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  The Fullness of Life - From...

  Edith Wharton

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  Edith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862.   Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘The Age Of Innocence’ 
  Marriage to Edward Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years older in 1885 seemed to offer much and for some years they travelled extensively.  After some years it was apparent that her husband suffered from acute depression and so the travelling ceased and they retired to The Mount, their estate designed by Edith.  By 1908 his condition was said to be incurable and prior to divorcing Edward in 1913 she began an affair, in 1908, with Morton Fullerton, a Times journalist, who was her intellectual equal and allowed her writing talents to push forward and write the novels for which she is so well known.  
  Acknowledged as one of the great American writers with novels such as Ethan Frome and the House of Mirth among many.  Wharton also wrote many short stories, including ghost stories and poems which we are pleased to publish.  
  Edith Wharton died of a stroke in 1937 at the Domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt.

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  Tempered Glass

  Stacey Longo

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  "Peppered with pop culture and brand name references to lend realism, these unnerving stories offer witty yet foreboding observations of humanity’s folly. Readers who relish the blending of genres will be pulled in by the humor, humanity, and horrors." ~ Booklife Reviews by Publishers Weekly 
  Readers' Choice Award-winning author Stacey Longo is back with a collection of darkly funny, spine-tingling fiction that will haunt your dreams long after you've turned the final page. Journey across the Donner Pass with young newlyweds whose dreams of grandeur turn gruesome. Dare to venture to a carny retirement community, where the echoes of past tortures still resonate. In Tempered Glass, Longo masterfully weaves together a tapestry of dread, seamlessly blending psychological terror with supernatural horror. Can you handle the horrors that lie within?

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  The Old Adam

  D H Lawrence

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  ‘The Old Adam’  The story is set in lodgings in Croydon and the incident may again be autobiographical but the story examines for the first time in Lawrence’s writing, the different and conflicting loves between men and women.

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  A Fight with a Cannon - From...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor Marie Hugo was born on 26th February 1802 in Besançon, France.   
  There can be no doubt that Hugo is ranked as the greatest of French authors and poets. In addition to this he fought against social injustice throughout his life and from his frequent elections to the French Assembly. 
  Hugo published his first novel, Han d’Islande (1823), the year after his marriage and so began an immense canon of fiction and poetry not only for France but to World literature.  
  He was elected to the Académie Française in 1841 and the same year came a peerage and entrance to the Higher Chamber as a pair de France, where he spoke against the death penalty, social injustice and in favour of press freedom.  
  In the years leading up to the Revolution of 1848 Hugo began to lean towards Republicanism and greater freedoms.  With the formation of the Second Republic, he was again elected to the Assembly. 
  When Napoleon III seized power in 1851, and established an anti-parliamentary constitution, Hugo openly declared him a traitor to France. This, of course, meant exile where he remained until 1870.  In exile he published his greatest work ‘Les Misérables’, and further widely honoured collections of poetry. 
  Returning home he was again elected to the National Assembly and the Senate.  It was the time of the Franco-Prussian war and with Paris under siege and food ever more scarce, he wrote in his diary that he was now "eating the unknown". 
  Later he was instrumental in strengthening the rights of artists and copyright, steps which led to the international protections of the Berne Convention.  
  Victor Hugo died on 22nd May 1885, aged 83.

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  The Mtdox - By Mtdox

  Mtdox

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  A paranormal investigator Mtdox is employed by a university to look into a series of mysterious deaths in college Students that some are attributing to supernatural causes.

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  Mermaid's Melody The: A...

  Hoang Nguyen

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  🧜‍♀️ Princess Neria of the merfolk is bound by an ancient oath to protect her kingdom's greatest treasure: the Tidal Heart, a gem that controls the ocean's rhythms. When a charming human pirate, Captain Kael, accidentally steals the gem during a shipwreck raid, Neria must venture onto land to reclaim it. Disguising herself as a human, she infiltrates his crew, only to discover the gem is slowly dying without its oceanic magic—and taking her people's survival with it. As Neria and Kael race against time to restore the Tidal Heart, they navigate treacherous waters of deception and desire. But Kael has his own secrets: he's not just a pirate but a royal heir seeking revenge against those who destroyed his family. When their conflicting loyalties surface and ancient enemies emerge from the depths, Neria must choose between her oceanic oath and the human who's captured her heart. In a world where love is the most dangerous current of all, two souls from different worlds must learn that some treasures are more precious than gems or gold.

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