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  Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels

  Joseph Conrad

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  What happens when civilization is tested at its moral edge?
  
  The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad brings together the full novelistic legacy of one of the most influential writers in modern literature. Known for his profound psychological insight and moral complexity, Conrad explored power, isolation, loyalty, and the fragile boundary between order and chaos.
  
  Set aboard ships, in remote colonies, and within the human mind itself, Conrad's novels confront the ethical consequences of empire and ambition. His layered narratives and atmospheric prose reveal how individuals struggle with conscience, responsibility, and identity under extreme pressure.
  
  Challenging, immersive, and deeply resonant, Conrad's work helped shape literary modernism and continues to speak powerfully to the moral dilemmas of the modern world.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  All novels by Joseph Conrad in one complete collection
  
  Iconic works such as Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Nostromo
  
  Themes of moral conflict, isolation, and imperial power
  
  A cornerstone of modernist and world literature
  
  Studied worldwide and endlessly discussed, Joseph Conrad's novels remain essential reading for anyone drawn to serious fiction, ethical inquiry, and literary mastery.
  
  Journey into the depths of conscience and sea alike. Buy now and experience the complete novels of Joseph Conrad.

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  The Eye of the Camera - From...

  Fred M. White

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  Richard Bernard Heldmann was born on 12th October 1857, in St Johns Wood, North London.  
  By his early 20’s Heldmann began publishing fiction for the myriad magazine publications that had sprung up and were eager for good well-written content.  
  In October 1882, Heldmann was promoted to co-editor of Union Jack, a popular magazine, but his association with the publication ended suddenly in June 1883.  It appears Heldman was prone to issuing forged cheques to finance his lifestyle.  In April 1884 he was sentenced to 18 months hard labour. 
  In order to be well away from the scandal and the damage that this had caused to his reputation Heldmann adopted a pseudonym on his release from jail.  Shortly thereafter the name ‘Richard Marsh’ began to appear in the literary periodicals.  The use of his mother’s maiden name as part of it seems both a release and a lifeline. 
  A stroke of very good fortune arrived with his novel ‘The Beetle’ published in 1897.  This would turn out to be his greatest commercial success and added some much-needed gravitas to his literary reputation.   
  Marsh was a prolific writer and wrote almost 80 volumes of fiction as well as many short stories, across many genres from horror and crime to romance and humour.   His unusual characters, plotting devices and other literary developments have identified his legacy as one of the best British writers of his time.   
  Richard Marsh died from heart disease in Haywards Heath in Sussex on 9th August 1915.  He was 57.

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  H G Wells - Six of the Best -...

  H G Wells

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
   1 - Six of the Best - H G Wells - An Introduction 
  2 - H G Wells - An Introduction 
  3 - The Crystal Egg by H G Wells 
  4 - The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H G Wells 
  5 - The Sea Raiders by H G Wells 
  6 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells 
  7 - The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H G Wells 
  8 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells 
  9 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A chilling mystery unfolds on the desolate moors of Dartmoor. Sir Henry Baskerville, heir to a cursed estate, fears a legendary hound, said to stalk the family, threatening his life. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate, uncovering a web of secrets, conspiracies, and long-held grudges within the Baskerville family and the local community. Supernatural elements intertwine with rational explanations in this suspenseful tale of murder, intrigue, and the pursuit of a terrifying beast.

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  Picture in the House The...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  While riding his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a genealogist seeks shelter from an approaching storm. He enters an apparently abandoned house, only to find it occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man", speaking in "an extreme form of Yankee dialect... thought long extinct." The narrator notices that the house is full of antique books, exotic artifacts, and furniture predating the American Revolution. At first, the old man appears harmless and ignorant towards his guest. However, he shows a disquieting fascination for an engraving in a rare old book, Regnum Congo, and admits to the narrator how it made him hunger for "victuals I couldn't raise nor buy"- presumably human flesh. It's suggested that the old man was murdering travelers who stumbled upon the house to satisfy his "craving", and has extended his own life preternaturally through cannibalism.[4] Soon, a now frightened narrator realizes the old man has been alive for over a century. Still, the old man denies he ever acted upon such a desire. Suddenly, a drop of blood falls from the ceiling, clearly coming from the floor above, and splashes a page in the book. The narrator then looks up to see a spreading red stain on the ceiling; this belies the old man's statement. At that moment, a bolt of lightning destroys the house. Fortunately, the narrator survives to tell of his ordeal.

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  Jimmy and the Desperate Woman

  D H Lawrence

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  'Jimmy and the Desperate Woman' tells the improbable story of an intellectual editor persuading a working woman to live with him. We would say now 'on the rebound' from a failed marriage but Lawrence crosses the class divide and poses questions about what makes us attracted to other people. The intellectual twists and turns of the magazine editor contrast nicely with the stark honesty of the spurned miner husband.

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