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  • The Delicious Vice

    by Young Ewing Allison ...
    The stories within "The Delicious Vice" explore the world of gambling and its impact on individuals from various walks of life. Allison's tales delve into the psychology of gamblers, their motivations, triumphs, losses, and the addictive nature of the vice.Through different characters and scenarios, Allison presents a series of vignettes that capture the excitement, risks, and consequences ... Read more

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  • The Delicious Vice

    Pipe Dreams of an Habitual Novel-Reader

    by Young Ewing Allison ...
    Series series Chronicles & Essays
    Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by William Merritt Chase, Willard Metcalf and Robert Henri. An essay in praise of reading fiction as an addiction - the dime novels of boyhood, the habit that never lifts, and the pleasure of not defending it. Allison also wrote the words to a drinking song still sung, and this is the same voice. This edition binds fifty-nine plates of painting ... Read more

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  • On the Vice of Novel Reading

    Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal

    by Young Ewing Allison ...
    In "On the Vice of Novel Reading," Young Ewing Allison presents a thought-provoking critique of the burgeoning popularity of novels in the 19th century, a time marked by rapid societal changes and shifting cultural norms. Through a series of well-structured arguments, Allison employs a persuasive literary style rich in rhetorical devices, exploring themes of morality, escapism, and the potential ... Read more

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  • The Delicious Vice

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Intriguing Depths of Human Desire and Moral Dilemmas in the 19th Century American Literary Classic

    by Young Ewing Allison, Rachel Kirk ...
    In "The Delicious Vice," Young Ewing Allison artfully explores themes of indulgence, morality, and the complexities of human desire, all woven into a rich narrative tapestry. Set against the backdrop of late 19th-century American society, the novel employs a lyrical prose style that encapsulates the era's cultural tensions and societal norms. As readers navigate the labyrinth of the protagonist's ... Read more

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    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
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  • 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 2] (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Agatha Christie, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, H. P. Lovecraft, William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Golden Deer Classics, Virginia Woolf, Lucy Maud Montgomery ...
    This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: An Old-fashioned Girl [Louisa May Alcott] The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius] The Norsemen in the West [Robert Michael Ballantyne] Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum[ Love Insurance [Earl Derr Biggers] The Pilgrim's Progress [John Bunyan] The Ghost ... Read more

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  • The Centaur Collection of 50 Literary Masterpieces (Centaur Classics)

    by Nikolai Gogol, H.P Lovecraft, Joseph Conrad, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Charles Dickens, H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Jack London, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Horatio Alger Jr. ...
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  • Beauty And The Beast (Two Versions) (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Andrew Lang, Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, Golden Deer Classics ...
    Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale which tells the story of a widowed merchant who lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters. All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, Beauty, is the most lovely, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while the two elder sisters, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain, ... Read more

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  • Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 03

    by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ...
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword".In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles. ... Read more

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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2

    by Grant Allen, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, Dale Carnegie, Margaret Cavendish, G.K Chesterton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, H. G. Wells, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Rider Haggard, Victor Hugo, Rudyard Kipling, Mowgli's Brothers, Kaa's Hunting, Her Majesty's Servants, How Fear Came, Red Dog, D.H. Lawrence, Jack London, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, H.P. Lovecraft, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Plato, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Vatsyayana, Jules Verne, Edgar Wallace, Lew Wallace, Virginia Woolf, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger Jr, David Belasco, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Susan Coolidge, Benjamin Disraeli, R. Austin Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Gissing, Hollis Godfrey, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Pieter Harting, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, David Hume, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Le Queux, George Moore, Arthur Morrison, Henri Murger, William Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank R. Stockton, Gene Stratton-Porter, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Fred Merrick White, Oscar Wilde, Mary Wollstonecraft ...
    This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers ... Read more

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  • Dream Reading

    An Essay on Dreams and Dream Interpretation.

    by John Bonner ...
    This is an essay on dreams, dream interpretation, divination with dreams and dreams as prophecy. ... Read more

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