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Posted: November 29th, 2011, 1:03am CET by admin
It is London in 1886, Mr Verloc owns an adult bookstore but finds it hard to earn enough to keep his extended family. The London underworld is populated with anarchists, communists and other extremists all suspicious of each other. Mr Verloc pretends to be a spy and is paid by each group to spy on the others. All is going well for Mr Verloc until he is forced to play a key role in a terrorist attack.
Conrad got the idea for the the central incident from an actual event in 1894 when anarchist terrorists attempted to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in London.
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Posted: November 24th, 2011, 2:14pm CET by admin
Lily Bart, beautiful, witty, and sophisticated, is accepted by "old money" and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears 30, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing and to maintain her life in the luxury she has come to expect.
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Posted: November 4th, 2011, 9:45am CET by admin
Catherine Morland visits Bath, England for the first time with family friends Mr and Mrs Allen. Catherine is pursued by Henry Tilney, who invites her to his father's estate at Northanger Abbey. Catherine has been reading too much gothic fiction and her overactive imagination takes over.
Jane Austen's first novel but only properly published after her death. The novel is a satire of the emotionally charged gothic novels of the time.
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Posted: November 1st, 2011, 12:51pm CET by admin
An Egyptologist, attempting to raise from the dead the mummy of Tera, an ancient Egyptian queen, finds a fabulous gem and is stricken senseless by an unknown force. Amid bloody and eerie scenes, his daughter is possessed by Tera's soul, and her fate depends upon bringing Tera's mummified body to life.
Read an excerpt and download The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker in HTML, PDF, text eBook format.
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Posted: October 25th, 2011, 12:26pm CEST by admin
A hunting party in the Canadian wilderness separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo (a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquian people.)
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Posted: September 27th, 2011, 8:55am CEST by admin
Paul Dombey is head of a successful shipping company and desperately wants a son to pass the company on to. His first child is a daughter but his second is a son (his wife dies in childbirth) but, his joy is short-lived as his son is very poorly and dies aged 6. Dombey is heartbroken and pushes his daughter away.
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Posted: September 20th, 2011, 9:34am CEST by admin
A passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors; Gabriel Oak a young shepherd, William Boldwood a prosperous farmer, and army Sergeant Francis (Frank) Troy.
Read an excerpt and download Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy in HTML, PDF, text eBook format.
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Posted: September 12th, 2011, 11:13am CEST by admin
A complex novel set in the period 1830 to 1855 in Missouri, United States. Attitudes to race and colour are all brought to a head when a local Judge is murdered. One of the first novels to use fingerprints to identify the killer.
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Posted: August 29th, 2011, 9:45pm CEST by admin
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 11:02am CEST by admin
The story of Philip Carey, an orphan with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. In London, Philip meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.
Read an excerpt and download Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham in HTML, PDF, text eBook format.
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Posted: August 9th, 2011, 6:19pm CEST by admin
Archibald "Archie" Moffam has recently married Lucille Brewster and gets into no end of trouble when he tries to impress her art-collecting, hotel-owning millionaire father Daniel Brewster.
Read an except and download Indiscretions of Archie by P.G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse in HTML, PDF, text eBook format.
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Posted: August 5th, 2011, 4:58pm CEST by admin
Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.
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Posted: August 2nd, 2011, 12:50pm CEST by admin
Poor Fanny Price leaves home at an early age to live at Mansfield Park with her rich uncle and aunt. All of her cousins treat her as inferior to them except for Edmund who shows her real kindness.
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Posted: July 6th, 2011, 1:54pm CEST by admin
First in a series of stories following an ex-detective, Frank James, as he tries to solve the death of his ex-partner. Delving deeper into the murder he begins to uncover a widespread trail of corruption as he battles for the future of his city.
Read an except and download Apologies to a Dead Man by Robert Short in HTML, PDF, text eBook format.
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Posted: July 6th, 2011, 1:37pm CEST by admin
The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family’s estate, the locals are convinced that the spectral hound is responsible, and Holmes is called in.
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