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  Lady Audley's Secret

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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  This work is a full blooded Victorian, sensationalist melodrama! Murder, arson, blackmail, bigamy; not many ingredients are missing in this entertaining piece. The story is fast-paced and the main character, Lady Audley, is a refreshingly manipulative and resourceful villainess filled with passion and desires that threatened the male dominated Victorian era.

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  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Mark Twain

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  First published in 1884, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is among the first novels in American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English. Some have called it the first Great American Novel, and the book has become required reading in many schools throughout the United States. The story is set along the Mississippi River in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Arkansas around 1840. It depicts the development of Huckleberry (Huck) Finn, a boy about thirteen years old. Huck has to find a way between his belief in the right thing to do and what most do believe to be wrong.

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  Uncle Wiggily and Puss in Boots

  Howard R. Garis

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  Uncle Wiggily and Puss in Boots is written by Howard R. Garis. The gentleman rabbit Uncle Wiggily is out and he hears a cat crying. "Without my boots they will take me out of all the story books!". He finds Puss in Boots, but without his boots! Uncle Wiggily helps out. The moral of the story is: Put good out, you get good back. Recommended for age 3+.

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  The Mysteries of Marseilles

  Émile Zola

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  The elopement of Philippe Cayol, an aspiring liberal, poor and untitled with Blanche De Cazalis, niece of a powerful millionaire and politician sets the stage in this novel full of twists and turns with villains a plenty. Philippe's brother Marius strives to protect the two lovers from the De Cazalis' uncontrolled fury. Although written in his youth Zola's signature style, his indignation about injustice and his vivid characterization of the noble, the wealthy and common man is very evident in this non stop adventure.

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  The House of Silence - and other...

  E. Nesbit

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  E. Nesbit is rightly best known for her children's books but she also wrote works for adults including short stories in the genres of the uncanny, macabre and supernatural. There are five of these in this collection. They are: “The House of Silence”“The Power of Darkness”“The Ebony Frame”“The Pavilion”“The Detective”

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  Ethan Frome

  Edith Wharton

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  Ethan Frome is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events. His initial impressions are based on his observations of Frome going about his mundane tasks in Starkfield, and something about him catches the eye and curiosity of the visitor, but no one in the town seems interested in revealing many details about the man or his history—or perhaps they are not able to. The narrator ultimately finds himself in the position of staying overnight at Frome's house in order to escape a winter storm, and from there he observes Frome and his private circumstances…

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