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Zeppelin's Passenger
A Spy Story of the English Coast
Av E. Phillips Oppenheim, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
56 kr
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A Zeppelin drops a passenger on the English coast, and he walks into the house of a woman who must now decide what she owes her country and what she owes an old debt. Oppenheim wrote it in 1918, when the raids were real and the coast really was watched; the spy story here is domestic, played out …
Pair of Blue Eyes
A Romance of the West-Country Cliffs
Av Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
63 kr
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A young architect is sent to a remote Cornish parish to survey a church tower and falls in love with the rector's daughter; so, later, does the London critic who reviews his work. Hardy had been that architect, restoring churches for a living, and he set the novel on the cliffs he knew - where he …
Great God Pan
A Tale of the Unseen World
Av Arthur Machen, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
56 kr
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A surgeon performs a small operation on a young woman's brain so that she may see the god Pan, and years later a series of London gentlemen begin killing themselves. Machen grew up among the Roman ruins of Gwent and never wrote about anything else, really; this novella was denounced as degenerate …
Mugby Junction
A Christmas Number of 1866
Av Charles Dickens, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
56 kr
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A man who has spent his whole life in one office gets off a train at a railway junction with no plans, and stays - and the lines running out of the station become the lives he might have had. Dickens wrote the frame of the Christmas number of 1866, the year after he survived the Staplehurst rail …
Study in Scarlet
The First Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Av Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
56 kr
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An army surgeon home from Afghanistan needs cheap lodgings and is introduced to a man conducting experiments in a hospital laboratory. Doyle wrote the first Holmes story in three weeks and sold it outright for twenty-five pounds - the worst bargain in publishing history. The method, the rooms in …
Wuthering Heights
A Tale of the Yorkshire Moors
Av Emily Bronte, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
63 kr
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Two houses on the Yorkshire moors, three generations, and a love that neither party would call by that name - Emily Bronte's only novel was published under a man's name and dismissed as brutal. It is narrated at two removes, by a stranger and a servant, so that the reader must decide how much of …
Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
A Second Voyage Round the World
Av Daniel Defoe, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
63 kr
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Crusoe, old and rich and unable to sit still, goes back to his island - then on to Madagascar, India, China and overland across Siberia to Archangel. Defoe published the first book at fifty-nine and this sequel four months later; it sold, it was read for a century as the other half of the story, …
Catherine
A Murderess Told Against the Fashion for Newgate Heroes
Av William Makepeace Thackeray, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
56 kr
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Catherine Hayes, a servant girl, marries badly, poisons her way through it and is burnt at Tyburn - and Thackeray, sickened by novels that made criminals romantic, wrote her deliberately repellent to spoil the taste. Born in Calcutta and sent home at five, he lost his inheritance at cards and by …
Beast in the Jungle, and Other Stories
A Story of a Life Spent Waiting
Av Henry James, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
56 kr
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John Marcher has told one person his secret: that he is reserved for some rare and terrible fate, and can do nothing but wait for it. May Bartram agrees to wait with him, and the years pass in drawing rooms. James wrote the most frightening story in his work without a single event in it - the beast …
Emma
A Comedy of Matchmaking
Av Jane Austen, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
63 kr
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Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, rich, and quite certain she knows what everyone else should want. Austen said she was taking on a heroine whom no one but herself would much like, and then wrote the funniest of her novels around her - a comedy in which every piece of matchmaking misfires because …
Dust
Wheat, Mortgages, and a Marriage
Av Marcet Haldeman-Julius, E. Haldeman-Julius m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
56 kr
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A Kansas farm, a marriage made for the land, and a woman who understands too late what she has agreed to - dust, wheat, mortgages, and a husband who is not cruel, only certain. Emanuel Haldeman-Julius sold literature by the ton: his Little Blue Books, five cents each, put Shakespeare and Darwin …
Valley of Fear
A Case of Sherlock Holmes
Av Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel P. Ashcroft
E-bok, 2026
56 kr
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A cipher message, a murder at a moated manor house in Sussex with the victim's face destroyed by a shotgun, and then - halfway through - the book stops and goes to a Pennsylvania coal valley, where a secret society runs the mines by terror. Conan Doyle took the second half from the real Molly …
