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She and Allan
She and Allan
H. Rider Haggard
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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘She and Allan.’ ? "I believe it was the old Egyptians – a very wise people, probably indeed much wiser than we know for in the leisure of their ample centuries they had time to think out things – who declared that each individual personality is made up of six or seven different elements, although the Bible only allows us three, namely body soul and spirit..." ? Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased loved ones, adventurer and trader Allan Quatermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch-doctor Zikali. He tells Allan he must seek out a great white sorceress who rules a hidden kingdom far to the north, and he charges Allan to take a message to her. En route, Quatermain encounters emigrant Scotsmen, cannibals, witch doctors, the beautiful Inez, and of course the mysterious She, or Ayesha. ? Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire. ? His breakout novel was King Solomon's Mines (1885), which was to be the first in a series telling of the multitudinous adventures of its protagonist, Allan Quatermain. ? Haggard was made a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norfolk in 1895. The locality of Rider, British Columbia, was named in his memory.
Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
Millicent Fawcett
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Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
Virgil
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The Aeneid
Call Her Bluffs: A Man's Guide to dealing with women and their bs
Call Her Bluffs: A Man's Guide to dealing with women and their bs
Richard Longshanks
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Call Her Bluffs: A Man's Guide to dealing with women and their bs
Eat & Sleep: Eat These Foods to Sleep Better
Eat & Sleep: Eat These Foods to Sleep Better
Dr. Health & Fitness
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Eat & Sleep: Eat These Foods to Sleep Better
Green Smoothie Recipes Bible
Green Smoothie Recipes Bible
Michael Chung
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When trying to lose weight, it is always a challenge to strike that perfect balance between caloric restriction and satisfaction. After all, low calorie and healthy meals are not always tasty. Then, as if that’s not enough, there are issues with hunger; think a small sliver of meat, with lackluster flavor and texture can satisfy you? Hardly! However; there is a simple solution to it. Veggies. Yes, veggies are chock full of fiber (which will fill you up pronto) and very low calorie, meaning that you can eat as much as you like without incurring any real caloric debt. Then arises the next problem; who in their right mind eats veggies to satiety when there are yummy donuts floating around? Exactly! The key is to find joy in what you’re eating. Enter the solution; green smoothies.? Many persons have turned to green smoothie diets in order to improve their health, and achieve their weight loss goals. Consuming healthy fruit and vegetable smoothies is proven to be effective for weight loss, while at the same time not making the dieter feel extremely restricted. The unique combination of fruits, veggies, and sometimes grains (such as quinoa) delivers a power punch of vitamins, minerals and soluble and insoluble fiber which could very well be the key to life.
Peonhood: A Fantasy Short Story
Peonhood: A Fantasy Short Story
Rosalyn Kelly
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Peonhood: A Fantasy Short Story
Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life
Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life
John D. Billings
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Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life
芥川龍之介 ザベスト:鼻、蜘蛛の糸、桃太郎、羅生門、藪の中: Ryunosuke Akutagawa the Best
芥川龍之介 ザベスト:鼻、蜘蛛の糸、桃太郎、羅生門、藪の中: Ryunosuke Akutagawa the Best
芥川 龍之介
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芥川龍之介 ザベスト:鼻、蜘蛛の糸、桃太郎、羅生門、藪の中: Ryunosuke Akutagawa the Best
3rd Class in Indian Railway
3rd Class in Indian Railway
Mahatma Gandhi
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3rd Class in Indian Railway
夢野久作 ザベスト:瓶詰地獄、ビール会社征伐、ドグラ?マグラ、死後の恋、少女地獄
夢野久作 ザベスト:瓶詰地獄、ビール会社征伐、ドグラ?マグラ、死後の恋、少女地獄
夢野 久作
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夢野久作 ザベスト:瓶詰地獄、ビール会社征伐、ドグラ?マグラ、死後の恋、少女地獄
Traveler's Paradise - New York: New York City Shopping & Travel Guide
Traveler's Paradise - New York: New York City Shopping & Travel Guide
Juha Öörni
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Traveler's Paradise - New York: New York City Shopping & Travel Guide
The Middle Years
The Middle Years
Henry James
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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Middle Years’. ? It may be the most affecting and profound of James's stories about writers. The novelist in the tale speculates that he has spent his whole life learning how to write, so a second life would make sense, "to apply the lesson." Second lives aren't usually available, so the novelist says of himself and his fellow artists: "We work in the dark--we do what we can--we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." ? Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. ? He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from a character's point of view allowed him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators brought a new depth to narrative fiction. ? James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a representation of life that is recognizable to its readers. Good novels, to James, show life in action and are, most importantly, interesting. In addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays. James alternated between America and Europe for the first twenty years of his life; eventually he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.
