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The Greatest Literary Classics Of All Time

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Musaicum Books presents to you this collection of the greatest masterpieces ever written: British: Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Paradise Lost Odes The Waste Land Ode to the West Wind Gulliver's Travels Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders The History of Tom Jones Tristram Shandy Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Emma Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Tenant of Wildfell Hall Vanity Fair Middlemarch The Mill on the Floss David Copperfield Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities Tess of the d'Urbervilles Jude the Obscure The Enchanted April Sons and Lovers The Mysteries of Udolpho Dracula Frankenstein A Study in Scarlet The Sign of the Four The Woman in White Heart of Darkness The Picture of Dorian Gray Diary of a Nobody The Time Machine The War of the Worlds The Innocence of Father Brown Howards End Alice in Wonderland The Secret Garden A Little Princess Irish: Ulysses A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Dubliners Pygmalion Arms and the Man The Second Coming Scottish: Ivanhoe Guy Mannering Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Treasure Island The Wind in the Willows Phantastes Peter and Wendy American: Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer The Call of the Wild White Fang Moby-Dick The Scarlet Letter Little Women My Antonia The Age of Innocence The Awakening The Portrait of a Lady The Wings of the Dove The Yellow Wallpaper Walden Leaves of Grass The Madman Uncle Tom's Cabin The Life of Frederick Douglass Ben-Hur The Last of the Mohicans The Raven The Black Cat The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Call of Cthulhu The Beautiful and Damned The Rise of Silas Lapham The Sleepy Hollow The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Canadian: Anne of Green Gables German: Faust Siddhartha Thus Spoke Zarathustra… French: Swann's Way Les Misérables Candide Germinal... Russian: Anna Karenina War and Peace Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov… Spanish: Don Quixote Dona Perfecta… Italian: The Divine Comedy The Prince… Norwegian: A Doll's House Ancient: Iliad & Odyssey Meditations… Middle East: Arabian Nights Indian: Gitanjali The Jungle Book… Chinese: Tao Te Ching Art of War… Japanese: Bushido, the Soul of Japan…

101 Mystery & Detective Classics You Should Read Before You Die

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This collection includes the great masterpieces of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience: Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Murder on the Links The Secret Adversary The Man in the Brown Suit The Secret of Chimneys The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Masque of the Red Death The Fall of the House of Usher The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Purloined Letter Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Valley of Fear The Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes Stories G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown Mysteries The Man Who Knew Too Much The Man Who Was Thursday Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Moonstone Charles Dickens: Bleak House Great Expectations The Mystery of Edwin Drood Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Tenant of Wildfel Hall (Anne Brontë) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) Nostromo (Joseph Conrad) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain) The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Shooting Party (Anton Chekhov) The Mysterious Portrait (Nikolai Gogol) Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Plumed Serpent (D. H. Lawrence) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells) The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace) The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Edgar Wallace) The Red Thumb Mark (R. Austin Freeman) The Leavenworth Case (Anna Katharine Green) That Affair Next Door (Anna Katharine Green) The Bat (Mary Roberts Rinehart)

The Castaways

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"The perfect summer read" (Booklist) from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand: an intense tale of love and loyalty set against the backdrop of endless summer island life. With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy's marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversary, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, they mysteriously drown, leaving behind two small children as well as three couples who have long been their closest friends. Tragedy brings to the surface long-simmering conflicts and emotions, and the MacAvoys' six grieving friends find themselves unprepared for the revelation of secret upon secret as they struggle to answer the question: What happened to Greg and Tess?The Castaways probes the boundaries of friendship and forgiveness as it tells a page-turning story of passion, betrayal, and suspense, filled with the perfect details of summer island life that have made Elin Hilderbrand's novels beloved bestsellers.

