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Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary (New Edition)

Fiction
English
115545 Words
Ages 12 and up
308
2

Madame Bovary is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was a notorious perfectionist and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the precise word"). Long established as one of the greatest novels ever written, the book has often been described as a "perfect" work of fiction. Henry James writes: "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment." Giorgio de Chirico said that in his opinion "from the narrative point of view, the most perfect book is Madame Bovary by Flaubert". [more]

Keywords: madame bovary, gustave flaubert, modern literature, realism, character study, satire, psychological study

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Louisa May Alcott Little Women (New Edition)

Fiction
English
185775 Words
Ages 6 and up
504
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Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott. This popular novel concerns the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War, and was based on Alcott's own experiences as a child in Concord, Massachusetts. Little Women is the most memorable book I have read in several years. A single chapter would bring both laughter and tears. The characters were very real-- living, learning and loving through situations which made them all better human beings. Louisa May Alcott is one of my favorite authors. She weaves solid wisdom and goodness into every tale she tells. The characters are beautifully portrayed, probably and no other character shall I ever find who will delight me like Jo March. Louisa May Alcott's books deserve to be spread far and wide and this site is a wonderful way to get most of her works. [more]

Keywords: little women, louisa may alcott, american literature, historic romance, american history, family life, coming of age

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Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent (New Edition)

Thriller
English
90235 Words
Ages 12 and up
337
2

The Secret Agent is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel deals broadly with the notions of anarchism, espionage, and terrorism. It portrays anarchist or revolutionary groups before many of the social uprisings of the twentieth century. The novel is set in London in 1886 and follows the life of Mr. Verloc, a secret agent. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives, and bric-a-brac. He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie. Stevie has a mental disability, possibly autism, which causes him to be very excitable; his sister, Verloc's wife, attends to him, treating him more as a son than as a brother. Verloc's friends are a group of anarchists of which Comrade Ossipon, Michaelis, and "The Professor" are the most prominent. Although largely ineffectual as terrorists, their actions are known to the police. The group produce anarchist literature in the form of pamphlets entitled F.P., an acronym for The Future of the Proletariat. The Secret Agent was ranked the 46th best novel of the 20th century by Modern Library. [more]

Keywords: the secret agent, joseph conrad, spy novel, espionage, modern literature, historical fiction, political thriller

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Chloe Angele Green My Name is Gus, New Edition

Pets
English
4171 Words
Ages 10 and up
414
5

If you have ever loved horses, this story will wrap itself around your heart. It is the story [more]

Keywords: horse

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Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch From a Cornish Window A New Edition

Fiction
English
81097 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (/ˌkwɪlərˈkuːtʃ/; 21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944) was a British writer who published [more]

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Walter Besant The Ivory Gate a new edition

Fiction
English
140139 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Sir Walter Besant (14 August 1836 – 9 June 1901), was a novelist and historian. William Henry Besant [more]

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G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday (New Edition)

Satire
English
57881 Words
Ages 8 and up
206
2

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution, but rather law. He antagonizes Gregory by asserting the most poetical of human creations is the timetable for the London Underground. He suggests Gregory isn't really serious about his anarchism. This so irritates Gregory that he takes Syme to an underground anarchist meeting place, revealing his public endorsement of anarchy is a ruse to make him seem harmless, when in fact he is an influential member of the local chapter of the European anarchist council. The central council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name, and the position of Thursday is about to be elected by Gregory's local chapter. Gregory expects to win the election, but just before the election Syme reveals to Gregory after an oath of secrecy that he is a secret policeman. Fearful Syme may use his speech in evidence of a prosecution, Gregory's weakened words fail to convince the local chapter he is sufficiently dangerous for the job. Syme makes a rousing anarchist speech and wins the vote. He is sent immediately as the chapter's delegate to the central council. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, Syme discovers five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; each was employed just as mysteriously and assigned to defeat the Council. They all soon find out they were fighting each other and not real anarchists; such was the mastermind plan of their president Sunday. In a surreal conclusion, Sunday himself is unmasked as only seeming to be terrible; in fact, he is a force of good like the detectives. However, he is unable to give an answer to the question of why he caused so much trouble and pain for the detectives. Gregory, the only real anarchist, seems to challenge the good council. His accusation is they, as rulers, have never suffered like Gregory and their other subjects, and so their power is illegitimate. However, Syme is able to refute this accusation immediately because of the terrors inflicted by Sunday on the rest of the council. [more]

Keywords: the man who was thursday, gk chesterton, english literature, philosophical fiction, metaphysical thriller, satirical novel

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Robert Chambers The King in Yellow (New Edition)

Thriller
English
71423 Words
Ages 12 and up
179
2

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert Chambers. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which, "The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon" and "The Yellow Sign", mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. These stories are macabre in tone, centering, in keeping with the other tales, on characters that are often artists or decadents. The first and fourth stories, "The Repairer of Reputations" and "The Yellow Sign", are set in an imagined future 1920s America, whereas the second and third stories, "The Mask" and "In the Court of the Dragon", are set in Paris. These stories are haunted by the theme: "Have you found the Yellow Sign?" The weird and macabre character gradually fades away during the remaining stories, and the last three are written in the romantic fiction style common to Chambers' later work. They are all linked to the preceding stories by their Parisian setting and artistic protagonists. [more]

Keywords: the king in yellow, robert chambers, short stories, gothic, horror, supernatural, romantic fiction

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Jean de la Fontaine The Fables of La Fontaine A New Edition, with notes

Fiction
English
87626 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Jean de La Fontaine (IPA: [ʒɑ̃ də la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was the [more]

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John Hill Burton The Book-Hunter (fiscle Part-11) A New Edition, With A Memoir Of The Author

Encyclopedia
English
135811 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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_Parentage--Patons--Grandholm--Jersey--"Peninsular War"--School And Schoolmasters--Flogging--College--Competition For Bursaries--Home Life--Aunt And Grand-Aunt--Holiday Rambles--Letter._ John Hill Burton, The Subject Of This Notice, Was Born On The 22D Of August 1809, In the Gallowgate Of Aberdeen. He Was Wont To Style Himself, As In his Childhood He Had Heard Himself Described, "The Last Of The Gallowgate Bairns;" The Gallowgate Being an Old Part Of Aberdeen Devoted Chiefly To Humble Trade, No One, In modern Times At Least, Even Distantly Connected With Gentility Living there. [more]

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