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  Desperate Remedies

  Thomas Hardy

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  A young woman named Cytherea Graye becomes entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue while working as a lady’s maid for the enigmatic Miss Aldclyffe. As secrets unravel, themes of love, deception, and obsession drive the plot forward. Cytherea faces moral dilemmas and societal pressures, torn between her loyalty to Miss Aldclyffe and her growing affection for architect Edward Springrove. Hardy crafts a tale blending suspense with romance, exploring human frailty and the consequences of impulsive choices. Set against Victorian England’s rigid class structures, the novel delves into themes of identity, ambition, and sacrifice, showcasing Hardy’s early experimentation with psychological depth and dramatic tension.

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  Demons Volume 2

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a gripping political and psychological novel that delves into the chaos of revolutionary ideas and moral decay in 19th-century Russia. The story follows a small provincial town infiltrated by radical ideologies, where a group of nihilists and anarchists sow discord and destruction. Through characters like Stavrogin, a troubled aristocrat, and Pyotr Verkhovensky, a manipulative revolutionary, Dostoyevsky explores themes of faith, freedom, and the dangers of unchecked ideology. As personal and societal tensions escalate, the novel examines the fragility of human morality and the consequences of rejecting traditional values. A masterful blend of suspense and philosophical depth, "Demons" critiques the destructive potential of radicalism while probing the complexities of the human soul.

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  The Encantadas

  Herman Melville

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  "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. It was collected in The Piazza Tales in 1856. The Encantadas was a success with the critics, and contained some of Melville's "most memorable prose".
  An anonymous narrator unites the ten disparate "Sketches", each of which begin with a few lines of poetry, mostly taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. All of the stories are replete with symbolism reinforcing the cruelty of life on the Encantadas. "Sketch First" is a description of the islands; though they are the Enchanted Isles they are depicted as desolate and hellish. "Sketch Second" is a meditation on the narrator's encounter with ancient Galápagos tortoises, while "Sketch Third" concerns the narrator's trip up the enormous tower called the Rock Rodondo. "Sketch Fourth" details the narrator's musings from atop the tower, and his recollection of the islands' accidental discovery by Juan Fernández. "Sketch Fifth" describes the USS Essex' encounter with a phantom British ship near the area during the War of 1812.

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  The Diary Of A Dead Officer -...

  Arthur Graeme West

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  Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. It chronicles West's increasing disillusion with war and his move toward pacifist and atheist beliefs. The final part consists of his powerful war poems, including God, How I Hate You, You Young Cheerful Men, and Night Patrol. West was killed by a sniper in 1917. In view of some of his poems, one wonders if death was not unwelcome. Arthur Graeme West was a British writer and war poet. West was born in Eaton, Norfolk, educated at Highgate School, then Blundell's School and Balliol College, Oxford, and killed by a sniper in 1917.

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  Gabriel-Ernest - From their pens...

  Saki Saki

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  Hector Hugh Munro, more familiarly known by his pen-name ‘Saki’ was born in what was then Akyab in British Burma on 18th December 1870. His father was an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and his mother the daughter of a Rear Admiral. 
  When he was 2 his mother died and he and his siblings were sent back to England to be raised by their grandmother and paternal maiden aunts in a strict, puritanical household near Barnstaple, Devon. Educated by governesses Saki used many of these women as character models for his later writing. 
  At 17 his father retried and returned to England and then embarked on a series of European travels with Saki and his siblings. 
  After a short stint working in Burma with the Indian Imperial Police Saki decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Initially he wrote as a journalist for a number of newspapers and magazines before attempting an historical study, ‘The Rise of the Russian Empire’, whose real value lay in directing him to writing short stories instead, the first of which, ‘Dogged’, he published in 1899. 
  From here it was a short stab of the pen to writing political satire before in 1902 he became the foreign correspondent for The Morning Post, first in the Balkans, then Russia, Paris and back to London in 1908, where 'the agreeable life of a man of letters with a brilliant reputation awaited him.'  
  Collections of his short stories full of witty, mischievous and often macabre stories that satirized Edwardian society and two novels now appeared in the years up to the Great War.  At its’ outbreak he was 43 but managed to join as an ordinary trooper. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially too sick or injured.  
  On 14th November 1916 Hector Hugh Munro was sheltering in crater during the Battle of the Ancre, when he was shot and killed by a German sniper. According to several sources, his last words were "Put that bloody cigarette out!"

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  Collected Works of F Scott...

  F Scott itzgerald

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  The Collected Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald includes the short stories: 
  The Great Gatsby
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  The Camel's Back
  The Jelly-Bean 
  May Day
  Porcelain and Pink
  Tarquin of Cheapside
  Oh Russet Witch! 
  The Lees of Happiness 
  Mr. Icky
  Jemina, The Mountain Girl

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