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  The Precipice - A Russian Novel...

  Ivan Goncharov

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  An artist and dilettante comes down from Petersburg to his grandmother's estate on the Volga to find himself, and finds instead two cousins, a nihilist in the hills, and a garden with a ravine at the end of it where a man once shot himself. Goncharov spent thirty years in government service, much of it as a censor, and twenty writing this, his last novel and the one he defended most fiercely; it is his answer to the new men, and it does not go the way he intended. Sixty plates of Russian painting from 1811 to 1912, by Kramskoi and Perov among others, carry the grief and faith that hang over the Volga gentry.

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  A Slip of the Pen - From their...

  Amy Levy

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  Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. 
  Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms. 
  Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories ‘Cohen of Trinity’ and ‘Wise in Their Generation,’ were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine ‘Women's World’. 
  Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; ‘Xantippe and Other Verses’, from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. ‘A Minor Poet and Other Verse’ from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems. 
  In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including ‘The Ghetto at Florence’, ‘The Jew in Fiction’, ‘Jewish Humour’ and ‘Jewish Children’. 
  That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem ‘To Vernon Lee’. 
  Her first novel ‘Romance of a Shop’, written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial. 
  Her final book of poems, ‘A London Plane-Tree’ from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism. 
  Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27.

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  The Door in the Wall

  H. G. Wells

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  The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells is presented in a clean English digital edition with active navigation. The book belongs to classics and preserves the character of the source text for sustained ebook reading. The opening pages establish the work's atmosphere with this first movement: One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the morning, in my. Detected sections include: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4. This edition is prepared for a fluent reading experience with clear typography and no extraneous promotional material.

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  White Nights

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  During four unforgettable nights, a lonely dreamer discovers a brief connection that changes the way he sees love and life.
  
  Fyodor Dostoevsky's White Nights follows a solitary young dreamer wandering the streets of St. Petersburg.
  
  One night, he encounters a young woman whose own story of longing and uncertainty draws them into an intense emotional connection. Across several nights, their conversations reveal loneliness, hope, dreams, affection, and the fragile nature of human happiness.
  
  Tender, melancholic, and deeply introspective, White Nights offers a gentler side of Dostoevsky's literary imagination.
  
  Step into the dreamlike nights of St. Petersburg and discover Dostoevsky's poignant story of loneliness, connection, hope, and love.

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  Gullibles Travels

  Ring Lardner

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  Published in The Saturday Evening Post between 1916 and 1917, the stories that make up Gullible's Travels follow the comical misadventures of a long-suffering husband and his aspiring socialite wife. The unnamed protagonists and their hapless attempts to climb the social ladder serve as a canvas for Ring Lardner to satirize marriage, social dynamics, and the newly emerging middle class of the late 1910s. In 1917, the first five stories about the unnamed narrator and his "Missus" were compiled in book form as Gullible's Travels, Etc.

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  The House of Mapuhi

  Jack London

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  Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell, and from the deck of the schooner, across the slender ring of the atoll, the divers could be seen at work. But the lagoon had no entrance for even a trading schooner. With a favoring breeze cutters could win in through the tortuous and shallow channel, but the schooners lay off and on outside and sent in their small boats.

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