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Nikolai Gogol Collection Books (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 13 books

1. Taras Bulba [1835]
2. Dead Souls [1841-46]
3. The Inspector-General (The Government Inspector) [1836]
4. St John's Eve
5. How the Two Ivans Quarrelled (The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich)
6. Memoirs of a Madman (Diary of a Madman)
7. The Nose [1836]
8. The Calash (The Carriage) [1836]
9. The Cloak (The Overcoat) [1842]
10. The Mysterious Portrait [1842]
11. A May Night ; or the Drowned Maiden
12. Taras Bulba [1835]
13. The Viy


About the Author
Nikolai Gogol

Ukrainian-born Russian writer. Although his early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literature; often called the "father of modern Russian realism" he was one of the first Russian authors to criticize his country's way of life. The novels Taras Bul'ba (1835; 1842 [revised edition]) and Dead Souls [1842], the play The Inspector-General (1836, 1842), and the short stories Diary of a Madman, The Nose and The Overcoat [1842] are among his best known works. With their scrupulous and scathing realism, ethical criticism as well as philosophical depth, they remain some of the most important works of world literature.

George Gissing Collection (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 2 books

1. New Grub Street [1890]
2. Born in Exile [1891]

About the Author
George Gissing

Novelist, born at Wakefield. In his novels he depicted the environment and struggles of the lower and lower middle classes with a somewhat pessimistic and depressing realism, although his last work, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, seemed to usher in the dawn of a somewhat brighter outlook. His other novels include Demos [1886], Thyrza [1887], The Nether World [1889], New Grub Street [1891], Born in Exile [1892], In the Year of Jubilee [1894], and The Town Traveller [1898]. He died at St. Jean de Luz in the Pyrenees.

William Godwin Collection (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 7 books

1. A Defense of the Rockingham Party, in Their Late Coalition with the Right Honorable Frederic Lord North [1783, pamphlet]
2. Imogen: A Pastorial Romance from the Ancient British [1784]
3. Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness [1793]
4. Things as They Are or The Adventures of Caleb Williams [1794]
5. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman [1798]
6. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author [1831]
7. Lives of the Necromancers [1834]

About the Author
William Godwin

Philosopher and novelist, born at Wisbeach, and ed. at a school in Norwich, to which city his father, a Presbyterian minister, had removed, and subsequently at a Presbyterian college at Hoxton, with a view to the ministry. From 1778 to 1783 he acted as minister of various congregations near London; but his theological views having undergone important changes, he resigned his pastorate, and devoted himself to a literary career.

His first work, a series of historical sketches in the form of sermons, failed. He then found employment as one of the principal writers in the New Annual Register, and became otherwise prominent as an advocate of political and social reform. Many of his views were peculiar and extreme, and even tended, if fully carried out in practice, to subvert morality; but they were propounded and supported by their author with a whole-hearted belief in their efficacy for the regeneration of society: and the singular circumstances of his connection with and ultimate marriage to Mary Wollstonecraft showed at least that he had the courage of his opinions.

His Enquiry concerning Political Justice [1793] made him famous. A year later he published his masterpiece, Caleb Williams, a novel exhibiting a sombre strength rarely equalled. The next few years were occupied in political controversy, for which Godwin was, by his sincerity and his masculine style, well fitted; and it was in the midst of these — in 1797 — that his first marriage, already alluded to, and the death of his wife, of whom he published a singular but interesting Life, occurred. In 1799 his second great novel, St. Leon, based upon the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life, appeared. His other novels, Fleetwood [1804], Mandeville [1817], and Cloudesley [1830], are much inferior. In addition to these works Godwin brought out an elaborate Life of Chaucer in 2 vols. [1803], An Essay on Sepulchres [1808], containing much fine thought finely expressed, A History of the Commonwealth, an Essay against the theories of Malthus (q.v.), and his last work, Lives of the Necromancers.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Books (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 3 books

1. The Yellow Wallpaper [1892]
2. Moving the Mountain [1911]
3. Herland [1915]

About the Author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper".

Australia Twice Traversed (v. 0.2)

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About the Book
Australia Twice Traversed

In 1880 Giles published The Journal of a Forgotten Expedition, being an account of his third expedition, and in 1889 appeared Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration in two substantial volumes. This gives an account of his five expeditions. He made a number of other minor journeys and his last years were spent as a clerk in the warden's office at Coolgardie, where his great knowledge of the interior was always available for prospectors. Giles was made a fellow and was given the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1880 and was made a knight of the crown of Italy.

Despite his explorations, the various Australian governments at the time turned their respective backs on his achievements once they had been completed, and refused to patronise any further exploits or give him much in the way of financial reward. Governor Sir William Jervois claimed on 11 October 1881, 'I am informed that he gambles and that his habits are not always strictly sober'.

Giles was a land classifier in the Western District of Victoria in 1877-79, and became a clerk in the Coolgardie, Western Australia warden's office in the 1890s,. Giles eventually died of pneumonia, virtually forgotten, on 13 November 1897 and is buried at Coolgardie Cemetery. He was unmarried.

About the Author
Ernest Giles, 1835-1897

Ernest Giles was born in Bristol, England son of William Giles, a merchant, and Jane Elizabeth, née Powell. Giles was educated at Christ's Hospital school, London. At the age of 15, he emigrated to Australia, joining his parents and took up residence in Adelaide, South Australia. In 1852 Giles went to the Victorian goldfields, then obtained a position in the General Post Office, Melbourne, and afterwards one in the county court. Soon tiring of town life Giles went to the back country and obtained valuable experience as a bushman; he was exploring on the Darling River in 1861, looking for pastoral country. He was searching for land capable of cultivating hemp, as it was valuable for rope at the time.

