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The Adventures Of Sherlock
Holmes
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Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective (named after American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.) and illustrated by Sidney Paget.
These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14, 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies.
(Source: wikipedia.org)
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The Count Of Monte Cristo
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Dumas, Alexandre
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de
Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste
Maquet.
The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). It is primarily concerned with themes of justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness, and is told in the style of an adventure story.
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The Island Of Doctor Moreau
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Wells, Herbert George
A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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The Lost City
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Badger, Joseph E.
Badger was one
of the best of Beadle and Adams' authors and was among their last
contributors, having written serials, short stories, and
"libraries" for them for over twenty-five years. He once
told Grissom that he never cared to write for any other publishers,
although he did write some stories for the New York Ledger, Frank
Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly, the New York Weekly, and Saturday
Night, and later published several cloth-bound books. Whitson(4)
wrote of him:
Badger's writing
methods were peculiar. He carefully plotted even his long Dime
Libraries, chapter by chapter, before writing a word. Then he shut
himself up in his house, denied himself to everyone, divided his
time into "watches," wrote six hours and slept two, six
hours more and slept two, six hours more and slept two, and
completed a Dime Library of 80,000 words in a week; writing it ready
for the printer. Then he took a rest, and perhaps went fishing or
hunting, until he felt the call to write his next. He wrote his
serials for the Banner Weekly in the same way. When Beadle &
Adams failed(5) and the Libraries ended, he was not able
to change his style. He tried. I had his picture showing him seated
at his typewriter (an old-fashioned Caligraph, to which he was
wedded) with a big pipe in his mouth. He said a picture without the
pipe would not be natural, and he had it (the pipe) in his mouth
about all the time. Failing in his attempts to write, he naturally
drifted to running a tobacco shop...
(Source: niulib.niu.edu)
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The Lost Continent
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice
The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis is a fantasy novel by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. It was first published in serial form in Pearson's Magazine in the issues for July-December 1899, and in hardcover by Hutchison (London) and Harpers (New York) in 1900. There have been a number of editions since. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its reissuing by Ballantine Books as the forty-second volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in February, 1972. The Ballantine edition includes an introduction by Lin Carter.
The novel is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis, combining elements of the myth first told by Plato with the earlier Greek myth concerning the survival of a universal flood and restoration of the human race by
Deucalion.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Wilde, Oscar
A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Three Musketeers
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Dumas, Alexandre
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - inseparable men who chant the motto "One for all, and all for one".
The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Those three novels by Dumas are together known as the d'Artagnan Romances.
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The Time Machine
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Wells, Herbert George
The Time Machine is a book by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two theatrical films of the same name as well as at least one television and countless comic book adaptations. It also indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in all media. Technically a novella (it is a mere 38,000 words in length) The Time Machine is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively.
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Titus Andronicus
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Shakespeare, William
Titus Andronicus, or The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy. It depicts a fictional Roman general engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by far Shakespeare's bloodiest, taking its inspiration from the Senecan Tragedy of Ancient Rome, the gory theatre that was played to bloodthirsty circus audiences between gladiatorial combats. The play lost popularity during the Victorian era because of its gore, and has only recently begun to revive its fortunes.
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Treasure Island
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island.
Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale known for its superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatised of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perception of pirates is vast, including treasure maps with an 'X', black schooners, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen with parrots on their shoulders.
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