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The title creature is a sort of barometer of life at the home of John Peerybingle and his much younger wife Dot. When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow. Tackleton, a jealous old man, poisons John's mind about Dot, but the cricket through its supernatural powers restores John's confidence and all ends happily.]]> 82 Charles Dickens 0809500418 Cassandra 0 3.48 1845 The Cricket on the Hearth
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]]> Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Cassandra 0 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
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]]> <![CDATA[The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction]]> 12951 nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitions of evil that haunt the governess in “The Turn of the Screw� to the startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in “The Beast in the Jungle,� the mysterious turnings of human behavior are coolly and masterfully observed—proving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one of the finest prose stylists of modern English literature.

Includes “The Turn of the Screw� � Daisy Miller � Washington Square � “The Beast in the Jungle� � “The Jolly Corner”]]> 527 Henry James 0553210599 Cassandra 5 3.80 1937 The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
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]]> Happiness Falls 75495002 When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another--both a riveting page-turner and a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the award-winning author of Miracle Creek.

"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean-American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing.

Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia's brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugene, who has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak.

What follows is both a ticking-clock investigation into the whereabouts of a father and an emotionally rich portrait of a family whose most personal secrets just may be at the heart of his disappearance. Full of shocking twists and fascinating questions of love, language, race, and human connection, Happiness Falls is a mystery, a family drama, and a novel of profound philosophical inquiry. With all the powerful storytelling she brought to her award-winning debut Miracle Creek, Angie Kim turns the missing person story into something wholly original, creating an indelible tale of a family who must go to remarkable lengths to truly understand one another.]]> 387 Angie Kim 0593448200 Cassandra 0 to-read 3.72 2023 Happiness Falls
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]]> <![CDATA[Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)]]> 17699859 James and Cordelia must save London—and their marriage—in this conclusion to the Last Hours series from author Cassandra Clare.
Chain of Thorns is a Shadowhunters novel.

Cordelia Carstairs has lost everything that matters to her. In only a few short weeks, she has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter.

After fleeing to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, Cordelia hopes to forget her sorrows in the city’s glittering nightlife. But reality intrudes when shocking news comes from home: Tatiana Blackthorn has escaped the Adamant Citadel, and London is under new threat by the Prince of Hell, Belial.

Cordelia returns to a London riven by chaos and dissent. The long-kept secret that Belial is James and Lucie’s grandfather has been revealed by an unexpected enemy, and the Herondales find themselves under suspicion of dealings with demons. Cordelia longs to protect James but is torn between a love for James she has long believed hopeless, and the possibility of a new life with Matthew. Nor can her friends help—ripped apart by their own secrets, they seem destined to face what is coming alone.

For time is short, and Belial’s plan is about to crash into the Shadowhunters of London like a deadly wave, one that will separate Cordelia, Lucie, and the Merry Thieves from help of any kind. Left alone in a shadowy London, they must face Belial’s deadly army. If Cordelia and her friends are going to save their city—and their families—they will have to muster their courage, swallow their pride, and trust one another again. For if they fail, they may lose everything—even their souls.]]> 778 Cassandra Clare 1406358118 Cassandra 0 4.04 2023 Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)]]> 36679274
Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but Kel knows that his destiny is to die for Conor. No other future is possible.

Lin Caster is one of the Ashkar, a small community whose members still possess magical abilities. By law, they must live behind walls within the city, but Lin, a physician, ventures out to tend to the sick and dying of Castellane. Despite her skills, she cannot heal her best friend without access to forbidden knowledge.

After a failed assassination attempt brings Lin and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, the criminal ruler of Castellane’s underworld. He offers them each what they want most; but as they descend into his world of intrigue and shadow, they discover a conspiracy of corruption that reaches from the darkest gutters of Castellane to the highest tower of its palaces.

As long-kept secrets begin to unravel, they must ask themselves: Is knowledge worth the price of betrayal? Can forbidden love bring down a kingdom? And will their discoveries plunge their nation into war—and the world into chaos?]]> 624 Cassandra Clare 0525619992 Cassandra 0 currently-reading 3.79 2023 Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary]]> 867356 Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 037575377X here.

With an Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch

"Heart of Darkness," which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence," wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz.

Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring--and harrowing--works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding prose, Heart of Darkness is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890--the first notes, in effect, for the novel which was composed at the end of that decade.
Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . .He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life."]]> 162 Joseph Conrad Cassandra 5 3.62 1899 Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret Sharer and other stories]]> 513574 256 Joseph Conrad 075380722X Cassandra 5 3.74 The Secret Sharer and other stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Christmas Books, Volume 1: A Christmas Carol/The Chimes]]> 392283 266 Charles Dickens 0140430687 Cassandra 0 4.23 The Christmas Books, Volume 1: A Christmas Carol/The Chimes
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories]]> 102565 "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" and "The $30,000 Bequest"; his last posthumous novel The Mysterious Stranger; What Is Man?; & more.]]> 272 Mark Twain 0451529243 Cassandra 5 4.04 1916 The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
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]]> The Secret Sharer 2179336 64 Joseph Conrad 1599869004 Cassandra 5 3.60 1910 The Secret Sharer
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]]> <![CDATA[Youth / Heart of Darkness / The End of the Tether]]> 12192 Conrad's aim was by "the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel . . . before all, to make you see"

Heart of Darkness, his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of 'seeing,' its relativity and shifting compromise. Portraying a young man's first sea-voyage to the East in Youth, an unenlightened maturity in Heart of Darkness, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether, the stories in this volume are united in their theme - the 'Ages of Man' - and in their scepticism. Conrad's vision has influenced twentieth-century writers and artists from T. S. Eliot to Jorge Luis Borges and Werner Herzog, and continues to draw critical fire. In his stimulating introduction John Lyon discusses the links between these three stories, the critiques of Chinua Achebe and Edward Said, and the ebb and flow of Conrad's magnificent narrative art.

