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  Undertow

  Kathleen Thompson Norris

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  A young couple in New York start with nothing, and the book follows the money — the flat, the babies, the raise that does not come, the years in which she is always tired. Norris lost both parents at nineteen and worked as a bookkeeper and clerk to raise her younger siblings; she wrote domestic economics as fiction and became one of the highest-paid writers in America. The undertow is the ordinary one.

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  The Life and Adventures of...

  Daniel Defoe

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  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.
  Crusoe set sail from Kingston upon Hull on a sea voyage in August 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to pursue a career in law. After a tumultuous journey where his ship is wrecked in a storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey, too, ends in disaster, as the ship is taken over by Salé pirates (the Salé Rovers) and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor. Two years later, he escapes in a boat with a boy named Xury; a captain of a Portuguese ship off the west coast of Africa rescues him. The ship is en route to Brazil. Crusoe sells Xury to the captain. With the captain's help, Crusoe procures a plantation.

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  The Five Orange Pips

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Five Orange Pips, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in November 1891. Conan Doyle later ranked the story seventh in a list of his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. A young gentleman named John Openshaw has a strange story: in 1869 his uncle Elias Openshaw had suddenly come back to England to settle on an estate in Horsham, West Sussex after living for years in the United States as a planter in Florida and serving as a colonel in the Confederate Army.Not being married, Elias had allowed his nephew to stay at his estate. Strange incidents have occurred; one is that although John could go anywhere in the house, he could never enter a locked room containing his uncle's trunks. Another peculiarity was that in March 1883 a letter postmarked Pondicherry, in India, arrived for the Colonel inscribed only "K. K. K." with five orange pips (seeds) enclosed.More strange things happened: Papers from the locked room were burnt and a will was drawn up leaving the estate to John Openshaw. The Colonel's behaviour became bizarre. He would either lock himself in his room and drink or he would go shouting forth in a drunken sally with a pistol in his hand. On 2 May 1883 he was found dead in a garden pool.Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle's: "A Study in Scarlet", "Silver Blaze", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Yellow Face", "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed League", A Case of Identity", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", "The Blue Carbuncle", "The Speckled Band", "The Engineer's Thumb", "The Noble Bachelor", "The Beryl Coronet", "The Copper Beeches" and many more.

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  The Adventure Collection -...

  Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis...

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  Embark on unforgettable journeys with a remarkable collection of timeless adventure classics by some of literature's greatest storytellers.
  
  Discover "The Adventure Collection," an exciting anthology featuring classic adventure stories by celebrated authors including Jonathan Swift, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Howard Pyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. Spanning daring expeditions, distant lands, legendary heroes, and unforgettable quests, this collection showcases the enduring spirit of adventure that has captivated readers for generations.
  
  From thrilling sea voyages and wilderness explorations to heroic journeys and imaginative worlds, these timeless works invite readers to experience courage, discovery, and the excitement of the unknown. Through unforgettable characters and compelling storytelling, the collection explores universal themes of bravery, perseverance, friendship, loyalty, honor, exploration, resilience, freedom, and the triumph of the human spirit.
  
  Bringing together the distinctive voices of some of history's most influential adventure writers, "The Adventure Collection" celebrates the richness and diversity of classic adventure literature. Whether set on the high seas, in untamed wilderness, or across extraordinary landscapes, these stories continue to inspire readers with their imagination, excitement, and enduring literary appeal.
  
  Perfect for readers who enjoy classic literature, adventure fiction, historical fiction, sea stories, wilderness adventures, action classics, literary anthologies, and timeless masterpieces, "The Adventure Collection" is an essential addition to every digital library.
  
  Answer the call of adventure. Add "The Adventure Collection" to your Kindle library today and enjoy a thrilling anthology of classic tales that continue to inspire explorers and dreamers around the world.

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  The House of the Dead - Or...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  The semiautobiographical prison account of convict Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, from the author of Crime and Punishment.   Originally published in 1862, The House of the Dead is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s own four-year imprisonment in Siberia for his involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This masterpiece of Russian literature begins with a nameless narrator coming upon former convict Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov in a remote Siberian town. Previously a nobleman and landowner, Goryanchikov had been given a ten-year sentence of hard labor for the murder of his wife, a crime of passion sparked by jealousy. After Goryanchikov’s death, the narrator finds a handwritten record of his decade of penal servitude. From his first days in the barracks, friendless and broken in spirit, to the removal of his shackles and freedom, Goryanchikov portrays the experiences of a “lost tribe of men,” and the horrors and degradation they experienced.  “Episodic, rambling, full of keen and deliberately stretched-out character sketches, the book is the drama of a person working out how to reproduce prison life in prose: its longueurs, its diversions, its pleasures, traumas, and inurements  . . . If Dostoyevsky’s captors had found the ribald, cacophonous commonplace book he assembled out of overheard insults and tossed-off sayings during his time in prison, they would have recognized that they were dealing with a spirit not easily suppressed.” —The Paris Review  “I know no better book in all modern literature.” —Leo Tolstoy

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  The Nether World

  George Gissing

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  The Nether World by George Gissing is a powerful Victorian novel that offers an unflinching portrayal of poverty, social inequality, and the struggle for dignity in nineteenth-century London. Through a richly woven narrative and unforgettable characters, Gissing explores the hardships faced by working-class families as they strive for hope, stability, and a better future amid the harsh realities of urban life.
  
  Renowned for his realism and psychological insight, George Gissing creates a deeply moving story that examines the effects of economic hardship, social class, and limited opportunity on individual lives. Themes of resilience, compassion, ambition, sacrifice, and the search for justice are woven throughout the novel, making it both an emotionally compelling narrative and a profound work of social observation.
  
  Considered one of Gissing's greatest achievements, The Nether World remains a landmark of English literary realism. Ideal for readers of Victorian fiction, historical literature, and socially conscious novels, this enduring classic continues to resonate with its timeless exploration of human endurance, social reform, and the complexities of life in an industrial society.

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