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First published in 1912, "The Unbearable Bassington" was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro). The book contains much of the elegant wit found in his short stories and showcases Sakis wonderful writing and that ability to be so very funny and terribly sad at the same time. The story is about the relationship between mother and son. Comus (The Unbearable) Bassington, is a charming young man about town. His perversity however thwarts all his mothers efforts to advance his prospects and lands him in hot water. Like many a black sheep he ends up being sent off to one of the colonies to fend for himself...

Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. "The Warden" was first published in 1855 and it was Trollopes fourth novel, but the first in the clerical series which became known as The Barsetshire Chronicles (AKA Barchester series), and it established his reputation as a popular novelist in the Victorian period, becoming Trollopes first really successful novel. The others in the sequence are "Barchester Towers", "Doctor Thorne", "Framley Parsonage", "The Small House at Allington", and "The Last Chronicle of Barset".The opening of the novel makes it clear that Barchester was supposed to be a cathedral town in the south west of England, and it is probably constructed imaginatively from elements of Salisbury and Wells cathedrals, which Trollope knew well from his travels around the south west in his professional capacity as inspector of the postal system.In the mid nineteenth century there were a number of financial scandals in the Church of England. Trollope based The Warden on the St Cross scandal, but in the novel the Warden is a kindly, devoted, priest, beloved by all that knew him and is racked by fear that he is accepting money to which he is not entitled. His antagonist is his prospective son-in-law John Bold and his (somewhat unwelcome) ally is one of Trollopes strongest characters, the Archdeacon of Barchester, Dr. Theophilus Grantly.Novels in the Barchester series:1-The Warden2-Barchester Towers3-Doctor Thorne4-Framley Parsonage5-The Small House at Allington6-The Last Chronicle of Barset

First published in 1874, "The Mysterious Island" is an adventure novel by Jules Verne and included in his popular science-fiction series Voyages extraordinaires (18631910) as a sequel to his "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1870). "The Mysterious Island" follows the adventures of a group of castaways who use their survivalist savvy to build a functional community on an uncharted island.Contemporary readers would have found the greatest similarities between Vernes "Mysterious Island" and DeFoes "Robinson Crusoe" (1719), the quintessential castaway story. But today, "The Mysterious Island" will resonate with anyone familiar with the television show Lost.A hot-air balloon carrying five passengers and a dog escapes from Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. It is blown off course and deposited near an obscure island. One of the castaways nearly dies after a skirmish with pirates; he is saved by the unexplained appearance of someone after the pirates are unexpectedly routed. The secret helper proves to be none other than the reclusive Captain Nemo (first introduced "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea")...

"Michael Strogoff" (AKA "Courier of the Czar"), written in 1876, is the 14th novel in Jules Vernes Extraordinary Voyages cycle, his largest and most influential body of published work. It was written specially for Czar Alexander II of Russias visit to Paris in 1876, and tells the story of a young couriers perilous journey across Russia to Eastern Siberia in order to warn the Czars brother of an impending Tartar invasion. Like all of Vernes work, this captivating adventure novel was meticulously researched, as is evident in the close attention to detail in the descriptions of Russian and Siberian geography.In this tale of intrigue set in Russia, a traitor has inspired the fierce Feofar Khan to invade Siberia and foment a rebellion. A sinister plot to assassinate the Czars brother, the Grand Duke, is discovered but all telegraph lines have been cut. Only one of the Czars couriers is qualified to handle the dangerous and arduous mission to warn the Siberian Governor General of the impending invasion, Michael Strogoff.

