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"Mans soul has always been a battleground; now the battlefield is the atom itself."Written on the eve of WWI, this startlingly prophetic novel famously predicted the invention of "Atomic Bombs." Wells imagines a world where the discovery of a radioactive element, Carolinum, grants humanity limitless powerand the means for total destruction.The Nuclear Prophecy: Decades before the Manhattan Project, Wells described bombs dropped from "aeroplanes" that created "continuous" radioactive explosions, rendering cities uninhabitable.From Ruin to Utopia: After a devastating "Last War," survivors gather to dismantle nationalism and currency, forging a unified World State fueled by clean atomic energy.A Modern Warning: A profound meditation on whether human political structures can survive the immense power of our own technology.Witness the birth of the atomic age. Purchase "The World Set Free" today.

Step into a surreal and dreamlike realm where a young man named Golden Walter flees a loveless marriage to find adventure in a strange, unmapped land. He becomes entangled in the magical machinations of a Mistress, a Maid, and a dwarf, navigating a psychological landscape of desire and fear. The story is noted for its pre-Freudian symbolism and its complete detachment from the known geography of the real world. It is considered the first modern fantasy novel to be set entirely in a secondary world.

Golden Walter leaves behind a life of betrayal to travel to a surreal land where the laws of reality are suspended. He encounters a dwarf, a maiden, and a sorceress in a wood that serves as a psychological landscape of desire and entrapment. The prose is deliberately archaic, creating a distance that enhances the dreamlike, almost hallucinogenic quality of the narrative. It is a pioneering work of supernatural fiction that dispenses with the modern world entirely to exist in a realm of pure imagination.

"Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the place where dreams and reality collide."When a Kansas cyclone carries young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto to the magical Land of Oz, she begins an adventure that has captivated the world for over a century. To find her way home, she must seek out the Great Wizard in the heart of the Emerald City. Along the way, she assembles a legendary trio: a Scarecrow in search of a brain, a Tin Woodman longing for a heart, and a Cowardly Lion seeking courage. Together, they navigate a world of Deadly Poppies, Flying Monkeys, and the terrifying Wicked Witch of the West. L. Frank Baums masterpiece is a celebration of self-reliance, friendship, and the discovery that the virtues we seek most are often already within us.Baum explicitly set out to create a new kind of wonder, stripping away the "bloodcurdling" morals of older tales. Instead, he populated Oz with uniquely American archetypesthe resilient girl from the plains, the mechanical man, and the "humbug" wizard who relies on technology and showmanship rather than actual magic.While the famous film featured ruby slippers, the original book features Silver Shoes. These shoes represent a hidden power that Dorothy possesses from the moment she arrivesa central theme of the book being that the characters perceived deficiencies are actually their greatest strengths.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz remains essential because it is a story about the transition from childhood to maturity. It explores the idea that "home" is not just a location, but a sense of belonging and self-assurance. Its whimsical characters and unforgettable settings provide a rich layer of symbolism that continues to inspire artists, filmmakers, and dreamers.Discover the man behind the curtain. Purchase "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" today.

Who is the woman in whiteand why does her story refuse to stay buried?First published in 1859, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is one of the earliest and most influential mystery novels ever written. Blending suspense, romance, and psychological intrigue, the story begins with a chance nighttime encounter that draws an ordinary drawing teacher into a web of deception, stolen identity, and dangerous secrets.Told through multiple narrators, the novel unfolds like a case file, revealing clues piece by piece as tension builds. With unforgettable villains, atmospheric settings, and a relentlessly gripping plot, Collins created a new form of storytelling that paved the way for modern detective fiction.This classic novel explores themes of justice, obsession, and the vulnerability of women in Victorian society, while keeping readers in suspense until the final revelation.Inside this eBook, youll experience:One of the first great mystery and sensation novelsA masterful plot driven by secrets and identityGothic atmosphere and psychological tensionA landmark work that shaped crime and suspense fictionWidely read and studied for over a century, The Woman in White remains essential reading for fans of classic mysteries and Victorian literature.Enter the mystery that changed the genre. Buy now and experience one of the greatest suspense novels ever written.

The Witness traces a young bystander whose reluctant testimony entangles them in danger and moral choice. Hill braids quiet romance with modest suspense, moving from city streets and courtrooms to parlors lit by Scripture. Her prose is lucid and earnest, favoring brisk scenes and devotional reflection. Within the Progressive Eras evangelical domestic fiction, the novel blends sentimental realism with contemporary detailtelephones, automobiles, and urban anonymityto test the costs of truth. Grace Livingston Hill (18651947), niece of Christian novelist Isabella "Pansy" Alden, wrote from a Presbyterian upbringing shaped by the Chautauqua ethos and by the necessity of supporting family after early widowhood. She saw fiction as ministry, translating modern anxietieswomens work, shifting class codes, legal authorityinto stories of conversion and character. That vocational aim clarifies the books focus on conscience, witness, and providence amid social turbulence. Recommended for readers of faith-inflected romance and for students of womens popular fiction, The Witness offers accessible pleasure with ethical bite. Its meditation on truth-telling remains timely, rewarding book clubs and classrooms with discussable scenes and steady hope.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A kings sudden, irrational jealousy destroys his family and plunges his kingdom into a sixteen-year winter of mourning. The second half of the play shifts to a pastoral sheep-shearing festival, where the lost generation brings about a miraculous restoration. The famous final scene, involving a statue that appears to come to life, offers a breathtaking moment of wonder and grace. It is a "romance" that moves beyond tragedy to explore the healing power of time and forgiveness.