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.]]> 384 Joseph Conrad 0140185135 Cassandra 5 3.99 1924 Youth / Heart of Darkness / The End of the Tether
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]]> The American 20675 The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876-77 and then as a book in 1877.
Christopher Newman, a ‘self-made� American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes� past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James’s masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.]]> 400 Henry James 0451529669 Cassandra 5 3.68 1877 The American
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]]> Selected Poems 33015
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom . . .

-The Darkling Thrush]]> 320 Thomas Hardy 0140436995 Cassandra 5 3.99 1928 Selected Poems
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]]> Jude the Obscure 50798 310 Thomas Hardy 0486452433 Cassandra 5 3.82 1895 Jude the Obscure
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]]> <![CDATA[The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #5)]]> 144463 The Small House at Allington is the fifth book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester series. As with all of Trollope, it is beautifully written and draws the reader into its many interwoven tales.

Former Prime Minister John Major declared this particular novel to be his favourite book of all time, and in doing so, he was joining the good company of the countless Trollope fans who have ensured this work's lasting fame, and helped to enshrine its place as a literary classic.

]]> 695 Anthony Trollope 0140433252 Cassandra 5 4.05 1864 The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #5)
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]]> The Old Curiosity Shop 429024 The Old Curiosity Shop is edited with notes and an introduction by Norman Page in Penguin Classics.

Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens's portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation, even as it was criticised for its sentimentality by figures such as Oscar Wilde. Yet alongside the story's pathos are some of Dickens's greatest comic and grotesque creations: the ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved 'Marchioness' and the lustful, loathsome Quilp himself.

This edition, based on the original text of 1841, contains an introduction by Norman Page discussing the various contrasting themes of the novel and its roots in Dickens's own personal tragedy, with prefaces to the 1841 and 1848 editions, a chronology, notes and original illustrations produced for the serial version.

Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions.

If you enjoyed The Old Curiosity Shop, you might like Dickens's Hard Times, also available in Penguin Classics.]]> 576 Charles Dickens 0140437428 Cassandra 5 3.77 1840 The Old Curiosity Shop
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]]> Ghost Stories 224618 With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. This edition includes all ten of his ghost stories, and as such is the fullest collection currently available. The stories range widely in tone and type. They include 'The Jolly Corner', a compelling story of psychological doubling; 'Owen Wingrave', which is also a subtle parable of military tradition; 'The Friends of the Friends', a strange story of uncanny love; and 'The Private Life', which finds a shrewd, high comedy in its ghostly theme. The volume also includes James's great novella The Turn of the Screw , perhaps the most ambiguous and disturbing ghost story ever written.]]> 344 Henry James 1840224223 Cassandra 5 4.00 1898 Ghost Stories
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]]> Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte 1600817 144 Charles Dickens 379153596X Cassandra 5 4.25 1843 Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte
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]]> Bleak House 31242
“Jarndyce and Jarndyce� is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerson watches as her friends and neighbours are consumed by their hopes and disappointments with the proceedings. But while the intricate puzzles of the lawsuit are being debated by lawyers, other more dramatic mysteries are unfolding that involve heartbreak, lost children, blackmail and murder.

The fog and cold that permeate Bleak House mirror a Victorian England mired in spiritual insolvency. Dickens brought all his passion, brilliance, and narrative verve to this huge novel of lives entangled in a multi-generational lawsuit—and through it, he achieved, at age 41, a stature almost Shakespearean.]]> 1017 Charles Dickens 0143037617 Cassandra 5 4.01 1853 Bleak House
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]]> A Tale of Two Cities 17170
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…�

With these famous words, Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras � the French Revolution. The two cities are Paris and London, and between them rumble conspiracy, intrigue, and the heavy traffic of countless spies. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the upheaval of the tumultuous, terror-steeped days of 1789.

At the center of it all is the novel’s hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy, alcholic � but honorable � attorney who is in love with Lucie Manette, a beautiful woman brought up in London. When Lucie marries Charles Darnay, a man condemned to death for his ties to the aristocratic Evrémonde family, Carton makes the supreme sacrifice on the bloodstained streets of Paris.

In this rousing historical romance, Dickens exposes his severe distaste of the excess of police states, the ease with which citizens resort to mob violence, and aristocratic tyrants, whose livlihood is predicated upon unfeeling notions such as “Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.� A stirring classic of love, revenge, and resurrenction, A Tale of Two Cities remains one of Dickens’s most exciting novels.


Gillen D'Arcy Wood received his Ph.D in English from Columbia University in 2000 and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860.]]> 409 Charles Dickens 1593083327 Cassandra 5 4.04 1859 A Tale of Two Cities
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]]> <![CDATA[A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings]]> 5338 An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.

'Merry Christmas!...every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'

Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas. Dickens' other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton', the short story from The Pickwick Papers on which A Christmas Carol was based; The Haunted Man, a tale of a man tormented by painful memories; along with shorter pieces, some drawn from the 'Christmas Stories' that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates the season as one of geniality, charity and remembrance.

This new selection contains an introduction by distinguished Dickens scholar Michael Slater discussing how the author has shaped ideas about the Christmas spirit, an appendix on Dickens' use of The Arabian Nights, a further reading list and explanatory notes.]]> 288 Charles Dickens Cassandra 5 4.15 1843 A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
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]]> <![CDATA[The Real Thing And Other Tales]]> 384119 160 Henry James 141917987X Cassandra 5 3.93 1892 The Real Thing And Other Tales
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)]]> 456388 In this carefully chosen selection, readers will discover the wide erudition, mastery of meter and rhythm, and superb artistic control that have earned Milton a preeminent place in English literature.]]> 128 John Milton 048627554X Cassandra 5 3.98 1939 Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)
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]]> Watch and Ward 277547
Wealthy Roger Lawrence adopts twelve-year-old Nora Lambert after her father kills himself in the hotel room next to Lawrence's. Roger had refused financial assistance to the man, and he feels remorse. Nora is not a pretty child but she soon starts to develop, as does Roger's idea of eventually marrying her.

