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  • The Defiant Agents

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    Author: Andre Norton

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    Date Published: 1962

    Country: United States

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    Description wiki: The Defiant Agents is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton, the third book in her Time Traders series. It was first published in 1962, and as of 2012, had been reprinted in ten editions with cover changes, as well as twice in a combined edition with Key Out of Time. It is part of Nortons Forerunner universe. The Defiant Agents continues the series premise, an encounter between Western heroes, and the Russian Communists, and a mysterious alien race that has used time travel to alter Earth. Most interaction in this novel is in an American Indian-like setting.

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  • Rebel Spurs

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    Author: Andre Norton

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  • Star Hunter

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    Author: Andre Norton

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    Date Published: 1998

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    Description wiki: Star Hunter is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Cole S. McKay and Fred Olen Ray, and starring Roddy McDowall and Stella Stevens. The eponymous character is an alien who travels through space seeking species to hunt for pleasure. He arrives on Earth, landing in Los Angeles, and is soon in pursuit of a teacher and her students, whose bus broke down on the way home from a football game.

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  • Storm Over Warlock

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    Author: Andre Norton

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    Date Published: 1960

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    Description wiki: Storm Over Warlock is a science fiction novel written by Andre Norton and published in 1960 by the World Publishing Company. The story combines science fiction with fantasy, technology with witchcraft, in a way typical of Norton s works. The sequels are Ordeal in Otherwhere and Forerunner Foray.

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  • Ralestone Luck

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    Author: Andre Norton

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    Date Published: 1938

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  • The Time Traders

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    Author: Andre Norton

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    Date Published: 1958

    Country: Britian

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    Description wiki: The Time Traders is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton (pseudonym, n e Alice Mary Norton), the first in The Time Traders series. It was first published in 1958, and has been printed in several editions. It was updated by Norton in 2000 to account for real world changes. It is part of Nortons Forerunner universe. The Time Traders introduces the premise: a confrontation between Western heroes and the “Reds”, AKA the Soviets, plus the “Baldies”, a mysterious alien race that has used time travel to alter Earth. This novel alternates among the present day, a trading tribal society in Britain, 2000 B.C., and a glacial outpost in the last ice age.

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  • The People of the Crater

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    Author: Andre Norton

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  • Ride Proud, Rebel!

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    Author: Andre Norton

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    Date Published: 1981

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    Description Good Reads: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts – the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide

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    Additional Research: AMAZON) Drew Rennie was a rebel in more ways than one. Since childhood he had rebelled against the stern, unforgiving grandfather who had reared him and who made no secret of his hatred for Drew s Texan father. When the Civil War began, the smoldering feud had erupted into a violent quarrel. Grandfather s sympathies were with the North; in 1864, when eighteen-year-old Drew returned to Kentucky with Morgan s Raiders, he was a seasoned veteran who had already been fighting for the South for two years. And even though Morgan s disastrous defeat at Cynthiana clearly reflected the Confederacy s growing weakness, it never occurred to Drew or his spur-jingling friend Anse or young Boyd Barrett to stop fighting. In disorder, without adequate supplies and weapons and harried by Union soldiers, they fought their way south to join Forrest s army. This then, is also the dramatic story of the long, agonizing retreat of the Army of the Tennessee from Harrisburg in Mississippi, where Boyd was wounded, to the rout of Selma and final surrender. Based on unpublished sources and written by a master storyteller, Drew s adventures as a scout for Forrest during the last year of the Confederacy make not only a gripping tale but also graphically portray the courage and strength of men who met defeat with honor. From the Worlds of Andre Norton ~ A series of books released by Andre-Norton-Books.com

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  • The Gifts of Asti

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    Additional Research: Synopsis ~ Varta, the last priestess of Asti, lives alone with Lur, a telepath of the lizardfolk, in Astis isolated mountain retreat. Decadent Memphir has long since drifted away from the austere paths of Asti, and now the barbarians of Klem are sacking the city, and the smoke of its burning drifts up to the temple. Astis followers, however, foresaw that this day would come to Memphir, as Varta has learned from her study of the ancient chronicles. Write-up from a fan ~ Varta, the last maiden of the Virgins of Asti watches the city Memphir burning below the Temple, sack by the barbarians of Klem. She and her reptilian companion, Lur, abandon the Temple, after Varta removes the miniature solar system that had always hovered over the hand of the statue of Asti. Together, Varta and Lur go down into caverns below the Temple and come out upon a strange lake whose waters seem to preserve anything fallen into them. One of the things that fell into the water was a strange ship. The same suit that enabled Varta to traverse the noxious fumes of the underground ways also enables her to safely investigate the strange ship — which obviously had flown through the air — or even space? Inside this ship she finds a locked closet that is holding prisoner a young man. She pulls him ashore and he revives. Lur advises her not to “disdain the Gifts of Asti.” ~ SL

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  • Plague Ship

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    Author: Andre Norton

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    Date Published: 1956

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    Description wiki: Plague Ship is a science fiction novel by Andre Norton under the pseudonym Andrew North. It was published in 1956 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. The book is the second volume of the authors Solar Queen series.

