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  Book of Essays Dedicatory The...

  H. G. Wells

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  "The Book of Essays Dedicatory" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic.I have been bothered about this book this three months. I have written scarcely anything since Llewellyn asked me for it, for when he asked me I had really nothing on hand. I had just published every line I had ever written, at my own expense, with Prigsbys.

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  Sons and Lovers

  D. H. Lawrence

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  From the author of Lady Chatterly’s Lover, his dramatic masterpiece on the complex relationships within a working-class family.Gertrude Morel married beneath her status and now loathes her drunken, working-class husband. She instead focuses her passion on her son, Paul, who returns her love and equally despises his father. As Paul matures into a young artist, this relationship strains his attempts at connecting with other women, including the lovely Miriam Leivers. The emotional battle for his love and his soul between his mother and Miriam sets the scene for D. H. Lawrence’s celebrated exploration into human relationships and sexuality—controversial themes which he would explore in much of his writing.Sons and Lovers is D. H. Lawrence’s most widely read novel and one of the great works of twentieth-century literature. Originally published with certain passages removed, it is presented here in the restored form as originally intended.

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  Phantom Rickshaw The (Unabridged)

  Rudyard Kipling

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  This story was first published in Quartette, the Christmas Annual of the Civil and Military Gazette for 1885, which included four stories by the nineteen-year-old Kipling with other items of prose and verse by his parents and sister. It was revised before being collected in The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales, Volume 5 of the Indian Railway Library, of 1890. It was included in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, published in 1890, and in numerous later editions of that collection.Jack Pansay has had a passionate ship-board romance with Agnes Keith-Wessington, the golden-haired wife of an officer. He wearies of her and tells her so, but she refuses to accept his rejection, insisting that it is all "a hideous mistake". She grows wan and thin, but he continues to respond curtly and brutally. He becomes engaged to Kitty Mannering, a lively young woman, whom he deeply loves, and - not long after - Agnes dies of a broken heart. Soon after, his rides out with Kitty around Simla are disrupted by the ghost of Agnes, in her familiar yellow-panelled rickshaw, which only he can see. She is still insisting that it is all "a hideous mistake". His friends think he is mad or drunk, his doctor is mystified, and Kitty breaks off the engagement. His life is ruined, and he goes to his death, still haunted by the golden-haired ghost.

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  The Elements of Style

  William Strunk Jr.

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  “The Elements of Style  by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading in U.S. high school and university composition classes. The original 1918 edition of The Elements of Style detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, “a few matters of form”, and a list of commonly "misused" words and expressions. This book, printed as a private edition in 1918 for the use of his students, became a classic on the local campus, known as "the little book", and its successive editions have since sold over ten million copies. This version is based on the public-domain text from 1918, which was originally uploaded to Wikibooks and wikified by Wikibooks:User:Lord Emsworth in 2003.

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  Miss Marley - The Untold Story...

  Vanessa Lafaye

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  ‘Exquisite’ Veronica HenryBefore A Christmas Carol there was… Miss MarleyA seasonal tale of kindness and goodwill 
  Orphans Clara and Jacob Marley live by their wits, scavenging for scraps in the poorest alleyways of London, in the shadow of the workhouse. Every night, Jake promises his little sister ‘tomorrow will be better’ and when the chance to escape poverty comes their way, he seizes it despite the terrible price. 
  And so Jacob Marley is set on a path that leads to his infamous partnership with Ebenezer Scrooge. As Jacob builds a fortress of wealth to keep the world out, only Clara can warn him of the hideous fate that awaits him if he refuses to let love and kindness into his heart… 
  In Miss Marley, Vanessa Lafaye weaves a spellbinding Dickensian tale of ghosts, goodwill and hope – a perfect prequel to A Christmas Carol.Praise for Miss Marley: 
  ‘A spellbinding Dickensian tale of ghosts, goodwill and hope’ Mail on Sunday 
  ‘Redemptive… a fitting legacy for a writer who is so sadly missed’ Red 
  ‘Evocative’ Heat 
  ‘Delightful’ Sunday Mirror 
  ‘A reminder of the power of kindness and love’ Stylist 
  A ‘gem of a tale’ Sunday Express 
  ‘A beautifully written Dickensian tale’ Candis 
  ‘Captivating … A beautiful and tender fable’ Daily Express 
  ‘Fantastic’ Good Housekeeping 
  ‘Ghosts, goodwill and hope on every page’ My Weekly 
  ‘Lafaye masterfully brings the setting of 19th-Century London to life’ Woman 
  ‘Love, disappointment, kindness and greed all play their parts in this delightful companion piece to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol’ Woman & Home 
  ‘A seasonal tale of kindness and goodwill that captures the atmosphere of Dickens’ Yours 
  ‘Exquisite’ Veronica Henry 
  ‘A beautiful, warm, rich hug of a story and bittersweet reminder to embrace life and enrich others as you go’ Liz Fenwick 
  In this historical fiction, Vanessa Lafaye masterfully intertwines the supernatural and gothic elements, creating a top-tier narrative that is both captivating and evocative. The classic tale of Jacob Marley is reimagined, shedding light on his life before his infamous partnership with Ebenezer Scrooge, and the terrible price he paid for his wealth. 
  For fans of Liz Hyder (The Gifts), Ruth Druart (The Last Hours in Paris), Kristin Hannah (The Women), Robert Ingpen (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass & The Hunting of the Snark), and Lisa Shambrook (A Winter's Romance).

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  MS Found in a Bottle

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Following an apocalyptic storm at sea, a sailor finds himself one of only two survivors on board his badly damaged ship. As the vessel floats helplessly southward, he begins to write down a narrative of the strange events which ensue.Their ship collides with a ghostly ship from mythology...and our sailor tries to learn the secrets of its eerie crew. Realizing that he cannot be saved, he resolves to cast his narrative into the sea in a bottle at the point when his death is imminent.

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