Unfortunately for Roger, once Nora matures into a beautiful young woman, she is attracted to two other men: worthless George Fenton and the somewhat hypocritical minister, Hubert Lawrence (Roger's cousin).

After various adventures Nora winds up in the clutches of Fenton in New York...

A poignant story of unfulfilled lives and lost love!]]> 207 Henry James 0750914092 Cassandra 5 3.12 1871 Watch and Ward
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]]> <![CDATA[Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural]]> 698290 Here is the definitive, the reliable, the indispensable volume of horror and the beyond, compiled by three of the field's top contributors and authorities and introduced by the undisputed master of the supernatural, Stephen King. With works by Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Silverberg, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells, Bram Stoke and dozens more, Great Tales of Horror & the Supernatural is a spellbinding collection of 38 of the best of the genre. Anything can--and will--happen in these tales of both unworldly terror and quiet, everyday heart-stopping horror.
]]> 597 Martin H. Greenberg 1578661714 Cassandra 5 4.07 1981 Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
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]]> <![CDATA[The New York Stories of Henry James]]> 2693 The Master, a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first time all the stories that James set in New York City. Written over the course of James's career and ranging from the deliciously tart comedy of the early "An International Episode" to the surreal and haunted corridors of "The Jolly Corner," and including "Washington Square", the poignant novella considered by many (though not, as it happens, by the author himself) to be one of James's finest achievements, the nine fictions gathered here reflect James's varied talents and interests as well as the deep and abiding preoccupations of his imagination. And throughout the book, as Tóibín's fascinating introduction demonstrates, we see James struggling to make sense of a city in whose rapidly changing outlines he discerned both much that he remembered and held dear as well as everything about America and its future that he dreaded most.

Stories included:
The Story of a Masterpiece
A Most Extraordinary Case
Crawford's Consistency
An International Episode
The Impressions of a Cousin
The Jolly Corner
Washington Square
Crapy Cornelia
A Round of Visits]]> 563 Henry James 1590171624 Cassandra 5 4.01 2006 The New York Stories of Henry James
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]]> The Art of the Novel 227913
As a guide not only to James's inspiration and execution, but also to his frustrations and triumphs, this volume will be valuable both to students of his fiction and to aspiring writers.]]> 348 Henry James 0684150506 Cassandra 5 3.91 1909 The Art of the Novel
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]]> <![CDATA[The Portable Henry James (Penguin Classics)]]> 2691 Portable Henry James provides an unparalleled range of this great body of work: seven major tales, including Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, "The Beast in the Jungle," and "The Jolly Corner"; a sampling of revisions James made to some of his most famous work; travel writing; literary criticism; correspondences; autobiography; descriptions of the major novels; and parodies by famous contemporaries, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Graham Greene.]]> 640 Henry James 0142437670 Cassandra 5 3.93 1951 The Portable Henry James (Penguin Classics)
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]]> The Altar of the Dead 672172 The Altar of the Dead is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events. He meets a woman who shares his ideals, only to find that the past places what seems to be an impassable barrier between them. Although James was not religious in any conventional sense, the story shows a deep spirituality in its treatment of mortality and the transcendent power of unselfish love.

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There were other ghosts in his life than the ghost of Mary Antrim. He had perhaps not had more losses than most men, but he had counted his losses more; he hadn't seen death more closely, but had in a manner felt it more deeply. He had formed little by little the habit of numbering his Dead: it had come to him early in life that there was something one had to do for them. They were there in their simplified intensified essence, their conscious absence and expressive patience, as personally there as if they had only been stricken dumb. When all sense of them failed, all sound of them ceased, it was as if their purgatory were really still on earth: they asked so little that they got, poor things, even less, and died again, died every<->day, of the hard usage of life. They had no organized service, no reserved place, no honor, no shelter, no safety. Even ungenerous people provided for the living, but even those who were called most generous did nothing for the others. So on George Stransom's part had grown up with the years a resolve that he at least would do something, do it, that is, for his own -- would perform the great charity without reproach. Every man _had_ his own, and every man had, to meet this charity, the ample resources of the soul.]]> 40 Henry James 1406518379 Cassandra 5 3.50 1895 The Altar of the Dead
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]]> Henry James: Novels 1881�1886 20673 Library of America volume portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession. Studies in the exercise of power that marks relations between sexes, classes, and cultures, they show James’s special solicitude for the young heroines who occupy the center of his fictional world.

Washington Square (1880) examines the life of Catherine Sloper, a plain, sweet, young woman who lives imprisoned by the selfishness of those close to her: her lover, who cares only for her fortune; her aunt, who meddles for the sake of romantic intrigue; and her protective father, who repays her adoration with irony and wit. Set in the New York of the 1840s, Washington Square evokes the still-intimate city of James’s childhood while presenting a frightening moral lesson in the human consequences of manipulation and indifference.

The Portrait of a Lady (1881) is the story of Isabel Archer, a beautiful, idealistic, and inexperienced American woman who is made wealthy by her uncle at the instigation of her dying cousin. Surrounded by the seductive pleasures of nineteenth-century Europe, she preserves her idealism despite involvement with some who would divert her life to uses of their own—Caspar Goodwood, virile American captain of industry; Lord Warburton, scion of British aristocracy; Gilbert Osmond, connoisseur and collector of beautiful objects; Madame Merle, subtle and charming expatriate of unknown connections, and indomitable Henrietta Stackpole, roving journalist and steadfast friend. James’s many-layered masterpiece concerns the perilous American pursuit of individual freedom.

