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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN-10: 1421808072
ISBN-13: 9781421808079
Published: 2006-02-20
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
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To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer-excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained teasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs (The John Harvard Library)
Author: Harriet A. Jacobs
ISBN-10: 0674035836
ISBN-13: 9780674035836
Published: 2009-11-30
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother’s perspective to Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. This is the standard edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, reissued here in the John Harvard Library and updated with a new bibliography.
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Tom Sawyer's Comrade
Author: Mark Twain
ISBN-10: 3941579061
ISBN-13: 9783941579064
Published: 2009-01-15
Publisher: Classic Books Publishing
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Reprint of the original version with a lot of pictures and copies of the original pages of the first edition. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by Mark Twain. It is commonly accounted as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels.
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Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (Dodo Press)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN-10: 1406501190
ISBN-13: 9781406501193
Published: 2005-10-25
Publisher: Dodo Press
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Large Format for easy reading. Volume one of his complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics, best known for his poems and his tales of the macabre.
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Moby Dick, or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition (Melville)
Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 0810102684
ISBN-13: 9780810102682
Published: 1988-09-01
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
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Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for many years after the whale bit off his leg, the crazed Captain Ahab is obsessed with his quarry. Together with his extraordinary crew, Ahab braves the oceans of the world to hunt the fearsome Moby Dick. Geraldine McCaughrean is one of the most distinguished living children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award (twice), and The Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Geraldine's most recent best-selling novel "The Kite Rider" was published to universal acclaim in March 2001.
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Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (Dodo Press)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN-10: 1406501204
ISBN-13: 9781406501209
Published: 2005-10-25
Publisher: Dodo Press
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Large Format for easy reading. Volume two of his complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics, best known for his poems and his tales of the macabre.
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Author: Howard Pyle
ISBN-10: 1421809559
ISBN-13: 9781421809557
Published: 2006-02-20
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
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You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you. Clap to the leaves and go no farther than this, for I tell you plainly that if you go farther you will be scandalized by seeing good, sober folks of real history so frisk and caper in gay colors and motley that you would not know them but for the names tagged to them. Here is a stout, lusty fellow with a quick temper, yet none so ill for all that, who goes by the name of Henry II. Here is a fair, gentle lady before whom all the others bow and call her Queen Eleanor. Here is a fat rogue of a fellow, dressed up in rich robes of a clerical kind, that all the good folk call my Lord Bishop of Hereford. Here is a certain fellow with a sour temper and a grim look - the worshipful, the Sheriff of Nottingham.
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Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 (Dodo Press)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN-10: 1406501212
ISBN-13: 9781406501216
Published: 2005-10-25
Publisher: Dodo Press
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Book Description:
Large Format for easy reading. Volume three of his complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics, best known for his poems and his tales of the macabre.
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Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics)
Author: Walt Whitman
ISBN-10: 0199539006
ISBN-13: 9780199539000
Published: 2009-02-15
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metered line, discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme, and using the vernacular. Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual and physiological allusions as `disgraceful', but Emerson saw the book as the `most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed'. A century later it is his judgment of this autobiographical vision of the vigor of the American nation that has proved the more enduring. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Walden
Author: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN-10: 1470184710
ISBN-13: 9781470184711
Published: 2012-03-05
Publisher: CreateSpace
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Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self reliance. It details Thoreau's experiences of two years in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Walden emphasizes the importance of solitude, contemplation, and closeness to nature in transcending the "desperate" existence that, he argues, is the lot of most people. The book is not a traditional autobiography, but combines autobiography with a social critique of contemporary Western culture's consumerist and materialist attitudes and its distance from and destruction of nature. The book is not simply a criticism of society, but also an attempt to engage creatively with the better aspects of contemporary culture.
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