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I REMARKED in the original Preface to this Book, thatI did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it was so...
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Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837-39.
The story centres on orphanOliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker.
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Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900.
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.
The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live...
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The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the reader to pass his own...
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the...
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Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called heart of Africa.
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In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this...
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Gulliver's Travels is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. (from wikipedia.org)
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Suite française von Irène Némirovsky – Endlich verständlich mit der Lektürehilfe von derQuerleser.de! Diese klare und zuverlässige Analyse von Irène NémirovskysSuite française aus dem Jahre 2004 hilft Dir dabei, den Klassiker schnell in seinen wichtigsten Punkten zu...
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Sarahs Schlüssel von Tatiana de Rosnay – Endlich verständlich mit der Lektürehilfe von derQuerleser.de! Diese klare und zuverlässige Analyse von Tatiana de RosnaysSarahs Schlüssel aus dem Jahre 2007 hilft Dir dabei, den Bestseller schnell in seinen wichtigsten Punkten...
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AMONG the many adventurous enterprises which rendered the age of feudalism and chain-armour memorable in history, none were more remarkable or important than the 'armed pilgrimages' popularly known as the Crusades; and, among the expeditions which the warriors of...
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The darkness of the tenth century is dissipated by no contemporary historian. Monkish chronicles alone shed a faint light over the discordant chaos of the Italian world. Rome was no longer the capital of the earth.The seat of empire had shifted from the banks of the...
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Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862-1919) was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction.
He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty-one novels and at least fifty-three short stories.
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His Books "The...
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Riceyman Steps is a novel by British novelist Arnold Bennett, first published in 1923 and winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It follows a year in the life of Henry Earlforward, a miserly second-hand bookshop owner in the Clerkenwell area...
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Persons not much interested in, or cognisant of, "antiquarian old womanries," as Sir Walter called them, may ask "what all the pother is about," in this little tractate. On my side it is "about" the veracity of Sir Walter Scott. He has been suspected of helping to...
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Kurk Munroe (1850-1930) was an American writer and conservationist. He worked as a reporter for the New York Sun and became the first editor of Harpers Young People magazin.
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Ingersoll Lockwood (1841 - 1918) was an American lawyer and writer.
As a writer, he is particularly known today for his Baron Trump children's novels.
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Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840-1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died in Maine.
Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles.
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"The Russian nation is a new and wonderful phenomenon in the history of mankind. The character of the people differs to such a degree from that of the other Europeans that their neighbours find it impossible to diagnose them." This affirmation by Dostoyevsky, the...
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