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  • The Mysterious Island

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    Author: Verne, Jules

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    Year of Death: 1905

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    Date Published: 1875

    Country: France

    Keywords: the mysterious island book journey 2 the mysterious island the mysterious island jules verne the mysterious island unabridged books about survival on island books by jules verne jules verne adventure books

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    Description wiki: The Mysterious Island (French: L le myst rieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1875. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules F rat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Vernes famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and In Search of the Castaways (1867 68), though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Vernes publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence of the novels Robinson Crusoe[1] and The Swiss Family Robinson.[2] Verne developed a similar theme in his later novel, Godfrey Morgan (French: L cole des Robinsons, 1882).[3] The chronology of The Mysterious Island is completely incompatible with that of the original Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, whose plot begins in 1866, while The Mysterious Island begins during the American Civil War, yet is supposed to happen some years after “Twenty Thousand Leagues”.

    Description Good Reads: After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escapes the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Through teamwork, scientific knowledge, engineering, and perseverance, they endeavour to build a colony from scratch. But this island of abundant resources has its secrets. The castaways discover they are not alone. A shadowy, yet familiar, agent of their unfathomable fate is watching. What unfolds in Jules Verne s imaginative marvel is both an enthralling mystery and the ultimate in survivalist adventures.

    Description Penquin: With little more than courage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escaped the siege of Richmond-by hot-air balloon. They have no idea if they ll ever see civilization again-especially when they re swept off by a raging storm to the shores of an uncharted island.

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    Description Original: The Mysterious Island, a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1875, tells the story of a daring escape during the American Civil War. Five Union prisoners plan a daring escape wherein they hijack a hot air balloon from the Confederate camp. A raging storm throws them off their intended course and they crash land onto an uncharted volcanic island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They must band together to build a colony through engineering ingenuity and courage. The island is rich in resources, but also holds a shadowy mysterious presence that threatens their survival. This imaginative narrative with its rich characters and enthralling mystery plot has endured as a favorite early survivalist adventure story for over 100 years.

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  • The Mayor of Casterbridge

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    Author: Thomas Hardy

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    Year of Death: 1928

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    Date Published: 1886

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    Description wiki: The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardys Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth. It was first published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886. The novel is considered to be one of Hardys masterpieces, although it has been criticised for incorporating too many incidents: a consequence of the author trying to include something in every weekly published instalment.

    Description Good Reads: The quintessential Victorian novelist of unforgettable characters caught in their inescapable fates: with unfailing honesty and lyrical writing, Thomas Hardy captured his heroes intimate relationship with the natural and social environment. Here are three of his finest works, presented in their entirety. Tess of the Durbervilles tells the tragic tale of a poor young girls coming of age and her traumatic relationships with two men: the wealthy and cold Alec DUrberville and the beautiful, but unforgiving Angel Clare. Michael Henchard, the title character of The Mayor of Casterbridge, reaches the pinnacles of power-only to lose everything through folly and bad luck. Set in Hardys beloved Wessex, and always attentive to the struggles of everyday life in the farming community, Far From the Madding Crowd centers on Bathsheba Everdene and the men who love her.

    Description Penquin: In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled A Story of a Man of Character, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard, is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    Description Original: The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy is an enduring unforgettable work of Victorian fiction. The main character Michael Henchard, in a drunken folly sells his wife and child at a country fair for five guineas. Sober and remorseful the next day, he is too late to locate his family. He vows not to touch liquor again for 21 years. He manages to make a life for himself becoming a pillar of the community in Casterbridge, but always haunted by his shameful past and still crippled by an explosive temper and self-destructive pride. Hardy, a masterful storyteller, relates this story of people caught in their inescapable fates with unflinching honesty and artful prose.

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  • Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo

    No. of Downloads: 4396

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    Year of Death: 1882

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    Date Published: 1907

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    Description wiki: Some of the most notable essays of these two collections are Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience, and Politics. Emerson later wrote several more books of essays including Representative Men, English Traits, The Conduct of Life and Society and Solitude. Emersons first published essay, Nature, was published in 1836, before the first and second series.

