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  • The Time Machine

    The book's protagonist is a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, and identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension and demonstrates a tabletop model machine for travelling through the fourth dimension. He reveals that he has built a ... Read more

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  • The World Set Free

    The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by the heat of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse ... Read more

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    by H. G. Wells ...
    What would happen if a person could move unseen—but could no longer escape the consequences of his own actions? Enter the unsettling world of H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man, a classic science fiction novel that explores the dangerous relationship between scientific discovery and human ambition. A mysterious stranger arrives in a small English village, wrapped in bandages and determined to remain ... Read more

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  • The War of the Worlds

    by Wells, H. G. ...
    The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson’s Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel’s first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London.The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest science-fiction that explores the possibilities of intelligent life from other ... Read more

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  • In the Days of the Comet

    by H. G. Wells ...
    A green comet brushes the Earth's atmosphere, releasing a gas that fundamentally alters human nature, eradicating anger and greed. In the wake of this celestial event, a socialist utopia emerges, transforming a tale of jealous love into a parable of universal peace. It is a visionary "what if" scenario that juxtaposes the grim reality of industrial society with a dream of sudden enlightenment. The ... Read more

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  • Twenty Years After

    Author Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870Uniform TitleVingt ans après. EnglishTitle Twenty Years After ... Read more

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  • The Pilgrim's Progress - The Original Classic Edition

    by Bunyan John ...
    In contrast to Dante, Bunyan fills his allegory with real people, not just stereotypes - or even archetypes. Though his characters have names like Honest, Feeble-mind, and Ignorance, they come across as real people given a nickname. The names apply to some extent, of course, but not to the point of making caricatures out of the characters.This volume contains parts I and II of Pilgrims progress. ... Read more

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  • The Mysterious Island

    by Jules Verne ...
    The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic adventure fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by journey, danger, courage, conflict, and the momentum of discovery, making it a useful addition for anyone ... Read more

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  • A Modest Proposal

    Series series Unexpurgated Start Classics
    Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.[2] This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general. ... Read more

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  • Villette

    Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. Villette was Charlotte Brontë's fourth novel; it was preceded by and is a reworking of the posthumously ... Read more

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  • The Wisdom of Father Brown

    simplicity. It was rather as if he were thanking a stranger in a smoking-room for some trouble in passing the matches, than as if he were (as he was) practically thanking the Curator of Kew Gardens for coming with him into a field to find a four-leaved clover. With scarcely a semi-colon after his hearty thanks, the little man began his recital: ... Read more

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  • The murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Quick Read edition

    Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 22 minutes"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" is a detective novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The story is narrated by Dr. James Sheppard, ... Read more

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