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  The war of the worlds - The...

  Herbert George Wells

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  The world as we know it is about to end. 
  In the final years of the nineteenth century, as humanity busied itself with petty concerns, a terrifying gaze fell upon Earth from the Red Planet. What began as a series of strange flashes on the Martian surface soon becomes a desperate struggle for survival. When a mysterious cylinder lands near Woking, England, the inhabitants expect a curiosity—instead, they unleash a nightmare of unspeakable proportions. Towering metallic tripods, armed with a devastating heat-ray and poisonous black smoke, begin a relentless march toward London, erasing everything in their path. 
  The war of the worlds is the quintessential Science Fiction epic, exploring the thin line between civilization and chaos. Witness the collapse of society through the eyes of a narrator trapped in a landscape of fire and ash. This isn't just a story of war; it is a psychological exploration of panic, the fragility of the British Empire, and the terrifying realization that humanity may no longer be at the top of the food chain. 
  Why you will love this: As the pioneer of the alien contact trope, H.G. Wells crafts an atmosphere of pure dread that remains strikingly modern. Fans of post-apocalyptic fiction, Victorian steampunk aesthetics, and hard science fiction will find themselves enthralled by the grounded, scientific approach to an extraterrestrial threat. This production heightens the tension with a performance that captures the sheer helplessness of the human condition against superior technology. 
  Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was a visionary far ahead of his time, often called the 'Father of Science Fiction.' His ability to blend social commentary with speculative technology created a legacy that still dominates the genre today.

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  Fair Exchange and No Robbery

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
  Fair Exchange and No Robbery: Katherine Rangely was packing up. Her chum and roommate, Edith Wilmer, was sitting on the bed watching her in that calm disinterested fashion peculiarly maddening to a bewildered packer.

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  Little Women

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men",  and "Jo's Boys",  has been one of the most widely read novels in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson with six Academy Award nominations. 
  Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet. Having grown up in poverty, May Alcott was a passionate advocate for women's rights and abolitionist. She is best known as the author of the March Family Series: "Little Women", "Good Wives", "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys". The story of the March sisters has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson with six Academy Award nominations.

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  Czechoslovak Fairy Tales -...

  Parker Fillmore

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  Fifteen Czech and Slovak tales: Longshanks, Girth and Keen; the three golden hairs of Grandfather Know-All; the flaming horse; Prince Bayaya; Katcha, who talked the Devil into carrying her off and regretted nothing; the golden spinning wheel; and a story about sheep that never ends. Parker Fillmore retold them in 1919, the year after Czechoslovakia came into being, from the Czech, Moravian and Slovak collections. The stories are drier and funnier than the German ones, and the devils usually come off worst. Forty-seven plates of forest encounters, anglers and mountain dairymaids by painters including Corot and Spitzweg carry the tales' woodland and village settings across four centuries of European art.

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  Hodge - From their pens to your...

  Elinor Mordaunt

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  Evelyn May Clowes was born on 7th May 1872 in Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire.  
  Growing up in genteel circumstances, her early childhood was spent at Charlton Down House near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and her teenage years near Heythrop in the Cotswolds.  
  She was educated at home by governesses, excelling at German, Latin, Greek, shorthand, landscape painting, and fabric and wallpaper design. 
  In 1897 she went to Mauritius as companion to her cousin Caroline and in 1898 married Maurice Wilhemn Wiehe, the owner of a sugar plantation. She gave birth to two stillborn children. After a few years of marriage, she found life difficult and returned to England. Shortly afterwards she went by herself to Australia, arriving in June 1902 and gave birth to a son a few months later.   
  She lived in Melbourne for about eight years.  To earn a living she took on a wide and varied range of jobs; she edited a woman's fashion paper, wrote short stories and articles, made blouses, designed embroideries, tilled gardens, acted as a housekeeper, and did other artistic work. Her health was not strong, but she undertook any kind of work which would provide a living for herself and her infant son. This gained her an experience of life which was readily put to use in her literary works. 
  Her first book, ‘The Garden of Contentment’, was published in 1902 under her pen-name Elinor Mordaunt. It was the first of many works that covered fiction, short stories, travel and autobiography. 
  She changed her name by deed poll to Evelyn May Mordaunt on 1st July 1915 and gained a further reputation as a writer of short stories for magazines which display both her humour and sense of tragedy. Travel was always high on her priority and the experiences used not only for pleasure but in her writings and, as travel books, ideas in themselves.  
  On 27th January 1933 at Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, she married a retired barrister from Gloucestershire. In her own words, the marriage ‘ended in tragedy.’ 
  Elinor Mordaunt died on 25th June 1942 at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. She was 70.

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  Winesburg Ohio

  Sherwood Anderson

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  'Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.'
  
  First published in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio is a groundbreaking collection of twenty-two interwoven short stories that helped define early modernist literature.
  
  Set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Sherwood Anderson's quietly powerful masterpiece explores the hidden lives of ordinary people – most notably George Willard, a young reporter – as they struggle with loneliness, repression, and the haunting distance between inner truth and outward appearance. Beneath the town's veneer of small-town simplicity lies a world full of private anguish, failed connections and emotional isolation. Unconventional in its storytelling and daring in theme, Winesburg, Ohio remains a bold and timeless exploration of the human condition – and one of the most influential works of twentieth-century American fiction.
  Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) was an American novelist, short story writer, businessman and newspaper editor. Born in Ohio, his work was often inspired by the Midwest and small-town life in America. His writing is famed for its psychological depth, experimental structure and understated prose. Many of his works, notably Winesburg, Ohio, are widely read to this day.

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