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  The Misanthrope - The Original...

  Molière Molière

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  Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well-rounded, and who knows - Alceste might actually grow and change throughout the play. "Those who admired noble thoughts, select language, accurate delineations of character, and a perfect and entertaining style, placed this comedy from the very beginning where it is generally put, with the common consent of all students of sound literature, in the foremost rank of the good comedies of Moliere.

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  Don Quixote: Book Summary &...

  Briefly Summaries

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  This is a concise summary and analysis of  Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
   
  It is not the original book and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
   
  Ideal those seeking a quick and insightful overview.
   
  
   
  A timeless tale of adventure, imagination, and folly, Don Quixote follows the exploits of a delusional yet noble-hearted Spanish nobleman who, inspired by chivalric romances, sets out on a quest to revive knighthood. Accompanied by his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, he battles windmills, confronts bandits, and pursues his ideal of justice, often with humorous and tragic results. This novel is a brilliant satire of medieval ideals and a profound meditation on reality, identity, and the power of storytelling.

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  Shirley

  Charlotte Brontë

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  Two young women. One restless country. A world shifting beneath their feet.
  Set against the backdrop of industrial unrest in 19th-century England, Shirley follows the intertwined lives of Caroline Helstone—gentle, reserved, quietly yearning—and Shirley Keeldar, a bold, wealthy, and independent woman who refuses to bow to society's expectations. As the mills face violent protests and tensions rise, both women confront love, loss, and the fight to shape their own destinies.
  
  Praised as "Charlotte Brontë's most socially daring novel," this story blends romance, political conflict, and richly drawn characters into a sweeping portrait of courage and transformation. Readers cherish its emotional depth, strong heroines, and vivid depiction of a world on the edge of change.
  
  If you love character-focused classics, subtle romance, and stories of women forging their own paths, this novel will captivate you.
  
  Open the pages—and step into a world where love, courage, and independence redefine what is possible.

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  A Favorite Daughter

  P. O. Dixon

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  Mr. Bennet had very often wished that, instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum for the better provision of his children, and of his wife, if she survived him. Alas, he did not live long enough to do it. After her father’s untimely death, Miss Elizabeth Bennet reads a letter from him in which he tasks her with the protection of her family. 
  Elizabeth is willing to do everything in her power to fulfill her father's dying wish, even if it means marrying a man she cannot love. 
  There is, however, one man whom she can love. Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. The two start out as friends, but Mr. Darcy wants more. Much more. 
  Surely Elizabeth will not always sacrifice her own happiness for the sake of her family. Or will she?

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  The Beetle Hunter

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories, a suppressed uneasiness gradually builds up and evolves into sheer terror; in others, the story line unexpectedly changes and comes to an unexpected conclusion. In "The Beetle-Hunter," a beginning doctor is employed on a strange errand to a coleopterist.

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  Aesop's Fables-A New Revised...

  Aesop

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  "The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.  Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses."

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