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Two notable books from one of the Victorian era's most celebrated feminist novelists Middlemarch, Eliot's most famous work, is a towering work of Victorian literature. This novel offers a panoramic view of English society through the intricate lives of its characters. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage,...

Orlando is a fantastical biography as well as a funny, exuberant romp through history that examines the true nature of sexuality. As a teenage boy, the handsome Orlando serves as a page at the Elizabethan court and becomes the favourite of the elderly queen. After Elizabeth's death, he falls deeply in love with Sasha, an elusive and somewhat feral princess in the entourage of the Russian embassy. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most...

More than 60 illustrations are reproduced from early edition, bringing the story to life. A collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's best three novels. Books included in this collection: Treasure Island: For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic ...

Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients. These stories bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undispute...

More than 60 illustrations are reproduced from early edition, bringing the story to life. A collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's best three novels. Books included in this collection: Treasure Island: For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic ...

In this collection, are Edgar Allen Poe masterpieces of mystery, horror, and adventure, including stories such as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Gold-Bug, and The Pit and the Pendulum that defined American romanticism and secured Poe as one of the most enduring literary voices of the nineteenth century. Fifty poems i...

In this collection, are Edgar Allen Poe masterpieces of mystery, horror, terror, and adventure. This collection includes 32 greatest stories of Poe. These marvellous examples of Poe's masterful fiction writing prowess are highly recommended for lovers of the horror and mystery genre, and would make for worthy additions to any collection. The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher The Black Cat The Masque of the Red Death The Tell-...

A COLLECTION OF POE'S 50 REMARKABLE POEMS Poems included in this collection: The Raven Annabel Lee Alone The Bells Eulalie-A Song Sonnet-Silence To One in Paradise Lenore Dreams To Helen The Haunted Palace A Dream Within a Dream The City in the Sea To F-- The Sleeper Ulalume Romance Sonnet-To Science Eldorado To M-- The Conqueror Worm Sonnet-To Zante To M. L. S.-- To the River -- A Dream Al Aaraaf To F--S S. O--D Bridal Ballad To My Mother ...

Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients. These stories bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undispute...

In this collection, are Edgar Allen Poe masterpieces of mystery, horror, and adventure, including stories such as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Gold-Bug, and The Pit and the Pendulum that defined American romanticism and secured Poe as one of the most enduring literary voices of the nineteenth century. Fifty poems i...

In this collection, are Edgar Allen Poe masterpieces of mystery, horror, terror, and adventure. This collection includes 32 greatest stories of Poe. These marvellous examples of Poe's masterful fiction writing prowess are highly recommended for lovers of the horror and mystery genre, and would make for worthy additions to any collection. The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher The Black Cat The Masque of the Red Death The Tell-...

A COLLECTION OF POE'S 50 REMARKABLE POEMS Poems included in this collection: The Raven Annabel Lee Alone The Bells Eulalie-A Song Sonnet-Silence To One in Paradise Lenore Dreams To Helen The Haunted Palace A Dream Within a Dream The City in the Sea To F-- The Sleeper Ulalume Romance Sonnet-To Science Eldorado To M-- The Conqueror Worm Sonnet-To Zante To M. L. S.-- To the River -- A Dream Al Aaraaf To F--S S. O--D Bridal Ballad To My Mother ...

This collection of Agatha Christie's first five novels featuring the famed detective Hercule Poirot. Books included in this collection: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1): Agatha Christie's first novel featuring one her most famous and long-running characters, Hercule Poirot, Belgian detective extraordinaire. Poirot, a Great War refugee, is settling in England near Styles Court, the residence of his benefactress, the wealthy...

Anne of Green Gables Series - First Three Books Collection Anne of Green Gables recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan mistakenly sent by mistake to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm. Yet Anne's quirky personality and good-natured spirit causes the siblings to grow to love her anyway, and soon the entire town falls for the prec...

The collection of Agatha Christie's three novels. Books included in this collection: The Secret Adversary: Book introduces the world to the adventures of intrepid detectives Tommy and Tuppence, or as they are more formally known, Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley. The two young friends find themselves out of work after the end of the first world war and form the partnership "The Young Adventures, Ltd." They are immediately hired by a myst...

Anne of Green Gables Series - First Three Books Collection Anne of Green Gables recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan mistakenly sent by mistake to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm. Yet Anne's quirky personality and good-natured spirit causes the siblings to grow to love her anyway, and soon the entire town falls for the prec...

In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man. The work moves into the realm "b...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero, who later forced him to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to have him assassinated. As a writer, Seneca is known for his philosophical works, and for his plays, which are all tragedies. His prose works include 12 essays and...

The collection of Agatha Christie's three novels. Books included in this collection: The Secret Adversary: Book introduces the world to the adventures of intrepid detectives Tommy and Tuppence, or as they are more formally known, Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley. The two young friends find themselves out of work after the end of the first world war and form the partnership "The Young Adventures, Ltd." They are immediately hired by a myst...

Six classic works of Stoic philosophy Rediscover six enormously enduring, influential, and important works of stoic mindfulness and philosophy. The classic works from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca - works that even thousands of years after their original publication, continue to inspire readers to greater self-mastery and self-improvement. Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflection...