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  Tess Of The Durbervilles

  Thomas Hardy

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  Tess of the d'Urbervilles is said to be Thomas Hardy's fictional masterpiece and is considered to be an important nineteenth century novel. It explores themes of love, sex, class and morality in an aching love story. It initially appeared in a censored, serialised version in The Graphic in 1891 and was published in a single volume the following year. Early reviews were mixed, partly because of its challenge to Victorian sexual morals—it is now looked upon much more favorably. Tess Durbeyfield is the oldest child of uneducated peasants who are given the impression that they may have noble blood, as their surname is a corruption of that of an extinct Norman family. When Tess participates in the village May Dance, she meets Angel, who stops to join the dance but notices Tess too late to dance with her. That night, Tess's father gets too drunk to drive to the market, so she undertakes the journey herself. However, she falls asleep at the reins, and the family's only horse encounters a speeding wagon and is fatally wounded. Tess feels so guilty over the consequences for the family that she agrees to try to claim kin with a rich widow who lives in a neighbouring town. The story traces Tess's life through the following years. The novel has been adapted for the stage, theatre, opera, cinema and television numerous times since its publication. Thomas Hardy (died 1928) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Tess Of The Durbervilles 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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  The King in Yellow - A...

  Robert W. Chambers

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  There is a play so exquisitely beautiful and utterly horrifying that reading past the first act will drive you inexorably insane. Have you seen the Yellow Sign? 
  In a surreal, alternate 1920s New York where lethal chambers stand on street corners and society teeters on the brink of collapse, a terrifying cultural contagion is spreading. A published manuscript—a forbidden play—is circulating the globe. Those who read it are immediately haunted by visions of black stars, the alien twin suns of the Lake of Hali, and the mysterious, tattered entity known only as the King in Yellow. As delusional aristocrats plot bloody rebellions, ambitious sculptors unlock cursed alchemical secrets, and paranoid artists are hunted by shadowy figures in the echoing churches of Paris, reality itself begins to fray for anyone touched by the accursed pages. 
  Why you will love this: This unparalleled masterpiece of Weird Fiction stands as a crucial bridge between gothic literature and modern cosmic horror. If you crave atmospheric terror, decadent psychological thrillers, and rich mythologies filled with unreliable narrators, madness, and eldritch dread, this mind-bending descent into Carcosa will utterly consume your imagination. 
  About the Author: Robert W. Chambers was an American artist and fiction writer whose early weird and supernatural tales deeply influenced H.P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu Mythos, and the evolution of modern horror. His creation of a sprawling, mind-bending mythology secured his place as one of the most vital architects of the weird fiction genre.

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  The Son of the Wolf

  Jack London

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  Short story written by Jack London The Son of the Wolf consists of a single man who is known as Mckenzie or "Scruff". The story tells of the hardships of what single men had to endure on the frontier. Often men would venture on journeys that may consist of months or even years just in order to find the right suitor. Scruff had been the toughest of the tough and had lasted the longest on the frontier without the company of a woman. 
  This story connects with naturalism by showing that nature can be just as cruel as it can be forgiving if someone is alone on the frontier.

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  The Origins of Popular...

  T. Sharper Knowlson

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  This fascinating book here in its complete and unabridged form makes a worthy addition to the bookshelf of all those interested in this craft.Sections include; Superstitions and customs relating to Days & Seasons, Marriage superstitions & Customs, Divination & Omens and Miscellaneous Superstitions & Customs. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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  The Lesson - From their pens to...

  Jerome K. Jerome

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  Jerome Klapka Jerome was born on the 2nd May 1859 at Belsize House in Caldmore, Walsall, England. 
  His family were reduced to poverty whilst he was a toddler owning to failed investments in the local mining industry. 
  After several moves in declining circumstances Jerome became a pupil at St Marylebone Grammar School.  His aim then was to go into politics, or even become a man of letters, but with the death of his father, when he was thirteen, and his mother two years later, now meant that he had to support himself and leave all thoughts of education behind. 
  He spent four years working for the London and North Western Railway, initially collecting coal that fell along the railway lines.  Thereafter, using the name Harold Crichton, he tried his hand at acting but the repertory company he joined was stretched in its resources and, at times, relied on the actors to purchase their own props and costumes.  After three years he tried journalism, teaching and work as a solicitor’s clerk.  All came to nothing.  Finally, in 1885, he had some success with ‘On the Stage―and Off’, a comic memoir collection of his stage experiences and his early attempts at acting.  
  Shortly thereafter he married and his honeymoon on the Thames became the inspiration for ‘Three Men in a Boat’.  This of course was a wild success, both critically and commercially, but also his creative high point.  
  Although he was now able to write full time, he was never able to attain all the heights of that classic humorous novel.  He remained a prolific writer of novels, plays and short stories and its from those classic works that these stories have been mined. 
  Jerome K Jerome died in Northampton General Hospital on the 14th June 1927 two weeks after suffering a paralytic stroke and a cerebral haemorrhage on a motoring tour.  He was 68.

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  The Acquittal - From their pens...

  A M Burrage

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  Alfred McLelland Burrage was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex on 1st July, 1889. His father and uncle were both writers, primarily of boy’s fiction, and by age 16 AM Burrage had joined them.  The young man had ambitions to write for the adult market too.  The money was better and so was his writing. 
  From 1890 to 1914, prior to the mainstream appeal of cinema and radio the printed word, mainly in magazines, was the foremost mass entertainment.  AM Burrage quickly became a master of the market publishing his stories regularly across a number of publications. 
  By the start of the Great War Burrage was well established but in 1916 he was conscripted to fight on the Western Front. He continued to write during these years documenting his experiences in the classic book War is War by Ex-Private X. 
  For the remainder of his life Burrage was rarely printed in book form but continued to write and be published on a prodigious scale in magazines and newspapers.  In this volume we concentrate on his supernatural stories which are, by common consent, some of the best ever written.  Succinct yet full of character each reveals a twist and a flavour that is unsettling…..sometimes menacing….always disturbing.

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