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  Moby Dick

  Herman Melville

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  Call me Ishmael. With those three words, one of literature's most extraordinary voyages begins. Aboard the whaling ship Pequod, Captain Ahab drives his crew toward a confrontation with the great white whale that took his leg — a creature he has elevated from animal to symbol, from adversary to obsession. Melville's novel is many things at once: a thrilling sea adventure, a precise and strange encyclopaedia of the whaling industry, a philosophical meditation on fate and free will, and an anatomy of obsession so total it becomes indistinguishable from madness. Ahab's monomaniacal quest pulls every man on the ship into its gravity, until the hunt for one creature becomes a reckoning with the indifference of the universe itself. Vast, digressive, and magnificent, this is the great American novel that America spent decades learning to read.

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  The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car

  Laura Lee Hope

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  The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car by Laura Lee Hope is a delightful classic adventure that follows a lively group of friends as they set out on an exciting automobile journey filled with unexpected discoveries, memorable encounters, and heartwarming moments. Traveling through scenic countryside and charming towns, the girls embrace the thrill of the open road while facing challenges that test their courage, ingenuity, and unwavering friendship.
  
  Along the way, every new destination offers fresh adventures, intriguing mysteries, and opportunities to lend a helping hand to those they meet. Whether navigating unforeseen obstacles or celebrating joyful experiences together, the friends demonstrate resilience, kindness, and teamwork, proving that the greatest adventures are often shared.
  
  Laura Lee Hope's engaging storytelling captures the excitement of early automobile travel while painting vivid scenes of the American landscape and the simple pleasures of exploration. Rich with humor, suspense, and wholesome values, this enduring classic reflects a bygone era when curiosity and determination paved the way for unforgettable journeys.
  
  Ideal for readers who appreciate classic children's literature, historical adventures, and stories centered on friendship and discovery, The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car remains a charming tale that celebrates independence, optimism, and the enduring spirit of adventure.

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  Bread Givers

  Anzia Yezierska

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  'I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.'
  
  A stunning coming-of-age tale, Bread Givers is a moving depiction of the Jewish–American experience in the early twentieth century.
  
  Set in New York's Lower East Side, Bread Givers recounts the early life of Sara Smolinksy and her complicated family, who have immigrated from Poland. Her father, an Orthodox Jew, has committed himself to studying the Torah, refusing to contribute to the family household's income in pursuit of his loftier endeavours. At first, Sara remains dutiful, selling herring on Hester Street to help pay rent. But after seeing her father's self-interested actions and their tumultuous consequences, Sara makes an oath to herself to forge her own path. Deeply poignant and masterfully crafted, Bread Givers remains a masterpiece of Jewish American fiction.
  Anzia Yezierska (1880 – 1970) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Born in Poland under the Russian Empire, she moved to New York as a child – an experience she drew upon in her writing. She is famed for her portrayals of Jewish-American life during the early twentieth century, for which she gained critical acclaim.

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  The Secret City

  Hugh Walpole

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  We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? The Secret City is Walpole's sequel to his earlier book about Russian life, The Dark Forest . John Durward, the English protagonist from that book and a semi-autobiographical stand-in for Walpole, is visiting St. Petersburg (then Petrograd) when he runs in to some old friends from England. Through them he meets Vera and Nina, two young and bourgeois sisters, and Nicolai Markovitch, a downtrodden and ridiculous inventor. Semyonov, a brooding doctor who is the sisters' uncle and a character from The Dark Forest , returns as a dark, viperous thread weaving through the story. Durward narrates the lives of these bourgeois Russians as they love each other and fight amongst themselves in equal measure. But as they obliviously carry on their cozy, lamp-lit lives, the Russian Revolution breaks out around them. St. Petersburg quickly changes from a comfortable, elegant, and gently mysterious city to a bloody and cold scar across the face of civilization. As the air fills with the sound of gunfire and the smell of smoke and soot, Durward and his English and Russian friends become a microcosm of the chaos they find themselves engulfed in. Walpole lived some years in Russia during the Revolution, working as a journalist, then at the Russian Red Cross, and later as the Head of British Propaganda in St. Petersburg. His intimate knowledge of both the city and of the turbulent early days of the Revolution give The Secret City a more than convincing air. It's the first book to have won the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction , and is considered to be Walpole's most delicate and insightful work.

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  Oroonoko: or the Royal Slave

  Aphra Behn

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  Love, betrayal, slavery, and resistance collide in one of the earliest English novels.
  
  Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave tells the story of an African prince whose life is transformed by betrayal and enslavement. Separated from his homeland and subjected to a brutal new reality, Oroonoko struggles to preserve his dignity, love, and sense of identity.
  
  The work explores slavery, colonialism, power, loyalty, love, freedom, and human dignity against the backdrop of the colonial world.
  
  Published in the seventeenth century, Oroonoko occupies an important place in the history of English literature and continues to invite discussion about its portrayal of slavery, race, colonial society, and individual freedom.
  
  Experience a landmark work of early English fiction and its powerful story of love, captivity, and resistance.

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  The Fortunes of Glencore - An...

  Charles Lever

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  An Irish family exiled abroad by debt and pride, a father who will not come home and a son who does not know why. Lever wrote it in Italy, where he spent his last years as consul, and it is the most autobiographical of his books about the Anglo-Irish going down. This edition adds fifty-six plates after Erskine Nicol, George Morland and Henry Raeburn, and four illustrations restored and coloured.

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