For thirty-five years, Bruno Frye has lived in the shadow of the adopted mother who made his heart beat with constant fear. And even though she died five years ago, the whispers still haunt him in the dark...enough to make him kill鈥攁nd kill again.
Hilary Thomas is one of his intended victims. And she鈥檚 about to learn that even death can鈥檛 keep a bad man down...]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1980
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Surviving a car accident on a snowy mountain road is miraculous for Lindsey Harrison, but even more so for her husband, Hatch, who was clinically dead for eighty minutes.
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After experimental procedures bring Hatch back to life, he awakens with the terrifying feeling that something is it out there . But it soon becomes apparent that the evil stalking Hatch is within him鈥攁 dark force of murderous rage that hides within us all...]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1992
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At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every person's life has an effect on every other person's, in often unknowable ways.
At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with other results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2000
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author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1981
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes this pulse-pounding thriller that starts with a terrifying decision we all might face one day: Help鈥攐r run. Timothy Carrier is an ordinary guy. He enjoys a beer after work at his friend鈥檚 tavern, the eccentric customers and amusing conversations. But tonight is no ordinary night. The jittery man sitting beside him has mistaken Tim for someone else鈥攁nd passes him an envelope stuffed with cash and the photo of a pretty woman. 鈥�Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she鈥檚 gone.鈥�
Tim Carrier always thought he knew the difference between right and wrong, good and evil. But tonight everything he thought he knew鈥攅ven about himself鈥攚ill be challenged. For Tim Carrier is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer as relentless as evil incarnate. But first he must discover resources within himself of which he never dreamed, capacities that will transform his idea of who he is and what it takes to be . . .]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2007
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But Chris's brilliant mother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, and as the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer; Chris's protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris as he is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoon sun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his father tells Chris he is "sorry" and that Chris should "fear nothing"鈥攃ryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to.
Steven Snow's body is removed to the hospital basement for transport to the funeral home/crematorium, and when Chris goes downstairs for a final moment of farewell, he witnesses a frightening and clandestine the funeral director and another man Chris doesn't recognize are substituting the body of a hitchhiker for Steven Snow's body鈥搘hich is being taken not to the crematorium but to some secret destination.
For Chris, this scene is the first intimation of a conspiracy that he will come to realize envelopes many of his townspeople. His parents knew of it and wanted to protect Chris from it. His best friend has had hints of something wrong because of the frightening nocturnal visitors that have come to his beachhouse. And the first person to try to explain to Chris what's going on鈥攁nd warn him about the special danger he himself is in鈥攚ill be hideously murdered.
In the 24 hours this book encompasses, Christopher Snow will find out that, sheltered though he's been, he has the soul of a fighter and an adventurer. By the end of the book he will have killed a man, will have discovered the role his own mother played in the birth of the conspiracy, will have come to recognize the extraordinary guardians that, unknown to him, have watched over him for years. He will realize that some people hate him, others revere him, and neither his own life nor those of anyone he knows will ever be the same.]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1997
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No fan of Dean Koonts or of classical psychological suspense will want to miss this extraordinary novel of the human mind's capacity to torment - and destroy - itself.]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1999
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A handful of people. From different backgrounds, living in different towns and cities across America, they had nothing in common - except fear.
They were victims.
Cold and stark, an unknown terror gripped their dreams and turned their days into living nightmares.
They were chosen.
And they could not escape. Deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, a dark memory called out to them, drawing them to the Tranquility Motel - where the terrifying truth was waiting...]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1986
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He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in the chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding - but often thwarts it.
Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn here, he finds work as cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty, has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood's golden days.
Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town, as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before...]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2008
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Woody Bookman hasn鈥檛 spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father鈥檚 death and now threatens him and his mother. And he鈥檚 not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening.
A uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his breed, Kipp is devoted beyond reason to people. When he hears the boy who communicates like he does, without speaking, Kipp knows he needs to find him before it鈥檚 too late.
