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American Notes

'In American Notes', the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880's.Kipling affe ...


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My First Summer in the Sierra

"My First Summer in the Sierra" (1911) takes inspiration from Muir’s journals of the months he spent between June and September 1869 as a shepherd in the Sierras. Muir went on to b ...


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A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

In early March 1867, Muir was injured while working at a wagon wheels factory: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. This accident changed the course of his life. ...


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The Enchanted April

Four very different women, all wanting to escape cold and dreary London for different reasons, come together to share a month's holiday in an Italian medieval castle. There’s timid ...


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My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard

In "My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard," Elizabeth Cooper offers the reader a translation of two series of letters by Kwei-li, the wife of a high-rank Chinese official.The first seri ...


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The Fortunate Foundlings

'The Fortunate Foundlings' is a picaresque novel from 1744 featuring twins Horatio and Louisa, whose journey in the world differs because of their gender. They were both abandoned ...


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The Haunted Bookshop

"The Haunted Bookshop" is a so called "bibliomystery" (a mystery story set in the world of books) from 1919. It is the story of the eccentric owner of the Haunted Bookshop, Roger M ...


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Parnassus on Wheels

"Parnassus on Wheels" (1917) was Christopher Morley’s first published novel. It tells the story of Roger Mifflin, who sells his travelling book business to 39-year-old Helen McGill ...


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Kathleen

"Kathleen" is a 1920 novel by Christopher Morley. It tells the story of a group of eight Oxford undergrads who call themselves "The Scorpions." One day, they find a letter that a c ...


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The Magnificent Ambersons

"The Magnificent Ambersons" is the 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It is the second novel in "The Growth Trilogy," which includes "The Turmoil"(19 ...


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Seventeen

"Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William" is a 1917 novel about 17-year-old William Sylvanus Baxter. It takes place in the Midwest just ...


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Alice Adams

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Alice Adams" chronicles the attempts of a lower-middle class American, midwestern family, the Adams, to climb the social ladder at the turn of the ...


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The Warden

'The Warden' is the first novel in 'The Chronicles of Barsetshire' series and was also Trollope’s first breakthrough novel. It is the story of a devoted priest, beloved by all who ...


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Doctor Thorne

"Doctor Thorne" is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels and unlike some of the others has little to do with politics and religion. The plot revolves around Mary Thorne, an il ...


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Christmas at Thompson Hall: A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale

Mr and Mrs Brown are keen to make it to Thompson Hall for a cosy family Christmas – the first they will be spending in England instead of France for several years. When Mr Brown is ...


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An Editor's Tales

'An Editor's Tales' describes a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tale ...


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The Parenticide Club

"The Parenticide Club" features four short-stories about a family murder, as seen from the eye of its most innocent member, who just might be the murderer himself. Ambrose Bierce ( ...


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Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

In 'Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography,' Bierce recounts some of his experiences as a soldier. At the outset of the American Civil War, Bierce enlisted i ...


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Meet me in Istanbul

Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn. Gay is living a luxurious life in Istanbul but wants to escape what has become a caged life. She turns to Charles Villers, ...


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Escape to Happiness

Perfect for fans of Netflix adaptation of Bridgerton by Julia Quinn. Rose had read about the wedding, a widely covered social event, and under no circumstances had imagined that sh ...


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One Coin in the Fountain

Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn.When Rose’s charming guardian Sir Laurence Melville is ditched by her fiancée, Rose is secretly happy, as she is quite in l ...


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Loppu hyvä, kaikki hyvä

Giovanni Boccaccion Decamerone-novelliin perustuva näytelmä Loppu hyvä, kaikki hyvä kertoo Helenasta, ranskalais-espanjalaisen kreivittären holhokista. Helena on epätoivoisesti ja ...


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Kuningas Henrik Kahdeksas

Buckinghamin herttuaa huolestuttaa. Kardinaali Wolsey on hänen mielestään saanut kuningas Henrik Kahdeksannen hovissa liikaa valtaa. Juuri hänen ilmaistessaan huoliaan aiheesta her ...


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Kuningas Henrik Viides

Kuningas Henrik Neljännen poika Henrik Viides ei suvaitse loukkauksia, joita Ranskan kruununprinssi häntä kohtaan suoltaa. Alkaa sotaretki, jonka päämääränä on valloittaa Ranska. S ...


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Hairauksia

Shakespearen farssikomedia Hairauksia (tunnettu Suomessa myös nimellä Erehdysten komedia) sijoittuu antiikin Kreikkaan. Tarina kietoutuu kahden eri kaupungeissa asuvan samannimisen ...