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The Kahler Files #5: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Volume 5) The Kahler Files #5: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Volume 5)
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From author Eric Safflind comes a thrilling sci-fi series. 

In the fifth edition to the series, Adrian Kahler is a psychologist turned detective. He has a Sherlock Holmes intellect, extrasensory perception, and an ability to manipulate computers that even Steve Jobs would envy. Iran is ready to launch a nuclear missile at Israel. The United States is counting on one of its fleet of secretly laser-armed surveillance satellites to surreptitiously destroy the missile as it launches, but the satellite that will "watch" Iran has yet to be deployed. Each laser requires a crystal of spectacular size and purity, and the NASA lab responsible for crystal production has suddenly begun to fail. Iranian agents are suspected of sabotage, but none can be found.

The only scientist who has ever succeeded in growing the needed crystals claims to have no understanding of what has gone wrong, but Kahler suspects that he is hiding a dark secret. It's up to Kahler and his team to defeat the agents working against them, solve the mystery, and get crystal production back on track. The launch window is closing. Time is running out.

The Mansion on O St. features in this book! 



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Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clarke Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clarke
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Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Against All Enemies, former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America’s vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict—Cyber War!

Every concerned American should read this startling and explosive book that offers an insider’s view of White House ‘Situation Room’ operations and carries the reader to the frontlines of our cyber defense. Cyber War exposes a virulent threat to our nation’s security.

This is no X-Files fantasy or conspiracy theory madness—this is real.

Written in part at the Mansion on O St., we feature in the introduction! 

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Treasure Hunters: All-American Adventure (Treasure Hunters, 6) by James Patterson Treasure Hunters: All-American Adventure (Treasure Hunters, 6) by James Patterson
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From bestselling author James Patterson comes the 6th book in his Treasure Hunters series.
In this book Bick, Beck, Storm and Tommy are stuck in Washington, D.C. without any priceless antiques to hunt--BORING! But everything changes when the Kidds uncover a dastardly conspiracy: a fake Bill of Rights!
Now they're crisscrossing the country in a race to prove the document is a forgery. But the key to exposing the conspiracy may have been under their noses the whole time. And if they don't find it soon, the U.S.A. as we know it could be gone forever...
The Mansion on O St features in a whole chapter in this book! 
 
Gilda Joyce: the Dead Drop by Jennifer Allison Gilda Joyce: the Dead Drop by Jennifer Allison
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From author Jennifer Allison is the fourth book in her children's myster series surrounding Gilda Joyce. 

In this book Gilda lands a summer internship at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., swhere he finds herself caught up in both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a spy's "dead drop" of classified information. As she tries to decode the cryptic message, Gilda realizes her case is not only a matter of investigating the supernatural; she's involved in an urgent matter of national security and faces her most serious challenge yet.

The Mansion on O St. features in a whole chapter of this book!

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Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clarke (Hardback) Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clarke (Hardback)
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Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Against All Enemies, former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America’s vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict—Cyber War!

Every concerned American should read this startling and explosive book that offers an insider’s view of White House ‘Situation Room’ operations and carries the reader to the frontlines of our cyber defense. Cyber War exposes a virulent threat to our nation’s security.

This is no X-Files fantasy or conspiracy theory madness—this is real.

Written in part at the Mansion on O St., we feature in the introduction! 

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Rosa Parks Beyond The Bus by HH Leonards Rosa Parks Beyond The Bus by HH Leonards
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Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership is an inspiring book about having faith in yourself to do the hard work to change hearts and minds — and to have the courage to fight for the rights of all others: Black, White, religious, non-religious, men, women, and children. Book is signed by the author.

Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus is a rare look into Mrs. Parks’ life, her thoughts, her beliefs, and her immense wisdom that moved people — from diverse moral leaders Nelson Mandela, Deepak Chopra, Malcolm X, and Pope John Paul II to the smallest of children — to seek and revere her presence.

This book explores many of the things Mrs. Parks did that history books don’t teach. It is a collection of personal stories compiled from the decade that Mrs. Parks lived and traveled with the author.

During those years, Leonards was able to feel the heart and soul of the woman who became “The Mother of The Civil Rights Movement” and the Grandmother of The Women’s Movement. In the book the author shares her remembrances, both delightful and somber, in a way that offers readers an intimate glimpse into the personhood of Mrs. Parks.

Mrs. Parks is much more than someone who refused to get up from her bus seat. She was a survivor and the ultimate influencer of generations to come. She believed the laws can change but if you don’t change people’s hearts nothing changes. She believed Love is all that matters.


“I want this book to touch people’s soul because
that is what Mrs. Parks did for me.
This book is about not just an extraordinary revered figure in history,
but about her soul and heart -- and the lessons of leadership she taught me.”
- H.H. Leonards

 
Lessons Lessons
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by founder, H.H. Leonards Spero

 
Live Heaven Live Heaven
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by founder, H.H. Leonards Spero

 
Simple Things Simple Things
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by founder, H.H. Leonards Spero

 
Gems of Wisdom Gems of Wisdom
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Through aphorisms, poems and haiku, you'll experience the true power of quiet strength (the essence of Mrs. Parks). This is how you change people’s hearts. This is how you start a movement, from the inside out.
 
Enough To Go Around Signed By Author Chip Duncan Enough To Go Around Signed By Author Chip Duncan
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Filmmaker, author, photographer and recipient of more than 100 national and international awards for his work, Chip's images appear in the book Enough To Go Around - Searching for Hope in Afghanistan, Pakistan & Darfur. An exhibition of his images premiers at the 2011 World Peace Festival and this fall at O Street Museum Foundation.

