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  The Yellow Wallpaper

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  A groundbreaking feminist masterpiece and one of the most exquisite horror stories in American literature Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper.   In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.   A masterly use of the unreliable narrator and a scathing indictment of patriarchal medical practices, The Yellow Wallpaper is a true American classic.   This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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  The Jewel of Seven Stars

  Bram Stoker

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  From the author of Dracula, one of the first mummy stories and a classic of nineteent-century gothic fiction.   In a house full of Egyptian antiquities— A jeweled scarab, mummified cat, and severed hand . . . Unexplained claw marks and comas . . . A mysterious stranger’s wild tales of a hidden tomb and ancient warnings . . . Of violent deaths to everyone who sought the jewel . . . All linked to a forgotten queen’s 5,000-year quest for reincarnation . . . Malcolm Ross, pulled by his adoration of Margaret Trelawny, finds himself embroiled in a centuries old story that challenges human logic. Lovers of the supernatural, occult, and paranormal will enjoy this unique edition of Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of the Seven Stars, which includes the novel’s original 1903 ending as well as an abridged 1912 version.

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  Secret Garden The (Unabridged)

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published as a book in 1911, after a version was published as an American magazine serial beginning in 1910. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made.The American edition was published by Stokes with illustrations by Maria Louise Kirk (signed as M. L. Kirk) and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson.At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a sickly and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and make an effort to ignore the girl. She is cared for by servants, who allow her to become a spoiled, aggressive, and selfish child.After a cholera epidemic kills her parents and the servants, Mary is discovered alive but alone in the empty house. She briefly lives with an English clergyman and his family in India before she is sent to Yorkshire, in England, to live with Archibald Craven, a wealthy uncle whom she has never met, at his isolated house, Misselthwaite Manor...

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  The Bet

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is generally considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. The Bet is the story of a banker and a lawyer who embark on an insane bet. The banker bets the lawyer two million roubles that he cannot endure 15 years of incarceration. The lawyer agrees and the terms of the imprisonment are set.But during the 15 years each of the characters undergoes various changes and the outcome of the bet is an extraordinary twist in the tale.

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  Whale Tooth The (Unabridged)

  Jack London

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  It was in the early days in Fiji, when John Starhurst arose in the mission house at Rewa Village and announced his intention of carrying the gospel throughout all Viti Levu. Now Viti Levu means the "Great Land," it being the largest island in a group composed of many large islands, to say nothing of hundreds of small ones. Here and there on the coasts, living by most precarious tenure, was a sprinkling of missionaries, traders, beche-de-mer fishers, and whaleship deserters. The smoke of the hot ovens arose under their windows, and the bodies of the slain were dragged by their doors on the way to the feasting.

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  The World's Slow Stain

  Ella Hepworth Dixon

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  Ella Hepworth Dixon (1855 - 1932) was a British short story writer, journalist and novelist. "The World's Slow Stain" is the story of a reconciliation which goes catastrophically wrong. Adela Buller and Anthony Mellingham, whose love affair had ended badly ten years earlier meet again and agree to marry. But after they broke up the first time Adela had published a bitter novel under a pseudonym in which she had modelled the lead character - a dreadful cad - on Mellingham. Since their bitter split, Adela has had affairs with numerous men - including the cynical dramatist Gilbert Vincent. When Adela tells Gilbert she will no longer see him after her marriage, Vincent decides to give Mellingham a copy of his new wife's book as a surprise wedding gift.

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