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  The Valley of Unrest

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Valley of Unrest: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
  
  Once it smiled a silent dell
  Where the people did not dwell;
  They had gone unto the wars,
  Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
  Nightly, from their azure towers,
  To keep watch above the flowers,
  In the midst of which all day
  The red sun-light lazily lay.

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  My Lady's Money - An Episode in...

  Wilkie Collins

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  A five-hundred-pound note vanishes from a lady's writing table, the companion is blamed, and a private inquiry agent called Old Sharon — filthy, cynical, and accompanied by a dog — solves it for a fee. Collins invented the detective novel with The Moonstone; this short 1877 book gives the work to a professional who is frankly in it for the money, forty years before anyone else made that respectable. Sixty plates of moonlit docks, burning boats and women in church by painters such as John Atkinson Grimshaw and James Tissot carry the book's atmosphere of suspicion and quiet watching.

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  The Romance of Polar Exploration...

  G. Firth Scott

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  The search for the poles from the early navigators to Scott's Discovery: Franklin's ships and their fate, the American attempts, the Greely disaster, the drift of the Fram. G. Firth Scott wrote just after the Discovery came home in 1904, when the poles were the great unfinished business of geography. His chapter on the Franklin searches is careful about the evidence and does not soften what was found. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Caspar David Friedrich and Ivan Aivazovsky carry the ice, light and open water that give these voyages their atmosphere.

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  Hot Milk - Suffragette author...

  V F Friedlaender

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  The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Grazia Deledda.

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  Scenes and Characters - or...

  Charlotte M. Yonge

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  A motherless family of brothers and sisters try to run their own household and discover how much they do not know. Yonge wrote for girls and did not soften the consequences of foolishness. This edition adds a gallery of 56 plates after painters including Marianne North, Edward Hicks and Arthur Hughes, alongside one restored and coloured illustration.

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  The Venetians

  M. E. Braddon

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  While enjoying Carnival in Venice, a gentleman named Vansittart meets a beautiful working-class woman. They're enjoying a light-hearted meal in a cafe when her jealous lover unexpectedly attacks—and Vansittart fatally stabs him. Vansittart escapes, assumes a false identity, and resolves to keep the incident secret for the rest of his life. This traumatic event sends Vansittart on a journey of redemption filled with secrecy, jealousy, vengeance, and love. The Venetians is one of M. E. Braddon's later Victorian sensation novels, a form that combines romance and realism and is the 19th century precursor to modern-day pulp fiction. The novel celebrates the beauty of Venice and its vibrant culture of the arts, and includes delightful contemporary descriptions of Venice, London, and multiple scenic locations across England and Europe. M. E. Braddon (died 1915) was a prominent voice of the late 19th and early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, The Venetians 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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