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  Ancient Tales and Folk-lore of...

  Richard Gordon Smith

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  This is a collection of 57 historical legends and folktales from Japan. Nearly all of them are set in a well-defined time and place, instead of 'once upon a time.' Themes include ghosts; unrequited love across social boundaries; Shinto landscape, tree and ocean spirits; and tales driven by Bushido and Buddhist ethics. Chapters include: The Golden Hairpin; The Spirit Of The Willow Tree; Ghost Of The Violet Well; How Yogodayu Won A Battle, and many more.

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  Crooken Sands

  Bram Stoker

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  Crooken Sands 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: Mr Arthur Fernlee Markam, who took what was known as the Red House above the Mains of Crooken, was a London merchant, and being essentially a cockney, thought it necessary when he went for the summer holidays to Scotland to provide an entire rig-out as a Highland chieftain, as manifested in chromoli 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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  David Copperfield

  Charles Dickens

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  ""Alone among his contemporaries, Charles Dickens seems to possess that instinctive sympthaty with whatever is human and humane which is the fundamental condition of genial and varied characterization. … in individualities which make us in love with our kind, he is unapproached."" —The Atlantic Monthly, May 1867
   
  The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger, of Blunderstone Rookery—or, as it's now more commonly known, David Copperfield—is considered one of literature's quintessential bildungsroman novels.
   
  Originally published in serial installments stretching from May 1849 through November 1850, the tale follows the titular David Copperfield throughout the course of his life in Victorian England. In parts a coming-of-age story, satire, and autobiographical novel, Dickens called David Copperfield ""a very complicated weaving of truth and invention""—as well as named it his favorite of his own works."

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  Frankenstein - The Modern...

  Mary Shelley

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  Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.’ The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller. 
   
  Victor Frankenstein, driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experiments with alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains. Once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate entity, it turns on its maker and the novel darkens into tragedy. The reader is very quickly swept along by the force of the elegant prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multi-layered themes in the novel.
   
  Although first published in 1818, Shelley’s masterpiece still maintains a strong grip on the imagination and has been the inspiration for numerous horror movies, television and stage adaptations.

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  The Odyssey - Books 23 & 24

  Homer

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  The Odyssey reaches its triumphant close. In Book 23, the stranger is revealed at last: Odysseus stands amid the fallen suitors, and Penelope’s cool wisdom tests him by the secret of their marriage bed before love and long-delayed sleep are restored. At dawn, Odysseus recounts the trials that kept him from Ithaca, then sets out to see his grieving father, Laertes. Book 24 follows the slain suitors’ shades down to Hades, where even Agamemnon marvels at Penelope’s constancy. Back on Ithaca, grief hardens into vengeance until Athena herself descends to still the clash of spears and seal a hard-won peace. William Johnston’s resonant narration brings Homer’s themes of homecoming, loyalty, and mercy into vivid focus, capturing the tenderness of reunion, the chill of the underworld, and the thunder of the final stand. This concentrated finale is a powerful listen on its own and a stirring capstone to a timeless epic.

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  Tales and Stories - The Short...

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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  The short fiction Mary Shelley published in the annuals and magazines over twenty years and never collected - a transformation, a man who drank an elixir of immortality, the evil eye, and the invisible girl. Gathered for the first time in 1891. This edition adds a gallery of 58 plates, among them paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, Joseph Roos and Giovanni Paolo Panini, alongside one restored and coloured illustration.

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