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2001
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This is the story of one day in June 1923, depicting the different lives of some London citizens trying to maintain their daily lives especially after the not only physically but also mentally devastating and eradicating World War I. Virginia Woolf brings a very new aspect, the stream of consciousness on the stage and thereby makes us acquainted with the feelings and inner thoughts of each character. She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to s...
Flush: A Biography (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Modernist Animal Narrative of Victorian Society, Feminist Satire, and a Poet's Cocker Spaniel
2013
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Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography is a playful yet incisive experiment in biographical form, recounting the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel while quietly reimagining Victorian literary culture from an oblique, nonhuman perspective. Blending mock-heroic wit, lyrical impressionism, and social satire, Woolf transforms the conventions of biography into a meditation on class, gender, sensory experience, and domestic confinement. The book belongs to her most inventive 1930s...
2027
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First published in 1931, ''Three Houses'' by Angela Thirkell is a memoir and autobiography, very memorable but notably distinct from her mystery novels and comedies of manners. The book focuses on Thirkell’s happy childhood during the late Victorian era, structured around three specific residences that shaped her early life: The Grange in Fulham: The home of her maternal grandparents, where her grandfather, the famous Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, lived and worked. 27 Youn...
2014
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H. G. Wells's Collected Works is contained 15 novels written by Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) A British writer best known for his science fiction novels, he was arguably one of the most prolific writers in the history of literature, and wrote works in nearly every genre, including short stories and nonfiction. These are the 15 novels of Herbert George Wells in this book. 1. The Time Machine, (Heinemann text) (1895) 2. The Wonderful Visit, (1895) 3. ...
2005
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Spooks and inexplicable things that go bump in the night have long exercised creative imaginations and provided source material for our greatest story-tellers.Included in this collection are tales from the heyday of supernatural fiction, when the great names of literature contributed to the genre as a matter of course - authors such as Collins, Conan Doyle, Dickens, Gaskell, Hardy, Hawthorne, O. Henry, James, Jerome, de Maupassant, Poe, Stevenson, Thackeray, and Wilde.You w...
Harriet Hume
A London Fantasy
2010
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In this modern fairy tale, Rebecca West transports her reader with a tale of the polar opposites of mind and spirit, love and powerHarriet Hume's unchanging beauty and commitment to her art stand in stark contrast to Arnold Condorex's more worldly goals. After a romantic tryst, she discovers that she can read his mind, but Arnold, with his sights set on moving up in the world, quickly parts from the mysterious lady. As they encounter each other ov...
A Gathering Darkness
Thirteen Classic English Ghost Stories
2016
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Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland, moors and marshes, even along unlit roads extending into the new suburbs of London, the stories have been chosen for their quality of writing, imaginative range and diversity of character...
2015
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The Woman Who Had Imagination, H.E. Bates's fourth volume of stories, first published in 1934 (Jonathan Cape), is a fascinating collection of contrasts. The stories combine elements of realism and poetry, beauty and ugliness, tenderness and irony. Graham Greene, writing in the Spectator, lauded the collection as 'the first volume of Mr. Bates's maturity' and Bates as 'an artist of magnificent originality with a vitality quite unsuspected hitherto'.This is brillian...
2017
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This file includes the complete text of the following books: The Country of the Blind, The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, Tales of Space and Time, and Twelve Stories and a Dream. According to Wikipedia: "Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books...
2012
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Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives working in a hotel. Sorrell has tricked the boy to believe his mother was dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.Sorrell and Son became and remained a bestseller from its fir...
Occult Detectives
An Anthology of Late Victorian Investigators of the Paranormal
2014
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This anthology contains some of the best early occult detective fiction from the best late Victorian and Edwardian era authors. Join such illustrious paranormal investigators as John Silence, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Flaxman Low, and Jules de Grandin on their adventures into the supernatural and beyond.Table of Contents:Part 1: John Silence, Physician ExtraordinaryA Psychical InvasionAncient SorceriesThe Nemesis of F...











