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  Graustark

  George Barr McCutcheon

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  An American meets a young woman on a train from Denver, follows her to a principality in the Balkans he has never heard of, and finds her rank makes marrying her a state matter. McCutcheon invented Graustark in 1901 and with it the whole American vogue for imaginary-kingdom romance — six sequels, several films, and a word that entered the language for any operetta monarchy.

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  The Age of Innocence

  Edith Wharton

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  Newland Archer is engaged to the correct girl when her cousin returns from Europe with a failed marriage behind her and no intention of pretending otherwise. Wharton was born inside old New York and dismantled it from the inside; this was the first novel by a woman to win the Pulitzer, and she wrote it in France, in her fifties, about a world that had already vanished.

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  The Little Nugget

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  After the heartbreak of his ex-fiancée's sudden departure, Peter Burns, a young and independently wealthy Englishman, thinks he's making a life for himself with a proposal to the socially ambitious Cynthia Drassilis. Almost at once he finds he must demonstrate his commitment to the match by planning to kidnap the combative, chain-smoking Ogden Ford—known as "The Little Nugget" by the kidnappers—the son of Cynthia's patron and benefactor Nesta Ford and an American business tycoon. After Cynthia's first attempt to return Ogden to his mother is foiled by his father's underlings, Peter decides that his best chance of success is to attend the boy's boarding school as an instructor. He knows that while there he must first prevent Bowery Street hoodlum Buck McGinnis and silver-tongued confidence man Smooth Sam Fisher from absconding with the Nugget, but he little suspects how profoundly both his own recent past and Ogden's obstinacy will tangle his plans. Along with The Coming of Bill , written around the same time, this is one of Wodehouse's few non-comedy novels, undertaken for serial publication at the behest of Munsey's Magazine editor Bob Davis and published there first as The Eighteen-Carat Kid . P. G. Wodehouse (died 1975) was a significant literary figure of the 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. Satirical literature serves a vital social function, holding up a mirror to the follies and hypocrisies of its age. The Little Nugget deploys wit, irony, and exaggeration to expose the contradictions and absurdities of the society it depicts.

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  Timeless Terrors Vol 2 - Volume...

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  The veil between life and death grows thin once more. Timeless Terrors: Volume Two gathers six haunting masterworks of classic and Gothic horror, each a descent into the strange, the spectral, and the doomed. Step into worlds where music can hold back madness, where fate is written in heat and shadow, and where no mask can hide from death itself. 
  Witness the oppressive dread of August Heat, the dark justice of The Cats of Ulthar, the haunted sorrow of The Boarded Window, and the otherworldly melodies of The Music of Erich Zann. Journey onward to The Tomb, where obsession crosses the threshold of mortality, and end beneath the crimson glow of The Masque of the Red Death, Poe’s chilling vision of plague and retribution. 
  This volume includes: 
  August Heat, The Cats of Ulthar, The Boarded Window, The Music of Erich Zann, The Tomb, and The Masque of the Red Death. 
  Through the voice of horror author Jonathan Dunne, these timeless stories rise again from the crypt of literature’s darkest imagination. Immerse yourself in tales that echo through eternity — where every silence hides a secret, and every breath may be your last.

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  The Masque of the Red Death - A...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  DEATH WEARS A MASK—AND IT’S COMING FOR YOU! Step into the haunting world of The Masque of the Red Death—a chilling tale of luxury, terror, and the inescapable grip of mortality. In the shadow of a DEVASTATING PLAGUE, Prince Prospero hosts a lavish masquerade, where opulence and denial dance hand in hand. FEEL the suffocating dread as the crimson contagion edges ever closer, sparing no one in its merciless path. HEAR the relentless chime of the ebony clock, marking the countdown to an unspeakable fate. SEE the masked figure whose presence will shatter the illusion of safety and plunge the revelers into HORROR. With every word, Poe’s masterful prose pulls you deeper into a NIGHTMARE of human fragility and cosmic justice. The vivid narration will bring the masked ball and its grotesque final act to life, searing the story into your memory. LISTEN NOW and let The Masque of the Red Death envelop you in its macabre embrace. THIS IS A NIGHTMARE YOU CAN’T OUTRUN!

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  Adams Breed

  Radclyffe Hall

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  We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? Olga Boselli, a young Italian woman who immigrated to London with her parents at the turn of the century, dies during childbirth. Her son, Gian-Luca, is raised by his grandparents, but his grandmother, a hard woman with a nose for business, resents him—and God—for taking the life of her daughter. As Gian-Luca comes of age, he struggles to find an identity and meaning in his life. His grandmother, the mother figure in his life, is cold; he grows up in an Italian ghetto, and so feels simultaneously apart from his English peers, but neither entirely fitting in with the culture of the Italian immigrants around him. He turns to poetry to help fill that void, and then later, to work as a waiter at an elegant restaurant. But even after he marries a loving woman who treats him like a king, he still feels unmoored from the society around him—and then World War I begins, sending him spiraling into a repulsion for food and the life he's found himself in. Adam's Breed was a critically acclaimed bestseller in its day, earning both the James Tait Black Memorial Fiction Prize and the Prix Femina—Vie Heureuse . Its plot has been compared favorably to Siddhartha , another bildungsroman focusing on the search for religious meaning. Radclyffe Hall (died 1943) was an influential writer of the modernist period. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Adams Breed exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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