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  Little Dorrit

  Charles Dickens

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  When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.

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  Edna Ferber: The Woman Who Tried...

  Edna Ferber

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  "Before she tried to be a good woman she had been a very bad woman—so bad that she could trail her wonderful apparel up and down Main Street, from the Elm Tree Bakery to the railroad tracks, without once having a man doff his hat to her or a woman bow. You passed her on the street with a surreptitious glance, though she was well worth looking at—in her furs and laces and plumes. She had the only full-length mink coat in our town, and Ganz's shoe store sent to Chicago for her shoes. Hers were the miraculously small feet you frequently see in stout women. 
  For she owned the House with the Closed Shutters, near the freight depot—did Blanche Devine".

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  Jane Austen - The Complete...

  Jane Austen

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  This book contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication.- Lady Susan Starts at Chapter 1- Sense and Sensibility Starts at Chapter 43- Pride and Prejudice Starts at Chapter 93- Mansfield Park Starts at Chapter 154- Emma Starts at Chapter 202- Persuasion Starst at Chapter 256- Northanger Abbey Starts at Chapter 280 - The Watson Starts at Chapter 310Bonus - Sanditon ''Unfinished Masterpiece'' Starts at Chapter 314

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  The Phantom Rickshaw

  Rudyard Kipling

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  An uncanny tale from the Raj. When Jack Pansay's affair with Mrs. Keith-Wessington comes to an unseemly end, he believes the matter to be over. But Mrs. Wessington's obsession with him continues year after year, as she stalks him in her rickshaw around the walks of Simla. When Pansay announces his engagement to Kitty Mannering, the trauma is too much for Mrs. Wessington and she dies shortly afterwards. But this is only the beginning of Pansay's torment. From now on, the ghost of Mrs. Wessington appears in her rickshaw wherever he goes in her eternal quest to win him back.

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  Wodjabet

  C.E. Montague

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  Charles Edward Montague was born in London on New Year’s Day, 1867 and educated at the City of London School and then Balliol College, Oxford. 
   
  At university, Montague, a keen writer, wrote several literary reviews for the Manchester Guardian and was then invited for a month’s trial and, after impressing, to work there.   
   
  Montague and the editor, C. P. Scott shared the same political views and between them they turned the Manchester Guardian into a vibrant and campaigning newspaper.  They were for Irish Home Rule and against both the Boer War and the First World War. 
   
  But, after the war had begun, Montague believed that it was important to give full and unequivocal support to the British government.  Despite his age, 47, he was determined to serve. 
   
  Montague was soon promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and with it a transfer to Military Intelligence. The war also brought about a crisis in his faith and it was suitable resolved by Montague temporarily putting it to one side and carrying on with the fighting. 
   
  In November 1918 the war was over and Montague could now return home to his wife and family and also to the Manchester Guardian where he would continue to work until retirement in 1925.  
   
  For Montague the war had been corrosive but it had given him much to write about, both for the paper and also for his books, which he now hoped to spend more time on.  Among those to flow from his pen are the novels A Hind Let Loose and Rough Justice as well as collections of short stories, other essays and a travel book. 
   
  He finally retired in 1925, and settled down to become a full-time writer in the last years of his life.  
   
  Charles Edward Montague died in Manchester on May 28th, 1928 at the age of 61.

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  He Can Who Thinks He Can

  Orison Swett Marden

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  Do you have what it takes to be the person you want to be? This is a neat self help book in plain English by the New Thought Movement author Orison Swett Marden. He has included various essays on the principles he believes will lead to success in life. This book is a nice reading for any one who believes in "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone," which was one of Orison Swett Marden's famous dialogues.

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