"The Iron Heel", american classic written by Jack London in 1908, is considered one of the earliest novels of modern Dystopian Fiction, which would lead to works later known as Soft Science Fiction. Jack London, a socialist himself, portrays America under tyrannical rule, the terrible oppression of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a socialist revolutionary movement. London describes the fall of the United States to the cruel fascist dictatorship of the Iron Heel, a group of monopoly capitalists. Fearing the popularity of socialism, the plutocrats of the Iron Heel conspire to eliminate democracy and, with their secret police and military, terrorise the citizenry. They instigate a German attack on Hawaii on Dec. 4, 1912; as socialist revolutions topple capitalist governments around the world, the Iron Heel has 52 socialist members of the U.S. Congress imprisoned for treason..."The Iron Heel" is based on Avis Everhards fictional "Everhard Manuscript" and was written by London as a womans first person narrative, not a common writing style at the time.

"The Sea-Wolf", published in 1904, is a psychological adventure novel by Jack London and one of his best-known works. This highly popular novel combines elements of naturalism and romantic adventure."The Sea-Wolf" narrates the story of Humphrey van Weyden, a literary critic. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen. Larsen is the captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent and intellectual, he rules over his ship and terrorises the crew with the aid of his exceptionally great physical strength.

"With the Adepts", the third of Hartmanns books written in 1910, and the first with a fictional setting, begins with a journey in the Alps. The narrator meets a mysterious dwarf. The dwarf takes him to an Adept who resides in a hidden Rosicrucian colony high in the mountains. This Adept proceeds to expound for a hundred and fifty pages on the Rosicrucian way, including Alchemy, Elementals and the acquisition of psychic powers. There is a demonstration of the transmutation of silver into gold using a red powder. The narrator also meets some of other residents, including two mysterious women who have vivid memories of their past lives, and the doppelganger of the Adept, who sends the narrator on a hallucinogenic night journey to the Indian ocean where he consorts with water spirits.On the whole, the book is a very straightforward read, unlike some of the other Rosicrucian tales; this is because the framing story is simply a fictional setting in which to examine the ideas, rather than a dense allegory. This book serves as a very compact introduction to this eternally fascinating subject of the invisible college.Franz Hartmann was a 19th century Bavarian physician, theosophist and writer. He emigrated to the United States, and became an American citizen, practising medicine in the then-frontier areas of the Midwest, including Missouri and Texas. He became interested in Spiritualism, and joined the Theosophists in 1883 at their enclave in Madras, India, a refuge similar in spirit to the one he pictures in this book. In his later years tended toward western rather than eastern esotericism.

"The Pirate" is a novel by the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1822 and considered a masterpiece. For "The Pirate", Scott drew on his memories of a voyage to the Northern Isles in 1814, as guest of a commission inspecting Scotlands lighthouses. The novel was finished in little more than three months and was ready for publication in late October 1821. Hence, the novel is set at the beginning of the 18th century on the Shetland Islands, where Basil Mertoun lives as a tenant of Magnus Troil. In his youth, Mertoun has been betrayed by an unfaithful wife, and in a spirit of revenge, turned to piracy. Filled with self-reproach for his crimes, he lives as a recluse, along with his wifes son Mordaunt, whose paternity is doubtable."The Pirate" is also the story of the complicated romantic lives of the Troil sisters, Minna and Brenda.

At the conclusion of his book "From the Earth to the Moon", written in 1865, Jules Verne left his readersand his astronautshanging in the starry ether. The readers had it the worst, since Verne forced them to wait five years before he resolved the plot complications in his sequel "All Around the Moon".Picking up where "From the Earth to the Moon" left off this sequel follows the first lunar explorers in a dangerous journey around the moon. The worlds first 3 space travellers, Impey Barbicane, Michael Ardan and Captain Nicholl attempt to become the first men on the moon, but their journey is fraught with mishap. Will their trip succeed as they attempt to dodge asteroids and realise that the scientists on Earth have miscalculated their trajectory towards the moon?"All Around the Moon" is an engaging, well-written story. From where we are today if you consider it from the time it was written and everything we have developed along the way since, it is an amazing science-fiction book, a visionary masterpiece.

