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Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.

An ancient feud between two frontier families is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. In the grip of their relentless code of loyalty, they fight a war in Tonto Basin, desperately, doggedly, neither side seeing the futility of the conflict. Surrounded by this volatile environment, young Jean finds himself hopelessly in love with a girl from whom he is separated by an impassable barrier.

Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous children.These boys and girls discover a special place all their own, but they never dream of what will happen when the strangest family moves into an old nearby mansion.The Meredith clan is two boys and two girls, with a minister father but no mother-and a runaway girl named Mary Vance.Soon the Meredith kids join Anne's children in their private hideout to carry out their plans to save Mary from the orphanage,to help the lonely minister find happiness, and to keep a pet rooster from the soup pot.There's always an adventure brewing in the sun-dappled world of Rainbow Valley.

The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place--rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost World, a story set in the jungle--in a room in Challenger's house. This would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which time Doyle's spiritualist beliefs had begun to affect his writing.

Near their residence, Branksome, is The Cloomber Hall, for many years untenanted. After a little while it is settled in by John Berthier Heatherstone, late of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is nervous to the point of being paranoid. As the story unfolds, it becomes evident that his fears are connected with some people in India whom he has offended somehow. People hear a strange sound, like the tolling of a bell, in his presence, which seems to cause the general great discomfort. Every year his paranoia reaches its climax around the fifth of October, after which date his fears subside for a while. After some time there is a shipwreck in the bay and among the survivors are three Buddhist priests who had boarded the ship from Kurrachee.

"Mark Twain: Complete Works"contains over 60 novels and shorter texts from the great American humorist Mark Twain. It is the perfect book for any academic, literature lover, or American patriot who wants to escape into the wonderful mind of Mark Twain. This ebook is carefully formatted for your eReader, with a functional and detailed table of contents. "The Complete Works of Mark Twain ''. Twain began his career as a humorist, writing light, humorous verse, but evolved into a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, with Huckleberry Finn, he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative and social criticism. Twain was a master at rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language. He even delved into non-fiction, and Mark Twain’s. Following the Equator is a fantastic social commentary surrounding the imperialism of the British Empire. "Mark Twain: An American Humorist" Above all, however, Mark Twain is known as one of the best American humorists. His wit and satire are renowned throughout the world, and novels such as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" led to him being applauded as the ‘Greatest American humorist of his age’. By the time of his death in 1910, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (otherwise known as Mark Twain) had transformed American literature as we know it. Mark Twain: Complete Works includes the following texts: Following the EquatorThe Gilded Age: A Tale of TodayThe American ClaimantThe Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Adventures of Huckleberry A Horse’s TaleThe Mysterious StrangerAnd Much More!"Mark Twain: Complete Works"contains over 60 novels and shorter texts from the great American humorist Mark Twain. It is the perfect book for any academic, literature lover, or American patriot who wants to escape into the wonderful mind of Mark Twain. This ebook is carefully formatted for your eReader, with a functional and detailed table of contents. "The Complete Works of Mark Twain ''. Twain began his career as a humorist, writing light, humorous verse, but evolved into a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, with Huckleberry Finn, he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative and social criticism. Twain was a master at rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language. He even delved into non-fiction, and Mark Twain’s. Following the Equator is a fantastic social commentary surrounding the imperialism of the British Empire. "Mark Twain: An American Humorist" Above all, however, Mark Twain is known as one of the best American humorists. His wit and satire are renowned throughout the world, and novels such as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" led to him being applauded as the ‘Greatest American humorist of his age’. By the time of his death in 1910, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (otherwise known as Mark Twain) had transformed American literature as we know it. Mark Twain: Complete Works includes the following texts: Following the EquatorThe Gilded Age: A Tale of TodayThe American ClaimantThe Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Adventures of Huckleberry A Horse’s TaleThe Mysterious StrangerAnd Much More!