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  Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact

  Marie Corelli

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  Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact by Marie Corelli follows a young woman raised on an English farm who believes she is the illegitimate daughter of her guardian. A deathbed revelation exposes the mystery of her true origins and the mother who abandoned her. Determined to shape her own future, Innocent travels to London to pursue writing, confronting prejudice, identity, and love in a society quick to judge.

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  Modern Melodrama - From their...

  Hubert Crackanthorpe

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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 Hubert Crackanthorpe.

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  The White Seal - The First...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  "The White Seal" is a short story by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Rudyard Kipling. It first appeared in print in the August 1893 issue of the London-based magazine National Review. It was published again in 1894 as part of the anthology The Jungle Book.
  Unusually for a story in The Jungle Book, none of the action in "The White Seal" takes place in India. The story proper begins on an island in the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska. The title character and protagonist, Kotick, is the first white seal ever to have been born on the island. When Kotick discovers that some of the seals on the island are killed by hunters for their skins every year, he sets off on a quest to find an island where seals can live without fear because no humans have ever visited it. His quest takes him all over the Pacific Ocean and beyond.

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  The Model Millionaire - From...

  Oscar Wilde

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  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland.  The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Trinity College and then at Oxford. 
  Wilde then moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles.  With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day. 
  His only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was published in 1890 and he then moved on to writing for the stage with ‘Salome’ in 1891.  His society comedies were enormous hits and turned him into one of the most successful writers of late Victorian London. 
  Whilst his masterpiece, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, was on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel.  The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency. He was convicted and imprisoned for two years hard labour. It was to break him. 
  On release he left for France. There he wrote his last work, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ in 1898.  He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six sipping champagne a friend had brought with the line ‘Alas I am dying beyond my means’.

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  Stories from the Pentamerone -...

  Giambattista Basile

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  Neapolitan tales from the fifty told over five days by ten old women, in which Cinderella breaks a stepmother's neck, a girl is born from a myrtle, and an ogre is more reasonable than most fathers. Basile wrote them in Neapolitan dialect, and they were published after his death in 1634–36, and this is the first great European collection of fairy tales — Perrault and the Grimms both drew from it. The stories are coarse, funny and much older than the polite versions that replaced them. Thirty-three plates of Neapolitan street life, bay and market scenes by painters including Francesco Bassano the Younger and Sylvester Shchedrin, 1535 to 1871, give the tales their city.

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  The Son of Tarzan

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  Young Jack Clayton, unaware of his legacy, is lured from England to the wilds of Africa by his father’s nemesis in Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Son of Tarzan." Embracing his heritage, he transforms into Korak the Killer, forging bonds with the jungle and the enchanting Meriem. Facing perilous challenges and fierce adversaries, Jack's journey becomes a tale of survival and self-discovery, where the call of the wild reveals his true nature and lineage.

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