The Year of the Cat: A Cat of Strange Lands

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Cats roam everywhere on the planet. Everywhere. Their breed names often betray their place of origin—or their strange origin story in some now-lost land.This collection honors that feline diversity in odd ways as much as possible. And the strange lands that cats not only originate from, but find themselves in.These cats prowl in a witch's hut, an enchanted shop, post-apocalyptic cities such as Las Vegas and Seattle, as well as across an ancient land where they once ruled as gods.Come settle in for a journey through the kitty-cat cosmos.Includes:"Cat Web" by Meyari McFarland"Burning Bright" by Leigh Saunders"The Poop Thief" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch"Cat in a Different Place" by Dean Wesley Smith"A Silly Question" by E. Nesbit"The Witch's Cat" by Manly Wade Wellman"Life, with Cats" by Annie Reed"Night of the Hogtied Alien" by Stefon Mears"Fur Tsunami" by Kent Patterson

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

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Stories by N.K. Jemisin, Dale Bailey, Peter S. Beagle, and more: “Showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre.” —TheWashington Post Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres—they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears. With a diverse selection of stories from major award winners, bestsellers, and rising stars, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Charles Yu, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 continues to explore the ever- changing world of SFF today, with Yu bringing his unique view—literary, meta, and adventurous—to the series’ third edition. “Superb…This mostly dystopic, sometimes darkly humorous collection of 20 hard-hitting stories feels timely, confronting contemporary cultural crises.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Swan Song

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In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there's a new couple in town... and they instantly shake things up. Amid the extravagant parties on land and sea, there's trouble on the island, forcing Chief of Police Ed Kapanesh to postpone his retirement and changing the fabric of life on the picturesque island forever... After thirty-five years serving as the Chief of Police on the island of Nantucket, Ed Kapenash's heart can no longer take the stress. But his plans to retire are thwarted when, with only three days left to serve, he receives a phone call. A 22-million-dollar summer home, recently purchased by the flashy new couple in town, the Richardsons, has burned to the ground. The Richardsons are far from hurt—in fact, they're out on the water, throwing a lavish party on their yacht—but when news of the fire reaches them, they discover that their personal assistant has vanished. The Chief is well-acquainted with the Richardsons, and his daughter is best friends with the now-missing girl, leaving him no choice but to postpone his retirement and take on the double case. On a small island like Nantucket, the Richardsons shook things up from the second they stepped on to the scene, throwing luxurious parties and doing whatever they could to gain admittance to the coveted lunches at the Field & Oar Club (with increasing desperation). They instantly captured the attention of local real estate agent Fast Eddie, and the town gossip Blond Sharon, both dealing with their own personal dramas. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce, and in order to avoid becoming a cliché, she's enrolled in a creative writing class, putting her natural affinity for scandal towards a more noble purpose. To solve the case of the fire and track down his daughter's best friend, the Chief will have to string together the pieces of the lives of all of these characters and more, rallying his strength for his final act of service to the tight-knit community he knows and loves. The last of Elin Hilderbrand's bestselling Nantucket novels, SWAN SONG is a propulsive medley of glittering gatherings, sun-soaked drama, wisdom and heart, featuring the return of some of her most beloved characters, including, most importantly, the beautiful and timeless island of Nantucket itself.

Il diacono King Kong

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Brooklyn, 1969. Il vecchio Sportcoat, goffo e irascibile diacono di una chiesa locale, è anche noto come King Kong, la speciale miscela alcolica dalla quale è ormai inseparabile. Ultimamente sembra più inquieto del solito, ma nel quartiere nessuno si aspetta quello che sta per succedere: un giorno si trascina attraverso il cortile del complesso di case popolari dove vive, tira fuori una calibro 38 dalla tasca e davanti a tutti, alla luce del sole, spara allo spacciatore più temuto, un ragazzino di nemmeno vent’anni. Quali ragioni si nascondono dietro un gesto tanto scellerato? E quali sono le conseguenze sulla vita delle persone coinvolte? La vittima, il carnefice, i residenti afroamericani e ispanici che hanno assistito all’accaduto, i vicini bianchi, i poliziotti locali incaricati di indagare, i seguaci della chiesa di Sportcoat, i mafiosi italiani del quartiere: tutti i membri di questa chiassosa comunità hanno una propria versione da raccontare, mentre le loro esistenze si intrecciano l’una con l’altra nei modi più improbabili andando a formare un quadro vivace ed esilarante che ha come sfondo la vorticosa New York degli anni Sessanta.Un romanzo geniale, divertente e commovente al tempo stesso, che negli Stati Uniti ha lasciato il segno: ai vertici delle classifiche di vendita, uno dei migliori libri dell’anno per Barack Obama e per «The New York Times», ha vinto, tra gli altri premi, anche l’Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Con una prosa travolgente, dando prova ancora una volta del suo talento per la narrazione e della sua incrollabile fiducia nell’umanità, James McBride dimostra che l’amore e la fede, in fondo, vivono in tutti noi.«Perché non tagliamo corto e dichiariamo McBride il Grande Romanziere Americano di questo decennio? McBride ha la capacità di dilatare la realtà fino a dimensioni comiche, aiutandoci a vedere meglio ogni minuscolo meccanismo che mantiene in piedi i sistemi ingiusti».«Los Angeles Times»«Immaginato da una mente brillante, straordinario, un’epopea tragicomica fatta di vite intrecciate».Joyce Carol Oates