 
Tickers Signed By Author Kimberley W. Eley Tickers Signed By Author Kimberley W. Eley
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Signed by the author Kimberley W. Eley.

Eley wrote the book "Tickers: What Makes People....Tick! And Pursue a Career They Love!" after a career shakeup in 2014. Eley knew she wanted to make a life change. Along the way, she interviewed a man who uses flying monkeys to reach his students, an inspiring coach and teacher who defied death, an entrepreneur who travels the country with a toilet suitcase, an animal trainer who crisscrosses the country with her cat circus, a travel agent who sends her customers into the unknown, and many more!

This book features a whole chapter on our founder H.H. Leonards Spero 

 
5 Book Grab Bag - Sports 5 Book Grab Bag - Sports
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5 Book Grab Bag - Non-Fiction 5 Book Grab Bag - Non-Fiction
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Find books you'll love! We'll choose a variety of hardcover and paperback titles for you in the non-fiction genre. Five surprise books in every box.

 
5 Book Grab Bag - Biographies 5 Book Grab Bag - Biographies
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Find books you'll love! We'll choose a variety of hardcover and paperback biographies for you. Five surprise books in every box.

 
5 Book Grab Bag - For Kids 5 Book Grab Bag - For Kids
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Find books you'll love! We'll choose a variety of hardcover and paperback childrens books for you. Five surprise books in every box.

 
5 Book Grab Bag - Fiction 5 Book Grab Bag - Fiction
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Find books you'll love! We'll choose a variety of hardcover and paperback fiction titles for you. Five surprise books in every box.

 
20 Comics Grab Bag 20 Comics Grab Bag
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Variety of 20 comic books

(You never know which ones you'll get! Comics shown are examples only)

 
5 Book Grab Bag - Cookbooks 5 Book Grab Bag - Cookbooks
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Postcards from the Boys by Ringo Starr Postcards from the Boys by Ringo Starr
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For the first time, Ringo Starr has opened up his private archive to share with the world the personal correspondence between him and John, Paul, and George. Whether it's John advising Ringo to record a "great & simple" song like Blondie's Heart of Glass , Paul and Jane Asher dropping a note from Rishikesh to report on their meditation lessons with the Maharishi, or George writing from the Great Barrier Reef to confirm plans for Christmas dinner. The book includes reproductions of the 51 postcards -- many of which are covered in whimsical drawings -- sent between the Beatles. Ringo's droll commentary fills in the blanks and provides context. A funny, although often bitersweet, account of Bealtes history from an unusual source. 
 
The Royal Book of Oz by L. Frank Baum The Royal Book of Oz by L. Frank Baum
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The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be published after the death of L. Frank Blum. The book was credited Baum, however, it was written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Some editions of the book correctly credited Thompson. The original introduction claimed the book was based on notes Baum has written, but this has since been disproven. The book is supposedly based on Baum's surviving notes but even if this is true, they bear no resemblance to Thompson's book.



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5 Book Grab Bag - Art 5 Book Grab Bag - Art
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First edition of The Home Instructor First edition of The Home Instructor
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1885

 
The Giant Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson The Giant Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
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The Giant Horse of Oz (1928) is the twenty-second in the series of Oz books created by L. FRank Baum and the eight written by Ruth Plumly THompson.



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Hills Manual of Social and Business Forms Hills Manual of Social and Business Forms
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By T.E. Hill

 
The John Lennon Letters by Hunter Davies The John Lennon Letters by Hunter Davies
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When Hunter Davies, the author of the first authorized Beatles Biography contacted us asking us if he could include the 'John Lennon Laundry Letter' in the book that Yoko Ono Lennon asked him to write about the letters John had written, we were overjoyed.

Now you can see the famous letter that's in the John Lennon Room at The O Museum In The Mansion and buy the book that it's in!

The letter reads:

'Mrs. Yoko Ono Lennon does not, will not, has not dyed her hair.

She does not sweat. Most Orientals do not sweat like us.

What is your excuse for turning my brand new white shirt yellow?

John Lennon'

 
The Road To Oz By L Frank Baum The Road To Oz By L Frank Baum
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The fifth of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books.

 
The Wishing Horse of Oz By Ruth Plumly Thompson The Wishing Horse of Oz By Ruth Plumly Thompson
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The Wishing Horse of Oz is the twenty-ninth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fifteenth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was Illustrated by John R. Neill. This book marked the point at which Thompson had written more Oz books than Baum himself.

 
Speedy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson Speedy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
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Speedy in Oz is the twenty-eighth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fourteenth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was Illustrated by John R. Neill.



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The Cat in the Hat First Edition The Cat in the Hat First Edition
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The Cat in the Hatis a 1957 children's book written and illustrated by author Theodore Geisel, using the pen name Dr. Seuss. Geisel created the book in response to a debate in the United States about literacy in early childhood and the ineffectiveness of traditional primers. Geisel gave varying accounts on how he created the story, but the one he told most often was that he was so frustrated with the list with which he could choose words to write his story that he decided to ignore the list and create a story based on the first two rhyminge found. The children's book is about a chaos-causing cat who visits two children on a rainy day when their mother isn't home and makes a big mess with his companions, Thing 1 and Thing 2. 



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Tik Tok of Oz Book By L Frank Baum Tik Tok of Oz Book By L Frank Baum
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Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum, published on June 19, 1914.

 
The Wonder City of Oz By John R. Neill The Wonder City of Oz By John R. Neill
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The Wonder City of Oz is the thirty-fourth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the first written and illustrated solely by John R. Neill.

