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  Samuel The Seeker

  Upton Sinclair

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  “Samuel the Seeker” by Upton Sinclair is a thought-provoking social and political satire. The novel follows the journey of Samuel Prescott, an idealistic young farm boy who strikes out on his own to strike it rich when his father dies shortly after losing all of his savings in a bad stock market investment. Samuel encounters a variety of characters, from the fiendish and jaded Capitalists to the sainted Socialists, with the righteous religious and the purchased politicians and police along the way. This rags-to-rags story examines every form of social injustice and societal ill through the eyes of Samuel.

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  Shirley

  Charlotte Brontë

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  Two young women. One restless country. A world shifting beneath their feet.
  Set against the backdrop of industrial unrest in 19th-century England, Shirley follows the intertwined lives of Caroline Helstone—gentle, reserved, quietly yearning—and Shirley Keeldar, a bold, wealthy, and independent woman who refuses to bow to society's expectations. As the mills face violent protests and tensions rise, both women confront love, loss, and the fight to shape their own destinies.
  
  Praised as "Charlotte Brontë's most socially daring novel," this story blends romance, political conflict, and richly drawn characters into a sweeping portrait of courage and transformation. Readers cherish its emotional depth, strong heroines, and vivid depiction of a world on the edge of change.
  
  If you love character-focused classics, subtle romance, and stories of women forging their own paths, this novel will captivate you.
  
  Open the pages—and step into a world where love, courage, and independence redefine what is possible.

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  Belphagor - From their pens to...

  Niccolò Machiavelli

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  The bookshelves of European 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 Niccolò Machiavelli.

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  Short-Timers The (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
  THE SHORT-TIMERS: Within so many yards of this Covent-garden lodging of mine, as within so many yards of Westminster Abbey, Saint Paul's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, the Prisons, the Courts of Justice, all the Institutions that govern the land, I can find must find...

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  Catherine - A Story

  Anonimo

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  Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a darkly satirical novel set in 18th-century England, following the life of Catherine Haller, a young woman drawn into a world of crime and moral decay. Influenced by her criminal family and a ruthless lover, Catherine descends into murder and deceit. Thackeray uses her story to critique romanticized portrayals of vice, offering instead a grim, unflinching look at human corruption and the consequences of moral compromise.

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  Frankenstein - The Lost Manuscript

  Mary Shelley

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  A POWERFUL FULL-CAST DRAMATIC MARATHON  
   
  “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”  
   
  Mary Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet, and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft. 
   
  Shelley's mother died less than a month after giving birth to her. She was raised by her father, who provided her with a rich if informal education, encouraging her to adhere to his own anarchist political theories. When she was four, her father married a neighbor, Mary Jane Clairmont, with whom Shelley came to have a troubled relationship. 
   
  In 1814, Shelley began a romance with one of her father's political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister, Claire Clairmont, she and Percy left for France and traveled through Europe. Upon their return to England, Shelley was pregnant with Percy's child. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced ostracism, constant debt, and the death of their prematurely born daughter. They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's first wife, Harriet. 
   
  In 1816, the couple and her stepsister famously spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley.

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