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  The Dualists

  Bram Stoker

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  The Dualists by Bram Stoker 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: There was joy in the house of Bubb. For ten long years had Ephraim and Sophonisba Bubb mourned in vain the loneliness of their life. Unavailingly had they gazed into the emporia of baby-linen, and fixed their searching glances on the basket-makers' warehouses where the cradles hung in tempting rows. 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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  Dr Heidenhoff's Process - A...

  Edward Bellamy

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  A doctor has found a way to remove a memory surgically — to take shame out of a mind and leave the person intact — and a girl who has been ruined by a moment's folly is offered it. Bellamy's Looking Backward sold hundreds of thousands and spawned more than 160 Nationalist Clubs; this earlier novel of 1880 asks whether guilt is the disease or the cure, and the ending has been argued about ever since. Fifty-seven plates from Munch to Sorolla, spanning 1843 to 1924, gather the young women, patients and hospital wards that haunt this story of memory and remorse.

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  Beyond the Rim

  J. Allan Dunn

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  Joseph Allan Elphinstone Dunn (21 January 1872 – 25 March 1941), best known as J. Allan Dunn, was one of the high-producing writers of the American pulp magazines. He published well over a thousand stories, novels, and serials from 1914–41. He first made a name for himself in Adventure. At the request of Adventure editor Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, Dunn wrote Barehanded Castaways, a novel about people trapped on a desert island which was intended to avoid the usual cliches of such stories. Barehanded Castaways was serialised in 1921 and was well received by Adventures readers. Well over half of his output appeared in Street & Smith pulps, including Peoples, Complete Story Magazine, and Wild West Weekly. Dunn wrote over a thousand stories. He wrote approximately 470 stories for Wild West Weekly alone. His main genres were adventure and western; although he did write a number of detective stories, most of them appearing in Detective Fiction Weekly and Dime Detective. Dunn wrote The Treasure of Atlantis, a science fiction story about survivals from Atlantis living in the Brazilian jungle.

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  The Railway Children - Three...

  E. Nesbit

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  Three children and their mother move from a London villa to a cottage by a railway line after their father is taken away by two men who will not say why. Nesbit serialised it in 1905 and told the whole story from the children's side, so that the reader guesses at the disgrace before Bobbie reads the newspaper. The waving at the train, and what comes down the platform in the last chapter, have survived every adaptation. Fifty-three paintings by Grimshaw and Clausen and their contemporaries follow the children from London villa to country line, catching the rick-building, gate-lounging, and long light of the world they move through.

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  The Blue Goose - A Colorado Mine...

  Frank Lewis Nason

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  A Colorado mining camp, a mill, a saloon called the Blue Goose, and a superintendent who cannot decide whether the ore is being stolen by the miners or by the men who own them. Nason was a mining engineer and geologist who wrote the West as a working professional rather than a tourist; the ore assays are correct, which is not something one often says of a novel. Fifty-nine plates of river and plains scenery by painters including George Catlin and Jacob Philipp Hackert carry the western current that runs beneath the mine and its assayer.

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  To-morrow

  Joseph Conrad

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  To-morrow is a short story by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902. The story revolves around a man named Gaspar Ruiz who, after fighting for the Spanish against the South Americans, escapes execution by the revolutionaries and finds himself on a small boat. He is picked up by an English ship, but his past threatens to catch up with him when he recognizes a passenger as the very man who sentenced him to death. The story explores themes of guilt, redemption, and the effects of one's past actions on the present.

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