Too Much Temptation

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Sexy contemporary romance from the New York Times bestselling author, featuring an innocent but adventurous young woman who knows exactly what—and who--she wants, and the gorgeous dream guy who’s ready to fulfil all her fantasies.Sometimes too much of a good thing is the exact right amount . . . Awkward, insecure Grace Jenkins has had little experience with men. But that hasn’t stopped her from dreaming hard about Noah Harper. Gorgeous, strong, and darkly sexy, Noah has a rough edge beneath his polish that promises no mercy in the bedroom. When Grace learns Noah’s engagement has ended in scandal, she shyly offers him her support and her friendship. But Noah’s looking for something extra . . . Noah wants Grace—badly. He wants to possess those curves that go on forever, to savor her sweet innocence, to take her to the limits of white-hot desire . . . again and again. What he doesn’t want is anything more complicated than that, and he knows Grace is a woman who deserves better. Grace, however, knows exactly what she needs—the kind of ecstasy only Noah can give her. Brazenly, she accepts his offer, and Noah promises to make all her secret fantasies come true . . . “Lori Foster delivers everything you are looking for in a romance.” —Jayne Ann Krentz“Lori Foster should be on everyone's auto-buy list.” —Sherrilyn Kenyon, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Foster outwrites most of her peers.” —Library Journal “Smart, Sexy, engaging characters. The pages sizzle!” —Christine Feehan

La Divina Comedia

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La Divina comedia ha sido considerada un libro totalizador y representativo del pensamiento de toda una época, al mismo tiempo que se ha valorado la obra como el inicio de una visión más humana del hombre que tendrá su culminación en el Renacimiento. También se ha juzgado la obra como la fusión más perfecta que puede darse entre una concepción ortodoxa del cristianismo y la adaptación de modelos literarios clásicos.

That Summer

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Notable Work of Fiction by The Washington PostFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Summer comes another “ideal beach read, full of secrets and complicated female friendships” (Cosmopolitan).Daisy Shoemaker can’t sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she’s got it good. So why is she up all night?While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction, she’s also receiving misdirected emails meant for a woman named Diana Starling, whose email address is just one punctuation mark away from her own. While Daisy’s driving carpools, Diana is chairing meetings. While Daisy’s making dinner, Diana’s making plans to reorganize corporations. Diana’s glamorous, sophisticated, single-lady life is miles away from Daisy’s simpler existence. When an apology leads to an invitation, the two women meet and become friends. But, as they get closer, we learn that their connection was not completely accidental. Who IS this other woman, and what does she want with Daisy?From the manicured Main Line of Philadelphia to the wild landscape of the Outer Cape, written with Jennifer Weiner’s signature wit and sharp observations, That Summer is a “compelling, nuanced novel” (Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post) about surviving our pasts, confronting our futures, and the sustaining bonds of friendship.

