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  • Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

    eBook (Alpine Books, March 6, 2014)
    •This e-book publication is unique which includes detailed Biography. •This edition also includes Historical Background, Further Reading and Notes. •A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than Victorian society traditionally allowed. With a heroine full of yearning, the dangerous secrets she encounters, and the choices she finally makes, Charlotte Bronte's innovative and enduring romantic novel continues to engage and provoke readers.
  • Mary Shelley

    Mary Shelley, Alpine Books

    language (Alpine Books, March 4, 2014)
    • The complete text of Mary Shelley. • This e-book publication is unique which includes detailed Biography. • This edition also includes Historical Background. • A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. • This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors. A Complete Collection of Classic Mary. The works Include:• Frankenstein• The Last Man• Mathilda• Proserpine & Midas• Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley!!!
  • Ulysses

    James Joyce

    eBook (Alpine Books, March 3, 2014)
    •This e-book publication is unique which includes detailed Biography.•This edition also includes exclusive Introduction and Historical Background. •A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED. With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyces astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Blooms voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience.
  • The Republic

    Plato

    language (Alpine Books, March 5, 2014)
    •This e-book publication is unique which includes detailed Biography and Notes.•This edition also includes exclusive Introduction, Historical work and literary critiques. . •A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man, reason by which ancient readers used the name On Justice as an alternative title (not to be confused with the spurious dialogue also titled On Justice). The dramatic date of the dialogue has been much debated and though it must take place some time during the Peloponnesian War, "there would be jarring anachronisms if any of the candidate specific dates between 432 and 404 were assigned". It is Plato's best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities coming into existence "in speech", culminating in a city (Kallipolis) ruled by philosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existing regimes. The participants also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and of poetry in society.
  • Pride And Prejudice

    Jane Austen

    eBook (Alpine Books, March 3, 2014)
    •This e-book publication is unique which includes exclusive Introduction, Historical work and literary critiques. •This edition also includes detailed Biography and Notes. •A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.«Pride and Prejudice» is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Though the story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of «most loved books». It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. Modern interest in the book has resulted in a number of dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and stories imitating Austen’s memorable characters or themes.
  • Peter Pan

    J.M. Barrie

    eBook (Alpine Books, March 6, 2014)
    •This e-book publication is unique which includes exclusive Introduction. •This edition also includes Author Biography.•A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.One starry night, Peter Pan and Tinker Bell lead the three Darling children over the rooftops of London and away to Neverland--the island where lost boys play, mermaids splash and fairies make mischief. But a villainous-looking gang of pirates lurk in the docks, led by the terrifying Captain James Hook. Magic and excitement are in the air, but if Captain Hook has his way, before long, someone will be walking the plank and swimming with the crocodiles...
  • Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

    eBook (Alpine Books, March 22, 2014)
    •This e-book publication is unique which includes exclusive Biography.•This edition also includes Literary Critiques and Historical Background.•A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.
  • The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair

    eBook (Alpine Books, March 7, 2014)
    •This e-book publication is unique which includes detailed Biography. •A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors. 1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page.
  • Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley, Alpine Books

    language (Alpine Books, Feb. 25, 2014)
    •This e-book publication is unique which includes detailed Biography. •This edition also includes Historical Work. •A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a classic tale of a man-made monster seeking acceptance from society in light of his ghastly appearance and strange upbringing. With Europe as its back in the 1790’s, the story begins with a series of letters exchanged between Captain Robert Walton and his sister that chronicled the story of a man, Victor Frankenstein, whom he meets on the North Pole.Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. Plot:After being rescued from near death, Victor Frankenstein tells Robert Walton the story of his upbringing in a warm Swiss family and his fascination with studying how life was formed. He was an avid, amateur scientist who created a "perfect" human from spare body parts - only to have his plan backfire when the monster turned out to be extremely hideous and unappealing. During a brief study and recovery period with Henry Clerval, his closest friend, Frankenstein’s monster navigated the social scene for human friendship and was turned down again and again. After observing a family living in a small cottage, monster Frankenstein mustered the courage to seek an invite before getting rejected again. The last straw, he ventured out to seek revenge on the person who created him.During his trip back to Geneva, Switzerland - the monster met Frankenstein’s younger brother and killed him for revenge. After his brother’s death, Frankenstein went back to Geneva and found the monster canvassing the same woods his brother was last seen, coming to the realization the monster was responsible for this brutal act. After a short trip to the mountains, the monster caught up to Frankenstein and ordered him to create a female monster from scratch for companionship. After agreeing, he fled to England to start and scrapped the project midway, citing the possibility of further disarray. Knowing his days were numbered after Henry Clerval’s murder, he hastily married his cousin Elizabeth only to find his new wife killed by the monster later.After paying a visit to the cemetery to meet with his fallen family members, Victor realizes that his life’s goal from that point forward was to hunt down the monster and kill him. Prior, Victor already determines his fate and goes ahead with his wedding day, knowing the monster would catch up to him. Now, he sought to kill the monster to save humanity from his menace. Victor chases after him throughout Europe and the North Pole, where he temporarily loses track of the monster through a crack in the ice where he also meets Robert Walton and his crew. Ambitious, Victor gives a thorough lecture on how chasing glory was his Achilles heel and the dangerous of being too ambitious, citing "tranquility" as one of life’s Goa.
  • THE THREE MUSKETEERS

    ALEXANDRE DUMAS

    eBook (Alpine Books, April 14, 2014)
    •This e-book publication is unique which includes exclusive Introduction and Historical work. •This edition also includes detailed Biography. •A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.
  • The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    eBook (Alpine Books, April 15, 2014)
    Scarlet letter is a classic of American literature written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Set in the Puritan and Retrograde New England of the seventeenth century, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who, having committed adultery, has a daughter who refuses to reveal her father, struggling to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    eBook (Alpine Books, March 3, 2014)
    •This e-book publication is unique which includes exclusive Introduction, Historical work and literary critiques. •This edition also includes detailed Biography and Notes. •A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.