From the Earth to the Moon is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1865. The novel is the story of an inventor named Barbicane, and some other obsessive American Civil War veterans, members of the Baltimore Gun Club, who conceive the idea of creating an enormous cannon in order to shoot a space-bullet to the Moon from a site in Florida.Many difficulties arrest the creation of the canon, as its gargantuan size requires an astronomical amount of money and time to build. Eventually, however, the canon is completed. Shortly before its completion, a French adventurer named Ardan arrives to say that he wishes to travel inside of the bullet to the moon. A hollow capsule is made in which the Frenchman can travel and Barbicane and his long time rival, Captain Nicholl decide to go with him on the journey in order to settle their rivalry.Unfortunately, the Barbicanes astronomic calculations are slightly off and the capsule ends up orbiting the moon instead of landing on it. In the end, the three would-be astronauts are left orbiting the moon with no sign if they will ever manage to land."From the Earth to the Moon" is one of Vernes most well known works and is notable specifically for its early calculations for the requirements to the canon and their surprising realism, despite limited research on the moon at the time.This novel is the first part of Jules Vernes Classic science fiction duology describing mans space voyage that was followed by masterpiece "All Around the Moon".

Written in 1911 by American writer Jack London, "Adventure" tells about the confrontation between a man who finds himself alone in front of a plantation - harassed by black cannibals - and a bold, independent and liberated feminist woman, Joan Lackland, whos arrival at the plantation turns everything upside down..."Adventure", a devastating portrayal of colonialism and slavery set in the Solomon Islands, has generated considerable controversy since its publication over the question of whether London shared the racist beliefs of his characters or, on the contrary, was merely presenting them accurately.

Written in 1856, "The Dead Secret" was Wilkie Collins fourth published novel.The Secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamond Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress Mrs Treverton of Porthgenna Tower, but is in fact the illegitimate child of her servant Sarah Leeson by a local miner (Mrs Trevertons motive was to provide her husband with a child, being apparently unable to bear children herself). Sarah writes down the details of the Secret from the words of the dying Mrs Treverton, and hides the paper bearing the message in an unused room at Porthgenna.The novel then jumps forward some twenty years. Rosamond has married the blind Leonard Frankland, who now owns Porthgenna Tower. Sarah, now living under her married name, acts as a nurse after Rosamond-s childbirth, and gives Rosamund a cryptic warning to avoid the room in which the Secret is hidden. On a visit to Porthgenna, Rosamond finds the paper detailing the Secret and reveals it to Leonard. Leonard, who originally believed that Rosamond was a wealthy heiress, accepts that his wife is illegitimate, but refuses to accept her inheritance as the presumed daughter of the Trevertons. In the course of things, this would now pass to Mrs Trevertons miserly brother-in-law Andrew (whose introduction, together with his villainous servant, provides some comic relief in the novel). But Andrew Treverton...(Source: wikipedia.org)

"Castle Rackrent" is a classic novel written by British writer Maria Edgeworth. Published in 1800, "Castle Rackrent" is thought to be both the first historical novel and the first novel to feature an unreliable narrator.Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, "Castle Rackrent" follows the fortunes of the last four heirs to the Rackrent estate of three as told in the voiceof their longtime devoted servant, Thady Quirk. Over the course of several years (the Rackrent men die off in a timely manner), the Rackrents manage to run the estate into the ground, despite exploiting their Irish labourers. Is Thadys dewey-eyed devotion to the Rackrents sarcasm or is he truly one of the gratefully oppressed? The work satirises the Irish landlords of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Noted for its insight into Irish regional life, the book was the model on which Sir Walter Scott based his historical novels."Castle Rackrent" is a remarkably short novel, rendering a historical situation in order to expose the exploitative system beneath.

On a starry night, a young woman wakes up in a rocky desert with blurred and hazy memories.An eccentric stranger watches over her, holding ancient prints that he jealously guards. His task will be to guide her to the abandoned theatre in the heart of the desert, where a mysterious theatre company will show her the path leading to the truth.Theatre in the Desert is a dreamlike and philosophical novel that will make you reflect on the meaning of life.

