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Madame Bovary (1857)
Author: Gustave Flaubert; Publisher: Pomona Press
Flaubert's first and much debated novel, which took him six years to write, and was threatened with legal extinction when it appeared in 1857, here it appears in an admirable version by the late Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Despite the early antagonism it aroused on moral grounds, it has been called one of the most salutary novels ever written. Henry James even said it might have been conceived as a Sunday-School tract, and the fate of Mme. Bovary, that 'would-be sybarite without a soul, ' bears him out. But all critics of the art of fiction are agreed that in form and finish Bovary is one of the world's greatest novels. 'It remains, ' says Mr. Peter Lubbock in The Craft of Fiction, 'perpetually the novel of all novels which the criticism of fiction cannot over look; as soon as ever we speak of the principles of the art, we must be prepared to engage with Flaubert'
Genre: Classics
(ISBN: 9781406792317)
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Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
Author: Ambrose Bierce; Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull is a collection of short fables and stories written under Bierce's pseudonym, Dod Grile, and although one of his earliest published books, it still displays the wit and cynicism which colors his writing. The book is divided into three sections: Fables of Zambri, the Parsee, an assortment of over 100 fables; Brief Seasons of Intellectual Dissipation, discussions between a fool and a philosopher, a doctor and a soldier, respectively; and Divers Tales, 28 different stories of an eclectic nature, including The Grateful Bear, Dr. Deadwood, I Presume, Mrs. Dennison's Head, and Jim Beckwourth's Pond.
Genre: Classics
(ISBN: 9781598180107)
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Poor Folk
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Poor Folk, one of Dostoyevsky's greatest narratives is the story of two lower class people who fall in love. However, because of their extreme poverty they are too poor to even marry. Dostoyevsky's Poor Folk is an epistolary novel, or one told through a series of letters between the characters. It is gripping in its portrayal of the suffering, humiliation, and isolation that the poorest members of any society are forced to endure. A triumph of Russian literature, Poor Folk is a shining example of Dostoyevsky's narrative genius and its relative brevity makes it one of the author's more accessible works.
Genre: Classics
(ISBN: 9781421979700)
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The Homecoming
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Kim
Author: Rudyard Kipling; Publisher:
Reared in the teeming streets of India at the turn of the century, the orphan Kim is the 'Friend of all the world', an imp with an endless interest in the extraordinary characters he meets daily. One of them, an old Tibetan lama, sets him on the path that will lead him to travel the Great Trunk Road, and become a spy for the British.
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(ISBN: 9780192835130)
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