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  The Way Of The World

  William Congreve

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  We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World was first performed in 1700 at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. It was not well received, and as a result Congreve vowed never to write for the stage again—a vow he kept. Nonetheless the comedy was printed in the same year and has come to be regarded as the author's masterpiece, a classic of Restoration drama. In a world still reacting against the puritanism of Cromwell and the Commonwealth, Restoration drama had slowly transitioned from celebrating the licentiousness and opulence of the newly returned court to the more thoughtful and refined comedy of manners that was to dominate the English stage of 18th century. In one way Congreve's The Way of the World is the last (and best) of its type, and in another way, it is the forerunner of a style that is echoed even now. The play centers on the love affair of Mirabell and Millamant who are prevented from marrying by a number of obstacles, not the least of which is Mirabell's past dalliance with Millamant's aunt's affections. Intricate, witty, and amusing, the comedy nevertheless concludes with no clear heroes or heroines—one of the things that makes it such an incisive portrait of human experience and an enduring example of its type. William Congreve (died 1729) was one of the foundational figures of Western literary tradition. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. The dramatic works of earlier centuries formed the backbone of a rich theatrical tradition. The Way Of The World was written to be performed as well as read, and its theatrical power remains fully evident on the page, with characters, conflict, and language that leap to life.

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  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  Ambrose Bierce

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  A timeless classic blending ghostly legend, suspense, and early American folklore.
  
  Set in the quiet village of Sleepy Hollow, the story follows the superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, whose fascination with ghost stories leads him into a terrifying encounter with the mysterious Headless Horseman. As rumors and fear spread through the shadowy countryside, the line between reality and legend begins to disappear.
  
  Atmospheric, suspenseful, and richly imaginative, the tale combines humor, romance, and supernatural mystery while capturing the spirit of early American storytelling.
  
  Written by Washington Irving.
  
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  The Crown of Life - A Young Man...

  George Gissing

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  A man who hates the arms trade loves the daughter of the man who profits from it, and the courtship runs from a Thames-side suburb to a Russia on the edge of war. Gissing's academic career ended at eighteen when he was caught stealing to support a young prostitute he was trying to save, and he married her; this late novel of 1899 is his most explicit about empire and the coming catastrophe, and he was right about it. Fifty-seven plates by painters from Whistler to Shishkin carry the river, the field and the forge through the London years and the Russian journey.

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  Ape and Essence - A Novel

  Aldous Huxley

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  When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life.

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  The Listener

  Algernon Blackwood

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  The Listener by Algernon Blackwood 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: Sept. 4. — I have hunted all over London for rooms suited to my income — £120 a year — and have at last found them. Two rooms, without modern conveniences, it is true, and in an old, ramshackle building, but within a stone's throw of P— Place and in an eminently respectable street. The rent is only 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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  Circumstance

  Harriet Prescott Spofford

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  Circumstance by Harriet Prescott Spofford is presented in a clean English digital edition with active navigation. The book belongs to classics and preserves the character of the source text for sustained ebook reading. The opening pages establish the work's atmosphere with this first movement: She had remained, during all that day, with a sick neighbor, — those eastern wilds of Maine in that epoch frequently making neighbors and miles synonymous, — and so busy had she been with care and sympathy that she did not at first observe the approaching night. But finally the level rays, reddening the snow, threw the. Detected sections include: Chapter 1. This edition is prepared for a fluent reading experience with clear typography and no extraneous promotional material.

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