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  The Great God Pan

  Arthur Machen

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  "one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language." - Stephen King  
  A tense and creepy horror story, The Great God Pan revolves around the mysterious "Mrs Vaughan" and the tide of death she leaves in her wake. Can she be stopped? What connection does she have to a certain illegal experiment performed some twenty years earlier? Or horrendous goings on at a sleepy welsh rural village? Inspired by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. "The Great God Pan" received positive approval from Oscar Wilde, Lovecraft and others, and is considered a Horror Masterpiece.  
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  The Complete Christmas Books and...

  Charles Dickens

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  Kindle a Fire Against the Winter Chill with the Stories That Created Christmas.
  
  Before the modern holiday was defined by tinsel and toys, it was a season of "carols, candles, and ghosts." This comprehensive collection brings together the complete seasonal works of the masters of the genre, led by the incomparable Charles Dickens. These stories transformed the holiday from a simple date on the calendar into a worldwide celebration of mercy, family, and the human heart's capacity for change.
  
  Inside this festive collection, you will discover:
  
  The Architecture of the "Carol": Experience the definitive blueprints for the modern holiday story—where a hardened heart is melted by memory, pity, and a vision of the future.
  
  The Tradition of the Winter Ghost: Explore the eerie, "cozy-chilling" world of the Victorian fireside, where spirits serve as moral guides and the supernatural helps us see the natural world more clearly.
  
  Social Conscience in the Snow: Delve into narratives that use the holiday backdrop to champion the poor and the marginalized, reminding readers that "charity, mercy, and forbearance" are the true business of mankind.
  
  The Atmosphere of the Hearth: Immerse yourself in the sensory details of a 19th-century Christmas—the steam of the pudding, the glow of the fire, and the joyous noise of a crowded family table.
  
  These stories are the reason we say "Merry Christmas." Their influence on our cultural imagination is permanent, making this volume an essential cornerstone for any library of classic literature, holiday traditions, and inspirational storytelling.
  
  Invite the spirits of the season into your home. Buy "The Complete Christmas Books and Stories" today and rediscover the true meaning of the holiday.

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  In the Gulf Stream (Unabridged)

  Charles Kingsley

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  Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin.
  IN THE GULF STREAM: The appearance of the first fragments of gulf-weed caused quite a
  little excitement, and set an enthusiastic pair of naturalists, a midland hunting squire, and a travelled scientific doctor who had been twelve years in the Eastern Archipelago, fishing eagerly over the bows, with an extemporized grapple of wire, for gulf-weed, a specimen
  of which they did not catch.

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  The Great Gatsby

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. A youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922 inspired the novel. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. He submitted the draft to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After his revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. After its publication by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received generally favorable reviews, although some literary critics believed it did not hold up to Fitzgerald's previous efforts and signaled the end of the author's literary achievements. Despite the warm critical reception, Gatsby was a commercial failure. The book sold fewer than 20,000 copies by October, and Fitzgerald's hopes of a monetary windfall from the novel were unrealized. When the author died in 1940, he believed himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. After his death, the novel faced a critical and scholarly re-examination amid World War II, and it soon became a core part of most American high school curricula and a focus of American popular culture. Numerous stage and film adaptations followed in the subsequent decades. Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. The novel was most recently adapted to film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while contemporary scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream.

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  Chessmen of Mars The - Barsoom...

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  The Chessmen of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in January, 1921. In this novel Burroughs focuses on a younger member of the family established by John Carter and Dejah Thoris, protagonists of the first three books in the series. The heroine this time is their daughter Tara, princess of Helium, whose hand is sought by the gallant Gahan, Jed (prince) of Gathol. Both Helium and Gathol are prominent Barsoomian city states.

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  Juniper-Tree The - Story Time...

  Brothers Grimm

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  A wealthy and pious couple pray every day for God to grant them a child. One winter, under the juniper tree in the courtyard, the wife peels an apple. She cuts her finger and drops of blood fall onto the snow. This leads her to wish for a child to be as white as snow and as red as blood. Six months later, the wife becomes gravely ill from eating juniper berries and asks her husband to bury her beneath the juniper tree if she dies. A month later, she gives birth to a baby boy as white as snow and as red as blood.

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