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  Silas Marner

  George Eliot

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  Reputed as Eliot’s favourite novel Silas Marner is set in the early years of the 19th century. Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small congregation in Lantern Yard. Falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit, he leaves his home and lives a solitary life near the village of Raveloe. Dedicating his life to weaving and hoarding gold for the next fifteen years, circumstances beyond his control shape his destiny and when his gold is stolen, he is rescued from despair by the arrival on his lonely hearth of a beautiful little girl, whom he adopts, and through whom he and the other people of the village learn that loving relationships are more fulfilling than material wealth.

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  The House of Haddock

  Arthur Morrison

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  Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. The House of Haddock is the humorous story of an old rogue whose formerly genteel family has fallen on hard times. A former ancestor of his once gave a set of almshouses to the village, and our anti-hero sets out to ensure that one of these is allocated to him.His first challenge is to get one of the existing tenants to leave. His initial attention is on dispatching an elderly disabled man with a bad cough, whose demise appears to be imminent and inevitable. But after the death of this individual, the church authorities allocate that almshouse to a youngish widow. This lady proves to be quite a challenge...and his strategy for taking possession of her house backfires spectacularly....

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  Legendary Scenes from Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

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  The Finest Shakespearean Actors including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Richard Burton perform some of their most wellknown scenes from King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream

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  Oliver Twist - Or the Parish...

  Charles Dickens

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  Named a "national institution" by George Orwell, Dickens offers his most popular tale, of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London-a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story.

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  The Cask of Amontillado

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  First published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book, the story is set in 19th century Italy and concerns the deadly revenge taken by the insane narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive.

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  50 Classic Horror Short Stories...

  H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan...

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  CONTENTS: A Suspicious Gift [Algernon Blackwood],Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp [Algernon Blackwood],The Wood of the Dead [Algernon Blackwood],A Baby Tramp [Ambrose Bierce],The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce],Dagon [H.P Lovecraft],The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle],The_Descendant [H.P Lovecraft],The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft],The Evil Clergyman [H.P Lovecraft],He [H.P Lovecraft],The Book [H.P Lovecraft],In the Vault [H.P Lovecraft],Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft],Death and the Woman [Gertrude Atherton],The Striding Place [Gertrude Atherton],Hop-Frog [Edgar Allan Poe],The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe],The Tell-Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe],Shadow [Edgar Allan Poe],The Beast in the Cave [H.P Lovecraft],The Doom That Came to Sarnath [H.P Lovecraft],The Vampire Maid [Hume Nisbet],A Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Edgar Allan Poe],The Demon Spell [Hume Nisbet],Out of the Earth [Arthur Machen],The Signal-Man [Charles Dickens],The Colloquy of Monos and Una [Edgar Allan Poe],Demons of the Sea [William Hope Hodgson],Glámir [Sabine Baring-Gould],Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story [Sabine Baring-Gould],Tales of Secret Egypt [Sax Rohmer],Some Words with a Mummy [Edgar Allan Poe],In the Dark [Edith Nesbit],The Sea Raiders [H. G. Wells],The Baron of Beauguard [Gilbert Parke],The Vampire [Jan Neruda],A Journey of Little Profit [John Buchan],The Keeper of Cademuir [John Buchan],Dickon the Devil [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],The Child That Went With The Fairies [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],Two Doctors Montague [Rhodes James],A School Story Montague [Rhodes James],The Diary of Mr. Poynter Montague[ Rhodes James],In the Forest of Villefére by [Robert Robert E. Howard],The Dream Snake [Robert E. Howard],The Thing On the Roof [Robert E. Howard],

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