The Bostonians (1886) presents an unusual contest for the affections of Verena Tarrant, the lovely, naïve, and pliant daughter of a mesmerist lecturer. She is courted by two cousins: Basil Ransom, an impractical Mississippi landowner now pursuing a meager New York legal practice, and Olive Chancellor, a rich young Boston feminist. Against the richly textured backdrop of Boston and New York society, they enact a drama of confused identity and willful calculation that demonstrates the power and the perils engendered by the refusal of self-knowledge.]]> 1249 Henry James 0940450305 Cassandra 5 4.21 1886 Henry James: Novels 1881–1886
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]]> Henry James: A Life 441333 752 Leon Edel 0006548687 Cassandra 5 4.27 1985 Henry James: A Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New]]> 503613 Saralee Kaye

Introduction (Ghosts) � Marvin Kaye
A Prologue of Last Words � Marvin Kaye
Minuke � (1949) � Nigel Kneale
The Wind in the Rose-Bush � (1902) � Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Legal Rites � (1950) � Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
Smee � (1929) � A.M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X ]
Thurlow's Christmas Story � (1894) � John Kendrick Bangs
The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael and the Goblin � (1868) � W.S. Gilbert
A Quartet of Strange Things � (1971) � Bernhardt J. Hurwood
The Lady of Finnigan's Hearth � (1977) � Parke Godwin
The Phantom Hag � Guy de Maupassant
The Ghost of the Capuchins � Eugène Montfort
Who Rides With Santa Anna? � (1959) � Edward D. Hoch
Jane � Barbara Gallow
The Tale of the German Student (aka The Adventure of the German Student) � (1824) � Washington Irving
The Hounds of Hell � John Masefield
Doorslammer � (1963) � Donald A. Wollheim
The Ensouled Violin � (1892) � Helena P. Blavatsky
The Monk of Horror � (1796) � Anonymous
Mr. Justice Harbottle � (1872) � Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Flying Dutchman � Traditional
The Parlor-Car Ghost � Anonymous
The Red Room � (1896) � H.G. Wells
A Gathering of Ghosts � Craig Shaw Gardner
The Woman's Ghost Story � (1907) � Algernon Blackwood
Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman � (1887) � Wilkie Collins
The Phantom Woman � Anonymous
The Spectre Bride � Anonymous
The Midnight Embrace � (1973) � Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Philosophy of Relative Existences � (1892) � Frank R. Stockton
21 Main Street No. � Z.Z. Jeromm
Four Ghosts in Hamlet � (1965) � Fritz Leiber
The Ghost of Sailboat Fred � Saralee Terry
The Fisherman's Story � Faith Lancereau and Anatole Le Braz
The Old Mansion � Anonymous
The Haunting of Y-12 � Al Sarrantonio
The Ghostly Rental � (1876) � Henry James
Untitled Ghost Story (Prologue to "Automata") � (1814) � E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Doll's Ghost � (1911) � F. Marion Crawford
Staley Fleming's Hallucination � (1906) � Ambrose Bierce
The Dead Woman's Photograph � Anonymous
The Castle of the King � (1881) � Bram Stoker
The Canterville Ghost � (1887) � Oscar Wilde
Blind Man's Buff � (1929) � H. Russell Wakefield
A Suffolk Miracle � Traditional
Father Stein's Tale � R.H. Benson
The Old Nurse's Story � (1852) � Elizabeth Gaskell
Money Talks � Dick Baldwin
The Ghost of the Count � Anonymous
The Body Snatcher � (1884) � Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Penhale Broadcast" � (1947) � Jack Snow
The Last Traveler � (1965) � Jean Ray
Phantom Regiment � (1847) � James Grant
The Tale of the Bagman's Uncle (aka The Bagman's Story) � (1837) � Charles Dickens
The North Mail � (1864) � Amelia B. Edwards
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery � (1911) � E.F. Benson
Ralph � Marvin Kaye

]]> 652 Marvin Kaye 0385185065 Cassandra 5 4.05 1981 Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tragic Muse (Penguin Classics)]]> 751629 576 Henry James Cassandra 5 3.78 1890 The Tragic Muse (Penguin Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales of Henry James (Norton Critical Editions)]]> 84128
"Daisy Miller: A Study" (1878)
"An International Episode" (1878)
"The Aspern Papers" (1888)
"The Pupil" (1891)
"Brooksmith" (1891)
"The Real Thing" (1892)
"The Middle Years" (1893)
"The Beast in the Jungle" (1903)
"The Jolly Corner" (1908)
"In the Cage" (1898)]]> 544 Henry James 0393977102 Cassandra 5 3.90 1908 Tales of Henry James (Norton Critical Editions)
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]]> <![CDATA[Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575, 2nd Edition]]> 398431 578 James Snyder 0131895648 Cassandra 5 4.20 1985 Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575, 2nd Edition
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]]> <![CDATA[The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage (Modern Library Classics)]]> 90340 The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves...Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark.

In his rarely anthologized novella In the Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, rebellious heroine of Britain's lower middle class. Hortense Calisher, in her Introduction, calls it a delicious story, the more so because it confounds what we expect from James.]]> 231 Henry James 0375757406 Cassandra 5 3.47 1898 The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage (Modern Library Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Other House (New York Review Books Classics)]]> 124256 The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew, is the story of a struggle for possession—and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter. The savage conclusion of The Other House makes it one of the most disturbing and memorable of Henry James’s depictions of the uncontrollable passions that lie beneath the polished veneer of civilized life.

"Oh blest Other House, which gives me thus at every step a precedent, a divine little light to walk by�" � Henry James]]> 340 Henry James 0940322323 Cassandra 5 3.40 1896 The Other House (New York Review Books Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)]]> 589077
The Author of Betraffio --
The Lesson of the Master --
The Private Life --
The Middle Years --
The Death of the Lion --
The Next Time --
The Figure in the Carpet --
John Delavoy.]]> 464 Henry James 0140432558 Cassandra 5 3.95 1896 The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lesson of the Master (The Art of the Novella series)]]> 398136
Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that "Art makes life," The Lesson of the Master is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tale's protagonist—a gifted young writer—meets and befriends a famous author he has long idolized, he is both repelled by and attracted to the artist's great the emotional costs of a life dedicated to art.

With extraordinary psychological insight and devastating wit, the novella asks the question of whether art is, ultimately, demeaning or ennobling for the artist, while capturing the ambiguities of a life devoted to art, and the choices artists must make. The expatriate James knew these choice well by the time he published the novella in the Universal Review in 1888, and the work reveals him at the height of his powers.