The Greatest British Classics

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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding) Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray) Ode to the West Wind (P. B. Shelley) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Odes (John Keats) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Middlemarch (George Eliot) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Ward Radcliffe) Dracula (Bram Stoker) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins) The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) Howards End (E. M. Forster) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw) The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) Phantastes (George MacDonald) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)

Ραγισμένη Γη

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ΗΤΑΝ ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣ ΕΡΩΤΑΣ ΠΡΙΝ ΓΙΝΕΙ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟ ΣΚΑΝΔΑΛΟ. Όλοι στο χωριό έλεγαν ότι η επιστροφή του Γκάμπριελ δε θα έβγαινε σε καλό. Και τώρα, καθώς η Μπεθ βλέπει τον άντρα που αγαπά να δικάζεται για φόνο, δεν μπορεί να μη σκεφτεί ότι είχαν δίκιο. Ήταν δεκαεφτά όταν πρωτογνώρισε τον Γκάμπριελ. Εκείνο το μεθυστικό, έντονο καλοκαίρι, ο Γκάμπριελ την έκανε να σκεφτεί, να δει και να νιώσει διαφορετικά. Πίστευε ότι ήταν η αρχή μιας υπέροχης ερωτικής ιστορίας που θα κρατούσε για πάντα. Όταν όμως ο Γκάμπριελ έφυγε για να γίνει αυτό που προσδοκούσε η μητέρα του ότι θα γινόταν, η Μπεθ διαλύθηκε. Ο Φρανκ ήταν ο άντρας που μάζεψε τα κομμάτια της. Μαζί έφτιαξαν ένα σπιτικό πολύ διαφορετικό από εκείνο που φανταζόταν με τον Γκάμπριελ. Κι υπήρξε μια εποχή –κάποια χρόνια, μάλιστα– που ήταν ευτυχισμένη. Βλέποντας τον άντρα της και τον γιο της να διασχίζουν το αγρόκτημά τους με το τρακτέρ, ένιωθε πολύ σίγουρη πως, παρ’ όλα όσα είχαν γίνει, αυτή ήταν η ζωή που έπρεπε να ζει. Όμως ο Γκάμπριελ επέστρεψε, και η πεποίθηση της Μπεθ στο ποια ήταν και τι ήθελε κατέρρευσε. Ακόμα και ύστερα από δέκα χρόνια, η έλξη τους ήταν ακαριαία. Ήξερε ότι ήταν λάθος και ήξερε ότι πολλοί άνθρωποι θα πληγώνονταν. Αλλά πώς μπορούσε ν’ αντισταθεί στο να δώσει μια δεύτερη ευκαιρία στην πρώτη της αγάπη; Μια ερωτική ιστορία με τον παλμό ενός θρίλερ, η ΡΑΓΙΣΜΕΝΗ ΓΗ είναι ένα συναρπαστικό μυθιστόρημα για τις ανέφικτες επιλογές και τις ολέθριες συνέπειές τους.

Skipping Christmas

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A classic tale for modern times from a beloved storyteller, John Grisham offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition.Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty, they won’t be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash, they aren’t even going to have a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’re setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences—and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined.Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

A High Stakes Seduction

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In USA TODAY bestselling author Jennifer Lewis's latest, love is a gamble between polar opposites… Meet Constance Allen: no-nonsense, by the books…innocent. The aboveboard accountant is on a mission to make sure the New Dawn casino's finances are legit, and maybe even get a promotion…until the millionaire owner seduces the socks off her. Now the conflict of interest threatens her very livelihood, yet she just can't help it! Blindsided, John Fairweather never expects a little flirting with the auditor to get so serious so fast. But when her investigation turns up a smoking gun, will all bets be off for their fledgling affair?

Russian Classics Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends

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Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited collection of Russian classics. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Introduction: The History of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls A Hero of Our Time Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Anton Chekhov: The Steppe: The Story of a Journey Ward No. 6 Mother (Maxim Gorky) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) Plays: The Choice of a Tutor (Denis Fonvizin) The Inspector General; or, The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol) Anton Chekhov: On the High Road Swan Song, A Play in one Act Ivanoff The Anniversary; or, the Festivities The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard… Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Darkness The First Distiller Fruits of Culture The Live Corpse The Cause of it All The Light Shines in Darkness Leonid Andreyev: Savva The Life of Man Nikolai Evreinov: A Merry Death The Beautiful Despot Short Stories: The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree and the Wedding God Sees the Truth, but Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, a Phantasy The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch… Russian Folk Tales & Legends: The Fiend The Dead Mother The Dead Witch The Treasure The Cross-Surety The Awful Drunkard The Bad Wife The Golovikha The Three Copecks The Miser The Fool and the Birch-Tree The Mizgir The Smith and the Demon Ivan Popyalof The Norka Marya Morevna Koshchei the Deathless The Water Snake The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise The Baba Yaga Vasilissa the Fair The Witch The Witch and the Sun's Sister One-Eyed Likho Woe… Essays: On Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists

