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  Sense and Sensibility

  Jane Austen

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  Two sisters, one who says everything she feels and one who says almost nothing, are left with a small income and an unreliable supply of suitors. Austen's first published novel already has the machinery complete: money discussed with total accuracy, feeling observed without mercy, and comedy that never spares the person we are meant to like. She published it anonymously, as "By a Lady".

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  Laugh and Live

  Douglas Fairbanks

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  Laugh and Live by Douglas Fairbanks is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics 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: There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure—happiness is for all who strive to be happy—and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible—you—me—the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind—not a state of body. And mind controls. Indeed it is possible to stan 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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  Thomas Mann - New Selected Stories

  Thomas Mann

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  Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023 
   
   
   
  A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer—"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius. 
   
   
   
  The headliner of this volume, "Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow" (in its first new translation since 1936)—a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life—is Mann's tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the "Bigs" and "Littles" of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks—a sensation when it was first published. "Death in Venice" (also included in this volume) is Mann's most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic story—included here as "Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull." "Louisey"—a tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Mann's lifelong ambivalence about the power of art—rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection.

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  MAN IN LOWER TEN THE - An Early...

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

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  A routine overnight train ride turns into a nightmare of suspicion, hidden identities, and murder in this gripping early detective novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, one of the pioneers of American mystery fiction. 
  When Lawrence Blakely boards a sleeper train expecting nothing more than a quiet journey, he soon finds himself at the center of a shocking crime. A passenger in Lower Ten is found dead, a suitcase vanishes, and a trail of strange coincidences begins to point directly at him. Trapped among strangers, secrets, and shifting alibis, Blakely must untangle the truth before the accusation becomes permanent. 
  First published in 1909, The Man in Lower Ten blends classic suspense, psychological tension, and clever plotting into a fast-moving mystery that still feels surprisingly modern. With its confined setting, unreliable appearances, and constant sense of danger, this novel helped shape the style of detective fiction that would dominate the 20th century. 
  This edition presents the complete unabridged text, carefully prepared for modern listeners and readers, preserving the original atmosphere while ensuring a smooth and immersive experience. 
  Perfect for fans of classic whodunits, vintage suspense, train mysteries, and early detective stories.

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  War and Peace

  Leo Tolstoy

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  War and Peace is one of the greatest novels ever written—a monumental epic of history, humanity, love, and destiny.
  
  Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Leo Tolstoy weaves together the lives of aristocrats, soldiers, lovers, and dreamers as Russia stands on the brink of transformation. From glittering ballrooms to blood-soaked battlefields, the novel follows unforgettable characters such as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov, and Natasha Rostova as they search for meaning, faith, and purpose in a world torn between war and peace.
  
  At once intimate and vast, philosophical and deeply emotional, War and Peace explores the forces that shape history—not just emperors and generals, but ordinary people, private choices, and quiet moments of love and loss.
  
  This edition presents the complete, unabridged text in a beautifully designed modern format, making Tolstoy's timeless masterpiece accessible to today's readers and listeners.

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  Ruedas de fortuna - Una aventura...

  H. G. Wells

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  A finales del siglo XIX Inglaterra experimenta la época dorada de la bicicleta; más accesible y segura, deja de ser un medio de transporte y ocio restringido a burgueses y se convierte en una "máquina de libertad" para bolsillos menos pudientes. Las mujeres, en su mayoría confinadas al hogar, tampoco dejarán pasar esta oportunidad.
  
  Ruedas de Fortuna es una novela que explora los cambios sociales que provoca la irrupción de la bicicleta en una rígida sociedad victoriana a través de Hoopdriver, dependiente en un comercio de telas de Londres quien, sin apenas saber manejar una bicicleta, decide realizar un viaje por el sur de Inglaterra. En el camino se cruzará con una joven ciclista de ideas avanzadas que le hará cambiar de planes. Una aventura narrada con humor altamente británico por un Wells que conoció de primera mano esos caminos.

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