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Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. The eponymous Ethan Frome lives in a typical New England village where he makes a living out of his stony farm and exists at odds with his wife Zeena, a whining hypochondriac. When Mattie, Zeena’s cousin, comes to live with them, love develops between her and Ethan. They try to end their hapless romance by steering a bobsled into a tree; but both end up disabled, tied to a long life of despair with Zeena. Zeena, however, is transformed into a devoted nurse while Mattie becomes the nagging invalid. A powerful tale of passion and loss—and the wretched consequences thereof— Ethan Frome is one of American literature's great tragic love stories.The New York Times called Ethan Frome, "A compelling and haunting story."Ethan Frome departs from other novels like The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence in its exclusion of the upper classes. Wharton is believed to have based the novel on a real-life sledding accident that she heard about in Lenox, Massachusetts. Ethan Frome was adapted for film in 1993, starring Liam Neeson as Ethan Frome.*Includes image gallery.

"The most comprehensive assemblage of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty versions available."Special 99c promotion ends soon. Get your copy today before the price goes up to $8.99.*Every single version of 'Cinderella,' 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Sleeping Beauty.' *62 original illustrations beautifully formatted for the Kindle.*Links to free audio recordings.*Annotated with essays and movie lists.*Active Table of Contents accessible from the Kindle "go to" feature. Over 50 stories total. The complete, definitive collection for all three classic fairy tales:The Cat Cinderella The Little Glass Slipper Aschenputtel The Baba Yaga The Little Glass Slipper Katie Woodencloak Tattercoats Ashey Pelt The Sharp Grey Sheep Rashin-Coatie Cap O’Rushes The Hearth Cat The Princess and The Golden Shoes The Twelve Months Yeh-Shen Kongji and Patzzi Bawang Putih And Bawang Merah The Story of Tấm and Cám Fair, Brown, and Trembling Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Cap The Grandmother The True History of Little Golden-Hood The Tale of Jemima Puddle-DuckRed Riding-hood The Wolf and the Three GirlsCattarinetta The Wolf-King The Sleeping Beauty The Sleeping Beauty In The Woods The Glass Coffin The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island The Day-Dream Little Briar Rose The Petrified Mansion The Young Slave And more .... *Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle's Text-to-Speech features. *A low, can't-say-no price!

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights remains one of literature’s most disturbing explorations into the dark side of romantic passion. Heathcliff and Cathy believe they’re destined to love each other forever, but when cruelty and snobbery separate them, their untamed emotions literally consume them. Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights, an unpolished and devastating epic of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, is widely regarded as the most original tale of thwarted desire and heartbreak in the English language.*Includes image gallery.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialized in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in The Final Problem, and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.In 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel." In 1999, it was listed as the top Holmes novel, with a perfect rating from Sherlockian scholars of 100.*Includes annotated Sherlock Holmes Image Gallery and link to a free full-length audio recording of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld my man completed ..."In the summer of 1816, a young, well-educated woman from England traveled with her lover to the Swiss Alps. Unseasonable rain kept them trapped inside their lodgings, where they entertained themselves by reading ghost stories. At the urging of renowned poet Lord Byron, a friend and neighbor, they set their own pens to paper, competing to see who could write the best ghost story. The young woman, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, took the prize, with her tale of eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Frankenstein became a bestseller and a Gothic classic that still resonates with readers almost two centuries later…This is the original, 1818 text. In 1831, the more traditionally first 'popular' edition in one volume appeared.This version of the story was heavily revised by Mary Shelley who was under pressure to make the story more conservative, and included a new, longer preface by her, presenting a somewhat embellished version of the genesis of the story. This edition tends to be the one most widely read now but many scholars prefer the 1818 text, arguing that it preserves the spirit of Shelley's original publication.

First published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928, The Call of Cthulhu is a terrifying trilogy of horror stories that has influenced writers like William S. Burroughs, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti and Stephen King. Author H.P. Lovecraft died penniless and unknown in 1937 and is one of the few American authors to achieve fame posthumously. The Call of Cthulhu is widely regarded to be his finest achievement. This special edition is presented with 11 original illustrations, including the cover of the Weird Tales magazine from Feb 1928.*Active Table of Contents accessible from the Kindle "go to" feature. *Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle's Text-to-Speech features. *Special low price

She, subtitled A History of Adventure, is a novel by Henry Rider Haggard, first serialised in The Graphic magazine from October 1886 to January 1887. The novel is one of the classics of imaginative literature, and with over 96 million copies sold in 44 different languages, one of the best-selling books of all time.Extraordinarily popular upon its release, She has never been out of print. According to the literary historian Andrew M. Stauffer, "She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard".The story is a first-person narrative that follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. There, they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns as the all-powerful 'She,' or "She-who-must-be-obeyed".In this work, Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World sub-genre, which many later authors emulated.She is placed firmly in the imperialist literature of nineteenth-century England, and inspired by Rider Haggard's experiences of South Africa and British colonialism. The story expresses numerous racial and evolutionary conceptions of the late Victorians, especially notions of degeneration and racial decline prominent during the fin de siècle.In the figure of She, the novel notably explored themes of female authority and feminine behaviour. It has received praise and criticism alike for its representation of womanhood.*Includes link to free full-length audio recording of She.*Includes image gallery.*Special low price.

“I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.” ― Joseph Conrad, The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad invented the terrorist-spy genre in 1907 with his novella The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale.. The Secret Agent was one of "the three works of literature most cited in the American media" around the two weeks following September 11, 2001.” ( From “Conrad in the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives, Abingdon, Oxford.”). The story is set in London in 1886 and deals largely with the life of Mr. Verloc and his job as a spy. The Secret Agent is notable as one of Conrad's later political novels, which move away from his typical tales of seafaring. The novel deals broadly with the notions of anarchism, espionage, and terrorism and depicts the type of anarchist and revolutionary groups which sprouted up before many of the social uprisings of the early twentieth century. Recently, The Secret Agent was ranked the 46th best novel of the 20th century by Modern Library. “One of Conrad's supreme masterpieces. . . .one of the unquestioned classics of the first order that he added to the English novel.” - F. R. Leavis*Includes image gallery.*Includes link to free unabridged audio recording of The Secret Agent.