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  My Jim - A Novel

  Nancy Rawles

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  American Book Award winner Nancy Rawles pens a moving story about Huck Finn's slave friend Jim, told through the eyes of the wife Jim was forced to leave behind. Sadie shares her story of loss with her granddaughter as they weave Sadie's most treasured items-her mother's knife, a piece of a bowl from Africa, a piece of Jim's hat found when he was thought to be dead-into a quilt. "My Jim is a compelling, eloquently written novel that can stand on its own merits beside the great works that inspired it."-San Francisco Chronicle

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  Transformation

  Dmitrey Merezhkovsky

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  Mischief, prank, and mistaken identity take on a new meaning in this delightful concoction by the master of the Silver Age of Russian literature Dmitrey Merezhkovsky.

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  Unexpected Fare A Tale in Five...

  Maxwell Gray

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  Mary Gleed Tuttiett was born and brought up in Newport on the Isle of Wight on 11th December 1846.   
   
  She was largely self-educated but of determined character to achieve something with her life.  As a young woman she travelled in England and Switzerland working as a governess despite bouts of ill-health.  During her writing career her health deteriorated, mainly due to asthma and rheumatism, to such an extent that she was unable to leave her bed for more than a few hours a day. 
   
  Mary began her literary career by contributing essays, poems, articles, and short stories to various periodicals of the times.  In common with several other women of the time she wrote under a male pseudonym, that of Maxwell Gray, and which in literary terms at least, has removed any trace of her life as Mary.   
   
  Her first novel, ‘The Broken Tryst’, arrived in 1879 to little attention or sales.  Mary’s first critical and popular success did not arrive until 1886 with the novel ‘The Silence of Dean Maitland’, an unorthodox ecclesiastical story which was to be later adapted for the stage and screen.  With this recognition came a far more prolific output with several of her other works set in a fictionalised Isle of Wight.  As well as novels there were collections of short stories and several poetry anthologies. 
   
  Mary was strongly supportive of women’s rights and the suffragist cause and was one of several writers who petitioned in support of the Women’s Suffrage Bill in 1910, and she wove these and other social themes into several of her novels.   
   
  After her father's death in 1895, she moved to London and remained there until her own death on 23rd September 1923, aged 76. 
   
  Her short story ‘An Unexpected Fare’ is a classic fish out-of-water story.  A rich, entitled young man has designs on a young woman of a class below his.  Wanting to find out more about her he takes on the job of a cabbie, common accent and all, as a way to discover more.

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  The Europeans

  Henry James

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  After the collapse of her marriage to an illustrious German prince, Baroness Eugenia Münster arrives in America with her brother, in search of wealthy New England relatives. The duo have an immediate impact on their American cousins, the Wentworths. The Baroness captures the eye of young Clifford Wentworth, and his girlfriend’s older brother Robert; meanwhile, Felix falls for his American cousin Gertrude. 
  The Wentworths are overawed by their European cousins and their frivolous lifestyle. What unfolds is a delightful comedy of manners that contrasts the apparently sophisticated and light-hearted Europeans with the serious and puritanical Americans. 
  At times reminiscent of Jane Austen, The Europeans contains beautiful and vivid descriptions of mid-19th century upper-class New England life.

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  Language of Flowers The...

  H. G. Wells

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  "The Language of Flowers" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic.During the early Victorian revival of chivalry the Language of Flowers had some considerable vogue. The Romeo of the mutton-chop whiskers was expected to keep this delicate symbolism in view, and even to display his wit by some dainty conceits in it.

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  A Study in Scarlet

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  In a Study in Scarlet Conan Doyle fist presented to the world his unique creation Mr Sherlock Holmes almost complete. 
  Over successive stories we learn a little more about the man, but it is not for character development that we turn to the Chronicles of Dr John Watson M.D 
  An iconic figure such as Holmes is all the better for his predicatbility, and even in this, the first of his recorded cases we can be confident that our hero is all we would expect. 
  Part of the Complete Shelock Holmes from Head Stories Audio, narrated by Simon Hester and with specially composed theme music.

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