A lonely winter animal sets out on a daring journey to bring back the sun to a frozen, dark world. Along the way, it discovers courage, makes unexpected friends, and learns that hope and kindness can

The Winning of Barbara Worth dramatizes the audacious attempt to reclaim the Colorado Desert and found the Imperial Valley, intertwining a triangle romance with the civic epic of irrigation. Wright choreographs surveying expeditions, capital campaigns, and the catastrophic Colorado River break with a blend of sentimental realism and melodramatic momentum, indicting speculative shortcuts while celebrating communal grit and ProgressiveEra engineering faith. Panoramic desert descriptions double as moral landscape, and the contest between Abe Lee and Eastern engineer Willard Holmes for Barbaras allegiance mirrors competing visions of frontier virtue and modern expertise. A former Disciples of Christ minister turned bestselling novelist, Harold Bell Wright brought Social Gospel conviction and firsthand western experience to the book. Health and vocation drew him from the Midwest to Arizona and southern California, where he observed reclamation projects and spoke with engineers and settlers. His populist moralismsuspicious of predatory finance yet respectful of practical skillstructures the novels ethical drama. Readers of Western history, environmental studies, and popular romance will find this a revealing primary text of ProgressiveEra aspirations. It rewards those interested in the ethics of infrastructure, regional boosterism, and the perennial negotiation between individual desire and the public good.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1806, The Wild Irish Girl is an epistolary national tale in which a chastened English rake, exiled to the storm-swept west, encounters Glorvina, the gifted daughter of the impoverished Prince of Inismore. Letters that braid sentimental romance, Gothic scenery, and travelogue link courtship to political reconciliation, while plentiful notes on language, music, and law turn the fiction into a pointed ethnography of post-Union Ireland. Lady Sydney Morgan (born Sydney Owenson), the Dublin-raised daughter of actor Robert Owenson, wrote in the wake of the 1801 Union and campaigns for Catholic relief. A salonniere and assiduous reader of antiquaries, she wove Vallancey, bardic lore, and stagecraft into a pedagogy of sympathy, using song, legend, and debate to dignify Gaelic culture and correct metropolitan misperception. Recommended to students of Romanticism, Irish studies, and the history of the novel, this work rewards readers who value the interplay of feeling and politics. Approach it with patience for its documentary texture: the notes and dialogues cohere into a persuasive vision of love as a medium of national repair.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set on Jamaicas north coast in slaverys twilight, The White Witch of Rosehall refashions the legend of Annie Palmer, the imperious mistress of Rose Hall whose rumored obeah and serial cruelties shadow house and cane field. De Lisser blends Caribbean Gothic with plantation romance, balancing brisk, journalistic prose with melodramatic flourish and local speech, to expose colonial power, racial hierarchy, and gendered terror. Herbert G. de Lisser, longserving editor of the Jamaica Gleaner, was immersed in the islands folklore, archives, and public life. His reportage on rural communities and plantation economies supplies the novels idiom and topography, while his bid to codify Jamaican subjectsalso courting a nascent tourist gazeinforms his shaping of the Rose Hall myth and his ambivalent portrayal of AfroJamaican spiritual authority. Readers of Caribbean history and literature, Gothic aficionados, and students of empire will find this both a gripping tale and a revealing artifact. It rewards close reading and debate about representation while vividly evoking a landscape and legend that endure. For seminar or solitary immersion, The White Witch of Rosehall delivers atmosphere, pace, and provocation in equal measure.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

In the Whispering Forest, a place where every leaf, root, and creature participates in a living conversation, dawn brings a symphony of hushed messages carrying memory, guidance, and ancient magic. On one morning, however, the forests usual steady murmurs falter, tangled and uncertain, hinting at an unknown disturbance. Luma, a young silver-furred fox gifted with extraordinary listening ears, senses this unease before the sun fully rises. As she pads carefully through moss-carpeted paths, attuned to the forests subtle rhythms and vibrations, she discovers threads of fear woven into the whisperssignals of danger or change that even the oldest creatures have never felt. With her acute perception, Luma becomes the forests first responder, tasked with unraveling the mystery and restoring balance to a world where every sound carries meaning and the forest itself seems to await her reply.

