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The House Behind the Cedars

Charles W. Chesnutt

The House Behind the Cedars

"The House Behind the Cedars" by Charles W. Chesnutt. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...

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Charles W. Chesnutt

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.’Lily Bart, an attractive young woman living in New York City, relies on beauty and charm to ensure economic survival. Determined to marry into wealth to support her expensive lifestyle, Lily denies her feelings for Lawrence Stern due to his modest...

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Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

"The House of Mirth" is Edith Wharton's classic and tragic portrayal of Lily Bart, an intelligent New York socialite during the Victorian era, who seeks to secure a husband and a place in upper class society. Central to the theme of the novel is how the Victorian era offered women relatively few other alternatives to achieve upward social and economic mobility than through marriage. A classic depiction of a bygone era, «The House of Mirth» is one of Wharton finest literary...

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Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

A bestseller when it was originally published nearly a century ago, Wharton's first literary success was set amid the previously unexplored territory of fashionable, turn-of-the-century New York society, an area with which she was intimately familiar.The tragic love story reveals the destructive effects of wealth and social hypocrisy on Lily Bart, a ravishing beauty. Impoverished but well-born, Lily realizes a secure future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. Her downfall begins...

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Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth (with an Introdu...

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth (with an Introduction by Walter B. Rideout)

Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton used her inside knowledge of upper class New York life in the early part of the 20th century as the basis for her 1905 novel, “The House of Mirth”. The novel is the classic and tragic portrayal of Lily Bart, an intelligent New York socialite during the Victorian era, who seeks to secure a husband and a place in the society life of New York’s upper class. Lily, who was raised to strive for a socially and economically prosperous marital union,...

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Edith Wharton

Onkel Bernac (Ungekürzt)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Onkel Bernac (Ungekürzt)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Die Kunst, falsch zu reisen (Ungekü...

Kurt Tucholsky

Die Kunst, falsch zu reisen (Ungekürzt)

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Kurt Tucholsky

Der Frauenkrieg, Band 1 (Ungekürzt)

Alexandre Dumas

Der Frauenkrieg, Band 1 (Ungekürzt)

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Alexandre Dumas

The Lost World (Unabridged)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World (Unabridged)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The House of the Dead

First published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky’s imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, “The House of the Dead” is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his own experiences in prison to depict the squalor, destitution, and severity of a Siberian camp with remorseless detail. Dostoyevsky reveals the characters of many of the other convicts, which includes the depravity many have come to expect through their mental and physical...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The House of the Dead

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables

A gloomy New England mansion provides the setting for this classic exploration of ancestral guilt and its expiation through the love and goodwill of succeeding generations.Nathaniel Hawthorne drew inspiration for this story of an immorally obtained property from the role his forebears played in the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Built over an unquiet grave, the House of the Seven Gables carries a dying man's curse that blights the lives of its residents for over two centuries. Now Judge...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

A mad priest, a vagabond playwright, a social-climbing soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer — all are captivated by a gypsy girl's beauty and charm. Two of them will betray her, but the others will remain loyal, even in the shadow of the gallows. These outlaws find sanctuary within the walls of medieval Paris' greatest monument, the grand Cathedral of Notre Dame."What a beautiful thing Notre-Dame is!" declared Gustave Flaubert of Victor Hugo's 1837 novel. Originally...

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Victor Hugo

Der Mörder - Eine Kriminalgeschicht...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Der Mörder - Eine Kriminalgeschichte vom Sherlock Holmes Autor (Ungekürzt)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Das Stundenkonto (Ungekürzt)

Kurt Tucholsky

Das Stundenkonto (Ungekürzt)

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Kurt Tucholsky

From Beyond (Unabridged)

H. P. Lovecraft

From Beyond (Unabridged)

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H. P. Lovecraft

Der Heiratsvermittler (Ungekürzt)

Ludwig Thoma

Der Heiratsvermittler (Ungekürzt)

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Ludwig Thoma

Im Lande des Mahdi III (Ungekürzt)

Karl May

Im Lande des Mahdi III (Ungekürzt)

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Karl May

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad

Probably composed in the eighth century B.C. and based on an actual historical event of the thirteenth century B.C., Homer's Iliad is one of the great epics of the Western world. The poem unfolds near the end of the ten-year-long Trojan War, detailing the quarrel between the great warrior-hero Achilles and King Agamemnon, the battle between Paris and Menelaus for Helen of Troy, the Greek assault on the city and the Trojan counterattacks, the intervention of the gods on the...

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Homer

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

"The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...

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Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

Fully entitled «The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrims' Progress,» Twain's colorful travelogue is a compilation of the newspaper articles he wrote while on a cruise to Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land with other Americans. His account frequently uses humor to describe the people and places he visits, although this becomes highly satiric at times as Twain becomes frustrated with European profiteering, a pointless historical anecdote in Gibraltar, and the overly institutionalized...

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Mark Twain

The Invisible Man

H. G. Wells

The Invisible Man

First published in 1897, The Invisible Man ranks as one of the most famous scientific fantasies ever written. Part of a series of pseudoscientific romances written by H. G. Wells (1866–1946) early in his career, the novel helped establish the British author as one of the first and best writers of science fiction.Wells' years as a science student undoubtedly inspired a number of his early works, including this strikingly original novel. Set in turn-of-the-century England, the story...

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H. G. Wells

THE INVISIBLE MAN

H. G. Wells

THE INVISIBLE MAN

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse the procedure. Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many...

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H. G. Wells

Der Geysir an der Lände (Ungekürzt)

Ксюша Ангел

Der Geysir an der Lände (Ungekürzt)

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Ксюша Ангел

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