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  Bank Holiday - A Classic...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Something invisible is driving this crowd up the hill - and once you join them, there is no turning back. Step into Katherine Mansfield’s unsettling masterpiece, "Bank Holiday", a haunting tale where festive celebration masks a deeper, inescapable pull. On a scorching summer afternoon, a surging sea of strangers throngs the streets. Beguiled by unsmiling musicians, cryptic fortune-tellers, and screaming hawkers, the crowd surrenders to a feverish, chaotic trance. Beneath the laughter lies a dark undercurrent; every shadow conceals a secret. Pushed from below by a relentless, unknown force, they are drawn inexorably upward into the blinding heat - unaware of what truly drives them to the crest. Deeply surreal and evocative, this psychological jewel plunges you into a world where joy and madness dance on a razor’s edge. Don't wait - hit "Play" now, step into the crowd, and discover what waits in the blinding light!

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  The Marble Hands

  Bernard Capes

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  The Marble Hands by Bernard Capes 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: We left our bicycles by the little lych-gate and entered the old church yard. Heriot had told me frankly that he did not want to come; but at the last moment, sentiment or curiosity prevailing with him, he had changed his mind. I knew indefinitely that there was something disagreeable to him in the 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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A collection of brilliant cases. A detective unlike any other. Mysteries solved through pure logic and observation.
  
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous collections by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson.
  
  Across these unforgettable stories, Holmes investigates a series of puzzling cases involving theft, deception, murder, and hidden identities. Using his unmatched powers of observation and logical reasoning, he reveals truths that others fail to see.
  
  Each story showcases the brilliance of deductive investigation, combined with atmospheric settings and clever plotting that define the golden age of detective fiction.
  
  A cornerstone of classic mystery literature, this collection remains one of the most widely read and influential works in the history of crime fiction.

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  A Voice from the Pit - From...

  Bernard Capes

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  Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on the 30th August 1854 in London.  He was one of 11 children. 
  His early work was as a journalist and this developed into writing many short stories for the periodicals of the time including Blackwood's, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Illustrated London News, Macmillan's Magazine, Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, and The Queen. 
  It took him many years to decide that writing full-time could be a sustainable career path.  His initial success came with ‘The Mill of Silence’.  As well as being published it garnered second prize at a competition sponsored by the Chicago Record.  He exceeded that by winning it the following year with ‘The Lake of Wine’.   
  Capes quickly became both prolific and popular.  As well as his stories and articles for the periodicals he wrote around 40 volumes across novels, poetry, history as well as romance and mystery novels. 
  Bernard Capes died on 2nd November 1918 in the flu epidemic.

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  The Custom of the Country

  Edith Wharton

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  The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton is a scathing social satire that follows Undine Spragg, a beautiful, ambitious woman from the American Midwest who relentlessly pursues wealth, status, and power in early 20th-century New York and European high society. Marrying and discarding men with calculated ease, Undine manipulates the customs of the elite to climb the social ladder, indifferent to the emotional wreckage she leaves behind. Wharton exposes the moral emptiness of a world where love, marriage, and identity are commodified. A ruthless critique of greed and gender roles, the novel portrays a woman who wins the game of society—only to find it hollow. A masterpiece of realism and psychological depth.

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  The Bell-Tower

  Herman Melville

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  "The Bell-Tower" appeared in 1855 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 32 (August).
  In the south of Europe, nigh a once frescoed capital, now with dank mould cankering its bloom, central in a plain, stands what, at distance, seems the black mossed stump of some immeasurable pine, fallen, in forgotten days, with Anak and the Titan.

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