Woody鈥檚 fearful suspicions are taking shape. A man driven by a malicious evil has set a depraved plan into motion. And he鈥檚 coming after Woody and his mother. The reasons are primal. His powers are growing. And he鈥檚 not alone. Only a force greater than evil can stop what鈥檚 coming next.]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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Anyone who crosses Sheriff Russell Soakes is dead, missing, or warned. One of them is a single mother trying to protect her children but bracing herself for the worst. Nameless fears the outcome. He鈥檚 seen it in his visions. Now it鈥檚 time to teach the depraved Soakes a lesson in fear. But in turning predators into prey, will Nameless unearth a few secrets of his own?
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes In the Heart of the Fire, part of Nameless, a riveting collection of short stories about a vigilante nomad, stripped of his memories and commissioned to kill. Follow him in each story, which can be read or listened to in a single sitting.
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author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2019
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Bill Wiles is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car.
"If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours."
It seems like a sick joke, and Bill's friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it's Bill's fault: he didn't convince the police to get involved. Now he's got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum...and two new lives hanging in the balance.
Suddenly Bill's average, seemingly innocuous life takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare. Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler with every communication--until Bill is isolated with the terrifying knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopath's innocent victims. Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely personal. Until the most chilling words of all are: "The choice is yours."]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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The second time it strikes the terror starts... though eight-year-old Laura is saved by a mysterious stranger from the perverted and deadly intentions of a drug-crazed robber. Throughout her childhood she is plagued by ever more terrifying troubles, and with increasing courage she finds the strength to prevail - even without the intervention of her strange guardian. But, despite her success as a novelist and her happy family life, Laura cannot shake the certainty that powerful and malignant forces are controlling her destiny.
Then the lightning strikes once more and shatters her world. The adventure - and the terror - have only just begun...]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature...]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2006
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They found the first body hideously swollen and still warm. Then they found two severed hands. Then two staring heads in wall ovens. 150 were grotesquely dead and it had hardly begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.
and closer...
At first they thought it was a maniac. Then they thought it was an obscene new disease. Then they thought it was the Russians.
and closer...
Then they found out the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He's just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that's why he's won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when a childhood friend disappears, Odd discovers something worse than a dead body and embarks on a heart-stopping battle of will and wits with an enemy of exceptional cunning. In the hours to come there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope.
You're invited on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror and transcendence to wonders beyond imagining. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2005
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Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first, her sole aim is to get out alive - until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl... as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1995
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A lonely widower; a ruthless assassin; a beautiful woman; a government agent.
Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four are inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagining.]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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Something evil has come to the desert town that Odd and Stormy call home. It comes in the form of a mysterious man with a macabre appetite, a filing cabinet full of information on the world's worst killers, and strange, hyena-like shadows following him wherever he goes. Odd is worried. He knows things, sees things - about the living, the dead, and the soon-to-be dead. Things that he has to act on. Now he's terrified for Stormy, himself and Pico Mundo. Because he knows that on Wednesday August 15, a savage, blood-soaked whirlwind of violence and murder will devastate the town...
Today is August 14.
And Odd is far from sure he can stop the coming storm...]]>
author: Dean Koontz
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.]]>
author: Vladimir Nabokov
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1962
rating: 5
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author: Vladimir Nabokov
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1955
rating: 5
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author: Henry James
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1902
rating: 5
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Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years. They became friends and then roommates as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they roomed together again. Between them they made such memorable films as The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again, The Philadelphia Story, It鈥檚 a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, and Rear Window.
They got along famously, with a shared interest in elaborate practical jokes and model airplanes, among other things. Fonda was a liberal Democrat, Stewart a conservative Republican, but after one memorable blow-up over politics, they agreed never to discuss that subject again. Fonda was a ladies鈥� man who was married five times; Stewart remained married to the same woman for forty-five years. Both men volunteered during World War II and were decorated for their service. When Stewart returned home, still unmarried, he once again moved in with Fonda, his wife, and his two children, Jane and Peter, who knew him as Uncle Jimmy.
For Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda鈥檚 widow and children as well as three of Stewart鈥檚 children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men鈥攊n addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together. This is not another Hollywood story, but a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary friendship that lasted through war, marriages, children, careers, and everything else.]]>
author: Scott Eyman
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate... An estate haunted by a beckoning evil. Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls. But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil. For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.
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I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong. After rising, in town, to meet his appeal, I had at all events a couple of very bad days - found myself doubtful again, felt indeed sure I had made a mistake. In this state of mind I spent the long hours of bumping, swinging coach that carried me to the stopping place at which I was to be met by a vehicle from the house.]]>
author: Henry James
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.42
book published: 1898
rating: 5
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author: Rudyard Kipling
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1888
rating: 5
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Courage.
Confidence.
Patience.
Integrity...
For more than one hundred years, this classic poem has inspired readers to reach for the best in themselves.
In pictures and words, here's what every boy needs to know most.]]>
author: Rudyard Kipling
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1910
rating: 5
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author: Rudyard Kipling
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1888
rating: 5
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author: Rudyard Kipling
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1894
rating: 5
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author: Rudyard Kipling
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1897
rating: 5
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Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life.
A celebration of their friendship in a beautiful but often hostile environment, 'Kim' captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj.]]>
author: Rudyard Kipling
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1901
rating: 5
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Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The Butterfly That Stamped, and How the Alphabet Was Made..]]>
author: Rudyard Kipling
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1902
rating: 5
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author: Rudyard Kipling
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1895
rating: 5
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dant猫s is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas鈥� epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.
Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss
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author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1846
rating: 5
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author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1847
rating: 5
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Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.
Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.]]>
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1845
rating: 5
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Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in deadly political intrigue and is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival. Condemned to life imprisonment, his only comfort is Rosa, the jailer's beautiful daughter, and together they concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret.
Dumas' last major historical novel is a tale of romantic love, jealousy and obsession, interweaving historical events surrounding the brutal murders of two Dutch statesman in 1672 with the phenomenon of tulipomania that gripped seventeenth-century Holland.]]>
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1850
rating: 5
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In this book, Dumas tells the story of Robin Hood's youth: how he is delivered by an unknown man to be raised by poor but honest foresters, his great skill as an archer, how he comes into conflict with the Baron [sic] of Nottingham, how he meets Friar Tuck, the Maid Marian, Little John, Will Scarlett, and others, how he is declared an outlaw by the King, and decamps, with his followers, into Sherwood Forest to wage war against the Baron.]]>
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1862
rating: 5
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芦 On fit encore quatre ou cinq pas en montant toujours, puis Dant猫s sentit qu'on le prenait par la t锚te et par les pieds et qu'on le balan莽ait.
芦 Une, dirent les fossoyeurs.
- Deux.
- Trois ! 禄
En m锚me temps, Dant猫s se sentit lanc茅, en effet, dans un vide 茅norme, traversant les airs comme un oiseau bless茅, tombant, tombant toujours avec une 茅pouvante qui lui gla莽ait le c艙ur. Quoique tir茅 en bas par quelque chose de pesant qui pr茅cipitait son vol rapide, il lui sembla que cette chute durait un si猫cle. Enfin, avec un bruit 茅pouvantable, il entra comme une fl猫che dans une eau glac茅e qui lui fit pousser un cri, 茅touff茅 脿 l'instant m锚me par l'immersion. Dant猫s avait 茅t茅 lanc茅 dans la mer, au fond de laquelle l'entra卯nait un boulet de trente-six attach茅 脿 ses pieds.La mer est le cimeti猫re du ch芒teau d'If. 禄]]>
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.52
book published: 1844
rating: 5
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In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father--the maverick approach, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the case of her childhood friend Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared. As the case her father is working on dovetails with her own, something far more dangerous than either could have imagined begins to emerge. They soon find themselves forced to confront a group of extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners.]]>
author: Henning Mankell
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2002
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Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father鈥檚 crimes and made him infamous.
Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, thousands of miles away from everything she鈥檚 ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up鈥攅specially the determined Xander Keaton.
Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she鈥檚 always secretly craved. But as she鈥檚 learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away.]]>
author: Nora Roberts
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2016
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The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated.
Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river--or in the ones you know and love the most.
As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.
In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.
The end has come. The beginning comes next.]]>
author: Nora Roberts
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.98
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Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer, she designs sophisticated security systems -- and supplements her own security with a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. But Abigail's reserve only intrigues police chief Brooks Gleason. Her logical mind, her secretive nature, and her unromantic viewpoints leave him fascinated but frustrated. He suspects that Abigail needs protection from something -- and that her elaborate defenses hide a story that must be revealed.
With a quirky, unforgettable heroine and a pulse-pounding plotline, Nora Roberts presents a riveting new read that cements her place as today's most reliably entertaining thriller -- and will leave people hungering for more.]]>
author: Nora Roberts
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2012
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After years of throwing make-believe weddings in the backyard, flowers, photography, desserts, and details are what these women do best: a guaranteed perfect, beautiful day full of memories to last the rest of your life.
With bridal magazine covers to her credit, Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera鈥攔eady to capture the happy moments she never experienced while growing up. Her father replaced his first family with a second, and now her mother, moving on to yet another man, begs Mac for attention and money. Mac's foundation is jostled again moments before an important wedding planning meeting when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars.
Carter Maguire is definitely not her type: he's stable, and he's safe. He's even an English teacher at their high school alma mater. There's something about him that makes Mac think a casual fling is just what she needs to take her mind off dealing with bridezillas and screening her mother's phone calls. But a casual fling can turn into something more when you least expect it. And with the help of her three best friends鈥攁nd business partners鈥擬ac must learn how to make her own happy memories.]]>
author: Nora Roberts
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.13
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This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand鈥檚 provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction鈥攖hat man鈥檚 ego is the fountainhead of human progress...
鈥淎 writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.鈥濃€擳he New York Times]]>
author: Ayn Rand
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1943
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author: Catherine B. Roy
name: Ofir
average rating: 5.00
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author: Alfred Tennyson
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1879
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This collection includes, of course, such famous poems as 鈥淭he Lady of Shalott鈥� and 鈥淭he Charge of the Light Brigade.鈥� There are extracts from all the major masterpieces鈥斺€淚dylls of the King,鈥� 鈥淭he Princess,鈥� 鈥淚n Memoriam鈥濃€攁nd several complete long poems, such as 鈥淯lysses鈥� and 鈥淒emeter and Persephone,鈥� that demonstrate his narrative grace. Finally, there are many of the short lyrical poems, such as 鈥淐ome into the Garden, Maud鈥� and 鈥淏reak, Break, Break,鈥� for which he is justly celebrated.]]>
author: Alfred Tennyson
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1892
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author: Alfred Tennyson
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1842
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author: Alfred Tennyson
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average rating: 4.08
book published: 1870
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"[...] Yet know you, as your England knows
That you and all your men
Were soldiers to her heart鈥檚 desire,
When, in the vanish鈥檇 year,
You saw the league-long rampart-fire
Flare from Tel-el-Kebir
Thro鈥� darkness, and the foe was driven,
And Wolseley overthrew
Ar芒bi, and the stars in heaven
Paled, and the glory grew.
THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA
October 25, 1854
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author: Alfred Tennyson
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average rating: 4.09
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The original title of the poem was "The Way of the Soul", and this might give an idea of how the poem is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period, including wrestling with the big philosophico-scientific questions of his day. It is perhaps because of this that the poem is still popular with and of interest to modern readers. Owing to its length and its arguable breadth of focus, the poem might not be thought an elegy or a dirge in the strictest formal sense.