 
In the Fire of the Forge by Georg Ebers In the Fire of the Forge by Georg Ebers
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In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg is a historical novel set in medieval Germany, telling the story of two sisters, Eva and Elsa Orlieb. During the mid-13th century, after the death of FRiedrich II, Germany faced the period between kings. In these uncertain times, Eva and Elsa led a life frought with deprivation in the city of Nuremberg. Despite the circumstances, within the walls of this imperial city in the High Middle Ages, there is still hope for daydreaming and romance.

Georg Morbitz Ebers (March 1, 1837- August 7, 1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. He is best known for his purchase of the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest Egyptian medical documents in the world.



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The Intruder by Gabriele D'Annunzio The Intruder by Gabriele D'Annunzio
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The Intruder (Italian: L'Innocente) is an 1892 novel by the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. It is also known as The Victim in the United States. It tells the story of the dandy Tullio Hermil who is habitually unfaithful to his patient and loving wife, Giuliana, until she herself is unfaithful and becomes pregnant with another man's child. The book was published in English in 1897 and later translated by Georgina Harding.

The book was first adapted for film in 1912 by Edoardo Bencivenga. It was also the basis for Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent, released in 1976. Visconti's version stars Giancarlo Giannini ans Tullio and Laura Antonelli as Giuliana.

General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso (March 12, 1863-March 1, 1938) was a an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and in its political life from 1914-1924.



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With Edged Tools by Henry Seton Merrimen With Edged Tools by Henry Seton Merrimen
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Hugh Stowell Scott (1862-1903) was an English novelist who wrote under the pseudonym of Henry Seton Merrimen. His best known novel, The Sowers, went through thirty UK editions.

He was an underwriter in Lloyd's, but having a strong literary bent, latterly devoted himself to writing novels, many  of which had great popularity. He worked with great care, and his best books hold a high place in modern fiction. He was unusually modest and retiring in character.



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The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
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The Wishing Horse of Oz (1935) is the twenty-ninth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and the fifteenth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. This book marked the point at which Thompson had written more Oz books than Baum himself. This was the last Oz book to feature illustrations in color, and only the first edition and the international Wizard of Oz club edition (1990) have them.



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Catching the Big Fish By David Lynch Catching the Big Fish By David Lynch
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The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum
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Mogreb-El-Acksa by R.B. Cunninghame Graham Mogreb-El-Acksa by R.B. Cunninghame Graham
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Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist, and adventurer. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP); the first ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party; a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928; and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934. 

In 1988, The Century Travellers reprinted his Mogreb-el Acksa (1898) and A Vanished Arcadia (1901). The former was the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw's play Captain Brassbound's Conversion. The latter helped inspire the award-winning film The Mission. More recently, The Long Riders Guild Press have reprinted his equestrian travel works in their Cunninghame Graham Collection.



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Women Who Run With the Wolves Women Who Run With the Wolves
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Author Clarissa Pinkola Estés details the power of the archetypal Wild Woman and beckons the reader to consider how their embrace of the wolf that runs with the rhythms of nature, in sync with instinct and purpose, leads to healing themselves and society.

Through stories, folktales, and histories that span the globe, she interprets women's truths and movements, urging readers to heed the call of the Wild Woman.

To inhabit the body of an animal, a wolf self, is to bravely claim the matriarchal directive crucial to our dignity and knowledge. Story after story, Estés shows the reader how to free themselves.



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Cherry by Booth Tarkington Cherry by Booth Tarkington
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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film.

During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana. Booth Tarkington served one term in the Indiana House of Representatives, was critical of the advent of automobiles, and set many of his stories in the Midwest. He eventually moved to Kennebunkport, Maine, where he continued his life work even as he suffered a loss of vision.



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Beneath Tropic Seas by William Beebe Beneath Tropic Seas by William Beebe
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Beneath Tropic Seas is a study of the coral reefs and fish in the Bay of Port-au-Prince, Haiti by the tenth expedition of the Departments of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society.

Charles William Beebe (1877-1962) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author. He is remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological Society, his deep dives on the Bathysphere, and his prolific scientific writing for academic and popular audiences.



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Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Completed in 1966, the novel was distributed in Russia that year in samizdat, and banned there the following year.

In 1968, several European publishers published it in Russian, and in April 1968, excerpts appeared in the Times Literary Supplement in the UK without Solzhenitsyn's permission.

An unauthorized English translation was published that year by the Bodley Head in the UK, the edition you see here.



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Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
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Mary Johnston (1870-1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.

Johnston was also an active member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, using her writing skills and notability to draw attention to the cause of women's suffrage in Virginia.

Johnston wrote historical books and novels that often combined romance with history. Her first book, Prisoners of Hope (1898), dealt with colonial times in Virginia as did her second novel, To Have and To Hold (1900), and later, Sir Mortimer (1904). The Goddess of Reason (1907) uses the theme of the French Revolution, and in Lewis Rand (1908) the author portrayed political life at the dawn of the 19th century.



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Sir Harry by Archibald Marshall Sir Harry by Archibald Marshall
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Sir Harry: A Love Story is a touching story that explores the complexities of love, friendship, and loyalty in the face of social and cultural expectations, Set in the early 20th century England, the novel follows the relationship between a wealthy aristocrat and an artist's daughter who struggle to reconcile their feelings for each other with the demands of their respective social classes.

Arthur Hammond Marshall (1866-1934), better known by his pen name Archibald Marshall, was an English author, publisher, and journalist whose novels were particularly popular in the United States. He publsihed over 50 books and was recognized as a realist in his writing style, and was considered by some as a successor to Anthony Trollope. Educated at Cambridge University, he was later (in 1921) made an honorary Doctor of Letters by Yale University.



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The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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The Wind in the Willows is a classic children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It details the story or Mole, Ratty and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad, after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble. It also details short stories about them that are disconnected from the main narrative. The novel was based on bedtime stories Grahame told his son Alistair. It has been adapted numerous times for both stage and screen.