[Traduzido e resumido por / Translated and abridged by]: Felipe Lohan Pinheiro da Silva

What built the legend of the American West?The Western in 10 Classics Vol. 1 is a powerful collection of classic Western stories that capture the spirit of the frontierwhere law was fragile, courage was tested, and survival demanded grit. These timeless tales bring to life vast open landscapes, rugged heroes, dangerous outlaws, and the harsh moral codes of the Old West.Spanning gunfights, frontier justice, survival, and honor, this anthology showcases how Western literature shaped the myth and reality of Americas expansion. Each story reflects a world of dust and determination, where character mattered more than comfort.Whether you love action, adventure, or the raw drama of frontier life, this collection delivers unforgettable storytelling rooted in American legend.Inside this eBook, youll discover:Ten classic Western stories by influential authorsTales of frontier justice, bravery, and survivalRich depictions of the American West and pioneer lifeA foundational collection of Western literature classicsIdeal for fans of Western fiction, classic adventure, and American history, this volume offers a thrilling journey into the heart of the Old West.Ride into the frontier where legends are born. Buy now and experience ten timeless Western classics.

The Well of Loneliness follows Stephen Gordon, an upper-class English invert, from childhood at Morton to wartime service and expatriate Paris, charting social exile and the ethical claims of love. Hall writes in a grave realist modepart socialproblem novel, part lateEdwardian melodramashaped by sexology and Christian allegory. Restrained prose, images of mirrors and thresholds, and courtroomlike cadences culminate in a plea for civic recognition, placing the book at the hinge between Edwardian realism and early modernist debates on sexuality. Radclyffe Hall (18801943), a British novelist living openly with her partner Una Troubridge, drew on gender nonconformity, class milieu, and religiousspiritualist preoccupations. In dialogue with Havelock Ellis, who wrote the original preface, she embraced the eras term congenital inversion to argue for innate difference and social tolerance. Following Adams Breed, the novels earnest didacticism reflects Halls conservative ethics and her conviction that representation could catalyze legal and cultural change. Essential for readers of queer history and modern British fiction, The Well of Loneliness rewards critical and empathetic attention. Read it as both literature and cultural document: a courageous landmark whose sober artistry still compels, complicates, and moves.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Follow the adventures of Ralph of Upmeads as he forsakes his petty kingdom to find the legendary waters that grant eternal youth and vitality. The journey takes him through a sprawling landscape of robber barons, mystical forests, and ancient cities, laying the groundwork for the genre of quest fantasy. The novel balances the physical trials of the road with a spiritual search for meaning and the renewal of the earth. It is a rich, tapestry-like narrative that influenced generations of writers, including J.R.R. Tolkien.

Follow Ralph of Upmeads on a quest that takes him through the "Wall of the World" to the lands beyond, searching for the wellspring of immortality. The narrative is a prototypical fantasy journey, moving through a carefully mapped secondary world filled with tyrants, hermits, and strange magic. It balances the physical adventure with a deeper allegory about the renewal of the spirit and the healing of the earth. This work is a direct ancestor of the modern fantasy genre, influencing the structure of the heroic quest.

First published in 1875, The Way We Live Now is Trollopes fiercest social satire, a panoramic study of London gripped by speculation. Around the magnet of Augustus Melmottea charismatic, opaque financier touting a dubious Mexican railwayTrollope interlaces Lady Carburys puffery, Sir Felixs predatory courtship, Paul Montagues tie to the American widow Mrs Hurtle, and the venality of Parliament and the press. With omniscient poise and mordant irony, the novel weds capacious realism to serialized suspense, exposing the marriage market, credit culture, and modern publicity. Anthony Trollope, a veteran Post Office civil servant and one of Victorian Englands most disciplined craftsmen, wrote the book amid political disillusion and financial scandal. His failed 1868 parliamentary bid, close knowledge of journalisms economies, and travels in America sharpened his skepticism about respectability. In An Autobiography he declared his aim to expose pervasive dishonesty; this novel is the result. This Worlds Classics edition suits readers seeking narrative pleasure and historical clarity: its introduction and notes frame Trollopes targets while letting the comedy breathe. Recommended to students of finance, media, and ethicsand to any reader who suspects that modern life, with its bubbles and spin, began earlier than we think.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

How can six voices tell one human story?First published in 1931, The Waves by Virginia Woolf is one of the most experimental and ambitious novels of modernist literature. Told through the interwoven inner monologues of six characters from childhood to old age, the novel captures the rhythms of thought, memory, and identity as life unfolds.Structured around poetic interludes describing the movement of the sun across the sea, the book dissolves traditional plot in favor of lyrical language and psychological depth. Woolf explores individuality and unity, time and change, and the shared experience of being alive.This novel stands as Woolfs most daring exploration of consciousness, blending poetry and prose into a single, immersive experience.Inside this eBook, youll explore:A radical narrative form built from interior monologueThemes of identity, friendship, and the passage of timeLyrical language that blurs the line between poetry and fictionOne of the most influential works of literary modernismWidely studied and admired for its originality, The Waves remains essential reading for readers interested in experimental fiction and the evolution of the modern novel.Enter the rhythm of thought and time. Buy now and experience one of Virginia Woolfs most profound achievements.

Embark on a quest with Birdalone, a young woman who escapes the captivity of a witch to navigate a magical archipelago. Her journey across the vast lake involves encounters with knights, faeries, and the mysteries of the "Isle of Nothing," exploring themes of autonomy and female agency. The narrative is steeped in the language of medieval romance, creating a fairy-tale world that is both perilous and enchanting. It is a pioneering work of fantasy that places a heroine at the center of the heros journey.