The poem is not arranged exactly in the order in which it was written. The prologue, for example, is thought to have been one of the last things written. Critics believe, however, that the poem as a whole is meant to be chronological in terms of the progression of Tennyson's grief. The passage of time is marked by the three descriptions of Christmas at different points in the poem, and the poem ends with a description of the marriage of Tennyson's sister.
"In Memoriam" is written in four-line ABBA stanzas of iambic tetrameter, and such stanzas are now called In Memoriam Stanzas. Though not metrically unusual, given the length of the work, the meter creates a tonal effect which often divides readers - is it the natural sound of mourning and grief, or merely monotonous? The poem is divided into 133 cantos (including the prologue and epilogue), and in contrast to its constant and regulated metrical form, encompasses many different subjects: profound spiritual experiences, nostalgic reminiscence, philosophical speculation, Romantic fantasizing and even occasional verse. The death of Hallam, and Tennyson's attempts to cope with this, remain the strand that ties all these together.
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Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we, that have not seen thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove ;
Thine are these orbs of light and shade ;
Thou madest Life in man and brute ;
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author: Alfred Tennyson
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1850
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author: Alfred Tennyson
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1885
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'The Lady of Shalott' is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson. Inspired by the short prose text 'La Damigella di Scalot' from the 13th-century, it tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot. It is one of Tennyson's most famous and memorable works, with its lucid medieval romanticism, as well as enigmatic symbolism.
Alfred Tennyson (1809鈥�1892), invariably known as Alfred Lord Tennyson, was born in Somersby, UK. At the age of 18, he published his first book, 'Poems by Two Brothers' with his brother, later followed by 'Poems Chiefly Lyrical' (1830). In 1850, Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate and married his childhood friend, Emily Sellwood. In 1884, as a great favorite of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was given the title of Baron Tennyson of Aldworth, the first Englishman to be granted such a high rank solely for his literary faculty. Tennyson continued to write poetry throughout his life. He died in 1892 at the age of 83, to be then buried in Westminster Abbey.]]>
author: Alfred Tennyson
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1833
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author: Alexander Pope
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1734
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author: Alexander Pope
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1717
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author: Henry David Thoreau
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1849
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author: Henry David Thoreau
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1854
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Features 104 of Blake's poems: "A Song of Liberty," "The Argument," "Proverbs of Hell," "The Mental Traveller," "The Land of Dreams," "To the Evening Star" and many more.]]>
author: William Blake
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1994
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author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.13
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author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1896
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author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.97
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Great title poem plus "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," and twenty more sonnets, lyrics, and odes, including Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me, Frost at Midnight, The Nightingale, The Pains of Sleep, To William Wordsworth, Youth and Age, and many more.
All are reprinted from an authoritative edition published by Oxford University Press. Includes alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.]]>
author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.94
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A stately pleasure-dome decree..."
Though left uncompleted, 鈥淜ubla Khan鈥� is one of the most famous examples of Romantic era poetry. In it, Samuel Coleridge provides a stunning and detailed example of the power of the poet鈥檚 imagination through his whimsical description of Xanadu, the capital city of Kublai Khan鈥檚 empire.
Samuel Coleridge penned 鈥淜ubla Khan鈥� after waking up from an opium-induced dream in which he experienced and imagined the realities of the great Mongol ruler鈥檚 capital city. Coleridge began writing what he remembered of his dream immediately upon waking from it, and intended to write two to three hundred lines. However, Coleridge was interrupted soon after and, his memory of the dream dimming, was ultimately unable to complete the poem.
[ Taylor Coleridge|11525] (1772鈥�1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend [ Wordsworth|64845], one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England, and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems [ Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1792)|6186447] and [ Khan' (1816)|28014281], as well as his major prose work [ Literaria' (1817)|350099].]]>
author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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average rating: 4.02
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One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772鈥�1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge鈥檚 best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and the opium-inspired "Kubla Khan" to the sombre passion of "Dejection: An Ode" and the medieval ballad "Christabel." His meditative 鈥榗onversation鈥� poems, such as "Frost at Midnight" and "This Lime-Tree Bower Mr Prison," reflect on remembrance and solitude, while late works, such as "Youth and Age" and "Constancy to an Ideal Object," are haunting meditations on mortality and lost love.
