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  The Invisible Man

  H. G. Wells

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  This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.

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  The Mayor of Casterbridge

  Thomas Hardy

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  A captivating story of love and regret from the author of Tess of the D’Urbervilles and The Return of the Native Young farm worker Michael Henchard arrives in Casterbridge, Wessex, with his wife and child, looking for a job. Instead, he finds rum. At the town fair, Henchard quarrels with his wife and drunkenly auctions her and his daughter to the assembled crowd. He sells his family to a sailor for five guineas, a monstrous crime that marks him for a lifetime of guilt and pain.   The next morning, Henchard swears off drink. Eighteen years later, he is the wealthy—and sober—mayor of Casterbridge, his terrible secret buried deep in the past. But when Henchard falls in love with a young woman on a trip to the island of Jersey, his inability to marry her threatens to destroy her reputation. The sudden return of his wife and daughter presents Henchard with a chance to finally make things right—or doom himself forever.   This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.  

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  Pagan - A Novel

  W. F. Morris

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  The horrors of World War I continue to haunt two veterans on holiday in 1930s France in this “stirring” novel (Books Monthly).   In the War to End All Wars, Charles Pagan and Dick Baron fought side by side and survived the slaughter. Over a decade later, they return to France not as soldiers but as tourists, taking a serene walking holiday through the Vosges Mountains.   But their idyll soon turns dark when they stay at a remote country guesthouse. The locals are secretive and frightened, breaking their silence only to warn the visitors against visiting an old battlefield nearby. Having seen many such fields under fire, Pagan and Baron consider such apprehensions nonsense—until one night when Pagan thinks he’s glimpsed an apparition on the moonlit battlefield . . .

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  A Fruitless Assignment

  Ambrose Bierce

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  A reporter recounts his encounter with a haunted house.

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  Stories

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Guy de Maupassant (1850 – 1893) is recognized as one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of it's finest exponents. From the humorous to the tragic to the gruesome, with an economy and precision of language , his stories can delight or disturb. Here are ten of them:“The Hand”“The Apparition”“The Diary of a Madman”“The Blind Man”“On the River”“Mother Sauvage”“Tombstones” “A Tress of Hair”“The Diamond Necklace”“An Uncomfortable Bed”Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

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  Pygmalion

  George Bernard Shaw

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  The story of Professor Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who wagers that he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into the toast of London society merely by teaching her how to speak with an upper-class accent. In the process, he becomes fond of her and attempts to direct her future, but she rejects his domineering ways and marries a young but poor man of the genteel class, Freddy.An Author's Republic audio production.

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