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  The Bertrams

  Anthony Trollope

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  The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: This is undoubtedly the age of humanity—as far, at least, as England is concerned. A man who beats his wife is shocking to us, and a colonel who cannot manage his soldiers without having them beaten is nearly equally so. We are not very fond of hanging; and some of us go so far as to recoil under an This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  The Door into Infinity

  Edmond Hamilton

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  As they straggled beneath the infrequent lights of the ill-lit street, they were utterly changed in appearance. Inspector Campbell, dressed in a shabby suit and rusty bowler, his dirty white shirt innocent of tie, had acquired a new face, a bright red, oily, eager one, and a high, squeaky voice. Ennis wore a rough blue seamans jacket and a vizored cap pulled down over his head. His unshaven-looking face and subtly altered features made him seem a half-intoxicated seaman off his ship, as he stumbled unsteadily along. Campbell clung to him in true land-shark fashion, plucking his arm and talking wheedlingly to him....FROM THE BOOKS.

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  The Moaning Lily - From their...

  Emma Vane

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Emma Vane.

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  Lord Jim

  Joseph Conrad

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  One moment of fear. One unforgivable mistake. A lifetime spent trying to make it right.
  Young seaman Jim dreams of heroism, but when disaster strikes at sea, a single act of cowardice shatters his reputation. Haunted by guilt, he flees across oceans in search of a place where he can rebuild his honor. In a remote Eastern settlement, he finds trust, purpose, and a fragile peace—until fate tests him once again.
  
  Praised as "one of Conrad's greatest psychological novels," Lord Jim explores shame, courage, loyalty, and the painful journey toward redemption. Its rich atmosphere, moral depth, and unforgettable characters continue to resonate with readers everywhere.
  
  If you love introspective adventure, dramatic moral conflict, and stories of fragile humanity striving for greatness, this masterpiece is essential reading.
  
  Open the book—and follow a man who refuses to let one mistake define his soul.

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  A Chameleon - From their pens to...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia.  
  His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said; ‘our talents we got from our father, but our soul from our mother’.  
  At school Chekhov was distinctly average. At 16 his father mis-managed his finances and was declared bankrupt. His family fled to Moscow. Chekhov remained and eked out a living by various means, including writing and selling short sketches to newspapers, to finish his schooling. That completed and with a scholarship to Moscow University obtained he rejoined his family. 
  He was able to help support them by selling satirical sketches and vignettes of Russian lifestyles and gradually obtained further commissions. In 1884, he qualified as a physician and, although it earned him little, he often treated the poor for free, he was fond of saying ‘Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.’ 
  His own health was now an issue as he began to cough up blood, a symptom of tuberculosis.  Despite this his writing success enabled him to move the family into more comfortable accommodation.  
  Chekhov wrote over 500 short stories which included many, many classics including ‘The Kiss’ and ‘The Lady with a Dog’.  His collection ‘At Dusk’ won him the coveted Pushkin Prize when was only 26.  
  He was also a major playwright beginning with the huge success of ‘Ivanov’ in 1887.   
  In 1892 Chekhov bought a country estate north of Moscow. Here his medical skills and money helped the peasants tackle outbreaks of cholera and bouts of famine. He also built three schools, a fire station and a clinic.  It left him with less time for writing but the interactions with real people gained him detailed knowledge about the peasantry and their living conditions for his stories.  
  His most famous work, ‘The Seagull’ was received disastrously at its premiere in St Petersburg. It was later restaged in Moscow to highlight its psychological aspects and was a huge success. It led to ‘Uncle Vanya’, ‘The Three Sisters’ and ‘The Cherry Orchard’.  
  Chekhov suffered a major lung hemorrhage in 1897 while visiting Moscow. A formal diagnosis confirmed tuberculosis and the doctors ordered changes to his lifestyle.  
  Despite a dread of weddings the elusive literary bachelor quietly married the actress Olga Knipper, whom he had met at rehearsals for ‘The Seagull’, on 25th May 1901. 
  By May 1904 with his tuberculosis worsening and death imminent he set off for the German town of Badenweiler writing cheerful, witty letters to his family and assuring them his health was improving.  
  On 15th July 1904 Anton Chekhov died at Badenweiler.  He was 44.

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  Doctor Cupid - A Novel of a...

  Rhoda Broughton

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  A young woman engaged to one man discovers what she feels for another, and Broughton lets her say so — which is why Oxford drawing rooms kept her novels out of sight while everyone read them. She was the niece of Sheridan Le Fanu, wrote frank heroines for fifty years, and lived to be called old-fashioned by the generation she had scandalised. Fifty-two plates, among them Tissot and John Frederick Lewis, trace the courtship rituals, portraits and self-scrutiny that surround a mistaken engagement.

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