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  Birthday Girl

  Maria Krestovskaya

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  An everyday tragedy brought into stark relief and elevated to high drama by the skilled pen of Maria Krestovskaya, as she focuses her readers' attention on someone, whose life would have otherwise gone unnoticed.

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  Betty Brown the St Giles Orange...

  Hannah More

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  Hannah More was born on February 2nd, 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton, near Bristol. She was the fourth of five daughters. 
  The City of Bristol, at that time, was a centre for slave-trading and Hannah would, over time, become one of its staunchest critics.  
  She was keen to learn, possessed a sharp intellect and was assiduous in studying.  Hannah first wrote in 1762 with The Search after Happiness (by the mid-1780s some 10,000 copies had been sold). 
  In 1767 Hannah became engaged to William Turner.  After six years, with no wedding in sight, the engagement was broken off.  Turner then bestowed upon her an annual annuity of £200.  This was enough to meet her needs and set her free to pursue a literary career.   
  Her first play, The Inflexible Captive, was staged at Bath in 1775. The famous David Garrick himself produced her next play, Percy, in 1777 as well as writing both the Prologue and Epilogue for it.  It was a great success when performed at Covent Garden in December of that year.  
  Hannah turned to religious writing with Sacred Dramas in 1782; it rapidly ran through nineteen editions. These and the poems Bas-Bleu and Florio (1786) mark her gradual transition to a more serious and considered view of life. 
  Hannah contributed much to the newly-founded Abolition Society including, in February 1788, her publication of Slavery, a Poem recognised as one of the most important of the abolition period.   
  Her work now became more evangelical.  In the 1790s she wrote several Cheap Repository Tracts which covered moral, religious and political topics and were both for sale or distributed to literate poor people.  The most famous is, perhaps, The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, describing a family of incredible frugality and contentment. Two million copies of these were circulated, in one year. 
  In 1789, she purchased a small house at Cowslip Green in Somerset. She was instrumental in setting up twelve schools in the area by 1800. 
  She continued to oppose slavery throughout her life, but at the time of the Abolition Bill of 1807, her health did not permit her to take as active a role in the movement as she had done in the late 1780s, although she maintained a correspondence with Wilberforce and others.  
  In July 1833, the Bill to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire passed in the House of Commons, followed by the House of Lords on August 1st. 
  Hannah More died on September 7th, 1833.

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  The Secret Garden

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  "If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."
  
  When the sour and neglected Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the Yorkshire moors, she finds a world of silence and secrets. But the moor holds a mystery: a walled garden, locked away for ten years, its key buried and forgotten. With the help of the spirited Dickon and her hidden cousin Colin, Mary discovers that as she tends to the withered roses, her own heart begins to bloom. This is a story of how the "Magic" of the natural world can mend broken spirits and turn a house of shadows into a home of light.
  
  The Art of Becoming: The Secret Garden is a profound exploration of character growth. Mary Lennox begins as one of literature's most unlikable heroines—spoiled, "contrary," and yellow-skinned—only to be transformed by manual labor, fresh air, and friendship. Through the characters of Colin and Mary, Burnett illustrates her belief in the connection between physical health and a positive mind, making it a pioneering work of psychological resilience.
  
  A Celebration of the Wild: The Yorkshire moor itself is a living character in the book—vast, windy, and untamed. It stands in stark contrast to the stifling atmosphere of Mary's life in India and the locked rooms of the manor. Burnett's vivid prose captures the sensory experience of the changing seasons, from the first grey mist of spring to the lush, hidden paradise of summer.
  
  Unlock the door to a world of wonder. Purchase "The Secret Garden" today and witness the magic of growth.

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  Another Freak - From their pens...

  Mary Angela Dickens

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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 Mary Angela Dickens.

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  The Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel, considered to be the culmination of his life's work, "The Brothers Karamazov" is the story of the murder of Father Karamazov, whose four sons are all to some degree complicit in the crime. Within the context of this crime story evolves a brilliant philosophical debate of religion, reason, liberty, and the nature of guilt in society. Considered by Sigmund Freud as "The most magnificent novel ever written", the excellent translation of Constance Garnett is presented here in this edition of "The Brothers Karamazov".

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  The Remarkable Rocket

  Oscar Wilde

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  This story concerns a firework, who is one of many to be let off at the wedding of a prince and princess. The rocket is extremely pompous and self-important, and denigrates all the other fireworks, eventually bursting into tears to demonstrate his "sensitivity." As this makes him wet, he fails to ignite and, the next day, is thrown away into a ditch.

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