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  The Canterville Ghost

  Oscar Wilde

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  "The Canterville Ghost" The first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in the magazine The Court and Society Review in February 1887. When a family from the United States buys Canterville Chase, they are told it is haunted by a horrible spirit, but this does not deter them in the slightest. Indeed, when they find a recurring blood stain on the floor, and hear creaking chains in the night, even seeing the ghost himself, all they do is clean up the blood and insist that the ghost oil his manacles if he is going to keep living in the house. This perturbs the ghost to no end, and he does everything he can to try to frighten the family.

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  A Princess of Mars

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  The classic sci-fi adventure, brought to life in a whole new way. 
   
  John Carter is a Civil War veteran with nothing left to lose. He heads out West looking for gold and ends up somewhere considerably further from Virginia than he bargained for - transported to the surface of Mars, where the gravity makes him stronger than any creature alive and the landscape is unlike anything on Earth. 
   
  What he finds there is a dying world full of warring civilizations, terrifying creatures, and a princess worth fighting for. What follows is one of the greatest adventure stories ever written - sword fights, massive battles, political intrigue, monsters, and a love story at the center of it all that actually earns its ending. 
   
  Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote A Princess of Mars in 1912 and it has never gone out of print. It launched an entire genre and influenced generations of science fiction writers who came after it. And honestly? It's just an incredibly fun ride from the first page to the last. 
   
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  Hunger-Strikers' Demands Reiterated

  Bhagat Singh

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  Hunger-Strikers' Demands Reiterated by Bhagat Singh is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics 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 Lahore Conspiracy Case (LCC) prisoners had suspended their hunger strike on the assurance that the Government of India was considering the Jail Committee Report and that the jail reforms would be punished for participating in the hunger strike. After the hunger strike was suspended, the Governme 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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  My Lady Peggy Goes to Town - A...

  Frances Aymar Mathews

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  A country beauty goes up to London for a season with a plan, a maid and no money, and finds the town is playing the same game with better cards. Frances Aymar Mathews wrote light comedies of the eighteenth century for an American audience that loved them. The disguises are conventional and the dialogue is quick enough to carry them. Fifty paintings by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, among others, follow the century's look from country houses and castles to portraits and landscapes.

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  Imaginative Woman An - From...

  Thomas Hardy

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  Thomas Hardy was born in the hamlet of Upper Bockhampton about three miles east of Dorchester in Dorset, England, on 2nd June 1840.  
  Despite a fairly wide education and being an avid reader his parents thought it unlikely he would lead a successful scholarly or clerical career and he was apprenticed in 1856, at age 16, to a local architect whose speciality was in church restoration.  Hardy’s only opportunity to read was in the morning before work between the hours of five and eight.  
  On the back of a failed love affair he moved to London and spent five years working as an assistant to the architect Arthur Blomfield, also a restorer and designer of churches. Hardy though had by now become disillusioned with institutionalised forms of Christianity and abandoned any lingering hopes of ordination in the Anglican Church.  However, his writing of poetry was now flourishing, although it was still rejected for publication.  
  His novel ‘Desperate Remedies’, was published anonymously in 1871 and he now resolved to write full time though he was not yet in a position to achieve financial security or literary success. His second novel, ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’, appeared in 1872 and in 1873 ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’, the most autobiographical of his works arrived. With ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ in 1874, came critical acclaim, public attention and financial success. This was repeated in 1878 with ‘The Return of the Native’, and the ensuing years saw him rise to ever greater popularity.  
  His classic ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ arrived in 1886 and 5 years later ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’. The latter only saw publication after extensive alterations to its plot and the deletion of long passages to lessen the shock to the prudish Victorian audience who were dismayed by the seduction and ruin of a young girl by a rakish aristocrat.  
  ‘Jude the Obscure’, his last novel, suffered the same fate when it was published in 1895.  The uproar so disturbed him that he returned to poetry. In 1898 he had an earlier poetry collection, ‘Wessex Poems’ published. 
  Hardy spent the years between 1903 and 1908 writing ‘The Dynasts’, an epic poem on the Napoleonic Wars. 
  In his twilight years came honours and awards from the great and the good in recognition of his stature as one of the most outstanding of British authors across novels, short stories and poetry. George V conferred on him the Order of Merit in 1910. 
  From 1920 to 1927 he worked, in secret, on his autobiography, which was later published after his death as the work of his second wife, Florence Hardy.  
  Thomas Hardy OM died on the 11th January 1928. 
  His heart was buried alongside his first wife in Stinsford churchyard, Dorchester.

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  The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg

  Mark Twain

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  The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a biting social critique that examines the fallibility of human nature and the flaws of moral superiority. In this tale, a mysterious stranger targets the town of Hadleyburg, known for its integrity and moral uprightness, by exposing the greed and dishonesty lurking beneath the surface. Twain's satire is sharp and unrelenting as he illustrates how easily people can be corrupted by temptation and greed. The story explores themes of hypocrisy, the fragility of reputation, and the consequences of moral complacency. Through this darkly humorous narrative, Twain reminds readers that even the most virtuous individuals and communities are susceptible to corruption when confronted with temptation.

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