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In 1888, Oscar Wilde—celebrated wit and champion of "art for art's sake"—surprised the literary world with a collection of fairy tales. But these are not simple stories for children. Beneath their lyrical beauty lies the heart of a moralist.
Wilde's prose is exquisite:...
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In Victorian London, two fashionable young gentlemen have perfected the art of deception. Jack Worthing has invented a wicked brother named Ernest to escape his country duties. Algernon Moncrieff has invented an invalid friend named Bunbury to escape his social...
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Sir Robert Chiltern has a glittering political career, a fortune, and the adoration of his idealistic wife, Gertrude. But when the enigmatic Mrs. Cheveley arrives in London, she brings with her a letter that could destroy everything. Years ago, a young and ambitious...
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There's a certain joy in bending the rules—and Tom Sawyer is a master of the art. Whether he's convincing the neighborhood boys to whitewash a fence for him, skipping school to go swimming, or chasing adventure with his friend Huck Finn, Tom turns the sleepy town of St....
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At a lavish house party in the English countryside, the witty and wicked Lord Illingworth offers young Gerald Arbuthnot the opportunity of a lifetime: a position as his private secretary, promising wealth and status. But Gerald's mother, the respectable Mrs. Arbuthnot,...
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From the depths of Reading Gaol, where he was imprisoned for "gross indecency," Oscar Wilde wrote a letter that would become his last great prose work. Addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas—the young man whose vanity and arrogance had led to Wilde's downfall—De Profundis is...
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A stranger arrives at the Coach and Horses inn on a cold, snowy day in February. He is wrapped from head to toe in bandages, his face completely hidden behind dark goggles. The curious villagers of Iping suspect a disfigurement—or perhaps something worse. The truth is...
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To escape his brutal father, Huck Finn fakes his own death and flees to the Mississippi River. There, he joins forces with Jim, a runaway slave seeking freedom from being sold downriver. On their raft, they forge a bond more powerful than any law.
But the river is a...
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The Ginger King by A. E. W. Mason is a sweeping historical adventure infused with intrigue, romance, and political tension, from the celebrated author ofThe Four Feathers. Set against a vividly realized European backdrop, the novel combines high drama with intimate...
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''Twice Dead'' by John Rhode is a classic Golden Age mystery where the eccentric Sir Francis Yordale fakes his own death to test his heirs' affection, only to be found genuinely dead soon after, leading Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn and Dr. Priestley to investigate his...
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The Almost Perfect Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine is a classic Golden Age detective story that combines intellectual puzzle-solving with a meticulously constructed crime. Known for his creation of the brilliant amateur sleuth Philo Vance, Van Dine delivers a case in...
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J.J. Connington’s Tragedy at Ravensthorpe is a refined example of Golden Age detective fiction, featuring the calm and analytical Sir Clinton Driffield. The novel is set at Ravensthorpe, an imposing country house surrounded by bleak moorland, where a family gathering is...
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J.J. Connington’s The Case With Nine Solutions is an ingenious Golden Age mystery that once again places Sir Clinton Driffield at the center of a perplexing investigation. The story begins with an apparently straightforward crime, but what seems at first to be a simple...
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Hotel Evidence by Helen Simpson is a finely crafted short mystery that showcases the author’s talent for combining sharp observation, subtle characterization, and quietly mounting suspense. Set within the confined and deceptively ordinary surroundings of a hotel, the...
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Eugene Irtenev is a young landowner with a promising future—a sensible marriage, a thriving estate, a life of respectable order. Before his wedding, he ended a brief affair with Stepanida, a beautiful peasant woman. It meant nothing. It was over. Then Stepanida returns...
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Beware. His thirst is eternal.
When young English lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to the remote Carpathian Mountains to finalize a property transaction with the mysterious Count Dracula, he soon realizes he has become a prisoner in a castle of horrors. Narrowly escaping...
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He trusted no one.He betrayed everyone.He never surrendered.
The year is 1851. In the rugged mountains of the Caucasus, a legendary warrior flees from both sides. Hadji Murad—feared by the Russians, hunted by his own commander—walks into the enemy camp with a desperate...
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Before War and Peace, there was the war itself.
In the frozen forests of the Caucasus, a young artillery officer waits for dawn. Tomorrow, his platoon will cut timber under the shadow of enemy rifles. Tonight, he watches his men—the meek, the reckless, the quietly...
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Seventeen-year-old Masha has lost her mother and her hope—until Sergei Mikhailych, a family friend twice her age, walks back into her life. His quiet presence awakens something in her: first friendship, then love, then the dizzying belief that marriage will be an...
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Ivan Ilych has it all: a respectable position, a proper marriage, a comfortable home. He has navigated life with impeccable taste, never straying from the path laid out for him by society. He is, by every measure, a successful man.
Then he falls from a ladder while...
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