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Every lover of classic literature should read Candide, the satirical masterpiece that shocked Paris upon its publication in 1759. The novel challenges many of the core assertions of Enlightenment philosophy and calls into question vast swaths of Christian dogma. Though widely banned after its publication, it propelled Voltaire to literary stardom and remains one of the most popular French novels ever written.
The First Father Brown Collection includes two collections of short stories featuring Father Brown. Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G.K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870-1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922. Included in this collection: 1. The Innocence of Father Brown (1911): The Blue Cross / The Secret Garden / The Queer Feet / The Flying Stars / The Invisible Man / The Honour of Israel Gow / The Wrong Shape / The Sins of Prince Saradine / The Hammer of God / The Eye of Apollo / The Sign of the Broken Sword / The Three Tools of Death 2. The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914): The Absence of Mr Glass / The Paradise of Thieves / The Duel of Dr Hirsch / The Man in the Passage / The Mistake of the Machine / The Head of Caesar / The Purple Wig / The Perishing of the Pendragons / The God of the Gongs / The Salad of Colonel Cray / The Strange Crime of John Boulnois / The Fairy Tale of Father BrownShow book
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past.Show book
The Complete Tales & Novels of Edgar Allan Poe includes the 66 tales and 2 full-length novels of Edgar Allan Poe.Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.Included in this collection:1. Metzengerstein (1832)2. The Duc de L'Omelette (1832)3. A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)4. Loss of Breath (1832)5. Bon-Bon (1832)6. MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)7. The Assignation (1834)8. Berenice (1835)9. Morella (1835)10. Lionizing (1835)11. The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)12. King Pest (1835)13. Shadow (1835)14. Four Beasts in One (1836)15. Mystification (1837)16. Silence (1838)17. Ligeia (1838)18. How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)19. A Predicament (1838)20. The Devil in the Belfry (1839)21. The Man That Was Used Up (1839)22. The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)23. William Wilson (1839)24. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)25. Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)26. The Business Man (1840)27. The Man of the Crowd (1840)28. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)29. A Descent into the Maelström (1841)30. The Island of the Fay (1841)31. The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)32. Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)33. Eleonora (1841)34. Three Sundays in a Week (1841)35. The Oval Portrait (1842)36. The Masque of the Red Death (1842)37. The Landscape Garden (1842)38. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842/43)39. The Pit and the Pendulum (1842/43)40. The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)41. The Gold-Bug (1843)42. The Black Cat (1843)43. Diddling (1843)44. The Spectacles (1844)45. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)46. The Premature Burial (1844)47. Mesmeric Revelation (1844)48. The Oblong Box (1844)49. The Angel of the Odd (1844)50. Thou Art the Man (1844)51. The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)52. The Purloined Letter (1844/45)53. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)54. Some Words with a Mummy (1845)55. The Power of Words (1845)56. The Imp of the Perverse (1845)57. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)58. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)59. The Sphinx (1846)60. The Cask of Amontillado (1846)61. The Domain of Arnheim (1847)62. Mellonta Tauta (1849)63. Hop-Frog (1849)64. Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)65. X-ing a Paragrab (1849)66. Landor's Cottage (1849)67. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)68. The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)Show book
The Mucker Trilogy includes three novels about the main characters Billy Byrne and Bridge.The Mucker is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, begun in August 1913 and published by All-Story Weekly in October and November 1914. The book version was first published by A.C. McClurg on 31 October 1921.The Return of the Mucker is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, begun in January 1916 and published by All-Story Weekly in June and July 1916. From January 1922 to August 1939, Methuen (UK) published a version of The Return of the Mucker under the title The Man Without A Soul.The Oakdale Affair is a short contemporary mystery novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was written in 1917 under the working title of Bridge and the Oskaloosa Kid, and is a partial sequel to The Mucker (1914/1916). It was adapted into a silent film in 1919 starring Evelyn Greeley. Bridge, the protagonist, was a secondary character in the earlier work. It was first published in Blue Book Magazine in March 1918. Its first book publication paired it with an unrelated tale, The Rider, in The Oakdale Affair and The Rider, issued by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. in February 1937 and subsequently reprinted by Grosset & Dunlap in 1937, 1938 and 1940.Show book
Herman Melville's deliciously hilarious tale of the day a door-to-door lightning-rod salesman called upon him.Show book
Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian 'golden age' of the short story.'The Registered Packet' is the story of Martineau, a young man returning home by ship after a two-year absence. On the ship he meets a stranger and volunteers to deliver a small parcel for him to the nearest post office, in order that his fellow traveller might catch his train. But on arrival in Hull, Martineau inadvertently leaves his bag in the cab. He is able to track down the vehicle and find his bag again, but to his horror the packet which was entrusted to him has disappeared. He and his brother set off in search of the missing package...and what follows is an extraordinary tale.Show book
