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  The Man Who Was Plucked

  Edgar Wallace

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  The Man Who Was Plucked by Edgar Wallace 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: On Sunday night Martaus Club is always crowded with the smartest of the smart people who remain in Town over the week-end. Martaus Club is a place of shaded lights, of white napery, of glittering silver and glass, of exotic flowers, the tables set about the walls framing a parallelogram of shining f 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 Long Vacation

  Charlotte M. Yonge

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  The May family grown up: a summer holiday at the seaside, an actress with a past, a stepson nobody knows what to do with, and a parish that must be kept going. Yonge lived her whole life in one Hampshire village, taught Sunday school there for seventy-one years, and gave the profits of her bestselling novel to fit out a missionary schooner. She wrote the middle-class family as a moral institution, and knew it from the inside.

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  The Professor

  Charlotte Brontë

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  A young man's determination to build a life through perseverance, independence, and knowledge.
  
  The Professor is the first completed novel by Charlotte Brontë, offering a compelling story of ambition, personal growth, and resilience.
  
  The novel follows William Crimsworth, a determined young Englishman who seeks independence and purpose beyond the expectations placed upon him. His journey leads him abroad, where he pursues a career in education and encounters new cultures, challenges, friendships, and opportunities for personal development.
  
  Through William's experiences, Brontë explores themes of self-reliance, social mobility, education, love, and the pursuit of individual fulfillment. The novel also provides vivid observations of life, work, and society in nineteenth-century Europe.
  
  With its realistic perspective and thoughtful character development, The Professor offers readers an engaging look at personal ambition and the search for identity in a changing world.

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  Wuthering Heights

  Emily Brontë

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  "I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
  
  On the bleak and wind-swept Yorkshire moors, a storm of human passion rages. When the orphan Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights, he forms an unbreakable, primal bond with Catherine Earnshaw. But when social ambition and betrayal tear them apart, Heathcliff's love curdles into a decades-long vendetta. Emily Brontë's only novel is a wild, elemental force of nature that defies the conventions of Victorian morality and romance.
  
  A Study in Duality and Conflict: The novel is structured around the stark opposition between two households: the chaotic, ancient Wuthering Heights and the sheltered, civilized Thrushcross Grange. As the story descends through two generations, readers witness the devastating effects of inherited trauma and the relentless pursuit of vengeance that threatens to consume both families.
  
  The Ultimate Anti-Hero: In Heathcliff, Brontë created literature's most enduring and polarizing figure—a Byronic hero driven by a love so absolute it becomes a curse. Haunted by ghosts both literal and figurative, the characters of Wuthering Heights exist in a world where the boundary between the living and the dead is as thin as the mist on the moors. It is a masterpiece of psychological intensity and Gothic horror.
  
  An unfiltered cry of the soul. Purchase "Wuthering Heights" today and experience the most haunting romance ever written.

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  A Terribly Strange Bed

  Wilkie Collins

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  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching "Jonathan Dunne Horror" on YouTube. 
  Title: A Terribly Strange Bed 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 141 
  Author: Wilkie Collins 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1852 
  Public Domain: Yes 
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  A Terribly Strange Bed is a masterful early tale of suspense and paranoia from Wilkie Collins, blending psychological dread with the lurking menace of unseen conspiracy. After an evening of reckless gambling in the shadowed underworld of Paris, an unsuspecting young Englishman finds himself swept along by sudden fortune into the company of charming — yet deeply unsettling — strangers. 
  Flush with winnings and too exhausted to question his luck, he accepts an invitation to spend the night in an unfamiliar house. At first, the room appears luxurious, even welcoming. But beneath the velvet drapery and candlelit elegance lies something profoundly wrong — a creeping sense of danger that slowly tightens around him as the night deepens. 
  What begins as unease soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the young man discovers that his richly furnished chamber conceals a horrifying secret designed with cold precision and deadly intent. 
  Collins builds unbearable tension from the ordinary details of a quiet room, transforming comfort into terror and sleep into a trap. In this claustrophobic battle between awareness and oblivion, survival depends on recognizing the danger before the darkness closes in forever.

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  A Fragment of Stained Glass -...

  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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