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  The Masque of the Red Death

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains up This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  The Adventures of a Lady Pearl...

  Beatrice Heron-Maxwell

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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 Beatrice Heron-Maxwell.

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  Clarissa Harlowe Volume 9

  Samuel Richardson

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  She is gone when the volume opens. Hear the funeral road, Morden, the Harlowes arriving after the fact, Lovelace still talking until the talk has nowhere to go. Volume 9 of the letters, unabridged: posthumous pages, a German inn, a meeting that ends a career of talk. Listen to Belford finish other people’s business, and to a close that is not a sermon if you stay in the rooms it happens in. The correspondence stops. The voice that carried it does not plead.

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  A Room with a View - A...

  E. M. Forster

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  In a world bound by rigid rules, one sun-drenched Italian afternoon will change a young woman's destiny forever. 
  Lucy Honeychurch is a young English woman stifled by the strict social expectations of Edwardian society. While touring Florence with her overbearing cousin Charlotte, their chief complaint is a lack of a view at the Pension Bertolini. But when the unconventional Mr. Emerson and his brooding son, George, offer to trade their idyllic rooms, Lucy's carefully constructed world begins to unravel. 
  Surrounded by the breathtaking art, passionate culture, and sensual vistas of Italy, Lucy experiences a sudden spiritual awakening. A terrifying incident in a Florentine piazza pushes her into George's arms, forcing her to question everything she has been taught about propriety, love, and living a truthful life. 
  Why you will love this audiobook: A timeless classic of Literary Fiction, this masterpiece brims with sharp social satire, evocative European travelogue vibes, and a deeply moving coming-of-age romance. Listeners who adore lush historical settings, complex character studies, and the enduring battle between duty and desire will be swept away by this immersive and romantic epic. 
  About the Author: E. M. Forster was an acclaimed English novelist and essayist whose works brilliantly dissected class differences and the hypocrisy of early 20th-century British society. His legacy as a giant of modern literature remains unmatched, celebrated for his profound humanism and elegant, witty prose.

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  The Rocking Horse Winner - From...

  D H Lawrence

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  David Herbert Lawrence was born on the 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, a coal mining town where the reality of a harsh life was only useful as experiences for future literary works. 
  He was educated at Beauvale Board School and became the first local boy to receive a scholarship to attend Nottingham High School. After 3 years he became a junior clerk in Haywood’s surgical appliances factory. He was also attempting a literary career which, in the short term, led to a teacher training position in Eastwood and later a teaching qualification from University College, Nottingham.  
  Lawrence’s first efforts were poems, short stories and a draft of ‘The White Peacock’. Moving to London and a teaching position in Croydon his writing attracted the attention of Ford Madox Ford, editor of The English Review, and he commissioned him to write ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’.  
  Wanting to write full-time he now began work on what would become ‘Sons and Lovers.   
  In 1912 he met the older and married mother-of-three Frieda Weekley. They eloped to Germany and here Lawrence could see for himself the growing tensions with France.  So keen was his interest that he was arrested and accused of being a British spy.  
  In early 1914 Frieda obtained her divorce and they returned to Britain to be married just days before the outbreak of war. Owing to her German parentage, and his own public dislike of militarism and violence, the couple were treated with contempt and suspicion throughout the war years.  
  Despite this he continued to write but his reputation in England was so tarnished and, mirrored by his own disdain for the country, he and Frieda left England in November 1919, first for Europe and then America via Ceylon and Australia. 
  They bought a ranch in Taos, New Mexico and visited Mexico several times. The third visit in March 1925 caused a near fatal attack of malaria. To convalesce they moved to Florence. Here he continued work on ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ which for many years would cause controversy. A renewed interest in oil painting resulted in an exhibition in 1929 which was raided by the police and several works were confiscated.  
  D H Lawrence died of complications arising from a bout of tuberculosis on the 2nd of March 1930 in Vence, France.  He was 44.

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  The Vengeance of the Dead - From...

  Robert Barr

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  Robert Barr was born in Glasgow, Scotland on the 16th September 1849.  Five years later the family emigrated to a farm near Muirkirk in Upper Canada.  
  His early years were uneventful as the family settled into their new lives and Barr began his education. 
  A career path as a teacher opened up for him and, by 1874, he had been appointed as headmaster at the Central School at Windsor.  Concurrently he also wrote travel and humourous articles for magazines.  Within two years their success in the regional periodicals encouraged him to change careers to become a reporter and columnist. 
  In August 1876, at age 27, he married Eva Bennett and they began a family. 
  A half decade later he was the exchange editor of the ‘Free Press’ but decided to relocate to London to establish an English edition and to write fiction, which both met with much success. 
  Over the years he was a prolific writer and in 1892, along with Jerome K Jerome, he established ‘The Idler’ magazine and, just after the turn of the century, became its sole proprietor. 
  Although a number of his crime novels and short stories are parodies on Sherlock Holmes and other best-selling detectives of the time, he also wrote short stories across a whole range of subjects and genres usually with intriguing ideas and many laced with wit and humour. 
  Robert Barr died at his home in Woldingham, Surrey of heart disease on the 21st October 1912.  He was 63.

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