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  Les Misérables: Volume 2:...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
  BOOK 7: PARENTHESIS: Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the Infinite.

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  Not Good Enough - A Simon Iff...

  Aleister Crowley

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  Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. 
   
  He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes. 
   
  Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject himself into Western esotericism.  In 1898, he joined the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was trained in ceremonial magic before studying both Hindu and Buddhist practices in India. 
   
  On his Egyptian honeymoon in 1904 he claimed contact with an entity―Aiwass―who gave him the sacred Book of the Law which served as the basis for the Thelema religion where he identified as its prophet.  During the Great War, which he spent in the United States, he claimed to be working for British Intelligence but by the 1920s he had decamped to pursue a libertine lifestyle in Sicily, and in the ensuing scandals was evicted by the Italian Government. 
   
  He divided the following two decades between France, Germany, and England, and the continuing promotion of Thelema. 
   
  During his life he gained widespread notoriety for his drug use, his bisexuality, and his alarming views on society.  In short, polite society frowned on his ways, his thoughts and his influence but to many others his stance had much of value.  Even after death he was a darling for the 60’s counterculture but his influence has since waned.   
   
  His literary works were both prolific and covered many topics.  In the early part of his career he published many poetry books, even plays, before his darker and more forceful works came to dominate his output. 
   
  Aleister Crowley died on 1st December 1947 at Hastings in England. He was 72.

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  Three Men in a Boat

  Jerome K. Jerome

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  Three friends. One dog. A "relaxing" boat trip that goes wrong in every possible way.
  What begins as a peaceful holiday on the Thames quickly unravels into a riot of comic disasters—burnt meals, collapsing tents, impossible navigation, and endless bickering. Through it all, Jerome's witty storytelling turns trivial mishaps into laugh-out-loud moments, capturing the quirks of friendship and the absurdity of everyday life.
  
  Praised as "one of the funniest books ever written," this timeless classic blends sharp humor, travelogue charm, and irresistible lightheartedness. It remains a favorite for readers seeking joy, escape, and pure comedic delight.
  
  If you love clever humor, warm companionship, and stories that brighten your day, this novel is guaranteed to make you smile.
  
  Open the book—and set sail on a journey where every mistake becomes unforgettable fun.

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  The Black Cat

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" is a short story that explores themes of guilt and perversity. The narrator, haunted by cruelty to his black cat and acts of domestic violence, is consumed by paranoia and madness. His attempt to conceal a crime leads to his own disgrace.

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  War and Peace - Book 12: 1812...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
  Book 12: 1812: In Petersburg at that time a complicated struggle was being carried on with greater heat than ever in the highest circles, between the parties of Rumyántsev, the French, Márya Fëdorovna, the Tsarévich, and others, drowned as usual by the buzzing of the court drones.

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  Bleak House

  Charles Dickens

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  A haunting mystery. A biting satire. A masterpiece of Victorian literature.
  
  In one of his most ambitious and acclaimed novels, Charles Dickens weaves a complex web of mystery, injustice, and human drama in Bleak House—a powerful indictment of a broken legal system and a deeply moving portrait of the lives caught within it.
  
  At the center of the novel is the long-running Jarndyce and Jarndyce case, a convoluted inheritance dispute that has dragged through the Court of Chancery for generations, consuming time, money, and lives. As the case grinds on, a cast of unforgettable characters emerges: the kind-hearted Esther Summerson, the brooding and generous John Jarndyce, the proud and tragic Lady Dedlock, and the mysterious figure who holds the key to secrets that could shatter reputations and lives.
  
  Blending elements of legal drama, social critique, romance, and detective fiction, Bleak House is both a scathing commentary on institutional corruption and a deeply human story about identity, morality, and redemption.
  
  Why readers still love Bleak House:
  
  A vivid and sprawling narrative filled with memorable characters
  
  One of the earliest novels to feature a detective figure in English fiction
  
  A profound exploration of class, poverty, and the failures of bureaucracy
  
  Dickens's razor-sharp wit and unforgettable prose
  
  By turns darkly comic and emotionally devastating, Bleak House remains one of Dickens's greatest achievements—and one of the most important novels of the 19th century.

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