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  Cap'n Jollyfax's Gun

  Arthur Morrison

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  Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. Cap'n Jollyfax, a retired sea captain, has a brass cannon which he likes to fire on special occasions. New Year, Waterloo day, the anniversary of Nelson's funeral, Trafalgar day, everyone's birthdays, weddings, christenings and every other occasion. His neighbour, the widow Mrs Billing, has a great dislike for the gun. So when Cap'n Jollyfax and Mrs Billing become engaged to be married it is perhaps not suprising that there is a dispute about the future of the gun.... a dispute with hilarious consequences.

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  The History of Rasselas Prince...

  Samuel Johnson

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  Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the "happy valley" in order to make their "choice of life." By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they come to understand the nature of happiness, and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important practical and philosophical questions concerning many aspects of the human condition, including the business of a poet, the stability of reason, the immortality of the soul, and how to find contentment.  
  Johnson's adaptation of the popular oriental tale displays his usual wit and perceptiveness; skeptical and probing, his tale nevertheless suggests that wisdom and self-knowledge need not be entirely beyond reach.

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  David Copperfield

  Charles Dickens

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  David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations.In David Copperfield—the novel he described as his "favorite child"—Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

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  The Case of Lady Sannox

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Case of Lady Sannox (also published as "The Kiss of Blood") is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Idler in November 1893.The story features an arrogant surgeon, Douglas Stone, who is in love with the married Lady Sannox, one of the most beautiful women in London. On his way to a rendezvous with her, the surgeon is asked by a Turkish man to operate on the latter's wife, who has cut her lip with a poison envenomed scimitar. The doctor is informed the woman will die if the poison is not cut out.Because of his desire to meet his lover, his need for money, his professional arrogance, and the opinion of the Turk that any delay would kill his wife, the surgeon goes ahead with the operation on the heavily drugged wife, whose face is obscured by a veil. After he has performed the operation, Dr. Stone realizes his patient is Lady Sannox, and the Turk her husband, who believes the disfigurement will be morally good for his wife. The surgeon suffers a breakdown.

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  Edgar Allan Poe - Complete Tales...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Tales:Metzengerstein.The Duc De L'omelette.A Tale Of Jerusalem.Loss Of Breath.Bon-Bon.Ms. Found In A Bottle.The Assignation.Berenice.Morella.The Unparalleled Adventures Of One Hans Pfaal. King Pest. Shadow - A Parable. Four Beasts In One - The Homo-Cameleopard. Mystification. Silence - A Fable. Ligeia. How To Write A Blackwood Article. A Predicament. The Devil In The Belfry. The Man That Was Used Up. The Fall Of The House Of Usher. William Wilson. The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion. Why The Little Frenchman Wears His Hand In A Sling. The Business Man. The Man Of The Crowd. The Murders In The Rue Morgue. A Descent Into The Maelström. The Island Of The Fay. The Colloquy Of Monos And Una. Never Bet The Devil Your Head. Eleonora. Three Sundays In A Week. The Oval Portrait. The Masque Of The Red Death. The Landscape Garden. The Mystery Of Marie Rogêt. The Pit And The Pendulum. The Tell-Tale Heart. The Gold-Bug. The Black Cat. Diddling. The Spectacles. A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains. The Premature Burial. Mesmeric Revelation. The Oblong Box. The Angel Of The Odd. Thou Art The Man. The Literary Life Of Thingum Bob, Esq. The Purloined Letter. The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade. Some Words With A Mummy. The Power Of Words. The Imp Of The Perverse. The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar. The Sphinx. The Cask Of Amontillado. The Domain Of Arnheim. Mellonta Tauta. Hop-Frog. Von Kempelen And His Discovery. X-Ing A Paragrab. Landor's Cottage. Poems Introduction To "Poems Poetry. O, Tempora! O, Mores! Tamerlane. Song. Dreams. Spirits Of The Dead. Evening Star. Imitation. Stanzas. A Dream. The Happiest Day. The Lake - To - . To Margaret. Alone. Sonnet - To Science. Al Aaraaf. Romance.And more...

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  Anthem

  Ayn Rand

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  Anthem is set in a distant collectivist future, when every form and emblem of individualism has been erased and society has reverted to a preindustrial level. In this novella, as many of her writings, Ayn dramatizes her philosophy of Objectivism in the main character. Its hero is a scientist in a world where the pursuit of knowledge is a crime, and he struggles against the established society to discover the meaning of individual freedom.

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