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  His Own People - A Comedy of...

  Booth Tarkington

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  A young American in Rome, flattered by a title and a shabby-genteel circle of expatriates, spends his money proving he belongs among them — and the compatriots he snubs turn out to be the only people who behave decently. Tarkington was an Indianapolis man and one of only four writers to take the Pulitzer for fiction twice; this 1907 novella is a small, exact study of snobbery, and it costs the hero everything he has.

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  Life on the Mississippi

  Mark Twain

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  "The river is a book—and no one reads it better than Mark Twain."
  
  Before he was the world-famous author of Huckleberry Finn, Samuel Clemens was a cub pilot learning the dangerous and shifting currents of the mighty Mississippi. In Life on the Mississippi, Twain chronicles the high-stakes world of steamboat piloting, where a pilot had to memorize every snag, sandbar, and bend in 1,200 miles of water. Part memoir and part travelogue, the book transitions from the "golden age" of the river to Twain's return years later, after the Civil War and the rise of the railroad had forever altered the soul of the South.
  
  A Masterclass in Storytelling: Twain's signature wit is on full display as he populates the river with colorful characters, legendary river boatmen, and humorous anecdotes. He captures the dialect, the danger, and the sheer majesty of the water that shaped the American identity.
  
  History in Motion: This isn't just a personal story; it is a vital historical document. Twain provides a firsthand account of the transition from a frontier economy to an industrial one, making it an essential read for anyone interested in the evolution of the United States.
  
  Step onto the deck of history. Purchase "Life on the Mississippi" today.

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  Thaddeus of Warsaw - A Polish...

  Jane Porter

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  A young Polish count fights under Kościuszko, sees Poland partitioned out of existence, and arrives in London a refugee with nothing — where the English are charmed by him and quite unwilling to help. Porter published this in 1803, eight years after the third partition; it was read across Europe, Kościuszko himself thanked her, and it invented the exiled hero the nineteenth century would use for a hundred years.

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  Immortal An - From their pens to...

  Sidney Benson Thorp

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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 Sidney Benson Thorp.

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  The Monk - A Romance

  M. G. Lewis

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  A revered abbot of Madrid, famous for never having sinned, is approached by a novice who is not what he seems. Lewis was nineteen and a junior diplomat when he wrote it in ten weeks; the book made him notorious, forced a bowdlerised second edition, and drew a public attack from Coleridge, who called it a poison for youth. It is the most extreme thing the Gothic ever produced, and the Inquisition arrives before the end.

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  Young Alf Being a Chapter from...

  Clarence Rook

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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 one of the Cockney novelists Clarence Rook.

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