In 1899, at the age of 40, Kenneth Grahame married Elspeth Thomson, the daughter of Robert William Thomson. The next year they had their only child, a boy named Alistair (nicknamed "Mouse"). He was born premature, blind in one eye, and plagued by health problems throughout his life. When Alistair was about four years old, Grahame would tell him bedtime stories, some of which were about a toad and on his frequent boating holidays without his family. He would write further tales tales of Toad, Mole, Ratty, and Badger in letters to Alistair.



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The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White
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Stewart Edward White (1873-1946) was an American writer, novelist, and spiritualist. White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. Based on his own experience, whether writing camping journals or Westerns, he included pithy and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-hunting, and fishing. He also interviewed people who had been involved in the fur trade, the Claifornia Gold Rush, and pioneers which provided him with details that give his novels verisimilitude. He salted in humor and sympathy for colorful characters such as canny Indian guides and "greenhorn" campers who carried too much gear. White also illustrated some of his books with his own photographs while some of his other books were illustrated by artists, such as the American Western painter Fernand Lungren for The Mountains and Camp and Trail.

Theodore Roosevelt wrote that White was "the best man with both pistol and rifle who ever shot" at Roosevelt's rifle range at Sagamore Hill.



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The World of Christopher Robin The World of Christopher Robin
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Alan Alexander Milnewas an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all of his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, as a lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the First World War and as a captain in the Home Guard in the Second World War.

Milne was the father of bookseller Christopher Robin Milne, upon whom the character Christopher Robin is based. It was during a visit to London Zoo, where became enamoured wit the tame and amiable bear Winnipege, that Milne was inspired to write the story of Winnie-the-Pooh for his son. Milne bequeathed the original manuscripts of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories to the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge, his alma mater.



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A Hilltop on the Marne by Mildred Aldrich A Hilltop on the Marne by Mildred Aldrich
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Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928) was an American journalist, editor, writer, and translator. She spent her early career as a journalist and editor in Boston before moving to Paris, where she continued working as a foreign correspondent and translator. In JUly 1914, she moved to a house called La Creste (Hilltop) at Huiry, thirty miles east of Paris. "I have come to feel the need of calm and quiet- perfect peace." she wrote. Ironically, the First World War began three months later, and this site, with its clear view of the Marne River Valley, would provide her her greatest writing success. She had a birds-eye view of the first Battle of the Marne and began to write a series of letters about her life during the war. The letters were collected in four volumes. A Hilltop on the Marne (1915) was based on her journal entries and on letters she wrote to Gertrude Stein. It first appeared as a serialised account in the Atlantic Monthly. 



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What Veblen Taught by Thorstein Veblen What Veblen Taught by Thorstein Veblen
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Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. 

In his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1889), Veblen coined the concepts of 'conspicuous consumption' and 'conspicuous leisure'. Historians of economics regard Veblen as the founding father of the institutional economics school. Contemporary economists still theorize Veblen's distinction between "institutions" and "technology", known as the Veblenian dichotomy.

As a leading intellectual of the Progressive Era in the U.S., Veblen attacked production for profit. His emphasis on conspicuous consumption greatly influenced economists who engaged in non-Marxist critiques of fascism, capitalism, and technological determinism.



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In a People House by Theo LeSieg In a People House by Theo LeSieg
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When a spunky mouse invites a passing bird to see what's inside a People House, chaos ensues while beginning readers learn the names of 65 common household items- and that people are generally not pleased to find mice and birds in their houses! A super simple, delightfully silly introduction to objects around the home- from none other than Dr. Seuss!



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Friday the Thirteenth by Thomas Larson Friday the Thirteenth by Thomas Larson
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Friday, the Thirteenth by Thomas Larson is the captivating mystery tale of how a poor stockbroker manages to send the Wall Street stocks into oblivion, causing stockbrokers to swear against trading on Friday the 13th.

Thomas William Lawson (1857-1925) was an American businessman and writer. A highly controversial Boston stock promoter, he is known for both his efforts to promote reforms in the stock markets and the fortune he amassed for himself through highly dubious stock manipulations.



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Arabian Nights' Entertainment by E.O. Chapman Arabian Nights' Entertainment by E.O. Chapman
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One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in the English language as the Arabian Nights, from the first Engish-language edition (c, 1706-1721), which rendered the title The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. Common to all the editions of this book is the framing device of the ruler Shahryar being told the tales by his wife Scheherezade, with one tale told over each night of storytelling. The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed within other tales, while some are self-contained. Some editions contain only a few hundred nights of storytelling, while others include 1,001 or more. The bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is occaisionally used for songs and riddles and to express heightened emotion. Most of the poems are single couplets or quatrains, although some are longer.



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Parrish by Mildred Savage Parrish by Mildred Savage
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Parrish is the 1958 debut novel by Mildred Savage. The novel was originally published in hardback by Simon and Schuster in 1958. The novel is a bildungsroman of a young man, the titular Parrish Maclean, as he works his way out of the grueling work on Connecticut River Valley tobacco fields during the 1940s and 1950s. The novel was adapted into a 1961 film, starring Troy Donahue as the title character as well as Claudette Colbert and Karl Malden.



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Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
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David Guterson is an American novelist who started his career as a teacher publishing magazine articles and essays in his free time. It took him ten years to write this novel and after its publishing he quit his job to become a full-time writer.

Snow Falling on Cedars is a fictional novel taking place in Washington in 1954. The story follows Kabuo Miyamoto who is accused of murdering a local fisherman. Reporter Ishmael Chambers covers the case while struggling to manage his love for Kabuo's wife, Hatsue. This novel also touches on the Japanese American Internment that occurred around World War II.

