling contest of intelligence, strategy, and deception.
  
  Leblanc blends mystery, crime, adventure, treasure hunting, historical secrets, and suspense into a fast-paced story filled with clever disguises, hidden clues, unexpected reversals, and daring escapes.
  
  At the center of the story is Lupin himself—charming, confident, resourceful, and always seemingly one step ahead. His unconventional methods and charismatic personality make him a fascinating antihero, while the mystery surrounding the Hollow Needle provides the story with a compelling sense of discovery.
  
  For readers who enjoy Arsène Lupin, gentleman-thief stories, classic detective fiction, treasure hunts, French mysteries, historical adventures, and clever plot twists, The Hollow Needle is an entertaining classic.
  
  Follow Arsène Lupin into a world of secret treasures, hidden clues, and dangerous rivals. Read The Hollow Needle today and experience Maurice Leblanc's classic blend of mystery, adventure, crime, history, and suspense.

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  The MS Found in a Bottle

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. 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.
  An unnamed narrator, estranged from his family and country, sets sail as a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia (now known as Jakarta, Indonesia). Some days into the voyage, the ship is first becalmed, then hit by a simoom (a combination of a sand storm and hurricane) that capsizes the ship and sends everyone except the narrator and an old Swede overboard. Driven southward by the magical simoom towards the South Pole, the narrator's ship eventually collides with a gigantic black galleon, and only the narrator manages to scramble aboard. Once aboard, the narrator finds outdated maps and useless navigational tools throughout the ship, the timbers of which seem somehow to have grown or expanded over time. Also, he finds it to be manned by elderly crewmen who are unable to see him; he obtains writing materials from the captain's cabin to keep a journal (the "manuscript" of the title), which he resolves to cast into the sea. This ship too continues to be driven southward, and he notices the crew appears to show signs of hope at the prospect of their destruction as it reaches Antarctica. The ship enters a clearing in the ice, where it is caught in a vast whirlpool and begins to sink into the sea.

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  The Reluctant Dragon

  Kenneth Grahame

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  Kenneth Grahame was a British writer best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows. Scottish by birth, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children.

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