    Description Good Reads: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, “was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own.” His celebrated essays–the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)–are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.

    Description Penquin: alph Waldo Emerson believed that an appreciation of its vast natural resources would become the foundation of American culture. His assertion that human thought and actions proceed from nature, was a radical departure from the traditional European emphasis on domesticating nature to suit human needs. His philosophy is rich in common natural scenes of daily life, and expresses the inherent harmony between man and nature. This collection brings together 15 of Emerson s most significant essays, including Nature , The American Scholar , Self-reliance and The Transcendentalist , as well as his assessments of Montaigne, Napoleon and Thoreau.

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    Description Original: Ralph Waldo Emerson s philosophy displays a significant departure from the prevailing European philosophy at the time that man needed to domesticate nature to fit his own needs. Emerson proposed instead that all of human action and thoughts actually proceed from nature and that American culture would be built on its appreciation of its vast natural resources. Included in this classic collection are 15 of his most important essays emphasizing the harmony between nature and man. Some of the most significant essays include The American Scholar , Nature , Transcendentalist and Self-Reliance.

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  • Jude the Obscure

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    Author: Thomas Hardy

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    Year of Death: 1928

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    Description wiki: Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895 (though the title page says 1896).[1][2][3] It is Hardys last completed novel. The protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man; he is a stonemason who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion, morality and

    Description Good Reads: Jude Fawleys hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking New Woman.

    Description Penquin: Jude Fawley s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking New Woman. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, Hardy s last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships. This edition uses the unbowdlerized text of the first volume edition of 1895, and also includes a list for further reading, appendices and a glossary. In his introduction, Dennis Taylor examines biblical allusions and the critique of religion in Jude the Obscure, and its critical reception that led Hardy to abandon novel writing. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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  • The Duchess of Malfi

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    Description wiki: The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in 1612 1613.[1] It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then later to a larger audience at The Globe, in 1613 1614.[2] Published in 1623, the play is loosely based on events that occurred between 1508 and 1513 surrounding Giovanna dAragona, Duchess of Amalfi (d. 1511), whose father, Enrico dAragona, Marquis of Gerace, was an illegitimate son of Ferdinand I of Naples. As in the play, she secretly married Antonio Beccadelli di Bologna after the death of her first husband Alfonso I Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi. The play begins as a love story, when the Duchess marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy as her two brothers undertake their revenge, destroying themselves in the process. Jacobean drama continued the trend of stage violence and horror set by Elizabethan tragedy, under the influence of Seneca.[3] The complexity of some of the plays characters, particularly Bosola and the Duchess, and Websters poetic language, have led many critics to consider The Duchess of Malfi among the greatest tragedies of English renaissance drama

    Description Good Reads: John Webster was a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. This volume offers his two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devils Law-Case, and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold. The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.

    Description Penquin: ABOUT THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, THE WHITE DEVIL, THE BROKEN HEART AND TIS PITY SHE S A WHORE A new volume of the greatest revenge tragedies of the seventeenth-century stage These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores power, sex, and corruption in the Italian court, creating two unforgettable anti-heroines. In The Broken Heart, John Ford questions the value of emotional repression as his characters attempt to subdue their desires and hatreds in ancient Greece. Finally, Ford s masterpiece Tis Pity She s a Whore explores the taboo themes of incest and forbidden love in a daring reworking of Romeo and Juliet. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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  • The Monster and Other Stories

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    Description wiki: The Monster is an 1898 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871 1900). The story takes place in the small, fictional town of Whilomville, New York. An African-American coachman named Henry Johnson, who is employed by the towns physician, Dr. Trescott, becomes horribly disfigured after he saves Trescotts son from a fire. When Henry is branded a “monster” by the towns residents, Trescott vows to shelter and care for him, resulting in his familys exclusion from the community. The novella reflects upon the 19th-century social divide and ethnic tensions in America. The fictional town of Whilomville, which is used in 14 other Crane stories, was based on Port Jervis, New York, where Crane lived with his family for a few years during his youth. It is thought that he took inspiration from several local men who were similarly disfigured, although modern critics have made numerous connections between the story and the 1892 lynching in Port Jervis of an African-American man named Robert Lewis. A study of prejudice, fear, and isolation in a rather small town, the novella was first published in Harpers Magazine in August 1898. A year later, it was included in The Monster and Other Stories the last collection of Cranes work to be published during his lifetime. Written in a more exact and less dramatic style than two of his previous major works (Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage), The Monster differs from the other Whilomville stories in its scope and length. Its themes include the paradoxical study of monstrosity and deformity, as well as race and tolerance. While the novella and collection received mixed reviews from contemporary critics, The Monster is now considered one of Cranes best works.