In 1995, Snow Falling on Cedars was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1995. It was also adapted into a film in 1999 under the same name.



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Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter Aldritch Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter Aldritch
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Ella Bishop came to college a healthy, country-bred girl, alive to every fresh sensation, with an infinite capacity for work, love, and understanding. Her abundant energy and devotion to learning made her superior student, then a gifted teacher.



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The Long Roll by Mary Johnston The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
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Before Gone with the Wind exploded into print, Mary Johnston's The Long Roll was one of the definitive novels about the Civil War. Johnston peels away some of the historical romance of the cavalry and shows how vital artillery was in the battles, while paying close attention to the importance of planning and patience, and the role of roads, rails, horses, and boats as methods of transportation and expansion.

Mary Johnston (1870-1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocaye from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.



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Paradise Lost by John Milton Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th century poet John Milton (1608-1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. It is considered to be Milton's masterpiece, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of all time. The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.



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Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best-known full length work and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it."

The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked, "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery..." In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of the 100 best novels of all time, where he called Gulliver's Travels "a satirical masterpiece."



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Action at Aquila Action at Aquila
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Union Coloel Nathaniel Franklin flinches at burning the Confederate officer Crittenden's house during the Shenandoah campaign. As the campaign winds its way through many adventures towards the title battle, Franklin realizes he is in love with Mrs. Crittenden, the officer's widow. 

William Hervey Allen Jr. (December 8, 1889- December 28, 1949) was an American educator, poet, and writer. He is best known for his work Anthony Adverse (made into a 1936 film of the same name), regarded by many critics as "the model and precursor of the contemporary American historical novel." 



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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back First Edition The Cat in the Hat Comes Back First Edition
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back is a 1958 children's book written and illusrated by Dr. Seuss. In this book, a sequel to The Cat in the Hat, The Cat leaves a pink stain in the bathtub. The children spend the book trying to clean up the pink stain as it spreads around the house.



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Lucile by Owen Meredith Lucile by Owen Meredith
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A narrative poem, published under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith, is about a heroine, Lucile, who is beloved by two bitter rivals, English Lord Alfred Vargrave and the French Duke of Luvois. She loves Alfred, but misunderstanding keeps them apart.



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Short Circuits by Stephen Leacock Short Circuits by Stephen Leacock
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Short Circuits is a superb collectionof briefpieces by author Stephen Leacock at his best. In it is this irreverent observer of the human comedy touches on many subjects including sports, the movie industry, radio, education, international relations, and current literature. Leacock illuminates the enduring follies of human nature through his lively wit, sharp satire, and spontaneous sense of incongruity, but his moods are often interlaced with hints of nostaligia and always convey his profound understanding.



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The Wall by John Hersey The Wall by John Hersey
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The Wall, a novel by John Hersey, was published in 1950. Based on historical fact but using fictional characters and fictional diary entries, the work presents the background of the valiant but doomed Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of Jews against the Nazis. The Wall is a powerful presentation, in human terms, of the tragedy of the annihilation of European Jews. The novel relates the lives and actions of many different characters against the background of the Holocaust.

John Richard Hersey (1914-1993) was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction  reportage. In 1999, Hiroshima, Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest work of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department.



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The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel
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The Song of Bernadette is a 1941 novel that tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France. The novel was written by Franz Werfel and translated into English by Lewis Lewisohn in 1942. It was extremely popular, spending more than a year on the New York Times Best Seller list and 13 weeks in first place.

The novel was adapted into the 1943 film The Song of Bernadette, starring Jennifer Jones.

Franz Viktor Werfel (1890-1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.



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Arrow in the Blue by Arthur Koestler Arrow in the Blue by Arthur Koestler
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Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-born author and journalist. He was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany, but he resigned in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism.

Having moved to Britain in 1940, Koestler published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work that gained him international fame. Over the next 43 years, Koestler espoused many political causes and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies, and numerous essays. In 1949, Koestler began secretly working with a British Cold War anti-communist propoganda departmen t known as the Information Research Department (IRD), which would publish and distribute many of his works, and also fund his activities. In 1968, Koestler was awarded the Sonning Prize "for [his] outstanding contribution to European culture". In 1972, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.



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This Green World by Rutherford Platt This Green World by Rutherford Platt
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Rutherford Hayes Platt, Jr. was an American nature writer, photographer, and advertising executive. 

For many years, Mr. Platt's two-page spread of color photographs of mushrooms and other forms of fungi appeared in the "Mushrooms" article of the World Book Encyclopedia; some of these images also appeared in an article on mushrooms that he wrote for the August 28, 1944 issue of Life magazine.

Mr. Platt was a botanist with Rear Adm. Donald B. MacMillan's Arctic expeditions in 1947 and 1954. He was the biology advisor to the Disney True Life Films in the early 1950s and was the author of Walt Disney's Secrets of Life published in 1957.



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On Tiptoe by Stewart Edward White On Tiptoe by Stewart Edward White
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On Tiptoe: A Romance of the Redwoods is a novel written by Stewart Edward White. The story takes place in the redwood forests of Northern California.

Stewart Edward White (1873-1946) was an American writer, novelist, and spiritualist.

White's books were popular at a time when American was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. Based on his won experience, whether writing camping journals or Westerns, he included pithy and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-mining, and hunting.



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Deliverance by James Dickey Deliverance by James Dickey
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Deliverance (1970) is the debut novel of American writer James Dickey, who had previously published poetry. It was adapted into the 1972 film of the same name, directed by John Boorman. In 1998, the editors of the Modern Library selected Deliverance as #42 on their list of the 100 best 20th century novels. In 2005, the novel was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923.



