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  Persuasion

  Jane Austen

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  Persuasion is Jane Austen's moving final completed novel, a refined story of lost love, social pressure, regret, and the possibility of a second chance between Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth.
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  Eight years ago, Anne Elliot was persuaded to reject the man she loved.
  Young, gentle, and dutiful, Anne accepted the advice of her family and friends and broke off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a naval officer with little fortune and uncertain prospects. Now, years later, Wentworth has returned from the wars wealthy, successful, and still wounded by Anne's decision. Anne, meanwhile, remains unmarried, overlooked by her vain father and selfish sisters, and quietly burdened by the memory of the life she might have chosen.
  When circumstances bring Anne and Captain Wentworth back into the same social circle, old feelings rise beneath the surface of polite conversation. Wentworth appears determined to forget her, while Anne must endure the pain of seeing him admired by others. Yet beneath restraint, silence, and misunderstanding, the past is not as settled as it seems.
  Set among country estates, fashionable Bath society, and the naval world of early nineteenth-century England, Persuasion is one of Jane Austen's most mature and emotionally rich novels. It explores the consequences of social influence, the quiet strength of constancy, and the difficulty of recognizing happiness when it returns after long disappointment.
  More introspective than Pride and Prejudice and more autumnal than Emma, Persuasion offers a heroine of deep feeling, intelligence, and moral grace. Anne Elliot is not dazzling or loud, but her patience, insight, and emotional courage make her one of Austen's most beloved characters.
  A novel of memory, forgiveness, and enduring love, Persuasion remains a timeless portrait of second chances and the heart's ability to remain faithful even after years of regret.

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  The Tomb of T'sin

  Edgar Wallace

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  The Tomb of T'sin by Edgar Wallace is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics 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: Had Tillizinni written this story of the tomb of Ts'in Hwang Ti (the King of Ts'in who became Emperor literally) from the notes he had upon the case, it might have made a greater and a better book. You would have pardoned such extravagance of style as he displayed in his extraordinary narrative, rem 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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  Aunt Caroline's Silk Dress

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
  Aunt Caroline's Silk Dress: Patty came in from her walk to the post office with cheeks finely reddened by the crisp air. Carry surveyed her with pleasure. Of late Patty's cheeks had been entirely too pale to please Carry, and Patty had not had a very good appetite. Once or twice she had even complained of a headache. So Carry had sent her to the office for a walk that night, although the post office trip was usually Carry's own special constitutional, always very welcome to her after a weary day of sewing on other people's pretty dresses.

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  The Mary Frances Story Book; or...

  Jane Eayre Fryer

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  The Mary Frances Story Book is different from the other Mary Frances Books. They are part lessons and part story; they teach something about cooking and sewing, knitting and crocheting, housekeeping and gardening, and first-aid—and tell a story, too; but The Mary Frances Story Book is all story.On a summer afternoon Mary Frances took a holiday and sailed away across the blue water to an island—an island formed by the top of a coral mountain resting in a sea of blue; oh, so blue—a brighter blue than the water in your mother's bluing tub—not the blue that makes you feel sad and blue, but the blue that makes you laugh with happiness. The island itself and the roofs of the houses were coral white, and the green was the green of the palm and banana and mahogany tree. The breezes that blew over them were the warm, soft breezes of the southern sun. This island was the "enchanted island" of the good story-tellers which Mary Frances was allowed to visit. The story people who lived there believed in truth and beauty, and courage and kindness, and these were the theme of their stories. Like all good islands, this island had enemies, but they came to a bad end, as, in the long run, all evil persons will; and truth and beauty, and courage and kindness won the day, as they always must in every land where the searchlight of the sun flashes its beams.As may be imagined, when Mary Frances came home she had not only one, but many stories to tell; and they are written in this book....FROM THE BOOKS.

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  The Wrong Box - An Inheritance...

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd...

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  A tontine has come down to two elderly brothers who between them can barely manage a staircase, and then a railway accident leaves a nephew with a body, a barrel and every reason not to report either. Stevenson wrote it with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, who produced a draft that Stevenson then rewrote entirely. The preface admits the whole thing is judicious levity and that one of the authors is old enough to be ashamed of himself. Fifty-seven comic plates from Rowlandson to Cruikshank, spanning 1821 to 1900, catch the farce of mistaken corpses and tontine greed in every tavern scene and street corner.

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  Madame Bovary

  Gustave Flaubert

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  Step into the intricately woven world of "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert, a poignant exploration of desire and disillusionment. Emma Bovary, yearning for a life of passion and luxury beyond her provincial existence, becomes ensnared in a web of debt and romantic liaisons. Her pursuit of an idealized life leads to inevitable heartbreak and tragedy. Flaubert's masterpiece unflinchingly examines the constraints of society and the personal cost of unfulfilled dreams, resonating with timeless relevance.

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