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  The Watsons

  Jane Austen

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  Left impoverished upon the death of her aunt, Emma Watson has no option but to be reunited with her estranged father and siblings. Initially delighted with her new life—including the fashionable society balls to which she now has access—Emma soon realizes that her family harbors many ill feelings, not least those springing from the sisters' hopes—and disappointments—in snaring a husband. So when the eligible and suitably rich Tom Musgrove begins to transfer his affections from her sister Margaret to Emma, the result can only be further sibling rivalry and unrest. A delightful, exquisitely drawn portrait of family life, The Watsons is Jane Austen at her storytelling best. Author of the masterpieces Pride and Prejudice and Emma, Jane Austen (1775–1817) is one of the most beloved novelists of all time.

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  Tale for the Mirror - A Novella...

  Hortense Calisher

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  Hortense Calisher delivers another collection of provocative prose, on par with that of Henry James and John UpdikeA novella plus twelve short vignettes, Tale for the Mirror demonstrates Hortense Calisher’s masterful use of language in an exploration of the human condition. In the title novella, a suburban man in the Hudson River Valley analyzes his life and discovers the importance of stories after a sage Indian mystic moves into his neighborhood.Laced with wit and pathos, the evocative shorter pieces include the galvanizing “The Scream on Fifty-seventh Street,” a textured tale of a widow who overhears an incident outside her window, compelling her to solve a mystery while coming to terms with her own loneliness in an unsentimental city. “The Rehabilitation of Ginevra Leake” is the farcical story of a homely girl from a proper Southern family who finds a home in the Communist party. In “The Seacoast of Bohemia,” a successful Manhattan man comes to terms with the fact that he’ll never have children.Tale for the Mirror peers into private lives with precision and perception, as only Hortense Calisher could. 

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  The Other Gods

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Barzai the Wise, an erudite prophet, challenges the celestial with his disciple Atal, ascending the enigmatic peak of Hatheg-Kla to meet the 'gods of earth'. Yet, elation withers into dread as they uncover a dark secret

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  The Scarecrow

  G. Ranger Wormser

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  Gwendolyn Ranger Wormser's was a Victorian writer best known for her weird psychological horror stories.The best known of these is 'The Scarecrow', an eerie tale of a sinister scarecrow beckoning to the young son of the farmer from the moonlit cornfield.

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  Wuthering Heights

  Emily Brontë

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  "Wuthering Heights" is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. 
   
  The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centers (as an adjective, "wuthering" is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.

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  The Matador of the Five Towns...

  Arnold Bennett

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  The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories consists of twenty-two short stories written by Arnold Bennett, their main setting being the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands.
  Contents:
  THE MATADOR OF THE FIVE TOWNS
  MIMI
  THE SUPREME ILLUSION
  THE LETTER AND THE LIE
  THE GLIMPSE
  JOCK-AT-A-VENTURE
  THE HEROISM OF THOMAS CHADWICK
  UNDER THE CLOCK
  THREE EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF MR COWLISHAW, DENTIST
  CATCHING THE TRAIN
  THE WIDOW OF THE BALCONY
  THE CAT AND CUPID
  THE FORTUNE-TELLER
  THE LONG-LOST UNCLE
  THE TIGHT HAND
  WHY THE CLOCK STOPPED
  HOT POTATOES
  HALF-A-SOVEREIGN
  THE BLUE SUIT
  THE TIGER AND THE BABY
  THE REVOLVER
  AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE

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