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The Pharaoh and the Priest The Pharaoh and the Priest
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This novel is set in Egypt 1087-1085 BCE as that country experiences internal stresses and external threats that will culminate in the fall of its Twentieth Dynasty and New Kingdom. The young protagonist Ramses learns that those who would challenge the powers that be are vulnerable to co-option, seduction, subordination, defamation, intimidation, and assassination. Perhaps the chief lesson, belatedly absorbed by Ramses as pharaoh, is the importance, to power, of knowledge. 



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Problems of a New World by J.A. Hobson Problems of a New World by J.A. Hobson
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Problems of a New World deals with the economic and political issues that arose from the first World War. The first three parts of the study consider the world before the war, and the interests, purposes, and ideals which influenced the national psyche during the years that followed. In the final two parts, Hobson assesses the political and economic conditions confronted by the post-war world, with a particular focus on the impact of war on industry, labour, and the ideals of nationhood.

John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940) was an English economist and social scientist. Hobson is best known for his writing on imperialism, which influenced Vladimir Lenin and his theory of underconsumption.



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Things Near and Far by Arthur Machen Things Near and Far by Arthur Machen
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Things Near and Far is the second part of Arthur Machen's autobiography. The first part is contained in Far Off Things (1922) and the third in The London Avenue (1924). 

Arthur Machen (March 1863- December 1947) was the pen name of Arthur LLewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction.

His novella The Great God Plan has garered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language...". He is also well known for The Bowmen, a short story that was widely read as fact, creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.



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Twixt Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad Twixt Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad
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Twixt Land and Sea is a collection of three works of short fiction by Joseph Conrad. 

In 1909, Conrad received an unexpected visit from Captain C.M. Marris, a seafarer he had served with as a youth in the Malay Archipelago. The captain informed Conrad that many of his old collegaues were avid readers of his literary fiction. Though he had not written a short story for years, Conrad was inspired to write the works that would be collected in Twixt Land and Sea. 

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story-writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded as a master prose stylist who brough a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world. 

Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. 



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Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish. The novel tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, Lygia, and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician. It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of emperor Nero, c. 64 A.D.

Sienkiewicz studied the Roman Empire extensively before writing the novel, with the aim of getting historical details correct. Consequently, several historical figures appear in the book. As a whole, the novel carries a very pro-Christian message.



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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories is the first collection of 26 short stories by William Saroyan published in1934. The author was recognized as "the most widely discussed discovery of 1934" and the book became an immediate bestseller. The title was inspired by the refrain of a popuar folk song The Flying Trapeze. 

He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease,

That daring young man on the flying trapeze. 

William Saroyan (1908-1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studion rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into the novel, The Human Comedy.  Saroyan is regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.



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Moby Dick by Herman Melville Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Moby Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the 1919 centennial of its author's birth.

Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the great American novels.



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Joseph in Egypt Vol. 1 by Thomas Mann Joseph in Egypt Vol. 1 by Thomas Mann
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Joseph and His Brothers is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, written over the course of 16 years. Mann retells familiar stories of Gensis, from Jacob to Joseph ( chapters 27-50), setting it in the historical context of the Amarna period. Mann considered it his greatest work. The teralogy consists of: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider. Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1877- August 12,1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietze, and Arthur Schopenhauer.



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The Family Mark Twain The Family Mark Twain
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The following complete books of Mark Twain are included in this volume: Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Other complete selections and extracts are inlcluded.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), known by the pen-name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatist humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American litearture". 



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Felix Holt, The Radical Felix Holt, The Radical
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Felix Holt, The Radical (1866) is a social novel written by English author George Eliot about political disputes in a small English town at the time of the First Reform Act of 1832.

Set during a time of the Reform Act of 1832, the story centers on an election contested by Harold Transome, a local landowner, in the "radical cause", contrary to his family's Tory traditions. Contrasting with the opportunism of Transome is the sincere, but opinionated, Radical Felix Holt. A subplot concerns the stepdaughter of a Dissenting minister who is the true heir to the Transome estate, but who is unaware of the fact. She becomes the object of the affections of both Harold Transome and Felix Holt. 



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The Sea Around Us by Rachel L. Carson The Sea Around Us by Rachel L. Carson
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The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. It reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings. Often described as "poetic", it was Carson's second published book and the one that launched her into the public eye and a second career as a writer and conservationist.

The Sea Around Us inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.



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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a Faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. It serves as a sequel to le Carré's  previos novels Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, which also featured the fictitious British intelligence organization "The Circus".

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold portrays Western espionage methods as morally inconsistent with Western democracy and values. The novel received critical acclaim at the time of its publication and became an international best-seller; it was selected as one of the All-Time 100 Novels by Time magazine.

In 1965, Martin Ritt directed a cinematic adaptation,with Richard Burton as Leamas. Characters and events from The Spy Who Came in from the Cold are revisited in A Legacy of Spiec, le Carré's 2017 novel centering on an aging Guillam.



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Bonjour Tristesse Francoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse Francoise Sagan
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Bonjour Tristesse is a novel by Françoise Sagan. Published in 1954, when the author was only 18 years old, it became an overnight sensation.

The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard, "Á peine défigurée", which begins with the lines "Adieu tristesse/ Bonjour tristesse..."

An English-language film adaptation was released in 1958, directed by Otto Preminger.



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Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson
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Memoirs of Hecate County has a had a tumultuous history since its publication in 1946. A collection of six short stories, the book was banned shortly after its release due to the sexual content in the story titled 'The Princess with the Golden Hair'. This book's first edition could not be legally sold or distributed in 1959 until Wilson released a revised version. 

