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The Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

AWiebe — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:51:17 +0000

After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our [...]

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The Odyssey

AWiebe — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:38:19 +0000

The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is [...]

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The Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

AWiebe — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:30:29 +0000

A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, now in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

AWiebe — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:01:35 +0000

This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

AWiebe — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:06:59 +0000

A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, now in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

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Crime and Punishment

AWiebe — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:59:21 +0000

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with [...]

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

AWiebe — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:29:30 +0000

Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her [...]

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Lyrical Ballads

AWiebe — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:26:08 +0000

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the collection broke away from traditional poetic form. Of the twenty-three poems, Wordsworth penned works such as 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey' and 'The [...]

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Goblin Market and Other Poems

AWiebe — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 16:41:06 +0000

Goblin Market and Other Poems was Christina Rossetti's first full volume of poetry, published in 1862. The collection received widespread critical praise and established Rossetti as the foremost female poet of her time.

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Around the World in Eighty Days

AWiebe — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:35:27 +0000

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand [...]

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The Aeneid

AWiebe — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:31:44 +0000

Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself--all the way tormented by the vengeful [...]

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

AWiebe — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:05:55 +0000

'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns [...]

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