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  Frankenstein; or The Modern...

  Mary Shelley

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  Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a ground-breaking work of gothic fiction and one of the earliest science fiction novels. This original 1818 text tells the haunting tale of Victor Frankenstein, a driven scientist whose unrelenting ambition leads him to create life from death. But his triumph gives rise to horror as his creature, abandoned and shunned, turns to vengeance. 
  Exploring themes of ambition, responsibility, and the consequences of playing God, Frankenstein is a timeless masterpiece that raises profound questions about humanity, morality, and the pursuit of knowledge. A cornerstone of literature, the 1818 text retains its raw power and chilling relevance to this day.

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  Diplomacy - From their pens to...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  Adam Bede

  George Eliot

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  A bestseller from the moment of publication, Adam Bede, although on one level a rich and loving re-creation of a small community shaken to its core, is more than a charming, faultlessly evoked pastoral. However much the reader may sympathize with Hetty Sorrel and identify with Arthur Donnithorne, her seducer, and with Adam Bede, the man Hetty betrays,it is George Eliots's creation of the distant aesthetic whole - the complex, multifarious life of Hayslope - which so grips the reader's imagination. As Stephen Gill comments: 'Reading the novel is a process of learning simultaneously about the world of Adam Bede and the world of Adam Bede.'

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  Les Misérables - Volume 2:...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
  VOLUME 2: COSETTE: Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce something in the nature of enormous waves.

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  Hunchback of Notre-Dame The...

  Victor Hugo

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  Book 2: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame or Notre-Dame de Paris is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. - The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI. The gypsy Esmeralda (born as Agnes) captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust for Esmeralda and the rules of Notre Dame Cathedral. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her, but Quasimodo is captured by Phoebus and his guards, who save Esmeralda. Gringoire, who attempted to help Esmeralda but was knocked out by Quasimodo, is about to be hanged by beggars when Esmeralda saves him by agreeing to marry him for four years.

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  Leo Tolstoy Short Story Collection

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Unearth a deep and philosophical short story collection from a literary legend. 
  As the celebrated and critically-acclaimed author of War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy is a literary master and is considered to be one of the greatest authors of all time. His books, ranging from gritty war stories steeped in realism to profoundly spiritual and religious works, have enabled his legacy to transcend the 19th century and resonate with modern-day readers of all backgrounds. 
  Inside this brilliant collection, you’ll explore Tolstoy’s most famous and beloved short stories, delving into his most influential ideas and offering a unique glimpse into his life and lessons. Having inspired the likes of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. with his belief in pacifism and Christian ethics, Tolstoy’s artful prose and mastery of language is as powerful as his vivid settings and unforgettable characters. 
  Books included:What Men Live ByMaster and ManHow Much Land Does a Man NeedIvan the FoolWhere Love Is, God IsGod Sees the Truth, But WaitsA PrisonerThe Snowstorm 
  This collection brings Tolstoy’s work to life like never before, offering a selection of his finest and most memorable works to enchant and inspire contemporary readers just like they did well over a hundred years ago.

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