The Light That Failed
The Light That Failed
Rudyard Kipling
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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Light That Failed.’ ? The Light That Failed is about a war correspondent and an artist, known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist and encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. They fall in love. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of blindness, incurable--the result of a head wound he took during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him--his life, his hopes, his dreams--fail with it. There are terrible choices to be made between the love of the woman he treasures and the love of the men who stood by him at the front. ? Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". ? Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined.
Dust Land #1:We Shall Return
Dust Land #1:We Shall Return
Jeremy Dickson
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Dust Land #1:We Shall Return
The Lost Tools of Learning
The Lost Tools of Learning
Dorothy L. Sayers
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The Lost Tools of Learning
The Seventh Man
The Seventh Man
Max Brand
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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Max Brand, ‘The Seventh Man.’ ? This book tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the indomitable black stallion. It’s also the story of Kate Cumberland and the incredible five-year-old daughter of Kate and Dan, Joan. We first see Dan as a gentle, caring man with a deep sense of fairness. But then, after six years of a peaceful life in their mountain cabin Dan, more feral than human, sets out to revenge an injustice by killing seven men. Ultimately, it is his devotion to his daughter and Kate’s love for the child that brings about the climax of the tale. ? Warning: don’t look for a typical cowboy story here – it’s far deeper and stronger than that. ? Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American fiction author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, and today he is primarily known by one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, Martin Dexter, Evin Evans, David Manning, Peter Dawson, John Frederick, and Pete Morland. Faust was born in Seattle. He grew up in central California and later worked as a cowhand on one of the many ranches of the San Joaquin Valley. Faust attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he began to write frequently. During the 1910s, Faust started to sell stories to the many emerging pulp magazines of the era. In the 1920s, Faust wrote furiously in many genres, achieving success and fame, first in the pulps and later in the upscale "slick" magazines. His love for mythology was, however, a constant source of inspiration for his fiction and his classical and literary inclinations. The classical influences are particularly noticeable in his first novel The Untamed (1919), which was also made into a motion picture starring Tom Mix in 1920.
The Brethren
The Brethren
H. Rider Haggard
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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Brethren’ From the sea-wall on the coast of Essex, Rosamund looked out across the ocean eastwards. To right and left, but a little behind her, like guards attending the person of their sovereign, stood her cousins, the twin brethren, Godwin and Wulf, tall and shapely men. Godwin was still as a statue, his hands folded over the hilt of the long, scabbarded sword, of which the point was set on the ground before him, but Wulf, his brother, moved restlessly, and at length yawned aloud. They were beautiful to look at, all three of them, as they appeared in the splendour of their youth and health. The imperial Rosamund, dark-haired and eyed, ivory skinned and slender-waisted, a posy of marsh flowers in her hand; the pale, stately Godwin, with his dreaming face; and the bold-fronted, blue-eyed warrior, Wulf, Saxon to his finger-tips, notwithstanding his father's Norman blood. At the sound of that unstifled yawn, Rosamund turned her head with the slow grace which marked her every movement. "Would you sleep already, Wulf, and the sun not yet down?" she asked in her rich, low voice, which, perhaps because of its foreign accent, seemed quite different to that of any other woman. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire. His breakout novel was King Solomon's Mines( 1885), which was to be the first in a series telling of the multitudinous adventures of its protagonist, Allan Quatermain. Haggard was made a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norfolk in 1895. The locality of Rider, British Columbia, was named in his memory.
A Bundle of Letters
A Bundle of Letters
Henry James
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Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘A Bundle of Letters.’ This 1878 comic story was originally published in The Parisian magazine in 1878, which is also when the story takes place. Several people in a Paris boarding house write letters home filled with anecdotes about their fellow boarders. The characters' undercutting of each other's lies and pretensions provide much of the humor. The boarders are not aware that the others are writing about them, only the reader is privy to this knowledge. Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. ? James insisted that writers in Great Britain and America should be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world, as French authors were. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to realistic fiction, and foreshadowed the modernist work of the twentieth century. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel writing, biography, autobiography, and criticism,and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success. His theatrical work is thought to have profoundly influenced his later novels and tales.
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
L. Frank Baum
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A Christmas short story by the author of the Oz books. It first appeared in 1904 in The Delineator magazine. According to Wikipedia "The story deals with Santa Claus's kidnapping by the Daemons of the caves, in an effort to thwart his yearly delivery of toys. However, Claus's assistants complete the task for him, and later attempt an unnecessary rescue.."
The Double Life
The Double Life
Gaston Leroux
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According to Wikipedia: "Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868, Paris, France – 15 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fant?me de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay... He suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America."