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  Wheels of Chance The: A...

  H. G. Wells

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  Mr. Hoopdriver is a frustrated draper’s assistant in Putney, London. He is badly paid, over-worked, and he needs a holiday. He also owns a bicycle—though he is an awkward rider.  
  When his annual ten days’ holiday comes around, Mr. Hoopdriver sets out on a bicycling tour of the “Southern Coast.” Will this adventure be enough to shake up the dreariness of his ordinary life? Will his escapist flights of fancy end in disaster? And what should he make of the constant reappearance of the “Young Lady in Grey”? 
  Wells wrote this story at the height of the bicycling craze and before the automobile. The bicycle gave freedom to the working class, weakened the English class structure and gave a boost to female emancipation. In his story he explores these changes.

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  Wuthering Heights

  Emily Brontë

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  Set on the wild and windswept Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is one of the most powerful and haunting novels ever written. Emily Brontë's only novel tells the turbulent story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw—two souls bound by passion, pride, revenge, and destructive love.Through shifting narrators and layered storytelling, the novel explores obsession, class conflict, generational trauma, and the dark intensity of human emotion. Heathcliff's relentless pursuit of vengeance and Catherine's fierce independence create a Gothic masterpiece that defies conventional romance.Raw, atmospheric, and emotionally uncompromising, Wuthering Heights stands as a landmark of English literature—an unforgettable exploration of love at its most transcendent and most destructive.Perfect for readers of classic literature, Gothic fiction, tragic romance, and character-driven drama.

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  The Celestial Railroad - From...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, a town synonymous with the earlier Salem Witch Trials. It was instrumental in Hawthorne’s later use of American Gothic and dark romanticism in his writing. 
  He was a mere four years old when his father died and his mother took him and his two sisters to live with her family and then on to their own home in Raymond, Maine. The young Hawthorne had a passion for fiction and poetry and voraciously read the works of Ann Radcliffe, Henry Fielding and Lord Byron.  
  He was sent to college at his maternal uncle’s insistence. During these years he met and befriended Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future U S president Franklin Pierce. These friendships were lifelong and to have a crucial impact on his writings and career.  
  At college Hawthorne had made attempts at writing short stories and essays but without opportunities to publish. It was only in 1828 that he finally published his novel ‘Franshawe’ to little success and so he began work as editor for the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge.  
  Hawthorne’s short stories were first published in magazines but in 1837 were collected and published as ‘Twice-Told Tales’. A steady literary career still did not come his way and so he worked in a good position at Salem’s port and married the love of his life Sophia Peabody. They moved to live in ‘The Old Manse’ at Concord, Massachusetts.   
  Finally. in 1850 came spectacular literary and commercial success with ‘The Scarlet Letter’ followed by ‘The House of the Seven Gables’ the following year.  
  In 1852, Hawthorne published a biography of presidential candidate Franklin Pierce. After Pierce’s victory he was appointed consul in Liverpool, a position that offered prestige, money and fame. At the end of this appointment he returned several times to Europe before settling in Massachusetts and resuming writing and publication. 
  During the early 1860’s his health declined and on 19th May 1864 during a trip to Plymouth, New Hampshire. He was 59 and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.

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  The Lair of the White Worm

  Bram Stoker

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  The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Adam Salton sauntered into the Empire Club, Sydney, and found awaiting him a letter from his grand-uncle. He had first heard from the old gentleman less than a year before, when Richard Salton had claimed kinship, stating that he had been unable to write earlier, as he had found it very difficult to This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  The Masque of the Red Death

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains up This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  Father Goriot - A Paris...

  Honoré de Balzac

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  In a shabby Paris boarding house an old vermicelli merchant sells the last of his silver to keep two daughters in the gowns their marriages require, while upstairs a law student learns the city's actual curriculum. Balzac compresses the whole Human Comedy into one street, and Rastignac's challenge from the cemetery closes it. Paintings of gas-lit streets, candlelit garrets and glittering salons; Gilded Library ornament of boarding-house key, mantel clock and tallow.

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