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  Princess Maritza

  Percy James Brebner

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  A Balkan throne, a princess in exile, an Englishman with a sword and a capital where every second man is paid by somebody. Brebner wrote swordplay and small kingdoms for readers who could not get enough of them after The Prisoner of Zenda; he did the machine cleanly, and Maritza is allowed to be the most competent person in her own book.

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  Persuasion

  Jane Austen

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  Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. - The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt. They rent their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife’s brother, Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged to Anne in 1806, and now they meet again, both single and unattached, after no contact in more than seven years. This sets the scene for many humorous encounters as well as a second, well-considered chance at love and marriage for Anne in her second "bloom".
  The story begins seven years after the broken engagement of Anne Elliot to then Commander Frederick Wentworth. Anne, then 19 years old, fell in love and accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer. He was clever, confident, ambitious and employed, but not yet wealthy and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Her father, Sir Walter, and her older sister, Elizabeth, maintained that Wentworth was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement, which Lady Russell saw as imprudent for one so young.

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  The Pupil

  Henry James

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  A poor young tutor is hired by a shabby-genteel family drifting round the hotels of Europe, and finds his pupil is the cleverest person in the household and the only one ashamed of it. James wrote it in 1891 and thought it among his best; the boy's education consists of learning exactly what his parents are, and the tutor's consists of learning what he himself will not do.

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  The Scarlet Letter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a powerful classic of American literature about guilt, shame, punishment, secrecy, and moral judgment.
  
  Set in seventeenth-century Puritan New England, the novel follows Hester Prynne, a woman condemned by her community after giving birth to a child outside marriage. Forced to wear the scarlet letter "A" as a public mark of sin, Hester refuses to surrender her dignity. While she raises her daughter Pearl on the margins of society, the hidden father of the child suffers inwardly, and the wronged husband returns under a false identity to seek revenge.
  
  First published in 1850, Hawthorne's novel is both a historical romance and a deep psychological study of conscience. Through Hester, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl, the story explores the destructive effects of hypocrisy, repression, and social cruelty. It also asks whether shame can be transformed into strength, and whether private truth can survive public condemnation.
  
  A major work of nineteenth-century American fiction, The Scarlet Letter remains a haunting meditation on sin, identity, compassion, and the cost of moral rigidity.

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  Psmith In The City

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  Mike Jackson is a rising cricket star who finds his dreams of studying and playing at Cambridge upset by news of his father's financial troubles. He takes a job with the New Asiatic Bank in London. He arrives to find that his dapper and verbose young friend Psmith is also a new employee, and together they navigate early twentieth century office life, make the best of their position and squeeze in a little cricket from time to time. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the twentieth century. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. Psmith in the City was originally serialized in The Captain magazine in 1908 and 1909 as The New Fold and is the sequel to Mike , an earlier novel by Wodehouse. P. G. Wodehouse (died 1975) was a significant literary figure of the 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. This work stands as a testament to the enduring power of literature to illuminate the human condition. Psmith In The City has been read and admired for generations, and this carefully prepared public domain edition ensures it remains accessible to new readers in the digital age.

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  The Complete Tales and Poems

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror 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: Pestis eram vivus—moriens tua mors ero. —Martin Luther HORROR and fatality have been stalking abroad in all ages. Why then give a date to this story I have to tell? Let it suffice to say, that at the period of which I speak, there existed, in the interior of Hungary, a settled although hidden belief 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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