The poetry collection titled A Color Rose! takes the reader on an emotional journey of self-discovery and self-worth. The first poem, "A Color Rose" tells the story of the fictitious character Rose, a girl of color who was assaulted by white policemen during the apartheid regime. It explores diverse issues that are not socially acceptable for discussion. The darkest chapter, "Winter," deals with sexual abuse, prostitution, addictions, suicide, gender-based violence, and socioeconomic facto...

The New Abelard (Vol. 1-3) is a searching Victorian "triple-decker" novel of belief, desire, and moral experiment, framed by the evocative medieval memory of Abelard and Heloise. Buchanan uses the conventions of intellectual romance—courtship plot, religious debate, social scandal, and inward crisis—to examine the collision between Christian idealism and human passion. Its prose is earnest, rhetorical, and often dramatic, placing it within the late-nineteenth-century tradition of novels of...

Foxglove Manor (Vol. 1-3) is a substantial Victorian triple-decker that turns the country house into a theatre of secrecy, inheritance, desire, and moral trial. Buchanan writes in a mode poised between domestic realism and sensation fiction: his prose is expansive, rhetorically alert, and attentive to atmosphere, while the manor itself becomes a symbolic enclosure where social respectability and private disorder uneasily coexist. In the literary context of the late nineteenth-century novel...

Invasive alien plants and animals are known for their disruption of ecosystems and threat to biodiversity. This book highlights their major impact on human health. This includes not only direct effects through contact with the species via bites, wounds and disease, but also indirect effects caused by changes induced in ecosystems by invasive species, such as more water hyacinth increasing mosquito levels and thereby the potential for malaria. Covering a wide range of case studies from diff...

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories" is a collection of short-stories by various authors, brimming with suspense and intrigue. With minor super-natural elements and mind-boggling situations, the work monopolizes the readers' attention from the outset. Complex plots and intricate characters of these thrillers are exhilarating and riveting.

'Why did she stand before me with the candle in her hand, with her cruel contemptuous eyes fixed on me, and the glittering serpent, like a familiar demon, on her breast?'In this dark novella of Victorian horror, George Eliot explores clairvoyance, fate and the possibility of life after death.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and...

A famed Gothic novel published in 1820 it teaches a moral lesson in the guise of a terrifying tale. The protagonist of the story sells his soul to the devil in exchange of 150 years of power knowledge and happiness. But later he regrets making this bargain and searches for someone who can help him. Spine-chilling!

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (/ɛər/ AIR; originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman which follows the e...

A Brief Survey of Caricature and Caricaturists of the 19th Century including Hogarth, Gillray, Cruikshank, Leech, Doyle.

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This book provides rules for the etiquette to be observed in the street, at table, in the ball room, evening party, and morning call; with full directions for polite or respondence, dress, conversation, manly exercises, and accomplishments. Man was not intended to live like a bear or a hermit, apart from others of his own nature, and, philosophy and reason will each agree with me, that man was born for sociability and finds his true delight in society. Society is a word capable of many mea...

An American critic says "Strindberg is the greatest subjectivist of all time." Certainly neither Augustine, Rousseau, nor Tolstoy have laid bare their souls to the finest fibre with more ruthless sincerity than the great Swedish realist. He fulfilled to the letter the saying of Robertson of Brighton, "Woman and God are two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked." His four autobiographical works, The Son of a Servant, The Confessions of a Fool, Inferno, and Legends, are four ...