A gift for you, the first part of the novel Unchain that slave!Naples, Marrakech, and Mexico City.A journey through Europe, Africa, and Latin America to try to defeat Moloch, the god of conformity and power who, in various forms, has oppressed humanity for centuries."As if bookshadnt already caused him enough trouble until that moment. In fact, he had read quite a few, and society frowned upon that.To tell the truth, though, more than the act of reading itself, what they always reproached him for was his tendency to confuse books with reality.Since his school days, other friends of his also read books.But once they closed the book, everything ended there, like a simple and harmless pastime.Luca, on the other hand, always tried to connect what he had read with the world around him, with his experiences, with the people he knew.Yet, teachers, counselors, and all authorities had explained to him more than once how wrong and dangerous that behavior was.In the end, they couldnt overlook it anymore, and the process was triggered. After all, he had become a law specialist, a future lawyer. Such inclinations could be tolerated in individuals living on the fringes of society, but certainly not in those destined to be part of the ruling class."website: http://www.giovannibonelli.com

LUCAS. Il y a quatre ans, Kira est partie, mabandonnant au seuil du pire moment de ma vie. Je ne le lui pardonnerai jamais. Maintenant elle est de retour et toute la haine accumulée en moi me tient éloigne delle. Pourtant, chaque fois quelle me regarde, je suis trouble, perdu et effraye. Cependant je ne dois jamais oublier ce que je suis : de la viande avariee que nul naimera jamais frequenter.KIRA. Apres quatre annees deloignement et de desespoir face a cette separation forcee, je suis finalement retournee aupres de Lucas. Mais maintenant les choses ont change et je me retrouve victime de ses brimades. Qui est ce garçon qui ne connait que la violence et ne se sert des filles que pour les mettre dans son lit ? Je ne sais pas ce qui sest passe mais je ferai tout mon possible pour effacer la haine que je lis dans ses yeux et qui le tient eloigne de moi.Ouvrages de la meme serie : Love Hurricane Transgression Touch Me Dare Me

From New York Times, USA TODAY,#1 Dark Fantasy bestseller Marata Eros and for fans of 50 Shades, and True Blood, comes a tale of alpha demon warriors, claiming what is theirs for the survival of the species." No other authors ... brought out as much heat as Eros does. I literally have to fan myself while reading her work...""...oh hot hot hot...""...Brilliant!"NOTE: The DEMON Serial contains extreme violence throughout and should not be downloaded/read by the faint-of-heart. Might contain triggers.Synopsis:Ruby is an exotic dancer with a past. Running from a father who is a murderer, she takes to the sea where she lives the quiet and lonely existence of the unseen.One night when her abusive boss lays more than a finger on her, the crowd gets out of hand and an unlikely savior moves to end her misery. Little does Ruby know that there are those whove been searching for exactly what she is.Brolach is a demon warrior with a purpose: to find females with enough demon blood who could be valuable breeders in Hades. Their inclusion would tip the scales in favor of the age old war between heaven and hell, to those who live below.What Brolach doesnt realize is they share a blood tie that neither suspect, one that might make them pay in blood.Though this is the first installment in The Demon Series, reading both The Druid and Siren Series first, might deepen the reading experience. Novella-length. 100 paperback pages.