The Art of The Novella Series

Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.]]> 100 Henry James 0974607843 Cassandra 5 3.66 1888 The Lesson of the Master (The Art of the Novella series)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers and Two Stories]]> 137275 The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
Joseph Conrad once said of his friend Henry James, “As is meet for a man of his descent and tradition, Mr. James is the historian of fine consciences.� As it turns out, James was also incredibly gifted at writing exceptional ghost stories. This collection—including �The Beast in the Jungle� and �The Jolly Corner”—features James’s finest supernatural tales, along with criticism, a discussion of the legacies of James’s writing, and provocative study questions.
David L. Sweet is a professor of American and comparative literature at The American University in Cairo. He has also taught at Princeton, The City University of New York, The American University of Paris, and Columbia University, where he received his doctorate in Comparative Literature. His book Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes will be published next year by the University of North Carolina.]]> 312 Henry James 1593080433 Cassandra 5 3.84 1908 The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers and Two Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Henry James: Complete Stories 1892�1898]]> 2692 Library of America volume is one of five that make available for the first time in new, complete, and authoritative editions the astonishing abundance of invention and unwavering intensity of the aesthetic vision of Henry James as displayed in more than one hundred world-famous stories ranging from brief anecdotes to richly developed novellas.

Equally adept at ironic comedy, muted tragedy, and supernatural fantasy, at lively social satire and nuanced portraiture, James in his shorter works explores a staggering variety of situations and emotions. Here are courtships and legacies; the worlds of literature, theatre, and the popular press; the paradoxes of temperament and the constraints of custom; the clash of conscience and desire. Stylistically, the stories allowed James to experiment with tones and devices quite different from his novels—dramatic plot twists and surprise endings, swift pacing and ebullient humor. The brilliance of his technical command allowed him to transform the tiniest of suggestions—a fleetingly observed gesture, an anecdote dropped at a dinner party—into fiction remarkable for its lambent surfaces and intricate psychological counterpoint.

The twenty-one stories in this volume represent James at the peak of his storytelling powers. Among them are “The Turn of the Screw,� one of his most popular works, and a terrifying exercise in psychological horror centering on the corruption of childhood innocence; “The Real Thing,� a playful consideration of the illusion of art and the paradoxes of authenticity; “The Figure in the Carpet,� “The Death of the Lion,� and “The Middle Years,� three very different expositions of the mysteries of authorship, embodying some of James’s most profound insights into the nature of his own art; “The Altar of the Dead,� a somber, ultimately wrenching meditation on the relation of the living to the dead; and “In the Cage,� an extended evocation of the inner life of a young woman trapped in a dehumanizing job at a postal-and-telegraph office.]]> 948 Henry James 1883011094 Cassandra 5 4.23 1898 Henry James: Complete Stories 1892–1898
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]]> A History of My Times 261228
Xenophon himself knew many of the protagonists and his writing is personal history as well as a chronicle of events; he vividly portrays individuals, heroic and treacherous, influencing politics and battles and leading Greece inevitably towards impotence.]]> 432 Xenophon 0140441751 Cassandra 5 4.03 -362 A History of My Times
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]]> <![CDATA[The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume D: Modern Period (1910-1945)]]> 203859 1088 Paul Lauter 0618533001 Cassandra 5 3.97 1993 The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume D: Modern Period (1910-1945)
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]]> The Awkward Age 551498 The Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Harper's Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899.
Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Only an elderly bachelor, Mr Longdon, is immune to this world of scheming, and determines to rescue Nanda from its influences out of loyalty to the deep love he once felt for her grandmother. In The Awkward Age, James explores the English character, and the clash between old and new money with a light and subtly ironic touch to create a devastating critique of society and its machinations.

