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  Brood Of The Witch Queen

  Sax Rohmer

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  Perhaps best known for creating the character Fu-Manchu , Sax Rohmer is also known for his works involving the supernatural. This novel follows Robert Cairn, his father, Dr. Bruce Cairn, and their suspicion of one Antony Ferrara. After witnessing the strange and violent death of a swan, Robert Cairn suspects that Ferrara may be involved with the death of the bird. Soon after two murders, Dr. Bruce Cairn arrives in London and warns Robert that he suspects Ferrara is using ancient Egyptian magic to accomplish his evil deeds. After a mystical attack on Robert, Dr. Cairn and his son become involved in a series of supernatural events as they work to prevent Antony Ferrara from inflicting his dark magic on more victims. Like many of his works, Rohmer includes exotic locations in this novel; first set in London, the action soon moves to the pyramids of Egypt as the father and son duo track down Ferrara. Having received both success and notoriety from Fu-Manchu, Rohmer has been given praise for Brood of the Witch-Queen , such as when H. P. Lovecraft favorably compared it to Bram Stoker's Dracula . Sax Rohmer (died 1959) was an influential writer of the modernist period. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Brood Of The Witch Queen exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  He Knew He Was Right

  Anthony Trollope

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  He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope 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: Published in 1869, this novel describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband vexed by the stubbornness of a willful wife. Throughout the novel Trollope makes allusions to Shakespeare's Othello, to tie in with the theme of jealous husbands and the calamities that 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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  Found Guilty

  Josiah Flynt Willard, Francis...

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  Josiah Flynt Willard (1869-1907) was an American sociologist and author. After several years of experience as a vagrant, he wrote fiction and nonfiction as a kind of expert on tramps and tramping. His further works dealing with the lower and criminal classes include Found Guilty, part of a collection of stories written in collaboration with Francis Walton, an American author and attorney. 
  When not in the recording studio, Robert Walcott plays base guitar and sings for his folk band, Dreamscapers. In addition to narrating fiction, he enjoys doing commercial voiceovers and deep river flyfishing in eastern Montana.

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  Letters of Peregrine Pickle - A...

  George P. Upton

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  Weekly letters written for the Chicago Tribune in the late 1860s under the name of Peregrine Pickle, on the gossip and amusements of a city growing faster than its manners: the social season, sleeping in church, the organ grinder, the circus, the wedding and everything before it, the Boston girl and the muscular Christianity of the Chicago pulpits. Upton was the critic who taught the middle west what to listen for, and here he turns the same ear on his own town. Fifty-nine plates, among them Hudson River views by Albert Bierstadt and Samuel Colman, give this Chicago of the pen its wider American frame.

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  This Misery of Boots

  H. G. Wells

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  This Misery of Boots is the expansion of a 1905 essay by H.G. Wells. He presents a very interesting view of society based on Wells’ observations on boots and the misery they cause to those unable to purchase well-fitting and well-designed boots. He advocates socialism as a way to solve this and other problems. He puts forward arguments that add a voice of support to working-class people of his time. Wells was an avowed socialist.

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  The triumphs of eugène valmont

  Robert Barr

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  Author Robert Barr makes a key contribution to the early canon of detective fiction with his character Eugene Valmont, a French master detective who eventually retires from his government role and sets up a private practice in London. This volume contains a number of the top-ranked tales featuring Valmonts keen investigative skills.

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