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  The Piazza Tales

  Herman Melville

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  The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands. (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.)
  Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume Benito Cereno and Other Sketches, but settled on the definitive title after he had written the introductory story. The book received largely favorable reviews, with reviewers especially praising "The Encantadas" but did not sell well enough to get Melville out of his financial straits, probably because short fiction for magazines had little appeal to bookbuyers. From after Melville's rediscovery to the end of the twentieth century, the short works that attracted the most critical attention were "Bartleby," "Benito Cereno" and "The Encantadas," with "The Piazza" a little behind those.

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  Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of eight stories in the volume His Last Bow. 
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859-July 7, 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. 
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  The Life And Opinions Of...

  Laurence Sterne

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  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , a fictional autobiography of the eponymous narrator, contains—perhaps surprisingly—little about either his life or opinions, but what it does have is a meandering journey through the adventures of his close family and their associates. The book is famous for being more about the explanatory diversions and rabbit-holes that the narrator takes us down than the actual happenings he set out to describe, but in doing so he paints a vivid picture of the players and their personal stories. Published two volumes at a time over the course of eight years, Tristram Shandy was an immediate commercial success although not without some confusion among critics. Sterne's exploration of form that pushed at the contemporary limits of what could be called a novel has been hugely influential, garnering admirers as varied as Marx, Schopenhauer, Joyce , Woolf and Rushdie. The book has been translated into many other languages and adapted for the stage, radio, and film. Laurence Sterne (died 1768) was one of the foundational figures of Western literary tradition. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Gentleman 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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  The Mysterious Card - From their...

  Cleveland Moffett

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  The bookshelves of American 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 Cleveland Moffett.

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  The Legend of Sir Lancelot du...

  Jessie L. Weston

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  The Lancelot romances compared: the French prose cycle, the German versions, the Welsh material and the English, and what each did with the same three or four episodes. Jessie Weston was the leading English Arthurian scholar of her generation and later wrote "From Ritual to Romance". Her method is source criticism, and her conclusions about the older layers still frame the argument. Sixty plates of painting, from Turner to Rossetti, trace the romantic and chivalric themes that run through the Lancelot cycle.

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  David Copperfield

  Charles Dickens

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  David Copperfield is a deeply personal and richly detailed coming-of-age novel that follows the life journey of David from a troubled childhood to adulthood in Victorian England. After enduring hardship, cruelty, poverty, and betrayal, David gradually discovers friendship, love, ambition, and self-worth while navigating a world filled with memorable characters, including the manipulative Uriah Heep, the eccentric Betsey Trotwood, and the loyal Peggotty family. Through themes of resilience, social class, personal growth, education, and morality, the novel offers both emotional depth and sharp social commentary. Widely regarded as one of the greatest works of English literature, this classic combines humor, tragedy, romance, and autobiographical elements in an unforgettable portrait of human experience and

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