"...I just had to keep turning the pages until I was done." ~ Tena BarnesTwo New York Times, USA TODAY and #1 Dark Fantasy bestseller author styles come together for dark paranormal romance + dystopian grit."... you are unable to put the book down....""... coming back for more..."Narah Adrienne is a bounty enforcer in the near future.She runs the seedy side of her game, capturing criminals too dangerous for the local law enforcement. Using unorthodox methods, she finds herself in the crosshairs of the Magistrate for too many allowable kills for the quarter.And her head hurts like hell.Aeslin is part of an elite vampire squad of Turners. A rare sect of vampire scouts who possess the ability to find women with enough undead blood to be turned into full vampire.Now that Narah understands her bounty target is really a Hunter assigned to commit a part of her to death, she must make the best choice among terrible options. Only one man can save her and technically, hes not human.Matthews discovers the truth of Hunter leadership, and with an uncertain end goal he determines to follow his heart, though that decision might cost him his life.Aeslin has exposed his race by removing Narah in plain sight.Opposing forces and their hidden agendas continue to move Narah like a chess piece toward an inevitable stale mate. Can Narah return to her old life? Will she be hunted for an escape that was beyond her controlor will her tie to Aeslin and Matthews help her regain all thats shes lostand more than she ever dreamed possible?Punished is 300+ pages/67,000 word novel in the ALPHA CLAIM world serial.

"Everything she writes I read, and I LOVE 100% of it."~ Contagious ReadsFrom New York Times, USA TODAY and #1 Dark Fantasy bestseller Tamara Rose Blodgett, comes epic sci-fi meets dark paranormal romance in a chilling tale of interdimensional warriors, who police worlds for the chance to claim their prophesied soulmates - if the Reflectives can survive long enough to claim them." ... amazing storyline..!"" ... Wow... absolutely fantastic read..."" ... cant put it down... crafted expertly... the universe is solid and complex... another incredible series in this universe... huge fan..."Those born Reflective are the only beings with the ability to jump between worlds. With The Cause firmly entrenched by years of highly stylized military-type training in combat of every kind, they use their natural born ability for inter-dimensional travel to police worlds where wrongdoing has overtaken civility.As an elite Reflective, Jeb Merrick finds himself partnered with a rare female Reflective. Merrick is convinced that she can do nothing but slow him down. Beth Jasper is small, in both stature and mindset.When they are thrust together as partners, Merrick vows that she will receive the same neutral treatment as a male. Merrick cannot allow the unlikely union of Beth Jasper to get in the way of finding his prophesied soulmate.Beth discovers she is partnered with the cockiest of all pureblood Reflectives and struggles to maintain her composure with a hostile partner whose loyalty she doesnt possess.Can the Reflectives uphold The Cause, reach a point of compromise and find their chosen soulmates?Full-length novel; New adult fiction, 17+

A gift for you: free edition of Murder at Saksess Press 1.Complete Series, Murder at Saksess Press 1-2-3, Unlimited and paperback.A beautiful girl falls from the window of the publishing house SaksessPress. A mature man, a simple employee of the crime sorting center, feels the desire to investigate the case. Why? He is obsessed with the victim, he even sees her in his dreams. He feels like he owes her something, but what? He doesnt know the origin of this fixation, but his life, thanks to the search for truth, will be destined for radical changes.??????"A Gun and a Pen My name is Pedro, and I am a private investigator. Unlike many of my colleagues, I am not a retired cop trying to make ends meet by spying on unfaithful spouses. And unlike some of them, I do not do this job solely for money. I do not deal with infidelity, but with murders, on behalf of a state that seems to have forgotten the value of life. In my own small way, like a disobedient atom breaking every law of physics, I want more than anything to bring a minimum of justice to a lost society enslaved to the interests of a few. Untruthful deaths, violence everywhere. Only the properties of the rich, protected in their fortress neighborhoods, still seem to be respected at the threshold of the twenty-first century.Before discovering my mission, I, too, served only the powerful and was a lost man,just like my world. Behind my seemingly orderly, monotonous, and repetitive life, I hid the greatest confusion. A computer, a keyboard, well-defined tasks. At the end of the month, a salary, meager but sufficient to get by. But get by towards where? Now, in front of my eyes, I have a gun and a pen. The gun is resting on the desk, I may need it later. The pen, however, I grip in my left hand to tell how I got to this point. The following is my story."website: http://www.giovannibonelli.com:)