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From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.

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Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins. She exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will she bestow her hand upon the richest of them, or on the man she loves This is a comic story of a woman in control of her destiny. Here, the author drew on conventions of popular romances, illustrated weeklies, and plays.

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In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for the bridge to be repaired, they are inspired to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day.

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Set in the reign of Queen Anne, this title presents a story that follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army, as he painfully wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the Whiggish-Protestant future.

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A portrait of England in the 1830s and 40s. It presents the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist, from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London.

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John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina in order to achieve the American dream.

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A collection of the finest supernatural tales by two of the best Victorian writers of weird tales ErckmannChatrian, authors who inspired M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many others.

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Following a shipwreck, a young naturalist finds himself on an island run by a mad scientist intent on creating a strain of beast men.

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This title is an example of Tolstoy's thought on spiritual crisis, Christianity and sexuality and an exquisite introduction to the great Russian writer. This edition also includes the controversial Sequel to the Kreutzer Sonata.

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A heart-stopping adventure A chilling Nazi legacy in todays Southern Africa.

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Novel set in the Egypt of the 1900s.

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In this classic mystery from Michael Pearces award-winning series, set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt investigates the discovery of a young womans body at the site of a dam.

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Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. As the savageries of war test these exiled men, they agree to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile Indian country.

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Presents a collection of the author's travel writings, reflections on nineteenth-century English society, and several short stories.

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Doomed to become the 'sport of fortune' by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy's life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor's forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window.

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Celebrates the lives and times of the great Renaissance artists of Italy, written by sixteenth-century artist and historian Giorgio Vasari.

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In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was sailing in the South Pacific when it was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The ship sank, leaving twenty crew members floating in three small boats for ninety days. This edition brings together the harrowing tales of the survivors.

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling PRETTY LITTLE LIARS comes a killer new series, THE LYING GAME.

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In the final adventure of the Musketeers, the Man in the Iron Mask sees D'Artagnan remain in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have gone their separate ways. Meanwhile a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask languishes in the Bastille, where he has been for eighteen years.