An appeal of this ban made it all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, where the Justices upheld a lower court decision due to their inconclusive 4-4 split. Justice Felix Frankfurter recused himself from voting in the case, citing a conflict of interest, having had conversations with Wilson about the book. The case marked the first time the Court had considered the issue of obscenity.



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Journeys in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Journeys in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket, she decides to follow it and a sequence of most unusual events is set in motion. This mini book contains the entire topsy-turvy stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. 

Charles Lutwidge Dodgon, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense.



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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter, novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American Periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The novel-length version was published in April 1891.

Wilde's only novel, it was subject to much controversy and criticism in its time but has come to be recognized as a classic of Gothic literature.



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The White Cliffs by Alice Duer Miller The White Cliffs by Alice Duer Miller
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The White Cliffs is a novel in verse, the story of an American girl who falls in love with an Englishman in the era of World War I.

Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses were especiall influential during the American Equal Suffrage movement, and her verse novel The White Cliffs guided poitical thought during the U.S.'s entry into World War II.

The poem was spectacularly successfulon both sides of the Atlantic, selling nearly one million copies - an unheard of number for for a book of verse. It was broadcast and recorded by British-American actress Lynn Fontaine (with a symphonic accompaniment), and the story was made in 1944 film The White Clifs of Dover.



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An Old Sweetheart of Mine An Old Sweetheart of Mine
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The poem is dedicated to author James Whitcomb Riley's first love, a girl he met at school, and about their school-time romance that grew into a marriage and happy life together. Each book page presents and separate piece of a romantic poem telling about a particular period or event in the poet's memory. It is a beautiful poetic work about the flow of time and the transformation of love through the years of routine life.



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The Purple Prince of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thomspon The Purple Prince of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thomspon
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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
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Lonesome Dove is a a 1985 Western Novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installmentin the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which won both critical and popular acclaim. McMurtry went on to write a sequel, Streets of Laredo (1993), and two prequels, Dead Man's Walk (1995) and Comanche Moon (1997), all of which were also adapted as TV series'.

The novel, set in the waning of the Old West, centers around the relationships between several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana. The novel contains themes including old age, death, unrequited love, and friendship.



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Great Pictures of Europe by Thomas Munro Great Pictures of Europe by Thomas Munro
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Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Night Flight, published as Vol de Nuit in 1931, was the second novel by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It went on to become an international bestseller and a film based on the novel was released in 1933. Its popularity, which only grew with the ideological conflicts of the 1930s-1940s, was due to its master theme of sacrificing personal considerations to a cause in which one believes.



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Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
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Lassie Come-Home is a novel written by Eric Knight about a tough collie's trek over many miles to be reunited with the boy she loves. Eric Knight introduced the public to the canine character of Lassie in a magazine story published in December 1938 in The Saturday Evening Post, a story which he later expanded into a novel and published in 1940 to critical and commercial success. In 1943, the novel was adapted to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film Lassie Come Home starring Roddy McDowall as the boy, Joe Carraclough, Pal as Lassie, and featuring Elizabeth Taylor. The motion picture was selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry.

The hyphen in the title is both an adjective referring to Lassie's purpose as a dog that must return home and it is the name given to the dog in the final chapter where the boy says to the dog: "Ye brought us luck. 'Cause ye're a come-homer. Ye're my Lassie Come-Home. Lassie Come-Home. That's thy name! Lassie Come-Home."



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Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long
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Madame Butterfly is a short story by American lawyer and writer John Luther Long. It is based on the recollections of Long's sister, Jennie Correll, who had been in Japan with her husband, a Methodist missionary, and was influenced by Pierre Loti's 1887 novel Madame Chrysanthéme. It was published in Century Magazinein 1898, in conjunction with some of Long's other short fictions.

According to a book by Jan van Rj, Long's story was loosely based on the birth-mother of Tomisaburo, the British-Japaneseadopted son of Thomas Blake Glover and his Japanese wife Awajiya Tsuru. Tomisaburo's birth-mother was Maki Kaga, who worked in the red-light district of Nagasaki.



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South Wind by Norman Douglas South Wind by Norman Douglas
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South Wind is a 1917 novel by British author Norman Douglas. It is Douglas' most famous book and his only success as a novelist.

It is set on a fictional island called Nepenthe, located off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea, a thinly fictionalized description of Capri's residents and visitors. 

The narrative encapsulates twelve days during which Thomas Heard, a bishop returning to England from his diocese in Africa, yields his moral vigor to various influences. 

Philosophical hedonism pervades much of Douglas' writing, and the novel's discussion of moral and sexual issues has caused considerable debate.



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Seasoned Timber by Dorothy Canfield Seasoned Timber by Dorothy Canfield
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Long devoted to the school and to his eccentric aunt, T.C. Hulme, headmaster of the Clifford, Vermont Academy is increasingly aware that life is passing him by. His hopes are renewed when he falls in love with a new teacher 20 years his junior. But as Dorothy Canfield shows, neither love nor academy life runs smoothly. A younger suitor steps in, and a rich, out-of-state trustee dies, leaving the Academy a million dollar 'gift' in his will. The codicils are troubling as it explains that Jews must be excluded, girls ousted, and local students squeezed out by a tuition hike. The affront to a Yankee sense of fair play is clear, but the school desperately needs funds. T.C. and the town confront a struggle between the old virtues of tolerance, integrity, and civic responsibilty versus the modern attitudes of expediency, exclusionism, and outside control.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States.