Giles didn't attempt a regular exploring expedition until 1872, when with two other men he left Chambers pillar, South Australia (now in the Northern Territory), around the middle of August and traversed much previously untrodden country to the north-west and west. Finding their way barred by Lake Amadeus and that their horses were getting very weak, a return was made to the Finke River and thence to Charlotte Waters and Adelaide, where Giles arrived in January 1873. Giles looked upon his expedition as a failure, but he had done well considering the size and equipment of his party.

Beggar Opera By John Gay (v. 0.2)

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About the Book
Beggar's Opera [1728]

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative. The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time.

The Beggar's Opera premiered at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre on 29 January 1728[1] and ran for 62 consecutive performances, the longest run in theatre history up to that time.[2] The work became Gay's greatest success and has been played ever since. The original production was so successful that John Rich, the manager of the theatre, was able to build a new theatre, the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, forerunner of the Royal Opera House.[3] In 1920, The Beggar's Opera began an astonishing revival run of 1,463 performances at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London, which was one of the longest runs in history for any piece of musical theatre at that time.

About the Author
John Gay, 1685-1732

Poet and dramatist, born near Barnstaple of a good but decayed family. His parents dying while he was a child he was apprenticed to a silk-mercer in London, but not liking the trade, was released by his master. In 1708 he published a poem, Wine, and in 1713 Rural Sports, which he dedicated to Pope, whose friendship he obtained. A little before this he had received an appointment as secretary in the household of the Duchess of Monmouth. His next attempts were in the drama, in which he was not at first successful; but about 1714 he made his first decided hit in The Shepherd’s Week, a set of six pastorals designed to satirise Ambrose Philips, which, however, secured public approval on their own merits. These were followed by Trivia [1716], in which he was aided by Swift, an account in mock heroic verse of the dangers of the London streets, and by The Fan.

The last few years of his life were passed in the household of the Duke of Queensberry, who had always been his friend and patron. He died after three days’ illness, aged 47. Gay was an amiable, easy-going man, who appears to have had the power of attracting the strong attachments of his friends, among whom were Pope and Swift. He seems to have been one of the very few for whom the latter had a sincere affection. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. Of all he has written he is best remembered by one or two songs, of which the finest is Black-eyed Susan.

Clarimonde By Theophile (v. 0.2)

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About the Book
Clarimonde ("La Morte Amoureuse") [1836]

The story opens with the elderly Romuald recounting a strange adventure during his youth. The day of his ordination many years ago, he saw a beautiful young woman in the church. He heard her voice promising to love him and to make him happier than he would be in Paradise, if he would just leave the church. However, he was in the middle of his vows, and before he knew it, he had finished the ceremony. As he left the church, a cold hand grasped his arm and he heard a woman say "what have you done!" When he turned around, she had disappeared. On his way back to the seminary, he was greeted by a page who gives him a card reading, "Clarimonde, Palace Concini."

He continued his studies, but he was plagued by the memory of Clarimonde and regretted taking his vows. Finally, he was notified of his new parish in the country. As he was leaving town with Sérapion, an older priest who mentored him, he looks back on the town, which was covered in shadow with the exception of a golden palace on a hill. He asked Sérapion about the palace, and Sérapion answered that it was the Palace Concini, where Clarimonde the courtesan lived. He told Roumauld that it was a place of great debauchery.

Romuald lived quietly in the country, pining over Clarimonde, for an indefinite period of time. One night, a man on horseback arrived asking the priest to come quickly and offer last rites to his mistress. Romuald went to a mysterious castle in the country where he saw Clarimonde dead. In his grief, he kissed her, and his kiss brought her back to life.

He woke up three days later at his home, and his maid told him that he had been brought back by the same horseman with which he left. After that, he had fallen into a fever and remained unconscious. Romuald believed that all that had passed with Clarimonde had been a dream; but a few days later, she appeared to him in his room. She looked dead, but beautiful, and she told him to prepare for a trip.

The second night, she returned, but she looked vibrant and alive. The two of them went to Venice and lived together. During the day, Romuald performed his duties as priest, and at night, he was Seignior Romuald of Venice. One night, he refused to take the sleeping draught that Clarimonde offered him each evening, and he realized that she was drinking his blood while he slept. However, Romuald admitted that he would have gladly given all his blood for her.

About the Author
Theophile Gautier, 1811-1872

French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Proust and Oscar Wilde.

Men Women And Gods By Helen (v. 0.2)

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About the Book
Men, Women and Gods, and other lectures [1885]

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

About the Author
Helen Hamilton Gardener, 1853-1925

Helen Hamilton Gardener was the pen name of Alice Chenowith Day, a vice-president of National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Civil Servive Commission. In "Sex in Brain," she challenged previously held notions that women were intellectually inferior to men on the basis of brain physiology. This memorial service includes eulogies by Carrie Chapman Catt, Maud Wood Park, and her colleagues at the Civil Service Commission.

Love, Savannah (本 ebook 书) (v. 1.0)

Sty'll fish co., ltd опубликовал приложение 2011-05-29
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ISBN:T978192668196#
After thinking they were alone in the world, Carolina and Savannah discover brother Jacob alive and well and back in Georgia along with the two men they are destined to love, whether they like it or not!

On The Silver E... (本 ebook 书) (v. 1.0)

Sty'll fish co., ltd опубликовал приложение 2011-05-29
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「On The Silver Edge Of Time」
A secret past, a witch’s prophecy, and a journey through time touch the heart of a Viking warrior.