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The Reader's Library eBook Series

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  • Collected Poems of Alexander Pope

    Series Book 12 - The Reader's Library
    Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is widely considered to be the best poet of the Augustan age, and perhaps English verse’s best satirist ever. Pope was mostly self-taught having been denied a formal protestant education because of his family’s Roman Catholic beliefs; he also suffered from the effects of Pott’s disease his entire life, which left him deformed and of small stature never growing past the ... Read more

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  • Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

    Series Book 14 - The Reader's Library
    William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly began. As a young artist—already showing signs of being a gifted writer and thinker at St. John’s ... Read more

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  • The Jungle Book

    “The animals went in two by two. Hurrah!”The Jungle Book is the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the Monkey-People, his attempt at reintegration into human society, and his ultimate triumph over the lame tiger Shere Khan. Rudyard Kipling’s classic story has thrilled generations ... Read more

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  • Substance Abuse Six Pack 2

    "My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses as about a universe. I lost all perception of time and space, and knew no distinction between the ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Husband

    (or, The Permanent Husband)

    Series series Fyodor Dostoevsky - Starbooks Classics Collection
    The Eternal Husband (The Permanent Husband) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in 1870 in Zarya magazine. The novella's plot revolves around the complicated relationship between Velchaninov and Trusotsky, the husband of his deceased former lover.[Analysis]The story starts in medias res. Details about Velchaninov's adulterous past are revealed gradually.The ... Read more

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  • Vileroy or The Horrors of Zindorf Castle

    THE CLASSIC GOTHIC ROMANCE AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME!!This epic, gripping romance-thriller from Thomas Peckett Prest, the creator of Sweeney Todd is available in a beautifully formatted e-book for the very first time.'Zindorff' was wildly popular in the 1850s, outselling works by Dickens and Thackeray, but has now largely been forgotten. All the tropes of the early 'penny dreadful' are here: a ... Read more

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  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    “Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”--- Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan IlyichThe Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.The novella tells the story of the death of a high-court judge in 19th-century ... Read more

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  • Substance Abuse Six Pack - Six Addiction Classics

    Intoxication has long been a questionable source of creativity for vice-loving artists, from hasheesh-smoking cave painters, mushroom-munching monks illuminating Medieval manuscripts with their hallucinatory visions, the narcotic memoirs of William S. Burroughs, the booze-fueled work of Hemingway to the anything goes spirit of post-World War II literature and beyond when it became more unusual for ... Read more

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  • The Complete Poems

    by William Blake ...
    One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience - which juxtapose poems such as 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger', and 'The Blossom' and 'The Sick Rose' - to highly elaborate, apocalyptic works, such as The Four Zoas, Milton and ... Read more

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  • Stevenson (Annotated)

    Six Classics

    Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a literary celebrity in his lifetime and remains one of the most translated authors in the world (Currently ranked #26). He was a novelist, poet and a prolific travel writer in an age when moving across nations was arduous and fraught with peril. Stevenson lived his short life to the full. Of the cocaine-fueled writing binge that ... Read more

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  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    “There is no place like home.”--- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of OzThe Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank BAUM (1856 - 1919)The timeless story of the Wizard Of Oz. Follow Dorothy as she leaves Kansas for Oz on a cyclone. She meets many strange, and wonderful people and creatures along the way. Enjoy it again with your children and family.The novel is one of the best-known stories in American ... Read more

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  • Dubliners

    by James Joyce ...
    Series series James Joyce - Starbooks Classics Collection
    Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by ... Read more

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