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  Living

  Henry Green

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  Living immerses us in the daily lives of a group of ordinary people working in a post-WWI iron factory.
  
  Through fragmented perspectives, Green captures the beauty and chaos of everyday existence—love, loss, and the fleeting moments of joy amidst routine. As the characters navigate their lives, the line between their inner worlds and external realities blurs, revealing the quiet yet profound battles that define the human experience.

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  20000 Leagues under the Sea

  Jules Verne

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  "The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.'"
  
  In 1866, ships across the globe report sightings of a mysterious and deadly sea monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner Ned Land join an expedition to hunt the creature, only to discover that the "monster" is actually a futuristic submarine: the Nautilus. Taken prisoner by the enigmatic Captain Nemo, the trio is whisked away on a 20,000-league journey beneath the waves. From the coral graveyards of the Red Sea to the sunken ruins of Atlantis and the icy barriers of the South Pole, they witness wonders and horrors hidden from the eyes of the world.
  
  A Marvel of Victorian Engineering: The true star of the novel is the Nautilus itself. Driven entirely by electricity—a novelty in Verne's time—it features a library of 12,000 volumes, a museum of rare pearls, and a massive glass window that offers a front-row seat to the mysteries of the deep. Verne's technical foresight remains a staggering achievement of the "hard" science fiction genre.
  
  The Enigma of Captain Nemo: Captain Nemo is more than a scientist; he is an exile, a rebel, and a man driven by a profound hatred for the empires of the land. His motto, Mobilis in Mobili (Moving in the Moving Element), reflects his desire for total freedom. The novel explores the tension between his genius and his thirst for vengeance against a world that took everything from him.
  
  Man vs. The Living Infinite: From the terrifying encounter with a forest of giant kelp to the legendary battle with the "pouples" (giant squids), Verne creates a world of high-stakes adventure. It is a story that captures the human spirit of discovery and the humbling power of the natural world.
  
  Dive into the unknown. Purchase "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" today and join the crew of the Nautilus.

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  The Muse's Tragedy - From their...

  Edith Wharton

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  Edith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862.   Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘The Age Of Innocence’ 
  Marriage to Edward Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years older in 1885 seemed to offer much and for some years they travelled extensively.  After some years it was apparent that her husband suffered from acute depression and so the travelling ceased and they retired to The Mount, their estate designed by Edith.  By 1908 his condition was said to be incurable and prior to divorcing Edward in 1913 she began an affair, in 1908, with Morton Fullerton, a Times journalist, who was her intellectual equal and allowed her writing talents to push forward and write the novels for which she is so well known.  
  Acknowledged as one of the great American writers with novels such as Ethan Frome and the House of Mirth among many.  Wharton also wrote many short stories, including ghost stories and poems which we are pleased to publish.  
  Edith Wharton died of a stroke in 1937 at the Domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt.

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  The Spectacles

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Spectacles" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in March 1844 in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. It is one of Poe's comedy tales.
  The narrator, 22-year-old Napoleon Buonaparte Froissart, changes his last name to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity, "resolutely refused to employ them". His companion Talbot identifies the woman as Madame Eugenie Lalande, a wealthy widow, and promises to introduce the two. He courts her and proposes marriage; she makes him promise that, on their wedding night, he will wear his spectacles.

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  Antarctic Mystery or the Sphinx...

  Jules Verne

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  "An Antarctic Mystery", also known as "The Sphinx of the Ice Fields", is a captivating two-volume novel written by the renowned French author Jules Verne. This work, penned in 1897, serves as a continuation of Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket".During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be Johann Wyss's Swiss Family Robinson and Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Arthur Gordon Pym (1845) was only one of many Poe stories which Verne admired; no other single author had more impact on his writing.

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  The Return of the Native

  Thomas Hardy

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  'She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.'
  
  One of Thomas Hardy's most controversial yet highly regarded novels, The Return of the Native is a classic tragedy that uncompromisingly explores sexual politics, repressed desire and the hypocrisies of society.
  
  When the beautiful and restless Eustacia Vye dreams of escaping the rural village of Edgon Heath, the return of Clym Yeobright, a successful diamond merchant previously working in Paris, sparks hope. But with the opportunity of a new life comes reckless desire and ruin, as Eustacia and Clym find themselves bound by love, yet driven by ambition, grappling with the suffocating expectations thrust upon them by society. As jealousies flare and choices grow more impulsive, their small town becomes a hotbed of betrayal, misunderstanding and tragedy. As haunting as it is daring, The Return of the Native reveals how pride, superficiality and stubborn hearts can spiral into devastating loss.
  Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) was an English poet and novelist. Heavily influenced by the Romantic and Victorian Realist movements, his writing is characterised by evocative language, rich imagery and innovative narrative structures. Hardy was socially conscious and highly critical of Victorian society, often using his writing to depict the lives of people living in deprived rural areas of England.

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