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  The Tempest

  William Shakespeare

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  The Tempest is a play by English playwright William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610-1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, a complex and contradictory character, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an airy spirit. The play contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of enchantment on the island. It explores many themes, including magic, betrayal, revenge, and family. In Act IV, a wedding masque serves as a play-within-a-play, and contributes spectacle, allegory, and elevated language.
  Although The Tempest is listed in the First Folio as the first of Shakespeare's comedies, it deals with both tragic and comic themes, and modern criticism has created a category of romance for this and others of Shakespeare's late plays. The Tempest has been put to varied interpretations, from those that see it as a fable of art and creation, with Prospero representing Shakespeare, and Prospero's renunciation of magic signaling Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, to interpretations that consider it an allegory of Europeans colonizing foreign lands.

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  The Cask of Amontillado

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story that explores themes of revenge and deceit. The story follows Montresor, who is deeply offended by Fortunato. Montresor devises a meticulous plan under the guise of cordiality, promising Fortunato a taste of a rare wine, Amontillado, during the carnival. The story unfolds in a tense and mysterious atmosphere.

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  The Phantom of the Opera

  Gaston Leroux

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  "The Opera Ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination."
  
  Beneath the gilded splendor of the Paris Opera House lies a labyrinth of dark corridors and a vast, subterranean lake. Here dwells Erik—the "Opera Ghost"—a masked musical genius with a face so hideous he is forced to live in the shadows. His obsession with the beautiful young soprano Christine Daaé leads him to manipulate the theater's managers, terrorize the cast, and eventually kidnap his "Angel of Music." Far more terrifying and complex than the adaptations suggest, Leroux's novel is a gripping journalistic-style investigation into a man who was both a monster and a misunderstood artist.
  
  A Masterclass in Gothic Atmosphere: Leroux, a former investigative reporter, presents the story as a "true" account, utilizing letters, testimonies, and architectural history. This grounded approach makes the supernatural elements—the falling chandelier, the voice through the walls, and the "Red Death" at the masquerade—feel hauntingly real. The Palais Garnier itself becomes a character, its opulence masking a hollow, decaying heart.
  
  The Beauty and the Beast of Paris: While the romance between Christine and the Vicomte de Chagny provides the emotional stakes, the true soul of the book is Erik. Leroux explores the tragedy of a man gifted with divine talent but cursed by nature, trapped in a cycle of cruelty and a desperate hunger for love. It is a chilling exploration of how isolation can warp the mind into something truly predatory.
  
  Unmask the legend. Purchase "The Phantom of the Opera" today and go deeper into the darkness than ever before.

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  New Machiavelli The - Book the...

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer.
  He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction"
  BOOK THE SECOND: MARGARET: I must go back a little way with my story. In the previous book I have described the kind of education that happens to a man of my class nowadays, and it has been convenient to leap a phase in my experience that I must now set out at length.

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  Contrairy Mary - From their pens...

  Edwin Pugh

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Edwin Pugh.

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  History of Tom Jones a Foundling...

  Henry Fielding

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  A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
  BOOK 2: Though we have properly enough entitled this our work, a history, and not a life; nor an apology for a life, as is more in fashion; yet we intend in it rather to pursue the method of those writers, who profess to disclose the revolutions of countries, than to imitate the painful and voluminous historian, who, to preserve the regularity of his series, thinks himself obliged to fill up as much paper with the detail of months and years in which nothing remarkable happened, as he employs upon those notable aeras when the greatest scenes have been transacted on the human stage.

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