The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection. The Harvard Classics in 51 volumes include the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In addition – there are 20 volumes of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Robert Burns V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas V. 9: Cicero and Pliny V. 10: The Wealth of Nations V. 11: The Origin of Species V. 12: Plutarchs V. 13: Æneid V. 14: Don Quixote V. 15: Bunyan & Walton V. 16: 1001 Nights V. 17: Folklore & Fable V. 18: Modern English Drama V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe V. 20: The Divine Comedy V. 21: I Promessi Sposi V. 22: The Odyssey V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast V. 24: Edmund Burke V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle V. 26: Continental Drama V. 27 & 28: English & American Essays V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle V. 30: Scientific Papers V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays V. 33: Voyages & Travels V. 34: French & English Philosophers V. 35: Chronicle and Romance V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur V. 39: Prologues V. 40–42: English Poetry V. 43: American Historical Documents V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama V. 48: Blaise Pascal V. 49: Saga V. 50: Reader's Guide V. 51: Lectures The Shelf of Fiction: V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice V. 4: Guy Mannering V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield V. 9: The Mill on the Floss V. 10: Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale V.11: The Portrait of a Lady V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland

Nantucket Nights

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The ties between women can run as deep as the ocean--but so can the secrets.For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate lives to drink champagne, swap stories and swim naked under the Nantucket stars. But on one of those bonding nights, one of their trio swims out from the shore and doesn't return. After the surviving friends emerge from their grief, they realize that the repercussions of their loss go far beyond their little circle, and they begin to uncover layers of secrets--and their connections to each other--that were never revealed on the beach. What has made their friendship strong now has the power to destroy--their marriages, families, even themselves, in Elin Hilderbrand's Nantucket Nights.

The Color Out of Space

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HP Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a prodigious but sickly youth. At 14 he contemplated suicide when his grandfather died leaving him and his mother almost penniless.He began to write poetry and a series of literary spats in a newspaper brought him attention and the beginnings of a career.But until the last decade of his life the works for which we is so well know did not arrive. That last decade was prolific but with little income his life downgraded from one rented house to another.In 1936, often malnourished he was diagnosed with cancer and succumbed to it the following year. This comes to you courtesy of Miniature Masterpieces who have an excellent range of quality short stories from the masters of the craft. Do search for Miniature Masterpieces at any digital store for further information.This audiobook is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title, same words. Perhaps a different experience but with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device. Start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that. This, and these are, Miniature Masterpieces. Join us for the journey.

Far From Home

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel delivers an exciting and moving historical novel about a courageous wife and mother hiding in occupied France.In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half French, half German, she is happy to be back in France, where her husband, Gregor, a retired colonel, will join her soon from Germany. Arielle and Gregor have thus far been able to hide their private opposition to Hitler.Then her world falls apart. She receives word that Gregor was part of Operation Valkyrie, a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Poland, and has been shot as a traitor. Now, holding a French passport handed to her by another high-level collaborator, she is whisked away from Paris under cover of darkness for her own safety.As the Allies storm the beaches, she goes into hiding in a small village in Normandy under an assumed name, unable to contact her adult children. There, she forms a friendship with Sebastien Renaud, whose wife and daughter were deported in 1941, and who eventually reveals himself as a forger in the Resistance. As war rages on, Arielle and Sebastien work for the Resistance and hold out for the time when they can search for their loved ones.In Far From Home, Danielle Steel captures the devastation of World War II with a sweeping story of family love that transcends impossible odds.

Cat's Eye

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A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The TestamentsDisturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman—but above all she must seek release form her haunting memories.

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