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Angling Sketches
Angling Sketches
Andrew Lang
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Classic collection of essays about fishing in Scotland. It begins: "These papers do not boast of great sport. They are truthful, not like the tales some fishers tell. They should appeal to many sympathies. There is no false modesty in the confidence with which I esteem myself a duffer, at fishing. Some men are born duffers; others, unlike persons of genius, become so by an infinite capacity for not taking pains. Others, again, among whom I would rank myself, combine both these elements of incompetence. Nature, that made me enthusiastically fond of fishing, gave me thumbs for fingers, short-sighted eyes, indolence, carelessness, and a temper which (usually sweet and angelic) is goaded to madness by the laws of matter and of gravitation."
Within the Tides
Within the Tides
Joseph Conrad
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Classic Conrad short stories, including The Planter of Malata, The Partner, The Inn of the Two Witches, and Because of the Dollars. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language—a fact that is remarkable, as he did not learn to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a strong Polish accent). He became a naturalized British subject in 1886. Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, V.S. Naipaul, Italo Calvino and J. M. Coetzee."
Notes from the Underground
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Classic Dostoevsky novel. According to Wikipedia: "Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821 – 1881) was a Russian fiction writer whose works include Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
Other People's Money
Other People's Money
Emile Gaboriau
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Classic French mystery novel, in English translation. According to Wikipedia: "?mile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 – September 28, 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction... after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866). The book, which was Gaboriau's first detective novel, introduced an amateur detective. It also introduced a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels. The character of Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eugène Fran?ois Vidocq (1775–1857)." One of Robert Louis Stevenson's favorite authors.
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
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Classic Hardy novel. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Hardy, (1840 – 1928) was an English author of the naturalist movement, though he regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s."
An International Episode
An International Episode
Henry James
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Classic Henry James long story. "According to Wikipedia: "Henry James, (1843 – 1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born British author. He is one of the key figures of 19th century literary realism; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form. 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."
The Coxon Fund
The Coxon Fund
Henry James
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Classic Henry James long story. According to Wikipedia: "Henry James, (1843 – 1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born British author. He is one of the key figures of 19th century literary realism; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form. 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."
Child of Storm
Child of Storm
H. Rider Haggard
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Child of Storm
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
H. Rider Haggard
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Cleopatra
Bull Hunter
Bull Hunter
Max Brand
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Bull Hunter
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
John Abbott
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Daniel Boone
Candide
Candide
Voltaire
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Candide
Desert Gold
Desert Gold
Zane Grey
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Desert Gold
History of Scotland
History of Scotland
Margaret MacArthur
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History of Scotland
Desert of Wheat
Desert of Wheat
Zane Grey
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Desert of Wheat
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Gustavus Adolphus
Gustavus Adolphus
John Stevens
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Gustavus Adolphus
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe
Walter Scott
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Ivanhoe
King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard
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King Solomon's Mines
Kit Carson
Kit Carson
John Abbott
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Kit Carson
Lord Jim
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
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Lord Jim