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Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
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This Point Blank Classics edition includes the full original text as well as exclusive images exclusive to this edition and an easy to use interactive table of contents. Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition in 1816, its publication was taken over by John Murray, who also published its successor, Emma. The main character, Fanny Price, is a young girl from a large and relatively poor family, who is taken from them at age 10 to be raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas, a baronet, and Lady Bertram, of Mansfield Park. She had previously lived with her own parents, Lieut. Price and his wife, Frances (Fanny), Lady Bertram's sister. She is the second child and eldest daughter, with seven siblings born after her. She has a firm attachment to her older brother, William, who at the age of 12 has followed his father into the navy. With so many mouths to feed on a limited income, Fanny's mother is grateful for the opportunity to send Fanny away to live with her fine relatives. Mansfield Park is the most controversial of Austen's major novels. Regency critics praised the novel's wholesome morality, but many modern readers find Fanny's timidity and disapproval of the theatricals difficult to sympathise with and reject the idea (made explicit in the final chapter) that she is a better person for the relative privations of her childhood.
The Shoven Elect
The Shoven Elect
Mark Antony Rossi
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Aliens have landed on the moon. The war for Earth has begun. Can we stop fighting each other long enough to save the planet!
The Analysis of Mind
The Analysis of Mind
Bertrand Russell
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This Point Blank Classics edition includes the full original text as well as exclusive images exclusive to this edition and an easy to use interactive table of contents.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine
H G Wells
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This Housemartin Classics edition includes the full original text as well as an easy to use interactive table of contents.
Paranormal Investigators 10 Paranormal Pioneers and The Modern Investigator
Paranormal Investigators 10 Paranormal Pioneers and The Modern Investigator
Rodney C. Cannon
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In Paranormal Pioneers and The Modern Investigator, we look at early pioneers such as Sir William Crookes, one of the world's great scientist who also happened to be a paranormal investigator. The remarkable Frederick Bligh Bond. The two men most responsible for the popularity of Paranormal investigations Jason Conrad Hawes and Grant Steven Wilson. Thanks to their Ghost Hunters show millions of people discovered the world of the paranormal investigators for the first time.
Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
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Space and Time are pleased to bring you this classic presented as a wonderfully presented edition with a fully interactive table of contents.
Night Runner (Book Hits - Gripping Short Thrillers, Book Shots 1)
Night Runner (Book Hits - Gripping Short Thrillers, Book Shots 1)
PT Reade
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A woman on the run. An ex-cop with a grudge. One night to survive. When former New Orleans detective, Jack Corbin receives a sudden distress call from the wife he hasn’t seen in ten years, his world is turned upside down. Dragged into a dangerous game of thugs, criminals and organized crime, he must make a heartbreaking decision; leave it all behind or battle through the night to save her and overcome the odds. Can Corbin trust the woman he once loved? Will he live long enough to find out? Find out and get your copy of the pulse-pounding thriller NIGHT RUNNER now! If you like gripping mysteries, thrilling action and suspense, you’ll love the first installment in PT Reade’s BOOK HITS series. Click and get your copy of NIGHT RUNNER now! Tags: Book hits, book shots, short reads, short stories, hard boiled mysteries, mystery, mysteries, noir, private investigators, hard boiled thriller, hard boiled detective fiction, hard boiled private investigator mystery series, thriller.
The Old Sixth Regiment:Its War Record, 1861-65
The Old Sixth Regiment:Its War Record, 1861-65
Charles K. Cadwell
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The object of this work is to give a true and impartial record of the old Sixth Regiment during the war. The author collected the facts from a private diary kept by himself while in the service. Less has been known of the Sixth by our citizens than most of the other regiments; perhaps this is due partly to the fact that when we arrived.in Washington Colonel Chatfield instructed officers and men that it was unmilitary to write letters for the press; he desired that the War Record should know the record of the Sixth, and not the newspapers only. Its history is less full on this account; yet none can say that the record of the Sixth is sullied. In many trying places the regiment proved itself honor ably and gained confidence from its corps and department commanders. There may be errors in this work, and if any are inclined to censure, I trust they will remember that very few histories are without them; yet they are errors of the head and not of the heart. If what is here written meets the approval of the old members and the intelligent readers in general, I shall feel that my labors have been amply rewarded.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
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This unique edition of The Great Gatsby from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. Fitzgerald, inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore, began planning the novel in 1923 desiring to produce, in his words, "something newsomething extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Progress was slow with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was too vague and convinced the author to revise over the next winter. Fitzgerald was ambivalent about the book's title, at various times wishing to re-title the novel Trimalchio in West Egg. First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly; in its first year, the book only sold 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. His work, spearheaded by The Great Gatsby, experienced a revival during World War II, and the novel became a part of American high school curricula in the following decades. The book has remained popular since, leading to numerous stage and film adaptations. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel". The book is consistently ranked among the greatest works of American literature.
