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The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy, Mint Editions ...

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a masterwork of emotional complexity, heartbreak, and redemption by celebrated English author Thomas Hardy.Drunk and outraged, Michael Henchard auctions off his own wife and daughter for five guineas. The following morning, he searches for his family to no avail and, with the clarity of sobriety, swears off liquor for the next 21 years. In that time, he becomes ... Read more

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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a masterwork of emotional complexity, heartbreak, and redemption by celebrated English author Thomas Hardy.Drunk and outraged, Michael Henchard auctions off his own wife and daughter for five guineas. The following morning, he searches for his family to no avail and, with the clarity of sobriety, swears off liquor for the next 21 years. In that time, he becomes
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30 Mystery & Investigation masterpieces

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Hollis Godfrey, Thomas Hardy, William Le Queux, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank R. Stockton, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Carolyn Wells, Fred Merrick White ...

Every mystery hides a secret. Every clue brings you closer to the truth. 30 Mystery & Investigation Masterpieces brings together a collection of classic mystery and detective stories filled with intriguing crimes, clever investigations, suspicious characters, hidden clues, dangerous secrets, and unexpected revelations. From puzzling disappearances and mysterious deaths to elaborate schemes and ... Read more

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Every mystery hides a secret. Every clue brings you closer to the truth. 30 Mystery & Investigation Masterpieces brings together a collection of classic mystery and detective stories filled with intriguing crimes, clever investigations, suspicious characters, hidden clues, dangerous secrets, and unexpected revelations. From puzzling disappearances and mysterious deaths to elaborate schemes and
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30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces

by Marcel Allain, Grant Allen, John Buchan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Erskine Childers, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Griffiths, Henry Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Hope, William Andrew Johnston, Frederic Arnold Kummer, William Le Queux, Frank Norris, Edward Phillips Oppenheim, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Allen Upward, Louis Joseph Vance, Edgar Wallace, Fred Merrick White ...

Prepare for danger, deception, and unforgettable twists. 30 Suspense & Thriller Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die brings together a thrilling collection of classic literature designed to keep readers turning the pages. These stories explore the darker and more exciting sides of fiction, where danger can emerge without warning and nothing is quite what it seems. Inside, readers will ... Read more

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Prepare for danger, deception, and unforgettable twists. 30 Suspense & Thriller Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die brings together a thrilling collection of classic literature designed to keep readers turning the pages. These stories explore the darker and more exciting sides of fiction, where danger can emerge without warning and nothing is quite what it seems. Inside, readers will
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Two on a Tower

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
A young astronomer works from a column on a hill; the lady of the manor, ten years older and married to an absent husband, climbs it to see the stars. Hardy set out to make the emotions of two people small against the interstellar distances, and the Bishop of Wakefield thought it immoral. It is the least read of his Wessex novels and the tenderest. ... Read more

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A young astronomer works from a column on a hill; the lady of the manor, ten years older and married to an absent husband, climbs it to see the stars. Hardy set out to make the emotions of two people small against the interstellar distances, and the Bishop of Wakefield thought it immoral. It is the least read of his Wessex novels and the tenderest.
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Life's Little Ironies

A Set of Tales with Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
The stories where Wessex stops being pastoral: a schoolmaster's wife who cannot forgive her son's face; a man who exchanges his child; a tranter's tale told on a carrier's van; the son who is ashamed of his mother at Oxford. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these 1894 tales are his coldest, and the irony of the title is not gentle — the ordinary arrangements of respectable life ... Read more

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The stories where Wessex stops being pastoral: a schoolmaster's wife who cannot forgive her son's face; a man who exchanges his child; a tranter's tale told on a carrier's van; the son who is ashamed of his mother at Oxford. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these 1894 tales are his coldest, and the irony of the title is not gentle — the ordinary arrangements of respectable life
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Wessex Tales

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
The Wessex short stories: the hangman who comes to supper and does not say what he does; the three strangers; a wife who takes her husband's arm to a dead man's hand for a cure; the Trumpet-Major's Melancholy Hussar deserting for love. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these came from what he was told as a boy by people who had seen it, and the withered arm is not a metaphor. ... Read more

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The Wessex short stories: the hangman who comes to supper and does not say what he does; the three strangers; a wife who takes her husband's arm to a dead man's hand for a cure; the Trumpet-Major's Melancholy Hussar deserting for love. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these came from what he was told as a boy by people who had seen it, and the withered arm is not a metaphor.
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A Laodicean

