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  Legends of the Gods

  E. A. Wallis Budge

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  Legends of the Gods is a collection and translation of ancient Egyptian religious myths compiled by E. A. Wallis Budge, first published in 1912. It presents a wide range of creation stories, divine legends, and mythological texts drawn from ancient Egyptian sources. The book brings together material from funerary papyri, temple inscriptions, and other ancient manuscripts, translating them into English for a general readership. Budge focuses on major Egyptian deities such as Ra, Osiris, Isis, Horus, and Set, and explains how these gods appear in different mythological cycles. A major portion of the work deals with Egyptian creation myths, including accounts of how the world emerged from primordial chaos (Nun) and how the sun god Ra came into being and established cosmic order. Another central narrative is the Osiris myth, which describes Osiris's murder by Set, his resurrection through Isis, and the rise of Horus as avenger and rightful heir. The book also includes stories about divine conflicts, magical transformations, and the relationship between gods and kingship in ancient Egypt. Budge presents these myths as part of a unified religious system that reflects Egyptian beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife.

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  The Guarded Heights - A Stable...

  Wadsworth Camp

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  A stable boy from a great American house sets out to make himself the equal of the family that employed him, and finds the price is the person he was. Camp wrote thrillers and this, which is something else. This edition carries fifty-seven plates of painting bound with the text, among them works by Ferdinand Perrot, Charles Edouard Le Prince and Frank Weston Benson, alongside a restored and coloured illustration.

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  Of a Promise Broken - From their...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  Lady Chatterley's Lover

  D. H. Lawrence

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  A woman trapped by convention discovers a love that challenges everything she has been taught to accept.
  
  Constance Chatterley lives a privileged but emotionally isolated life on an English estate, bound by the expectations of marriage and social class. Yet beneath the quiet surface of her world lies a growing sense of loneliness and dissatisfaction.
  
  Her life changes when she encounters Oliver Mellors, the estate's gamekeeper. Their relationship crosses the rigid boundaries of class and convention, awakening emotions and desires that force Constance to question the life she has been expected to live.
  
  Set against the English countryside, D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover explores love, intimacy, class divisions, marriage, desire, and the struggle to live according to one's own feelings rather than society's rules.
  
  Perfect for readers who enjoy:
  
  Classic romance and literary fiction
  Forbidden and unconventional love stories
  English countryside settings
  Stories about love and personal freedom
  Social class and cultural conflict
  Emotionally complex characters
  D. H. Lawrence and twentieth-century classics
  
  Enter the world of Lady Chatterley and discover a provocative story of love, freedom, and the courage to challenge convention.

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  The Practice of the Presence of God

  Brother Lawrence

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  The Practice of the Presence of God is a book of collected teachings of Brother Lawrence, a 17th-century Carmelite friar, compiled by Father Joseph de Beaufort. The compilation includes letters, as well as records of his conversations kept by Brother Lawrence's interlocutors.

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  La Peau de Chagrin

  Honore de Balzac

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  La Peau de Chagrin (The Magic Skin) is one of Honoré de Balzac's most haunting and imaginative masterpieces—a spellbinding fusion of fantasy, philosophy, and social realism. As part of his monumental series La Comédie Humaine, this extraordinary novel explores the intoxicating lure of desire, the relentless passage of time, and the devastating cost of unchecked ambition.
  
  The story follows Raphaël de Valentin, a young aristocrat reduced to despair by poverty, disappointment, and unfulfilled dreams. On the brink of ending his life, he stumbles upon a mysterious antique shop where he acquires a strange piece of shagreen—a magical skin that grants its owner any wish. But the gift comes with a terrible condition: with every desire fulfilled, the skin shrinks, and so does the span of the owner's life.
  
  At first, Raphaël embraces the talisman's power, indulging in wealth, pleasure, and social triumph. He rises rapidly in Parisian society, gaining the luxury and recognition he once craved. Yet as his wishes come true, he realizes the horrifying truth—the more he lives, the closer he moves toward death. The shrinking skin becomes a visible symbol of his diminishing existence, a constant reminder that every fulfilled desire exacts an irreversible price.
  
  Through this powerful allegory, Balzac crafts a profound meditation on human longing and the fragile balance between ambition and restraint. The novel delves deeply into themes of materialism, excess, destiny, and the nature of happiness. Is life defined by the intensity of experience, or by the discipline to resist temptation? Can unlimited power ever lead to fulfillment, or does it inevitably destroy the one who wields it?
  
  Balzac's portrayal of 19th-century Paris is vivid and incisive, exposing a society driven by status, wealth, and restless aspiration. The city becomes both playground and trap—a dazzling stage where dreams are pursued but rarely satisfied. Alongside the supernatural element, the novel offers sharp psychological insight and biting social commentary, hallmarks of Balzac's literary genius.
  
  At once fantastical and deeply realistic, La Peau de Chagrin bridges Romantic imagination and emerging literary realism. Its blend of mysticism and moral reflection gives the narrative a timeless quality, resonating with readers across generations. The shrinking talisman stands as one of literature's most powerful symbols—a reminder that life's greatest danger may not be suffering, but unrestrained desire.
  
  Dark, philosophical, and intensely human, La Peau de Chagrin remains a captivating exploration of ambition's promise and peril—a story that asks what we would sacrifice to have our wishes granted, and whether the fulfillment of every dream is worth the price of our soul.

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