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  Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

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  Macbeth by William Shakespeare is a dark and powerful tragedy of ambition, prophecy, guilt, and moral collapse.
  
  After hearing a prophecy from three mysterious witches, Macbeth begins to imagine himself as king of Scotland. Encouraged by Lady Macbeth and driven by desire for power, he commits murder to seize the throne. But the crown brings no peace. Fear, suspicion, tyranny, and madness consume both Macbeth and his wife as their actions unleash consequences they can no longer control.
  
  First performed in the early seventeenth century, Macbeth remains one of Shakespeare's most intense and concentrated tragedies. Its language is filled with darkness, blood, hallucination, and supernatural dread, while its central drama explores how ambition can corrupt conscience and destroy the self.
  
  A masterpiece of world theatre, this play continues to fascinate readers and audiences with its psychological force, unforgettable imagery, and terrifying vision of power without moral restraint.

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  A Thousand Deaths - From their...

  Jack London

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  John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco.   
  His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant.  Chaney insisted she have an abortion.  Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself.  Although her wounds were not severe the trauma made her temporarily deranged. 
  In late 1876 his mother married John London and the young child was brought to live with them as they moved around the Bay area, eventually settling in Oakland where now, calling himself Jack, he completed grade school. 
  Jack worked hard at several jobs, sometimes 12-18 hours a day, but his dream was university.  He studied hard and borrowed the money to enrol in the summer of 1896 at the University of California in Berkeley. 
  In 1897, at 21, Jack searched out newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and for the name of his biological father. He wrote to Chaney, then living in Chicago, who claimed he could not be Jack’s father because he was impotent and casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men.  Jack, devastated by the response, quit Berkeley and went to the Klondike. Other accounts suggest that his dire finances presented Jack with the excuse he needed to leave. 
  In the Klondike Jack began to gather material for his writing but also accumulated many health problems, including scurvy, which together with hip and leg problems he would carry for the rest of his life. 
  During the late 1890's Jack was regularly publishing short stories and by the turn of the century full blown novels. 
  By 1904 Jack had married, fathered two children and was now in the process of divorcing.  A stint as a reporter on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 was equal amounts trouble and experience. But that experience was always put to good use in a continuing and remarkable output of work. 
  In 1905 he married Charmian Kittredge who at last was a soul and companion who brought him some semblance of peace despite his advancing alcoholism and his incurable wanderlust. 
  Twelve years later Jack had amassed both wealth and a literary reputation through such classics as ‘The Call of the Wild’, ‘White Fang’ and many others. He had a reputation as a social activist and was a tireless friend of the workers.   
  Jack London died suffering from dysentery, late-stage alcoholism and uremia, aged only 40, on November 22nd 1916 at his property in Glen Elen in California.

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  The Legacy of Cain

  Wilkie Collins

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  A prison governor takes in the infant daughter of a woman he has just seen hanged for murder, raises her with his own child, and tells neither which is which — then watches for the inheritance to show. Collins invented the detective novel with The Moonstone; this late book of 1888 is his attack on the fashionable science of criminal heredity, and the experiment is conducted on the reader as much as on the girls.

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  Vendetta - A Story of One Forgotten

  Marie Corelli

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  A Neapolitan nobleman is buried alive during a cholera epidemic, digs himself out, and returns to find his wife and his friend have not waited. Corelli outsold Doyle, Wells and Kipling combined and was despised by every reviewer in England, which she noted in her prefaces.

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  The Adventures of Miss Anne de...

  Summer Hanford

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  Please Note: This is a short story. 
  Miss Anne de Bourgh is the son her father always wanted, except for one rather large detail. Still, her being a girl doesn't stop her from hunting, shooting, riding, and fencing as well as her cousins, and when her older cousin Henry wrongs her, Anne ropes Darcy and Richard into a scheme to exact revenge. But Anne is about to learn that even her father, who has always encouraged her in all her pursuits, thinks she's gone too far this time, and his punishment will be dire indeed. 
  That's right, it's time for Anne to meet her greatest adversary . . . Mrs. Jenkinson. 
  The Adventures of Miss Anne de Bourgh of Rosings is a short story prequel to Mr. Darcy's Bookshop. Enjoy!

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  Maiwa's Revenge - Or The War of...

  H. Rider Haggard

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  Quatermain tells a hunting club how he was hired by Maiwa, a chief's daughter, to make war on the man who had her child killed — an elephant hunt, a stockade, and a small campaign fought with borrowed rifles. Haggard went to South Africa at nineteen and helped raise the Union Jack over the Transvaal; this short 1888 book is the tightest thing he wrote, and the elephant hunting is from life.

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