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  • Barry Lyndon

    by William Thackery ...
    Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Redmond Barry of Bally Barry, born to a genteel but ruined Irish family, fancies himself a gentleman. He is a hot-tempered, passionate lad, and falls madly in love with his cousin, Nora. The lad tries to engage in a duel with Nora's suitor, an ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • Vanity Fair

    by William Thackery ...
    Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray. The subtitle, A Novel without a Hero, is apt because the characters are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree; even the most sympathetic have weaknesses, for example Captain Dobbin, who is prone to vanity and melancholy. The human weaknesses Thackeray illustrates are mostly to do with greed, idleness, ... Read more

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  • William Makepeace Thackery The Christmas Books Of Mr M A Titmarsh

    by William Makepeace Thackery ...
    William Makepeace Thackeray is a nineteenth-century English novelist born in Calcutta, India. He studied art in London and Paris and worked as a journalist before moving to storytelling. He published many stories in newspapers prior to the release of his satirical masterpiece Vanity Fair in 1847. His volume entitled The Christmas Books of Mr M. A. Titmarsh is another major work of satire published ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Bedford-Row Conspiracy

    by Makepeace Thackery,William ...
    The affection of protagonists, John and Lucy, and the turmoil that they pass through are beautifully captured here. The gripping novel showcases Thackeray's true genius as a writer. He introduces the reader to characters and scenarios which are based on real life and can easily be related to. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Four Just Men

    by Edgar Wallace ...
    "Hullo, what's this?" asked Smiles of the Comet, and cut out the paragraph with huge shears, pasted it upon a sheet of copy-paper and headed it:Who is Sir Philip's Correspondent?As an afterthought—the Comet being in Opposition—he prefixed an introductory paragraph, humorously suggesting that the letters were from an intelligent electorate grown tired of the shilly-shallying methods of the ... Read more

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  • Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

    by E. W. Hornung ...
    Series Book 1 - A. J. Raffles, the Gentleman Thief
    The cracking debut of A. J. Raffles, proper English gentleman and jewel thief extraordinaireSometimes the greatest of partnerships are born in the direst of moments. For Bunny Manders and A. J. Raffles, such a moment comes when a bad night at the baccarat tables threatens to end in suicide. Hundreds of pounds in the red, Bunny grows so desperate that he asks Raffles, a former classmate who ... Read more

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  • The Molly Maguires and the Detectives

    by Allan Pinkerton ...
    To keep the peace in the coal mines, the Pinkerton agency goes to warThe Civil War is over, and the Union is rebuilding using the power of coal—black rock dug from deep beneath the Pennsylvania earth by men from all over the globe who are seeking their fortune in America. In the 1870s, the miners are unionizing to fight for better working conditions, but within their ranks lurks a secret society ... Read more

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  • The Old Man in the Corner - Twelve Classic Detective Stories by the Author of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    by Baroness Orczy ...
    Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detectives, popping up with so many others in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The Old Man relies mostly upon sensationalistic “penny dreadful” newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit for extra laughs. He narrates all ... Read more

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  • Sanders of the River

    by Edgar Wallace ...
    Series Book 1 - The Commissioner Sanders Stories
    Thrilling adventures of colonial Africa from the creator of King KongIn the jungles of West Africa, Commissioner Sanders is the highest representative of the British crown. The health and safety of a quarter-million natives—who speak countless languages and worship untold gods—are his responsibility. Whether disciplining a boy king, expelling troublesome missionaries, or fighting to contain ... Read more

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  • The Custom of the Country

    by Edith Wharton ...
    When Udine Spragg moves to New York from the Midwest with her family, she’s naïve to the ways of upper class society, but determined to climb the social ladder and live the kind of extravagant lifestyle that her new surroundings have exposed her to. However, Udine’s manipulations tend to be blunt, leaving her attached to men that she soon grows bored with, or who fall short of her ever-growing ... Read more

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  • Through Five Administrations

    Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body-Guard to President Lincoln

    by William H. Crook ...
    A fascinating behind-the-scenes account of life at the White House in the second half of the nineteenth centuryHired in January 1865 as one of four White House bodyguards assigned to protect the president, Colonel William H. Crook—a Union army veteran and member of the Washington Police Force—developed a close, mutually respectful relationship with Abraham Lincoln. To his profound regret, Crook ... Read more

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