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The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
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The Two Admirals is an 1842 nautical fiction novel by American author James Fenimore Cooper. The novel was written after the Leatherstocking Tales novel The Deerslayer. Set during the 18th century and exploring the British Royal Navy, Cooper wrote the novel out of encouragement of his English publisher, who recommended writing another sea novel. Cooper had originally intended to write a novel where ships were the main characters, though eventually decided not to. The novel is one of three novels which Cooper would revise for editions following their first printing, the other two being The Pathfinder and Deerslayer.

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.



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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933), is a style guide to British-English usage, pronunciation, and writing. Covering topics such as plurals and literary technique, distinctions among like words (homonyms and synonyms), and the use of foreign terms, the dictionary became the standard for other writing style guides to wrinting in English. Hence, the 1926 first edition remains in print, along with the 1965 second edition, edited by Ernest Gowers, which was reprinted in 1983 and 1987.



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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

Charles John Huffman Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetimeand, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.



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The Golden Treasury Illustrated The Golden Treasury Illustrated
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Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897) was a British critic, anthologist and poet. Palgrave published both criticism and poetry, but his work as a critic was by far the more important. Palgrave's Landscape in Poetry (1897) showed wide knowledge and critical appreciation of one of the most attractive aspects of poetic interpretation. But Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861), an anthology of the ebst poetry in the language constructed upon a plan sound and spacious, and followed out with a delicacy of feeling which could scarcely be surpassed.



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The Angelic Avengers by Pierre Andrezel The Angelic Avengers by Pierre Andrezel
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The Angelic Avengers, an introspective novel, is set in England and France during the 1840s and tells the story of two young, innocent girls and the horrors they must endure during this time.



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Childs History of England by Charles Dickens Childs History of England by Charles Dickens
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A Child's History of England is a book by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words, running from January 1851 to December 1853. Dickens also published the work in book form in three volumes.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.



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Collection Of Oz Books Collection Of Oz Books
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Collection of Oz books include Tik-Tok of Oz, The Royal Book of Oz, The Giant Horse of Oz, The Lost King of Oz, Kabumpo in Oz, Speedy in Oz, The Wishing Horse of Oz, The Wonder City of Oz, and Pirates in Oz.



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The Story of an African Farm by Ralph Iron The Story of an African Farm by Ralph Iron
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The Story of an African Farm, published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron, was South African author Olive Schreiner's first published novel. It was an immediate success. Schreiner was one of South Africa's earliest literary figures. Her novel was written during the era of first-wave feminism and has been recognized for its revolutionary feminist politics, though some scholars have criticized the novel as racist and exclusionist. The themes of love, marriage, motherhood, empire, and race feature in the novel through the main female character Lyndall's engagements with these issues. Some scholars have argued in favor of the transnational and transracial value of Lyndall's views and their applicability beyond the context of historical South Africa. She decribes the differences in how men and women experience love.

Olive schreiner (1855-1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner, and intellectual voice.



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Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
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Lamb in His Bosom is a 1933 novel by Caroline Miller. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1934. It also won the Prix Femina in 1934 and became an immediate best-seller. Many names and historical parts of this book were contributed by William Avery McIntosh, of Mt. Pleasant, Wayne County, Georgia. His only child, a daughter, is stilliving in Northeast Georgia.

This novel contains the story of a poor white woman growing to maturity in the Pre-Civil War rural south. The personal and extended family struggles, and the ups and downs of day-to-day living, in the rural culture. The author mastered her ability to express her thoughts with rural charm, naivety, with the vernacular dialect and cultural biases intact.

Caroline Pafford Miller (1903-1992) was an American novelist. She gathered the folktales, stories, and archaic dialects of the rural communities she visited in her home state of Georgia in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and wove them into her first novel, Lamb in His Bosom. Her success as the first Georgian winner of the fiction prize inspired Macmillan Publishers to seek out more southern writers, resulting in the discovery of Margaret Mitchell, whose first novel, Gone with the Wind, also won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.



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The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club By Charles Dickens The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club By Charles Dickens
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First Edition First Slate

Publisher: Chapman & Happ, London

Binding: Half leather

Illustrator: Seymour R, Phiz & Buss

1837

Charles Dickin’s first novel issued in 20 monthly numbers beginning in March of 1836 and ending of November of 1837. It in large part helped to phenominize serial publications as it was one of England’s first big hits of the kind.



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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayya, dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".

By the 1880's, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous "Omar Khayyam" clubs were formed and there was a fin de siecle cult of the Rubaiyat".

Edmund Dulac was a magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. In 1905, he received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Bronte Sisters. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books, designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.



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To Kill A Mockingbird Signed To Kill A Mockingbird Signed
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Published July 11, 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller, with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by The Library Journal.

Here at the O Museum in the Mansion, dear friend of the Mansion, Elizabeth, donated her signed copy of the book. Harper Lee signed the copy for Elizabeth at the Los Angeles Public Library Awards Dinner on May 19, 2005

Harper Lee was very introverted and never made appearances or signed books. However, Elizabeth's grandparents, the Pecks, were big supporters of the library and asked Lee to accept the Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award. She reluctantly agreed and took the train across the country to accept the award (she was too afraid to fly). She gave no speech, but she did sign books for those who attended (including Elizabeth). 



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Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
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First edition of Susan Bogert Warner's first novel, written under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell, in bright condition. Warner (1819-1885) began writing Wide, Wide World in 1848. It was to become one of the most popular American novels of its time, however, it initially had difficulty finding a publisher. "Even when George P. Putnam accepted the novel for publication in 1850 (largely because his mother was enthusiastic about the manuscript), he initially printed only 750 copies; two years later, the novel was reprinted for the fourteenth time, and for decades to come, only Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin surpassed Warner's first novel in sales and popularity."



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Signed Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Portrait Signed Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Portrait
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Extraordinary signed portrait of American author and poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.