    Description Good Reads: – The Monster (1898) is the story of an African-American coachman who is branded a monsterafter being hideously disfigured whilst saving his masters son from a fire. It explores the themes of prejudice, fear and isolation in small town America. – Th

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  • The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson

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    Description wiki: Puddnhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the others social role. The story was serialized in The Century Magazine (1893 1894), then published as a novel in 1894

    Description Good Reads: Widely acknowledged as the greatest of his later works, this story of switched babies and slavery is Twains darkest vision of race in America. It began life as a slapstick comedy about Siamese twins, but as he wrote, something deepened. “The tale kept spreading along, and spreading along, and other people got to intruding themselves and taking up more and more time with their talk and their affairs. It changed from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it,” Twain wrote in his frank afternote to the novel. In the end, the voice that comes to dominate the tale is Roxanas, a light-skinned slave who switches her infant son with her masters son to keep him from being sold down the river. Roxana, Twains most complex and fully-realized adult female character, is a compelling and memorable tragic heroine, trapped with her son by the brutal system of slavery and by their own inescapable racial identities. At his best, Twain is the most uniquely American of writers, and it is inevitable that his best work revolves around the issues of race and of slavery embedded in the American psyche. The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson is a dark and powerful novel of race in America, written by the American master

    Description Penquin: Mark Twain s darkest novel about a master and slave switched at birth combines a courtroom drama with a provocative fable about race and identity. Twain s plot is set in motion when a slave named Roxy exchanges her light-skinned son Chambers with her master s baby, Tom. Roxy s child, now known as Tom, grows up as a spoiled, privileged white man, who is horrified when Roxy tells him the truth. He nearly gets away with a vicious crime, but his downfall comes in the form of a clever, eccentric lawyer, nicknamed Puddn head Wilson. Twain s novel was the first to use fingerprinting to solve a crime, but its significance goes much further as an investigation into the nature of identity. When the two young men are forced to change places again, the former slave finds himself exiled to a white world where he will never feel at ease, while Roxy s child discovers that his newfound value as human property outweighs his guilt as a murderer. Despite its ironic humor and the symmetrical neatness of its denouement, Pudd nhead Wilson is a tragedy that refuses easy answers.

    Additional Research: First serialized in The Century Magazine between 1893 and 1894, Mark Twain s Pudd nhead Wilson is a murder mystery set before the American Civil War in Missouri, more specifically, on the Mississippi River. During infancy, a light-skinned black baby and a white-skinned baby were switched at birth by a slave mother. Because the black baby grows up thinking he is white, he is highly racist toward his slaves. The white baby, who thinks he is a slave, grows up with no guidance and makes a living stealing, drinking, and doing other immoral things. During a murder trial, the town lawyer Puddn head Wilson, who is seen as a peculiar fellow by the townsfolk, is able to expose the boys true identities. Puddn head Wilson is a story carried by themes of racism, Southern customs, and questions of identity. On the surface it is a witty and satirical tale but as one digs deeper a biting social commentary of racial inequality can be found. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

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  • The Open Boat and Other Stories

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    Description wiki: The Open Boat” is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871 1900). First published in 1897, it was based on Cranes experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent. Crane was stranded at sea for thirty hours when his ship, the SS Commodore, sank after hitting a sandbar. He and three other men were forced to navigate their way to shore in a small boat; one of the men, an oiler named Billie Higgins, drowned after the boat overturned. Cranes personal account of the shipwreck and the mens survival, titled “Stephen Cranes Own Story”, was first published a few days after his rescue. Crane subsequently adapted his report into narrative form, and the resulting short story “The Open Boat” was published in Scribners Magazine. The story is told from the point of view of an anonymous correspondent, with Crane as the implied author, the action closely resembles the authors experiences after the shipwreck. A volume titled The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure was published in the United States in 1898; an edition entitled The Open Boat and Other Stories was published simultaneously in England. Praised for its innovation by contemporary critics, the story is considered an exemplary work of literary Naturalism, and is one of the most frequently discussed works in Cranes canon. It is notable for its use of imagery, irony, symbolism, and the exploration of such themes as survival, solidarity, and the conflict between man and nature. H. G. Wells considered “The Open Boat” to be “beyond all question, the crown of all [Cranes] work”.[1]

    Description Good Reads: Four prized selections by one of Americas greatest writers: “The Open Boat,” based on a harrowing incident in the authors life: the 1897 sinking of a ship on which he was a passenger; “The Blue Hotel” and “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” reflecting Cranes early travels in Mexico and the American Southwest; and the novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a galvanizing portrait of life in the slums of New York City.

