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  Waxworks - From their pens to...

  W L George

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  Walter Lionel George was born to British parents on the 20th March 1882 in Paris, France. 
  It was not until he was a young man of 20 that he learned English.  In 1905 he moved to London to work in an office but soon found himself working as a journalist, and as a foreign correspondent, for various London newspapers. 
  By 1911, with the publication of his first novel ‘A Bed of Roses’, which portrayed the fall of a penniless young woman into prostitution, his efforts were rewarded, and he turned to literature as a full-time career. 
  His writings now sold well.  He added short stories to his offerings as well as literary essays and several tracts that discussed left-wing themes.  Some critics thought his subject matter to be difficult and poorly chosen. His political views gained him little credit amongst his peers although such luminaries as George Orwell praised both subject matter and style. 
  His personal life was also turbulent.  His three marriages left him widowed twice.  In 1908 he married Helen Porter who died in 1914.  Helen Agnes Moorhead followed in 1916 but died only 4 years later.  His last marriage was to Kathleen Geipel in 1921. 
  W. L George died on 30th January 1926.  He was 43.

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  Tarzan of the Apes

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  An adventure tale that has capture the ages! The first book in the legendary Tarzan series tells the story of John Clayton, born in the coastal jungles of Africa to a marooned couple from England, adopted as an infant by apes after they die, then raised in ignorance of his human heritage. Through sheer force of will Tarzan becomes king of the jungle and slowly learns of his origin.This is the exciting novel that began it all.

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  Sorrow in sunlight

  Ronald Firbank

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  Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886-1926) was a British novelist. He published his first book, Odette dAntrevernes, in 1905 before going up to Cambridge. He converted to Catholicism in 1907. In 1909 he left Cambridge, without completing a degree.Living off his inheritance he travelled around Spain, Italy, the Middle East, and North Africa. His novel Valmouth (1918) is based on the activities of various people in a health resort on the West Coast of England. A musical comedy by Sandy Wilson gave the novel some popularity in the 1960s.

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  Tarzan and the Golden Lion - A...

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  A lion cub raised by Tarzan grows into an ally he needs when a lost city of gold-mad priests takes him prisoner. Burroughs wrote it in 1922, and the story runs on the two things he did best: an animal that keeps faith and a city nobody has mapped. La of Opar is back and has not forgiven anyone. This edition adds a 48-plate gallery of paintings bound with the text, among them works by William Henry Davis, Franciszek Kostrzewski and Jaroslav Věšín.

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  Crime & Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eden Garret

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  A crime committed in desperation—and the slow, suffocating weight that follows. Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky centers on Rodion Raskolnikov, a struggling former student in St. Petersburg who convinces himself that certain men have the right to step beyond moral law. Acting on that belief, he carries out a brutal murder, expecting relief—or even justification. 
   
  Instead, everything begins to unravel. 
   
  What follows is not a chase in the usual sense, but a tightening psychological spiral. Raskolnikov drifts between fever, paranoia, and moments of cold reasoning, while suspicion quietly gathers around him. Encounters with figures like the patient investigator Porfiry and the deeply compassionate Sonia force him to confront what he has done—not just outwardly, but internally. 
   
  The story builds through tension rather than action, moving toward confession, consequence, and the possibility—however uncertain—of redemption.

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  Rue Barrée

  Robert W. Chambers

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the sunlit ateliers and cafés of the Latin Quarter, young American art student Selby is warned about her on his very first day: the beautiful, unapproachable music student the whole quarter calls "Rue Barrée" — named for the barred street where she lives, and for the invisible barrier she keeps between herself and every admirer in Paris. Even the irrepressible Clifford, conqueror of half the studios' hearts, has been coolly turned away. But Selby cannot let her go, and what begins as a student's infatuation deepens into something that unsettles them both. The closing tale of The King in Yellow trades cosmic dread for champagne, spring rain, and heartache, revealing Chambers as a master not only of weird fiction but of bittersweet Parisian romance — a story about the doors we bar against the world, and what it costs to open them.

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