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  Many Waters Cannot Quench Love -...

  Louisa Baldwin

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  Louisa MacDonald was born in 1845, one of eleven children of part Scottish descent.  Together with three of her sisters they were known as the ‘MacDonald sisters’ primarily because of their marriages to well-known men.   
  In 1866 she married the wealthy industrialist Alfred Baldwin in a double wedding with her sister Anne.   
  After giving birth to Stanley on the 3rd August 1867, who would go on to become Prime Minister, she drifted into an unhappy life in her then residence in Worcestershire.  She had at least one miscarriage and days alone depressed and in darkness. 
  During the 1870’s the couple travelled to find a lasting cure and tried a variety of treatments which led to her recovery in 1883.  She now became a leading figure in her local village of Wilden, near Stourbridge. 
  Her writing career of novels, short stories and poetry is often overlooked, as was the case with so many women, yet her works reveal many talents and a gift for melding odd and weird circumstances into seemingly everyday life.   
  Louisa Baldwin died in 1925.

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  Piping Hot! - Pot-Bouille

  Émile Zola

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  A respectable Paris apartment house where every family on every floor is doing something they would deny, and the servants on the back stairs know all of it. Zola's assault on bourgeois respectability, and the funniest thing in the cycle. This edition is bound with 24 plates of painting by Caillebotte, Renoir, Gill and Sisley, and includes 15 illustrations restored and coloured for the first time.

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  Stories from Tagore - Bengal...

  Rabindranath Tagore

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  Bengali village stories - a postmaster and the orphan who keeps his house, a child sent away to school, a fruit-seller from Kabul and the small girl he befriends - in the plain manner that made Tagore the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He translated much of his own work into English himself. Sixty paintings from 1800 to 1911, among them river views by Marianne North and village scenes by Gaganendranath Tagore, echo the waterways and rural roads of these stories.

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  A Raw Youth

  Constance Garnett, Fyodor...

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  A young man searching for purpose, power, and independence in a world full of conflicting desires.
  
  A Raw Youth is a profound psychological novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, exploring the challenges of youth, ambition, and self-discovery.
  
  The story follows Arkady Dolgoruky, a young man determined to prove himself and achieve independence through his own ideals and ambitions. As he navigates complicated relationships, family conflicts, and the realities of society, Arkady struggles to understand his identity and the values that will shape his future.
  
  Through intense psychological insight and philosophical reflection, Dostoevsky examines themes of pride, morality, social class, generational conflict, and the search for meaning.
  
  A powerful work from one of the greatest voices in world literature, A Raw Youth offers a compelling exploration of the uncertainties and passions of early adulthood.

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  Cakes And Ale

  W. Somerset Maugham

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  When social climber Alroy Kear is given a plum commission to write the biography of recently deceased and highly regarded author Edward Driffield by Driffield's second wife, Kear needs background on Driffield's early years. Kear reaches out to an acquaintance, fellow author William Ashenden, who knew Driffield and his first wife Rosie while Driffield was early in his career and still largely unknown. Set in London during interwar years, W. Somerset Maugham skillfully weaves an engaging and sometimes humorous satire of London's literary society. Originally published as a serial, Cakes and Ale drew attention for its unflattering portrayals of London literary society's snobbery, and for the main characters, who were widely held to be based on English novelists Hugh Walpole and Thomas Hardy . (This was initially denied, but later confirmed in part, by Maugham himself.) While Maugham felt this was one of his lesser works, he noted that it was his favorite based on his portrayal of the colorful character Rosie. W. Somerset Maugham (died 1965) was a significant literary figure of the 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Cakes And Ale exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  The Battle of Life - A Love Story

  Charles Dickens

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  Dive into the poignant and uplifting tale of "The Battle of Life: A Love Story" by Charles Dickens. Set in an idyllic English village, this novella explores the intertwined lives of two sisters, Grace and Marion, and their suitors. Amidst life's trials and personal sacrifices, love and loyalty are put to the test. As secrets unfold and hearts are challenged, Dickens crafts a story of resilience, selflessness, and the enduring power of love, capturing the essence of human spirit and devotion.

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