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That young lady, in this relation, was certainly a figure to have offered a foundation for the highest hopes. As slight and white, as delicately lovely, as a gathered garden lily, her admirable training appeared to hold her out to them all as with precautionary finger-tips. She presumed, however, so little on any introduction that, shyly and submissively, wait- ing for the word of direction, she stopped short in the centre of the general friendliness till Mrs Brookenham fairly became, to meet her, also a shy little girl � put out a timid hand with wonder-struck, innocent eyes that hesitated whether a kiss of greeting might be dared. ‘Why, you dear, good, strange “ickle� thing, you haven’t been here for ages, but it is a joy to see you, and I do hope you’ve brought your doll!� � such might have been the sense of our friend’s fond murmur while, looking at her up and down with pure pleasure, she drew the rare creature to a sofa. Little Aggie presented, up and down, an arrangement of dress exactly in the key of her age, her complexion, her emphasized virginity. She might have been prepared for her visit by a cluster of doting nuns, cloistered daughters of ancient houses and educators of similar products, whose taste, hereditarily good, had grown, out of the world and most delightfully, so queer as to leave on everything they touched a particular shade of distinction. The Duchess had brought in with the child an air of added confidence for which, in a moment, an observer would have seen the grounds, the association of the pair being so markedly favourable to each. Its younger member carried out the style of her aunt’s presence quite as one of the accessory figures effectively thrown into old portraits. The Duchess, on the other hand, seemed, with becoming blandness, to draw from her niece the dignity of a kind of office of state � hereditary governess of the children of the blood. Little Aggie had a smile as softly bright as a southern dawn, and the friends of her relative looked at each other, according to a fashion frequent in Mrs Brooken- ham’s drawing-room, in free communication of their happy impression. Mr Mitchett was, none the less, scantly diverted.]]> 323 Henry James 0140432973 Cassandra 5 3.59 1899 The Awkward Age
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]]> <![CDATA[Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others]]> 524988 Featured stories include J. S. LeFanu's "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street," with a mysterious old mansion as the focal point; Mary E. Wilkins' "The Lost Ghost," in which a strange child's disturbing presence instills fear and foreboding in all those she encounters; Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body-Snatchers"; "Mrs. Zant and the Ghost," by Wilkie Collins; and other gripping works by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Ralph Cram, Mrs. Henry Wood, Amelia B. Edwards, Fitz-James O'Brien, and M. R. James.
Rich in detail and ghoulish incidents, this modestly priced collection will thrill readers who appreciate tales of terror as well as devotees of well-crafted literature.]]> 176 John Grafton 0486404307 Cassandra 5 3.89 1930 Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others
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]]> As a Man Grows Older 151447
Marked by deep humanity and earthy humor, by psychological insight and an elegant simplicity of style, As a Man Grows Older (Ծà, in Italian; the English title was the suggestion of Svevo's great friend and admirer, James Joyce) is a brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation.]]> 320 Italo Svevo 0940322846 Cassandra 5 3.61 1898 As a Man Grows Older
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]]> The Princess Casamassima 311367 504 Henry James 1419178695 Cassandra 5 3.73 1885 The Princess Casamassima
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]]> <![CDATA[Daisy Miller and Other Stories]]> 16205 Daisy Miller is a fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome. First published in 1878, the novella brought American novelist Henry James (1843-1916), then living in London, his first international success. Like many of James's early works, it portrays a venturesome American girl in the treacherous waters of European society - a theme that would culminate in his 1881 masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady. On the surface, Daisy Miller unfolds a simple story of a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. But throughout the narrative, James contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a tale rich in psychological and social insight. A vivid portrayal of Americans abroad and a telling encounter between the values of the Old and New Worlds, Daisy Miller is an ideal introduction to the work of one of America's greatest writers of fiction.]]> 352 Henry James 0192835432 Cassandra 5 3.64 1878 Daisy Miller and Other Stories
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]]> Diary of a Superfluous Man 971670 80 Ivan Turgenev 0393319202 Cassandra 5 3.90 1850 Diary of a Superfluous Man
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]]> <![CDATA[A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork]]> 59478 400 Joseph Campbell 1577314050 Cassandra 5 4.06 1944 A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork
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]]> <![CDATA[The Turn of the Screw/Daisy Miller]]> 16208 192 Henry James 0440391547 Cassandra 5 3.75 1878 The Turn of the Screw/Daisy Miller
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]]> The Diary of Samuel Pepys 420481
Previously published as The Shorter Pepys, this edition is edited and abridged by Robert Latham, Fellow and Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge.]]> 1096 Samuel Pepys 0141439939 Cassandra 5 3.95 1669 The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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]]> The Spoils of Poynton 193772
The power struggle that ensues between the three women leaves Owen vacillating. What is at stake is not the mere possession of tables and chairs; it is, for Fleda, a conflict between aesthetic ideals, ethical imperatives, and her innermost feelings, in which she risks betraying, and being betrayed by, all that she holds most dear.

About the For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.]]> 252 Henry James 0809594048 Cassandra 5 3.70 1896 The Spoils of Poynton
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]]> <![CDATA[Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories]]> 3261447 279 Ian Fleming 0143114581 Cassandra 5 3.78 1965 Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories
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]]> The Beast in the Jungle 517570 The Beast in the Jungle was first published in London by Henry James in 1903 by Methuen Publishing in the collection "The Better Sort".
It is the story of John Marcher, a man who, for as long as he can remember, has been obsessed by the feeling that some life-changing - even catastrophic - event lies in wait for him like a jungle animal. Then the tragic day arrives on which the terrible true nature of the beast is revealed.

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speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention—spoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. He had been conveyed by friends an hour or two before to the house at which she was staying; the party of visitors at the other house, of whom he was one, and thanks to whom it was his theory, as always, that he was lost in the crowd, had been invited over to luncheon. There had been after luncheon much dispersal, all in the interest of the original motive, a view of Weatherend itself and the fine things, intrinsic features, pictures, heirlooms, treasures of all the arts, that made the place almost famous; and the great rooms were so numerous that guests could wander at their will, hang back from the principal group and in cases where they took such matters with the last seriousness give themselves up to mysterious appreciations and measurements.]]> 48 Henry James 1419153765 Cassandra 5 3.63 1903 The Beast in the Jungle
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]]> The Aspern Papers 214528
In this classic novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some letters and other private documents that once belonged to the deceased Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern. Attempting to gain access to the papers, the property of Aspern's former mistress, he rents a room in a decaying Venetian villa where the woman lives with her aging niece. Led by his zeal into increasingly unscrupulous behavior, the narrator is faced in the end with relinquishing his heart's desire or attaining it an an overwhelming price.
Inspired by an actual incident involving Claire Clairmont, once the mistress of Lord Byron, this masterfully written tale incorporates all those elements expected from James: psychological subtlety, deft plotting, the clash of cultures, and profoundly nuanced representation of scene, mood, and character.

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...I had taken Mrs. Prest into my confidence; in truth without her I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot. It is not supposed to be the nature of women to rise as a general thing to the largest and most liberal view—I mean of a practical scheme; but it has struck me that they sometimes throw off a bold conception—such as a man would not have risen to—with singular serenity. “Simply ask them to take you in on the footing of a lodger”—I don’t think that unaided I should have risen to that. I was beating about the bush, trying to be ingenious, wondering by what combination of arts I might become an acquaintance, when she offered this happy suggestion that the way to become an acquaintance was first to become an inmate. Her actual knowledge of the Misses Bordereau was scarcely larger than mine, and indeed I had brought with me from England some definite facts which were new to her. Their name had been mixed up ages before with one of the greatest names of the century, and they lived now in Venice in obscurity, on very small means, unvisited, unapproachable, in a dilapidated old palace on an out-of-the-way this was the substance of my friend's impression of them. She herself had been established in Venice for fifteen years and had done a great deal of good there; but the circle of her benevolence did not include the two shy, mysterious and, as it was somehow supposed, scarcely respectable Americans (they were believed to have lost in their long exile all national quality, besides having had, as their name implied, some French strain in their origin), who asked no favors and desired no attention....]]> 180 Henry James 0486419223 Cassandra 5 3.67 1888 The Aspern Papers
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]]> <![CDATA[The Europeans (Penguin Popular Classics)]]> 137277
Its wit, gaiety, and what Rebecca West calls its "clear sunlit charm" have made this masterly short novel one of the most popular of James's novels.]]> 192 Henry James 0140621954 Cassandra 5 3.62 1878 The Europeans (Penguin Popular Classics)
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]]> What Maisie Knew 392452 What Maisie Knew is a subtle, intricate yet devastating portrayal of an innocent adrift in a corrupt society.]]> 275 Henry James 0140432485 Cassandra 5 3.42 1897 What Maisie Knew
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]]> <![CDATA[The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers]]> 12950 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window, where, at the sight of me, it stopped short'

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.]]> 272 Henry James 0141439904 Cassandra 5 3.79 1898 The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers
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]]> The Golden Bowl 259020 Henry James explores his favorite themes in this novel � money, class,desire,and thecollision of European and American cultures.