The Man Who Knew
The Man Who Knew
Edgar Wallace
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A youth is lying dead in Gray Square, Bloomsbury. Constable Wiseman is at the scene, as is the handsome Frank Merril, nephew of rich John Martin. Also there is May Nuttall, whose father was the best friend Martin ever had. A small, shabby man in an ill-fitting frock coat and large gold-rimmed spectacles pulls a newspaper advertisement from the deceased's waistcoat pocket. “At the Yard,” whispers the constable to Frank, “we call him The Man Who Knows.”
Virtue Rewarded
Virtue Rewarded
Samuel Richardson
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Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells the story of a beautiful 15-year-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother. After attempting unsuccessfully to seduce and rape her, her virtue is eventually rewarded when he sincerely proposes an equitable marriage to her. In the novel's second part, Pamela marries Mr. B and tries to acclimatise to upper-class society. The story, a best-seller of its time, was very widely read but was also criticized for its perceived licentiousness.
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
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This unique edition of The Interpretation of Dreams from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions.
Oliver Cromwell: A Play
Oliver Cromwell: A Play
John Drinkwater
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This unique edition of Oliver Cromwell: A Play from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions.
Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
Elizabeth von Arnim
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This unique edition of Princess Priscilla's Fortnight from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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This unique edition of Great Expectations from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions.
The Schoolmaster And Other Stories
The Schoolmaster And Other Stories
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own principles and conceptions of truth, for a time coming under the influence of Leo Tolstoy. As a result of his widespread popularity, Chekhov amassed a vast collection of short stories displaying an early use of stream-of-consciousness writing, as well as his powerful ideas concerning the individual, the tedium of life, and the beauty nature and humanity. This edition contains many stories, including "Enemies," "In the Dark," "A Mystery," "Joy," "A Peculiar Man," "The Album," "Overdoing It," "In the Graveyard," and "In a Strange Land."
Short Stories of Various Types
Short Stories of Various Types
J M Barrie
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You will find that the stories in this collection are of different types with settings that take you in imagination all over our own country and into foreign lands. Try writing a story with a surprise ending like "The Gift of the Magi," a character story with the theme of unselfish love, and its setting in a big city. Again, "John G," the story of adventure with an animal for the hero, might suggest to you an adventuresome incident in your own experience. If you have a vivid imagination, it might be interesting to write a fanciful story like "Feathertop." All of you have heard of true and thrilling incidents of the recent Great War. Try to weave one into a good war story as did Daudet or Mrs. Andrews. Almost every young person loves nature or the open country. After you have read Mr. Garland's, "The Camping Trip," see how well you can tell a story of your own experience in the out-of-doors. Or, best of all, see if you can equal the great Conan Doyle in a detective story.
Fort Amity
Fort Amity
Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arthur Quiller-Couch ‘Fort Amity. Fort Amity was published in 1904. Quiller-Couch was a noted literary critic, publishing editions of some of Shakespeare's plays (in the New Shakespeare, published by Cambridge University Press, with Dover Wilson) and several critical works, including Studies in Literature (1918) and On the Art of Reading (1920). He edited a successor to his verse anthology: Oxford Book of English Prose, which was published in 1923. He left his autobiography, Memories and Opinions, unfinished; it was nevertheless published in 1945.
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. Whether or not these names reference specific philosophers, ancient or otherwise, remains a topic of scholarly dispute. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity. ? In the Dialogues, Hume's characters debate a number of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments whose proponents believe through which we may come to know the nature of God. Such topics debated include the argument from design—for which Hume uses a house—and whether there is more suffering or good in the world (argument from evil). ? Hume started writing the Dialogues in 1750 but did not complete them until 1776, shortly before his death. They are based partly on Cicero's De Natura Deorum. The Dialogues were published posthumously in 1779, originally with neither the author's nor the publisher's name.
The Last Tenant
The Last Tenant
B. L. Farjeon
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This Housemartin Classics edition includes the full original text as well as an easy to use interactive table of contents.
How To Be A Financial Fiasco:A Field Guide
How To Be A Financial Fiasco:A Field Guide
Maggie MacDavid
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How to Be a Financial Fiasco contains my personal tips and tricks on how to become a complete financial disaster. If you love true stories, dark humor, & sarcasm, you’ll love this foul-mouthed but forthright look at how I got myself $20K in debt. Consider it an instructive guide on how NOT to handle your finances well.