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  • Bartleby, the Scrivener

    A Story of Wall Street

    Series series World Classics
    The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds. One day, Bartleby, a relatively new employee is asked to help proofread a document and Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his stock response: I would prefer not to. To the dismay of the narrator and to the irritation of the other employees, Bartleby performs ... Read more

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  • Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street

    Series series World Classics
    "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story from 1852 by Herman Melville.Bartleby is hired to work as a scrivener alongside two other clerks, Nippers and Turkey, for an unnamed, elderly lawyer in New York. At first, he produces high-quality work but suddenly his work ethic takes a turn, and Bartleby reply to every task he is given becomes "I would prefer not to."The story was ... Read more

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  • Bartleby, the Scrivener

    A Story of Wall Street

    Series series World Classics
    The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds. One day, Bartleby, a relatively new employee is asked to help proofread a document and Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his stock response: I would prefer not to. To the dismay of the narrator and to the irritation of the other employees, Bartleby performs ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Typee

    A Romance of the South Seas

    Series series World Classics
    "Typee: A Romance of the South Seas" by Herman Melville is a classic adventure novel set in the South Pacific. The protagonist, Ishmael, joins a whaling ship and becomes shipwrecked on the island of Typee. He lives among the Typee tribe and experiences their unique culture and way of life, falling in love with a beautiful native girl. However, Ishmael must make a choice between staying with the ... Read more

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  • Typee

    A Romance of the South Seas

    Series series World Classics
    "Typee: A Romance of the South Seas" by Herman Melville is a classic adventure novel set in the South Pacific. The protagonist, Ishmael, joins a whaling ship and becomes shipwrecked on the island of Typee. He lives among the Typee tribe and experiences their unique culture and way of life, falling in love with a beautiful native girl. However, Ishmael must make a choice between staying with the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Piazza Tales

    Series series World Classics
    "The Piazza Tales" by Herman Melville is a collection of short stories exploring the complexities of human experience. From the eerie "Bartleby, the Scrivener" to the adventurous "Benito Cereno," the tales traverse a range of themes. They delve into the enigmatic Bartleby's passive resistance, the dark secrets aboard a slave ship in "Benito Cereno," and the haunting quest for the White Whale in ... Read more

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  • The Piazza Tales

    Series series World Classics
    "The Piazza Tales" by Herman Melville is a collection of short stories exploring the complexities of human experience. From the eerie "Bartleby, the Scrivener" to the adventurous "Benito Cereno," the tales traverse a range of themes. They delve into the enigmatic Bartleby's passive resistance, the dark secrets aboard a slave ship in "Benito Cereno," and the haunting quest for the White Whale in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Lifted Veil

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    Imagine that you could see into other people's minds. Would this power be a blessing or a curse?For Latimer, the narrator of "The Lifted Veil", it only brings misery. Because other people's thoughts are often full of jealousy and hate. The one person he cannot read is Bertha. He becomes obsessed with her, convinced that she must be good. But when he finally takes Bertha as his new wife, the ... Read more

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  • The Sonnets

    The Sonnets by William Shakespeare is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. The quarto ends with “A Lover's Complaint”, a narrative poem of 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal—though some scholars have argued ... Read more

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  • A Modest Proposal

    An Essay

    Series Book 2 - Non Fiction Collection
    A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a 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 ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of L. Frank Baum

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    Series Book 18 - Delphi Series Two
    For the first time ever in print or digital publishing, Delphi Classics is proud to present the complete fictional works of master storyteller L. Frank Baum. This monumental eBook offers hundreds of beautiful illustrations, lost works, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (83MB Version 1)* The complete Oz books and ALL fully illustrated with their original artwork* ... Read more

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  • Twenty Years After

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Twenty Years After returns to Alexandre Dumas's musketeer world with older, sharper men moving through a France split by loyalty, ambition, and revolt. From the tense chambers of the Palais Royal to the riot-filled streets of Paris, the story follows Cardinal Mazarin as he confronts the fragility of his power, the hatred aimed at a foreign minister, and the rising fury of the people. He proves ... Read more

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