This volume contains the final texts of all the poems published during Coleridge鈥檚 lifetime and a substantial selection from those still in manuscript at his death, arranged in chronological order of composition to show his development as a poet. Also included are an introduction, table of dates, further reading, extensive notes, and indexes of titles and first lines. 听]]>
author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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average rating: 4.09
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Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.]]>
author: Edmund Spenser
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average rating: 3.57
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Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino鈥檚 service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia鈥攐nly to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships.]]>
author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 1602
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presented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare's plays and a brief chronology of the Bard's life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text--no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes!
The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare's plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to
make them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations.]]>
author: William Shakespeare
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1599
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Each edition includes:
鈥� Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
鈥� Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
鈥� Scene-by-scene plot summaries
鈥� A key to famous lines and phrases
鈥� An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
鈥� An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
鈥� Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books]]>
author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 1611
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The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom鈥攐ne reason this most devastating of Shakespeare鈥檚 tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.
The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:
-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries
-A key to the play鈥檚 famous lines and phrases
-An introduction to reading Shakespeare鈥檚 language
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library鈥檚 vast holdings of rare books
-An annotated guide to further reading
Essay by Susan Snyder
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world鈥檚 largest collection of Shakespeare鈥檚 printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.]]>
author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 3.91
book published: 1605
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author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 1598
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author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 3.89
book published: 1603
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author: William Shakespeare
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1601
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鈥� Scene-by-scene plot summaries
鈥� A key to the play's famous lines and phrases
鈥� An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
鈥� An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
鈥� Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
鈥� An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading]]>
author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 3.78
book published: 1597
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Oscar Wilde called James's chilling The Turn of the Screw 'a most wonderful, lurid poisonous little tale.' It tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the house, she soon becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. Obsession of a more worldly variety lies at the heart of The Aspern Papers, the tale of a literary historian determined to get his hands on some letters written by a great poet-and prepared to use trickery and deception to achieve his aims. Both works show James's mastery of the short story and his genius for creating haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension.
Anthony Curtis's wide-ranging introduction traces the development of the two stories from initial inspiration to finished work and examines their critical reception.]]>
author: Henry James
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 1898
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author: Henry James
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1880
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Excerpt:
He handled it with tenderness, with ceremony, making a place for it on a small satin mat. "My Golden Bowl," he observed--and it sounded on his lips as if it said everything. He left the important object--for as "important" it did somehow present itself--to produce its certain effect. Simple but singularly elegant, it stood on a circular foot, a short pedestal with a slightly spreading base, and, though not of signal depth, justified its title by the charm of its shape as well as by the tone of its surface. It might have been a large goblet diminished, to the enhancement of its happy curve, by half its original height.]]>
author: Henry James
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1904
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Story:
Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs. Newsome sends her 'ambassador' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him. Strether's mission, however, is gradually undermined as he falls under the spell of the city and finds Chad refined rather than corrupted by its influence and that of his charming companion, the comtesse de Vionnet. As the summer wears on, Mrs. Newsome comes to the conclusion that she must send another envoy to Paris to confront the errant Chad, and a Strether whose view of the world has changed profoundly.
The third-person narrative is told exclusively from Strether's point of view.