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  • Pierre; or The Ambiguities

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    Description wiki: Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fianc e; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister. According to scholar Henry A. Murray, in writing Pierre Melville “purposed to write his spiritual autobiography in the form of a novel” rather than to experiment and incidentally work some personal experience into the novel.[1] Published after the lukewarm reaction to Moby-Dick, Pierre was a critical and financial disaster. Reviewers universally condemned its morals and its style. More recent critics have shown greater sympathy toward the book, seeing it as a “psychological novel a study of the moods, thought processes, and perceptions of his hero”.[1]

    Description Good Reads: Initially dismissed as “a dead failure” and “a bad book,” and declined by Melvilles British publisher, Pierre has since struck critics as modern in its psychological probings and literary technique fit, as Carl Van Vechten said in 1922, to be ranked with The Golden Bowl, Women in Love, and Ulysses. None of Melvilles other “secondary” works has so regularly been acknowledged by its most thorough critics as a work of genuine grandeur, however flawed. When Pierre Glendinnings lifelong desire for a sister is seemingly realized on the eve of his marriage, his world is suddenly turned upside down, for he must choose between acknowledging his illegitimate half-sister or perpetuating his unsullied family legacy. Melville unfolds the story of an idealistic young man whose steadfast beliefs lead him to destroy his world and himself. HarperCollins is proud to present this controversial masterpiece of American literature, now restored to its original form and illuminated with 30 full-color pictures by Maurice Sendak.

    Description Penquin: Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville s style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o the lantern to guide the wanderer s footsteps the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops. So judged the New York Herald when Pierre was first published in 1852, with most contemporary reviewers joining in the general condemnation: a dead failure, this crazy rigmarole, and a literary mare s nest. Latter-day critics have recognized in the story of Melville s idealistic young hero a corrosive satire of the sentimental-Gothic novel, and a revolutionary foray into modernist literary techniques. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Additional Research: Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, the third of eight children. At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight. At this time Melville was described as being “very backwards in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension.”His father died when he was 12 leaving the family in very straitened times. Just 14 Melville took a job in a bank paying $150 a year that he obtained via his uncle, Peter Gansevoort, who was one of the directors of the New York State Bank.After a failed stint as a surveyor he signed on to go to sea and travelled across the Atlantic to Liverpool and then on further voyages to the Pacific on adventures which would soon become the architecture of his novels. Whilst travelling he joined a mutiny, was jailed, fell in love with a South Pacific beauty and became known as a figure of opposition to the coercion of native Hawaiians to the Christian religion. He drew from these experiences in his books Typee, Omoo, and White-Jacket. These were published as novels, the first initially in London in 1846.By 1851 his masterpiece, Moby Dick, was ready to be published. It is perhaps, and certainly at the time, one of the most ambitious novels ever written. However, it never sold out its initial print run of 3,000 and Melville s earnings on this masterpiece were a mere $556.37.In succeeding years his reputation waned and he found life increasingly difficult. His family was growing, now four children, and a stable income was essential. With his finances in a disappointing state Melville took the advice of friends that a change in career was called for. For many others public lecturing had proved very rewarding. From late 1857 to 1860, Melville embarked upon three lecture tours, where he spoke mainly on Roman statuary and sightseeing in Rome. In 1876 he was at last able to publish privately his 16,000 line epic poem Clarel. It was to no avail. The book had an initial printing of 350 copies, but sales failed miserably.On December 31st, 1885 Melville was at last able to retire. His wife had inherited several small legacies and provide them with a reasonable income.Herman Melville, novelist, poet, short story writer and essayist, died at his home on September 28rh 1891 from cardiovascular disease.

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  • The Head of Kays

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    Description wiki: The Head of Kays is a novel by English author P. G. Wodehouse. The novel was published on 5 October 1905 by A & C Black. The Head of Kays was first published as a serial in The Captain from October 1904 to March 1905.[1] Set at the fictional public school of Eckleton, the story centres upon one of the school houses called Kays, the riotous boys therein, its tactless, unpopular master Mr Kay, and Kennedy, who becomes the new head boy. The story features practical jokes, fighting between the boys, burglaries, politics amongst the houses of the school, a trip to an army-style camp, and plenty of cricket, rugby, and other school sports.

    Description Good Reads: The fourth school novel from the British master of comedic complications. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

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