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Omslagsbild för The Kiss
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The Kiss

When a young girl gets her heart broken, her beloved aunt embarks on an exploration of the art of kissing. The aunt explains in a series of letters that all of the misfortunes that ...


Omslagsbild för The Marquis de Fumerol
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The Marquis de Fumerol

Marquis de Fumerol's death brings with it a serious political scandal. The black sheep of a royalist family - he cannot die without official last rites from the Church. As the rest ...


Omslagsbild för The Love of Long Ago
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The Love of Long Ago

An elderly, aristocratic woman lives lavishly in a mansion with her beloved granddaughter. One morning her granddaughter reads her an article from the morning paper about several c ...


Omslagsbild för The Magic Couch
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The Magic Couch

Our narrator sits and relishes the natural beauty of a river, contemplating how painful suicide must be. He dreams of a world in which a special device allows people to end their d ...


Omslagsbild för The Mask
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The Mask

Everything is going wonderfully at the Montmartre costume ball - the music, the atmosphere, and the food are all perfect. Until one of the lead dancers jumps into the crowd and pas ...


Omslagsbild för The Log
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The Log

Our young narrator sits comfortably in front of a crackling fire, accompanied by an elderly woman. Their peace is shattered when a rebellious log leaps out of the fire and rolls to ...


Omslagsbild för The Little Cask
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The Little Cask

A successful businessman who wouldn't dream of accepting 'no' as an answer, Jules Chicot has his heart set on buying his neighbour's farm. He will stop at nothing. This short story ...


Omslagsbild för The Legion of Honor
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The Legion of Honor

The rich but rather dull Maitre Caillard has always been besotted with the famous 'Leigon of Honor'. It would kill him to walk the streets of Paris and see others displaying it pro ...


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Twice Bought

Tom Brixton and Fred Westly have always been best friends. Before they left England to dig gold in Oregon, Fred promised Tom's mother that he would do his best to keep her rowdy so ...


Omslagsbild för Suuri illusioni
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Suuri illusioni

Mika Waltarin kiihkeä läpimurtoromaani vuodelta 1928. Suuri illusioni kuvaa kulttuurinnälkäisten nuorten ystäväpiiriä kieltolain, salakapakoiden ja jazzin täyttämässä Helsingissä j ...


Omslagsbild för Jerry of the Islands
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Jerry of the Islands

Jack London infamously wrote books about fantastic dogs and ‘Jerry of the Islands’ is no exception. Jerry is an English Terrier who lives a life coloured by the rough and racist vi ...


Omslagsbild för Great Expectations II
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Great Expectations II

There could only ever be three reasons as to why you find yourself reading this text. 1: You finished and liked part 1 and want to continue the story.2: The hummus on your finger b ...


Omslagsbild för A Daughter of the Vine
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A Daughter of the Vine

Originally serialised in a magazine under the title ‘The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance’, Gertrude Atherton’s ‘A Daughter of the Vine’ was published as a full-length book in 1899. ...


Omslagsbild för Ancestors
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Ancestors

A group of aging, aristocratic English ladies have decided to take a trip to America. They plan to travel across it and see the beauty of America’s varied landscapes for themselves ...


Omslagsbild för Black Oxen
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Black Oxen

First published in 1923 ‘Black Oxen’ is one of feminist author Gertrude Atherton’s most famous and most controversial novels. Set in New York during the 1920s, it tells the story o ...


Omslagsbild för Mrs. Balfame
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Mrs. Balfame

Enid Balfame is a respectable, middle-aged woman, who lives a quiet life in a peaceful, sleepy small town. As her marriage turns sour, Enid can see only one way out – a solution to ...


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Rezanov

‘Rezanov’ is an historical romance by the popular feminist author Gertrude Atherton. Nikolai Rezanov, a Russian privy councillor and grand chamberlain to Alexander the First of Rus ...


Omslagsbild för Senator North
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Senator North

Independent and beautiful, when young Betty Madison encounters politicians including the rising star Senator North, she makes quite an impression. Despite her restless nature, Bett ...


Omslagsbild för Sleeping Fires
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Sleeping Fires

Set in the high-society of 1860s San Francisco, ‘Sleeping Fires’ by famous feminist author Gertrude Atherton is a tale of love and resentment and an exploration of the moral and so ...


Omslagsbild för The Travelling Thirds
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The Travelling Thirds

The upper-class Moulton family are travelling across Europe together. Mr Moulton, his daughter Lydia and his cousin Catalina are keen to travel third-class to Spain, in order to ex ...


Omslagsbild för The White Morning
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The White Morning

German Countess Gisela Neibuhr is feeling decidedly disappointed with the course her country appears to be going in. A talented writer, Gisela decides to rebel the only way she kno ...


Omslagsbild för Wives and Daughters
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Wives and Daughters

Young Molly Gibson is the daughter of the widowed Dr Gibson. She has been brought up by her father, but as Molly approaches adulthood Dr Gibson foresees trouble ahead, and Molly’s ...


Omslagsbild för Two Stories
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Two Stories

"Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall."'The Mark on the Wall' is about a woman sitting in her chair, starring at ...


Omslagsbild för Kew Gardens
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Kew Gardens

'Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying ...


Omslagsbild för Abeniki Caldwell
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Abeniki Caldwell

The terrifying outcast Abeniki Caldwell wins the love of the beautiful Lady Berenice after the events of a dark and dangerous night. Her father forbids the marriage, insistent that ...