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  Zuleika Dobson

  Max Beerbohm

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  Zuleika Dobson is a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. It was Beerbohm's only novel, but was nonetheless very successful. This satire includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Zuleika Dobson 59th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century!

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  The Story of a Piebald Horse

  W. H. Hudson

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  W. H. Hudson (1862-1922) is best known for his stories, which give a vivid picture of South American life. He was a gifted naturalist and keen observer of wildlife and landscapes, as well as an acute and astute judge of humans and their characters.In The Story of a Piebald Horse, a stranger appears at the cattle branding one day, and in an unfortunate incident he is accidentally killed. His piebald horse, saddle, and other posessions are kept by one of the ranchers until the stranger can be identified and his family contacted. In the hope that some traveller will recognize the stranger's horse, he ties it up beside the local inn. After a time, a group of herders passing through do recognize the horse... and they tell a most extraordinary tale....

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  Ghostly Tales - Spine-Chilling...

  M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell,...

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  A classic collection of haunting stories by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. 
   
  A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. 
   
  A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. 
   
  A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard—but sometimes at night, it screams . . .  
   
  This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle could be blown out by a gust of wind—or by a passing ghost. Penned by some of the greatest Victorian novelists and masters of the ghost story genre, each is illustrated with exquisitely eerie artwork.

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  The Curious Vehicle

  Alexander W. Drake

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  Alexander W. Drake (1843-1916) was an American wood engraver and art collector and director of the art department for Scribner’s and Century magazine. His weird tales were collected by friends to memorialize him following his death in 1916.'The Curious Vehicle' (1893) is the story of a man who is intrigued by a strange carriage on the street and watches it curiously until one snowy Christmas Eve he is invited inside by the mysterious owner. The stranger tells him his sad love story and of his obsessive search to paint the perfect halo on an image of his lost love.

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  The Octopus - A Story of California

  Frank Norris

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  From the author of McTeague: The classic novel of corporate corruption and violent rebellion in the railroad industry. On May 11, 1880, at a San Joaquin Valley ranch, a shootout between tenant farmers and a sheriff’s posse left seven dead. The dispute was over land rights. The law was acting in the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad.   This tragedy marked the beginning of the end for the American frontier, and it became the inspiration for Frank Norris’s epic tale of wheat croppers struggling against the tightening grip of the railroad industry.   With a cast of characters ranging from poor hired hands to wealthy landowners and railroad barons, Norris’s novel goes beyond its central conflict to chronicle the myriad political and social issues that rippled out from it. The first work in Norris’s planned Epic of the Wheat Trilogy, The Octopus was an important exposé of railroad greed that drew comparisons to Émile Zola for its incredible breadth. It is a great read for fans of gritty, historically inspired western series such as Deadwood or Hell on Wheels.  This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.  

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  Aesop’s Fables Volume 5 -...

  Innofinitimo Media

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  This is the fifth volume of a series of ten Aesop’s Fables audiobooks. Series of ten audiobooks contains total of 113 Aesop's short stories. This volume comes with following 14 exiting fables:The mice in councilThe young crab and his motherThe wolf and the lambThe horse and the groomHercules and the wagonerThe bundle of sticksThe eagle and the jackdawThe boy and the hazel nutsThe donkey and his driverThe oxen and the wagon wheelsThe bull and the flyThe plane treeThe farmer and the storkThe sheep and the pig 
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