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This is a poetry collection that documents my mental health and life journey from 2002 to 2017. These poems were all written during those years.Follow me into the 'nooks and crannies' of my own mind, as I take you on a journey through depression, madness, into a world of anger, fear and despair. Bear witness as I fight and claw my way out of hell. I have dealt with mental health and sexual identity issues for over twenty years. I am hoping these words might give hope to those who f...

This is the story about how I faced the worst bout of mental health I had faced in twenty years. It is the story of reslience, of determination, of self-actualization and of an amazing group of friends who helped me through it. This is the sequel to Nooks and Crannies: A Mental Health Journey. For anyone struggling with mental health, this volume is meant for you. I have suffered from bipolar for twenty years. I know how isolating and dehibilitating it can be. I hope my jo...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 11 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 24 minutes"The Children of the New Forest" is a children's novel set during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. It follows the four Beverley children who become orphans and seek refuge in the New Forest. The story depicts their surv...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 4 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 10 minutesThe Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of litera...

Further Collected Poems contains selected lyrics from 2001 to 2017, divided roughly by theme or subject. “You and I” is about relationships, “We” is about society and institutions, “He” is about religion and spirituality, “Visions” is about ideas, and “Beauty’s Mead” is about art. The poems are in and out of form, in many modes and voices, simple and complex, hopeful and tragic. The common thread is a conviction that there is an order and a goodness behind and beyond all absurdity, if we w...

Old Mr. Toad decides to join the Chorus at the Smiling pool - with unexpected results. He encounters Buster Bear as well as the famous Peter Rabbit among many other forest creatures who are just too numerous to list here. If you join in and read a chapter or two you will learn who they are. Don't be shy! These chapters are short and fun to read.

When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America-and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of African America and a beacon in the fight for civil rights. This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collect...

The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but he lacks social standards, which he tries to attain through his daughter's marriage to the aristocratic Corey family. Silas's morality does not fail him. He loses his money but makes the right moral decision when his partner proposes the unethical ...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Ambassadors’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Henry James’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of James includes original annotations and illustrations relat...

The Sorrows of Young Werther was Goethe's first major success, turning him from an unknown into a celebrated author practically overnight. Goethe distanced himself from The Sorrows of Young Werther in his later years. He regretted his fame and making his youthful love of Charlotte Buff public knowledge. He wrote Werther at the age of twenty-four, and yet most of his visitors in his old age knew him only from this work, despite his many others. He even denounced the Romantic movement by cal...

Edith Wharton's 'The Custom of the Country' is a classic romance novel set in early 20th-century New York, exploring themes of social status, female ambition, and the clash between old and new money. Wharton's elegant prose and detailed character development paint a vivid picture of the protagonist Undine Spragg, a ruthless and ambitious young woman determined to climb the social ladder at any cost. The novel's portrayal of American society at the time provides a fascinating insight into t...

Adam Bede by George Eliot is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring George Eliot's writing or building a library of enduring books.