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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.]]> 591 Henry James 0140432353 Cassandra 5 3.79 1904 The Golden Bowl
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]]> The Bostonians 194546
This satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena’s heart and remove her from the limelight?]]> 460 Henry James 0812969960 Cassandra 5 3.59 1886 The Bostonians
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]]> Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos 36320
In Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of horror and fantasy's finest authors pay tribute to the master of the macabre with a collection of original stories set in the fearsome Lovecraft tradition.

Contents:
- Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn! (1990) by Jim Turner [as by James Turner]
- The Call of Cthulhu (1928) by H.P. Lovecraft
- The Return of the Sorcerer (1931) by Clark Ashton Smith
- Ubbo-Sathla (1933) by Clark Ashton Smith
- The Black Stone (1931) by Robert E. Howard
- The Hounds of Tindalos (1929) by Frank Belknap Long
- The Space-Eaters (1928) by Frank Belknap Long
- The Dweller in Darkness (1944) by August Derleth
- Beyond the Threshold (1941) by August Derleth
- The Shambler from the Stars (1935) by Robert Bloch
- The Haunter of the Dark (1936) by H.P. Lovecraft
- The Shadow from the Steeple (1950) by Robert Bloch
- Notebook Found in a Deserted House (1951) by Robert Bloch
- The Salem Horror (1937) by Henry Kuttner
- The Terror from the Depths (1976) by Fritz Leiber
- Rising with Surtsey (1971) by Brian Lumley
- Cold Print (1969) by Ramsey Campbell
- The Return of the Lloigor (1969) by Colin Wilson
- My Boat (1976) by Joanna Russ
- Sticks (1974) by Karl Edward Wagner
- The Freshman (1979) by Philip José Farmer
- Jerusalem's Lot (1978) by Stephen King
- Discovery of the Ghooric Zone (1977) by Richard A. Lupoff

Cover illustration by John Jude Palencar

]]> 462 Jim Turner 034542204X Cassandra 5 4.22 1990 Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
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]]> The Ambassadors 775366 The Ambassadors is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR).

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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.

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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—or who—has caused Chad’s 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’s improvement, and assuming the daughter to be Chad’s lover, agrees to stay. Meanwhile, Bilham convinces Strether that Chad has a “virtuous attachment”—and that Chad’s 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’s own change since coming to Europe. In Paris, he feels renewed, young again, doubly alive. Over...]]> 528 Henry James 0140432337 Cassandra 5 3.66 1903 The Ambassadors
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]]> <![CDATA[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)]]> 3762 A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet and pulled away, the sexy boom of its twin exhausts echoing back at him. It was a girl driving, a girl with a shocking pink scarf tied round her hair. And if there was one thing that set James Bond really moving, it was being passed at speed by a pretty girl.

When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in the world—Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-bound fastness of his Alpine base, Blofeld is conducting research that could threaten the safety of the world. To thwart the evil genius, Bond must get himself and the vital information he has gathered out of the base and keep away from SPECTRE’s agents.—ŷ�.]]> 259 Ian Fleming 0142003255 Cassandra 5 3.96 1963 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
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]]> The Wings of the Dove 124272 The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction, �The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.”]]> 741 Henry James 0812967194 Cassandra 5 3.81 1902 The Wings of the Dove
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]]> Poetics 13270 'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'

Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of imaginative writing, including poetry, drama, and fiction. For Aristotle, the art of representation conveys universal truths which we can appreciate more easily than the lessons of history or philosophy. In his short treatise Aristotle discusses the origins of poetry and its early development, the nature of tragedy and plot, and offers practical advice to playwrights.]]> 144 Aristotle 0140446362 Cassandra 5 3.84 -335 Poetics
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]]> Eugene Onegin 27822 Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other
characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original.]]> 240 Alexander Pushkin Cassandra 5 4.11 1833 Eugene Onegin
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]]> The Iliad / The Odyssey 1375
If 'The Iliad' is the world's greatest war story, then 'The Odyssey' is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.

Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.]]> 1556 Homer 0147712556 Cassandra 5 4.06 -800 The Iliad / The Odyssey
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]]> Washington Square 133954 240 Henry James 0451528719 Cassandra 5 3.70 1880 Washington Square
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]]> Daisy Miller 16204 164 Henry James 1592243002 Cassandra 5 3.38 1879 Daisy Miller
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]]> The Portrait of a Lady 264
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]]> The Turn of the Screw 12948
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.]]> 121 Henry James 0140620613 Cassandra 0 3.42 1898 The Turn of the Screw
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]]> He Knew He Was Right 267104 952 Anthony Trollope 0192835408 Cassandra 5 3.87 1869 He Knew He Was Right
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #6)]]> 149789
Drawing on his own childhood experience of genteel poverty, Trollope gives a painstakingly realistic depiction of the trials of a family striving to maintain its standards at all costs. With its sensitive portrayal of the proud and self-destructive figure of Crawley, this final volume is the darkest and most complex of all the Barsetshire novels.]]> 890 Anthony Trollope 0140437525 Cassandra 5 4.16 1867 The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)]]> 414295 here and an older one here.

Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family's mortgaged estate by making a good marriage to a wealthy heiress. Only Mary's loving uncle, Dr Thorne, knows the secret of her birth and the fortune she is to inherit that will make her socially acceptable in the eyes of Frank's family - but the high-principled doctor believes she should be accepted on her own terms. A telling examination of the relationship between society, money and morality, Dr Thorne (1858) is enduringly popular for Trollope's affectionate depiction of rural English life and his deceptively simple portrayal of human nature.]]> 557 Anthony Trollope 0140433260 Cassandra 5 4.15 1858 Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
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]]> Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2) 374352 752 Anthony Trollope Cassandra 5 3.98 1869 Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3)]]> 73954
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.]]> 794 Anthony Trollope Cassandra 5 3.96 1873 The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser #1)]]> 374371 847 Anthony Trollope 0140430865 Cassandra 5 3.97 1865 Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)]]> 125321
Barchester Towers is one of the best-loved novels in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which captured nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift for characterization. It is the second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.]]> 418 Anthony Trollope 1406923044 Cassandra 0 4.03 1857 Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
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]]> The Way We Live Now 149785 776 Anthony Trollope 1853262552 Cassandra 0 4.07 1875 The Way We Live Now
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]]> <![CDATA[The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)]]> 267123 The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's daughter Eleanor. It was a highly topical novel (a case regarding the misapplication of church funds was the scandalous subject of contemporary debate), but like other great Victorian novelists, Trollope uses the specific case to explore and illuminate the universal complexities of human motivation and social morality]]> 336 Anthony Trollope 0192834088 Cassandra 5 3.75 1855 The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
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]]> Chance 115467 272 Joseph Conrad 1406912506 Cassandra 5 3.68 1913 Chance
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]]> Typhoon and Other Tales 12195 Typhoon, The Secret Sharer, Falk, and Amy Foster. Typhoon, a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of descriptive virtuosity and moral irony, while The Secret Sharer excels in symbolic ambiguity. Both stories vividly present Conrad's abiding preoccupation with the theme of solidarity, challenged from without by the elements and from within by human doubts and fears.

Conrad's experiences as a captain of the ship Otago in 1888 provided material for both The Secret Sharer and Falk. Amy Foster, written in 1901, is bleak and stark in its depiction of human isolation and incomprehension.

In a range of tones extending from the sombre to the radiant, Conrad's central preoccupations are displayed at their best, strangest, and most plangent in this selection of stories.]]> 304 Joseph Conrad 0192801732 Cassandra 5 3.89 1902 Typhoon and Other Tales
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]]> Under Western Eyes 143511
About the For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.]]> 249 Joseph Conrad 0486431649 Cassandra 5 3.68 1911 Under Western Eyes
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]]> Victory 438078 410 Joseph Conrad 0140189785 Cassandra 5 3.84 1915 Victory
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]]> <![CDATA[Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness]]> 59789 Spanning an impressive range of interpretations, the critical works in this collection analyze the complex narrative technique of "Heart Of Darkness" while exploring its evocation of myth, philosophy, and politics, its attitudes to empire, its images of Africa, and its representations of women. Examining secondary sources from the 1900s to the 1990s, this "Guide" is an indispensable resource for the study of one of Conrad's most potent works.

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]]> Nostromo 115476 ]]> 336 Joseph Conrad 0486424529 Cassandra 5 3.81 1904 Nostromo
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]]> The Secret Agent 86658
Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.]]> 304 Joseph Conrad 0192801694 Cassandra 5 3.60 1907 The Secret Agent
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]]> Lord Jim 12194
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent world. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.

Contents:

Lord Jim

Memoirs & Letters:

A Personal Record; or Some Reminiscences

The Mirror of the Sea

Notes on Life & Letters

Biography & Critical Essays:

Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole

Joseph Conrad by John Albert Macy

A Conrad Miscellany by John Albert Macy

Joseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf]]> 455 Joseph Conrad 1551111721 Cassandra 5 3.63 1900 Lord Jim
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]]> <![CDATA[Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer]]> 616828 Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul.

The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself.

Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer.]]> 168 Joseph Conrad 0451526570 Cassandra 5 3.51 1910 Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer
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]]> Heart of Darkness 4900
A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.]]> 188 Joseph Conrad 1892295490 Cassandra 5 3.43 1899 Heart of Darkness
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]]> The Complete Poems 33016 1039 Thomas Hardy 0333949293 Cassandra 5 4.07 1976 The Complete Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Far from the Madding Crowd]]> 68980 728 Thomas Hardy 0753705192 Cassandra 5 4.14 1975 Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Far from the Madding Crowd
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]]> A Pair of Blue Eyes 110077 Written at a crucial time in Hardy's life, A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and social forces that made him the writer he was. Elfride's dilemma mirrors the difficult decision Hardy himself had to make with this novel: to pursue the profession of architecture, where he was established, or literature, where he had yet to make his name. This updated edition contains a new introduction, bibliography, and chronology.]]> 432 Thomas Hardy 0192840738 Cassandra 5 3.78 1873 A Pair of Blue Eyes
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]]> Under the Greenwood Tree 825901 Under the Greenwood Tree is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of Thomas Hardy's most gentle and pastoral novels.]]> 218 Thomas Hardy 0192835173 Cassandra 5 3.68 1872 Under the Greenwood Tree
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]]> The Woodlanders 341281 here.

When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a sophisticated newcomer to the area—a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. Hardy's novel of betrayal, disillusionment and moral compromise depicts a secluded community coming to terms with the disastrous impact of outside influences. And in his portrayal of Giles Winterborne, Hardy shows a man who responds deeply to the forces of the natural world, thought they ultimately betray him.]]> 464 Thomas Hardy 0140435476 Cassandra 5 3.87 1887 The Woodlanders
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]]> The Return of the Native 32650 426 Thomas Hardy 037575718X Cassandra 5 3.87 1878 The Return of the Native
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]]> The Mayor of Casterbridge 6225875 332 Thomas Hardy 0671479660 Cassandra 5 4.43 1886 The Mayor of Casterbridge
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]]> Far From the Madding Crowd 31463 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439655

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.]]> 433 Thomas Hardy Cassandra 5 3.96 1874 Far From the Madding Crowd
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