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Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May
Alcott
A collection of previously undiscovered thrillers by the author of "Little Women" explores the exotic, the bizarre, and the shocking in stories considered too scandalous to by published in their time.
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Long Fatal Love Chase
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Louisa May
Alcott
Recently discovered, nearly 130 years after it was written, this controversial tale of obsessive passion follows Rosamond Vivian's desperate struggle to escape a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit woven by the mysterious Philip Tempest.
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Peter Pan
by
J. M.
Barrie
The adventures of the three Darling children in Neverland with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by
L. Frank
Baum
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great Wizard in order to return to Kansas, accompanied on her journey by the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion.
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My Antonia
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Willa
Cather
Tells the struggles and triumphs of Antonia Shimerda, daughter of a Bohemian immigrant, on the Nebraska prairie in the 1880s, through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and admirer.
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Tale of Two Cities
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Charles
Dickens
In the early days of the French Revolution, a young Englishman determines to do the utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine.
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Felix Holt Radical
by
George
Eliot
This novel about a radical, Felix Holt, presents the nineteenth-century English novelist's ideas on the political process.
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Howard's End
by
E. M.
Forster
The classic novel explores the divisions of culture and class in late-Victorian England through the story of a disputed inheritance.
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Turn of the Screw
by
Henry
James
The classic ghost story about a high-strung governess and the two young children who may--or may not--be plotting with the diabolical Peter Quint.
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Separate Peace
by
John
Knowles
The novel focuses on the reminiscences of Gene Forrester who returns to the boarding school he attended during the early years of World War II.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by
Harper
Lee
Life changes in a quiet Southern town when a young girl accuses a black man of assaulting her.
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White Fang
by
Jack
London
Part wolf and part dog, orphaned White Fang relies on his instincts as well as his inborn strength and courage to survive in the Yukon wilderness despite both animal and human predators, but eventually comes to make his peace with man.
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Painted Veil
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W. Somerset
Maugham
Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to work in a cholera epidemic.
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Age of Innocence
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Edith
Wharton
The 1921 pulitzer Prize-winning story of desire and betrayal in old New York.
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Leaves of Grass
by
Walt
Whitman
Presents the major literary works of America's poet of democracy including: Song of Myself, Starting from Paumanok, and Children of Adam.
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