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  The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

  Mark Twain

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  Nowadays The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the most famous and popular novel by an American writer Mark Twain (his real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
  Huckleberry Finn is a teenager who runs away from his alcoholic father that was constantly beating him. On the way, an escaped black slave Jim, whose master was going to sell him to more cruel owners, joins him. Huck and Jim sail down the Mississippi River to Cairo in Illinois where slavery is abolished.
  The book is famous for its picturesque descriptions of people and towns along the Mississippi River. The actions happen before the Civil War in the south society that disappeared approximately 20 years before the publication of the novel. It is full of a satire on ingrained prejudices, racism in particular.

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde

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  A beautiful face. A terrible secret. One man's soul trapped inside a portrait that never forgets.
  When the charming and breathtakingly handsome Dorian Gray wishes for eternal youth, his desire is mysteriously granted—but every sin he commits stains his hidden portrait instead of him. As he plunges deeper into pleasure, temptation, and moral decay, the truth he fears most slowly takes shape on the canvas he dares not look at.
  
  This timeless masterpiece by Oscar Wilde blends beauty and darkness with unmatched elegance. Readers around the world praise it as *"haunting, seductive, and shockingly modern"—*a novel that lingers in the mind long after the final page.
  
  If you crave a story that is philosophical yet thrilling, poetic yet unsettling, this edition will pull you into Dorian's glittering world and keep you turning pages late into the night.
  
  Start reading now and experience the classic that changed gothic fiction forever.

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  The Secret Garden

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  "If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."
  
  When the sour and neglected Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the Yorkshire moors, she finds a world of silence and secrets. But the moor holds a mystery: a walled garden, locked away for ten years, its key buried and forgotten. With the help of the spirited Dickon and her hidden cousin Colin, Mary discovers that as she tends to the withered roses, her own heart begins to bloom. This is a story of how the "Magic" of the natural world can mend broken spirits and turn a house of shadows into a home of light.
  
  The Art of Becoming: The Secret Garden is a profound exploration of character growth. Mary Lennox begins as one of literature's most unlikable heroines—spoiled, "contrary," and yellow-skinned—only to be transformed by manual labor, fresh air, and friendship. Through the characters of Colin and Mary, Burnett illustrates her belief in the connection between physical health and a positive mind, making it a pioneering work of psychological resilience.
  
  A Celebration of the Wild: The Yorkshire moor itself is a living character in the book—vast, windy, and untamed. It stands in stark contrast to the stifling atmosphere of Mary's life in India and the locked rooms of the manor. Burnett's vivid prose captures the sensory experience of the changing seasons, from the first grey mist of spring to the lush, hidden paradise of summer.
  
  Unlock the door to a world of wonder. Purchase "The Secret Garden" today and witness the magic of growth.

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  Northanger Abbey

  Jane Austen

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  "Northanger Abbey" is a satirical novel that tells the story of Catherine Morland, a young, naïve girl who is taken to Bath by family friends for a season of socializing and romance. Catherine is a great reader of gothic novels, which often lead her to imagine plots and intrigues where there are none. At Bath, Catherine meets the charming Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who introduce her to their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Catherine becomes infatuated with Henry and begins to imagine that his family is hiding secrets and mysteries, much like the gothic novels she loves to read. She begins to explore the Abbey with this in mind, but her fantasies soon come crashing down when she discovers that there is no hidden intrigue at Northanger Abbey. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Boarding House The (Unabridged)

  James Joyce

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  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
  THE BOARDING HOUSE: Mrs Mooney was a butcher's daughter. She was a woman who was quite able to keep things to herself: a determined woman. She had married her father's foreman and opened a butcher's shop near Spring Gardens.

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  The Shooting Party

  Anton Chekhov

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  The only full-length novel which Chekhov authored, The Shooting Party revolves around Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken worker on a country estate, and her relationships with the men in her life.
  
  Loved by Urbenin, whom she eventually marries; desired by the Count Karneyev; and adored by Zinovyev, who knows the sadness at the heart of her marriage, a murderous attack begins a spiral of alarm, mistrust, and deceit.
  Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian playwright and is still considered one of the greatest short story writers of all time.

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