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  A Novel in a Nutshell - From...

  George Moore

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is George Moore.

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  The War-Time Journal of a...

  Eliza Frances Andrews

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  "The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865" is an evocative and historically significant diary penned by Eliza Frances Andrews, which vividly captures the tumult and transformation of the American South during the waning days of the Civil War and the onset of Reconstruction. Through Andrews' keen observations and personal reflections, readers are offered a rare glimpse into the domestic life, social upheavals, and the shifting political landscape of Georgia in this era. Her writing not only sheds light on the challenges and changes faced by individuals and communities but also provides a nuanced perspective on the broader societal implications of the war and its aftermath. As a document of historical record and personal endurance, Andrews' journal stands as a poignant testament to the resilience and complexity of the human spirit in times of national crisis.

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  Days on the Road: Crossing the...

  Sarah Raymond Herndon

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  Days on the Road is an autobiographical account of a young woman who traveled over the Great Plains toward the Rocky Mountains by wagon train with her mother and two younger brothers. Barely a month after the end of the Civil War, Sarah Raymond Herndonheaded westwith no certain idea of where to go but a strong desire to leave Missouri and start a new life in the West.

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  Dwellings of the Damned - 15...

  Robert Arthur, E. F. Benson, A....

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  A collection of stories concerning shunned and disreputable houses. 
  Contents: 
  Nobody's House by A. M. Burrage (1927) 
  The history of a haunted house. 
  A Night of Horror by Dick Donovan (1899) 
  A haunted castle in the hills of Wales. 
  The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson (1912) 
  A recurring nightmare. 
  The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White (1906) 
  A night at a remote country house. 
  The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft (1937) 
  An abandoned house in Providence. 
  The Red Lodge by H. Russell Wakefield (1928) 
  A dreadful rental experience. 
  The Specter Priestess of Wrightstone by Herman F. Wright (1925) 
  A legend surrounding an English castle. 
  The Secret of the Vault by J. Wesley Rosenquest (1938) 
  A charnel chamber beneath an old house. 
  Black Was the Night by Laurence Bour, Jr. (1940) 
  An encounter in a crumbling house. 
  Six Flights to Terror by Manly Banister (1946) 
  How do you bury a building? 
  Up Under the Roof by M. W. Wellman (1938) 
  Something stalks the space between the roof-peak and the ceiling. 
  The Believers by Robert Arthur (1941) 
  A radio host broadcasts from a crumbling, haunted mansion. 
  Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard (1938) 
  A deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons. 
  The Ghost of a Hand by Sheridan Le Fanu (1863) 
  A house haunted by a partially visible ghost. 
  Dark Mummery by Thorp McClusky (1944) 
  Beware of 'reputedly' haunted houses.

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  A Dead Secret - From their pens...

  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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  Oscar Wilde - Letters Volume 4...

  Oscar Wilde

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  The correspondence of Oscar Wilde volume four. 
   
  This fourth collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote while living in Berneval, in the months after his release from prison, and in Naples, where he shared a villa with his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. In a long letter to the editor of the Daily Chronicle, Wilde describes the cruelties of prison life. At this time Wilde was writing The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and the poem is a frequent topic in his letters to his friend, Robert Ross, and publisher, Leonard Smithers. 
   
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s

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