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  Lord of the Dynamos - Classic...

  H. G. Wells

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  Technology worship is brought to a head when Azuma-zi’s head spins at the wonder of a humming, whirling and buzzing electric dynamo. He prays for the dynamo to deliver him from his troubles, and make his life easier to bear. Apparently the dynamo demands a sacrifice...

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  The Blithedale Romance

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  The Blithedale Romance is Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major romance. Its setting is a utopian farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841. The novel dramatizes the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries.

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  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Mark Twain

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  A vivid sequel to Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is one of American literature's momentous classi. In this engaging and entertaining story of adventure and friendship, Huck Finn's voice sounds so real that it grabs you from the start. Set against the vast Mississippi river, Huck narrates how he travels down the river on his raft. Containing humour, riotous behaviour and the perfect portrayal of a boy's mind, Huck Finn is embodied in the American psyche for good reason.

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  The Prussian Officer

  D. H. Lawrence

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  Twelve short stories from the author of such classics as Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterly’s Lover. D. H. Lawrence’s first collection of short stories, The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, was published in England in 1914, and contains some of his best works, chronicling accounts of the time and place—from old mining communities to pre–First World War Germany. This definitive edition of these writings presents Lawrence’s stories as he intended them. They have been cleaned of corruptions and errors, as well as providing a history of each story and of the whole collection.

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  The Domain Of Arnhein

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  In “The Domain of Arnheim” Poe combines an explication of his aesthetic theory and a physical description of a landscape-garden, Arnheim. The builder of Arnheim, Ellison, is described by a narrator as a fabulously wealthy man, interested “instinctively . . . . in the creation of novel forms of Beauty” . He is interested in shaping nature, in molding it into a “purely physical loveliness.”

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  The Secret Adversary

  Agatha Christie

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  Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.—"willing to do anything, go anywhere." Hiring themselves out proves to be a smart move for the couple. In their first assignment for the mysterious Mr. Whittingtont, all Tuppence has to do in their first job is take an all-expense paid trip to Paris and pose as an American named Jane Finn. But with the assignment comes a bribe to keep quiet, a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her new employer. Now their newest job are playing detective.Where is the real Jane Finn? The mere mention of her name produces a very strange reaction all over London. So strange, in fact, that they decided to find this mysterious missing lady. She has been missing for five years. And neither her body nor the secret documents she was carrying have ever been found. Now post-war England's economic recovery depends on finding her and getting the papers back. But he two young working undercover for the British ministry know only that her name and the only photo of her is in the hands of her rich American cousin. It isn't long before they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever could have imagined—a danger that could put an abrupt end to their business… and their lives

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