Extract:
After the opera, Strether tells Chad why he has come to Paris. However, as he speaks, Strether finds himself less certain of his stance. Chad, once callow and juvenile, now seems confident and restrained. His new personality impresses Strether, who wonders what鈥攐r who鈥攈as caused Chad鈥檚 transformation. Chad asks Strether to stay and meet his close friends, a mother and a daughter, who are arriving in a few days time. Strether, wondering if one of these women has been the impetus for Chad鈥檚 improvement, and assuming the daughter to be Chad鈥檚 lover, agrees to stay. Meanwhile, Bilham convinces Strether that Chad has a 鈥渧irtuous attachment鈥濃€攁nd that Chad鈥檚 relationship with the mysterious woman is innocent. Strether eventually meets the women, Madame de Vionnet and her daughter, Jeanne, at a high society party, but he does not see them long enough to cement an impression. After the brief introduction to Madame de Vionnet, Strether finds himself alone with little Bilham. Strether takes the opportunity to offer Bilham some sage advice: live all you can before it is too late. This advice exposes Strether鈥檚 own change since coming to Europe. In Paris, he feels renewed, young again, doubly alive. Over...]]>
author: Henry James
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1903
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author: Henry James
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average rating: 3.70
book published: 1880
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author: Henry James
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.38
book published: 1879
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author: Henry James
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1881
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听听听鈥⑻齀ncludes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, notes, glossary, and an appendix of Fielding's revisions
听听听鈥⑻齀ntroduction discusses narrative tecniques and themes, the context of eighteenth-century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite revolution
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]>
author: Henry Fielding
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1749
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author: Thomas Carlyle
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.32
book published: 1829
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author: Thomas Carlyle
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1980
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author: Thomas Carlyle
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.51
book published: 1897
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author: Thomas Carlyle
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average rating: 3.76
book published: 1841
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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, complete and unabridged, is unavailable anywhere else.]]>
author: Thomas Carlyle
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.97
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Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, a literary genre he so mastered that he himself has become as mythical as the tales he wrote. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories - called eventyrs, or "fantastic tales" - express themes that transcend age and nationality.
During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide and was feted by royalty. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature listeners/readers as well. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.]]>
author: Hans Christian Andersen
name: Ofir
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1850
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author: Walter Scott
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1987
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author: Daniel Defoe
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1726
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This collectible edition of a beloved adventure includes a soft-touch cover, gold foiling, and luminous illustrations from N.C. Wyeth, whose oil paintings perfectly depict the roiling seas, baking sun, and vast expanse of open space.]]>
author: Daniel Defoe
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1719
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author: Daniel Defoe
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average rating: 3.46
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The story is speculated to be partially based on Moscow embassy secretary Adam Brand's journal detailing the embassy's journey from Moscow to Peking from 1693 to 1695.
The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England. He bought a little farm in Bedford and had three children: two sons and one daughter. Our hero suffered a distemper and a desire to see "his island." He could talk of nothing else, and one can imagine that no one took his stories seriously, except his wife. She told him, in tears, "I will go with you, but I won't leave you." But in the middle of this felicity, Providence unhinged him at once, with the loss of his wife.]]>
author: Daniel Defoe
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1719
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The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (aka Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age.
By 1721, Defoe had become a recognised novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated (Robert Walpole was beginning his rise). Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group. Defoe's Whig views are nevertheless evident in the story of Moll. The novel's full title gives some insight into this and the outline of the plot: "The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was Born in Newgate, & during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, & died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums."]]>
author: Daniel Defoe
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.53
book published: 1722
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author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.51
book published: 1878
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author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1889
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Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press.]]>
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1891
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Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder, and forbidden love, as England's crown threatens to topple around him.
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author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1883
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Kidnapped has become a classic of historical romance the world over and is justly famous as a novel of travel and adventure in the Scottish landscape. Stevenson鈥檚 vivid descriptive powers were never better than in his account of remote places and dangerous action in the Highlands in the years after Culloden.]]>
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1886
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Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the Gothic tradition: 'Olalla', a tale of vampirism and tainted family blood, and 'The Body Snatcher', a gruesome fictionalization of the exploits of the notorious Burke and Hare.
This edition contains a critical introduction by Robert Mighall, which discusses class, criminality and the significance of the story's London setting. It also includes an essay on the scientific contexts of the novel and the development of the idea of the Jekyll-and-Hyde personality.]]>
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1886
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author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Ofir
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1886
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