A Story of To-Day

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
The daughter of a railway millionaire buys a Norman castle and cannot decide anything — church or chapel, one suitor or the other — while a young architect restores her battlements and a photographer forges a picture. Hardy trained as an architect and dictated much of this from bed during a near-fatal illness; it is his novel about the new money meeting the old stones, and about a woman who is ... Read more

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The daughter of a railway millionaire buys a Norman castle and cannot decide anything — church or chapel, one suitor or the other — while a young architect restores her battlements and a photographer forges a picture. Hardy trained as an architect and dictated much of this from bed during a near-fatal illness; it is his novel about the new money meeting the old stones, and about a woman who is
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The Hand of Ethelberta

A Comedy in Chapters

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Literary Classics
A butler's daughter has published a book of verse, married a rich man's son, been widowed at twenty-one, and now goes about London society as a lady while her father waits at table and her sisters are in service — and four men want to marry her. Hardy called it a comedy and his readers, who wanted another Far from the Madding Crowd, did not forgive him; it is his one novel about class as a ... Read more

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A butler's daughter has published a book of verse, married a rich man's son, been widowed at twenty-one, and now goes about London society as a lady while her father waits at table and her sisters are in service — and four men want to marry her. Hardy called it a comedy and his readers, who wanted another Far from the Madding Crowd, did not forgive him; it is his one novel about class as a
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Desperate Remedies

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Mystery & Crime
A young woman with no money takes a post as a lady's maid to a wealthy spinster, and finds that the household's secrets involve the architect she once loved. Hardy published it anonymously at thirty-one, after paying his own guarantee against loss, and wrote it to a publisher's brief: give us a plot with mystery in it. The Wessex he would spend his life mapping is already visible underneath the ... Read more

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A young woman with no money takes a post as a lady's maid to a wealthy spinster, and finds that the household's secrets involve the architect she once loved. Hardy published it anonymously at thirty-one, after paying his own guarantee against loss, and wrote it to a publisher's brief: give us a plot with mystery in it. The Wessex he would spend his life mapping is already visible underneath the
... Read more

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Thomas Hardy ...

On the road to Weydon-Priors, a weary young family moves through Hardy's stark rural world in silence: Michael Henchard, his wife Susan, and their small child, Elizabeth-Jane. The dust on their clothes, his brooding self-absorption, and her patient burden-bearing immediately suggest a marriage strained by hardship and emotional poverty. When they reach the fair, the bustling, half-finished market ... Read more

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On the road to Weydon-Priors, a weary young family moves through Hardy's stark rural world in silence: Michael Henchard, his wife Susan, and their small child, Elizabeth-Jane. The dust on their clothes, his brooding self-absorption, and her patient burden-bearing immediately suggest a marriage strained by hardship and emotional poverty. When they reach the fair, the bustling, half-finished market
... Read more
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy ...

Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d’Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies ... Read more

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Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d’Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies
... Read more

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The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

by Louisa May Alcott, James Allen, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, G. K. Chesterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, F. Marion Crawford, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Van Dyke, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy, Frances Ridley Havergal, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Felicia Hemans, O. Henry, Oliver Herford, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Dean Howells, Ben Jonson, Washington Irving, John Keble, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Winifred Kirkland, Andrew Lang, Stephen Leacock, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, George MacDonald, Charles Mackay, William Topaz McGonagall, Alice Duer Miller, Emily Huntington Miller, Olive Thorne Miller, John Milton, S. Weir Mitchell, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clement C. Moore, William Morris, Mary Noailles Murfree, John Mason Neale, Thomas Nelson Page, Elia W. Peattie, Marjorie Pickthall, Beatrix Potter, Katharine Pyle, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mary Darby Robinson, Christina Rossetti, Damon Runyon, Saki, Walter Scott, Edmund Hamilton Sears, William Shakespeare, Nora Archibald Smith, Robert Southwell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, John Banister Tabb, Booth Tarkington, Nahum Tate, Sara Teasdale, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Thring, Henry Timrod, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Tusser, Mark Twain, Katharine Tynan, Henry Vaughan, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Lucy Wheelock, John G. Whittier, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oscar Wilde, John Strange Winter, George Wither, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe ...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

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If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels,
... Read more

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