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• Two of American author Sherwood Anderson's short story collections are in this Kindle eBook: Winesburg, Ohio & Triumph Of The EggWinesburg, Ohio - A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life (1919)Twenty-one short stories revolving around George Willard, from his youth to his abandonment of Winesburg, Ohio (a fictitious town) while he still a young man. The book is loosely based on the author's childhood memories. Many of the stories were written during World War I with the backdrop of a single community, with the first story, "The Book of the Grotesque", serving as an introduction. Throughout, Anderson highlights his character's struggle to overcome loneliness and isolation and his provides a thoughtful and stylistic insight into his characters using beautiful and simple prose, Winesburg, Ohio is one of the earliest works of Modernist literature and one of the most influential portraits of pre-industrial American small-town life. The Modern Library has ranked the book among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.Triumph Of The Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and PoemsThis 1921 short story collection was published after Winesburg, Ohio. The book contains 15 stories including The Dumb Man; The Other Woman; The Egg; Motherhood and Out of Nowhere Into Nothing.About The AuthorAmerican writer Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) wrote novels and short stories which were often subjective. He was a copywriter and business owner in Ohio but poor health led him to leave his business and concentrate on writing.

• Two of Charles Dickens' classics are in this Kindle eBook: Bleak House & Dombey and SonBleak House (1853)This story involves the estate of Chesney Wold, where Sir Leicester Dedlock lives. Anyone considering hiring a lawyer should enjoy this legal classic.Dombey and Son (1848)Paul Dombey owns a shipping company and hopes to pass it on to his son but his wife dies after childbirth, leaving him with a dilemma.About The AuthorEnglish author Charles Dickens (1812 –1870) wrote many bestsellers including: 1, Pickwick Club (Serial 1836-37)2. Oliver Twist (Serial 1837 - 39)3. Nicholas Nickleby (Serial 1838 - 1839)4. The Old Curiosity Shop (Serial 1840 - 1841)5. Barnaby Rudge (Serial 1841 - 1841)6. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Serial 1843 - 1844)7. Dombey and Son (Serial 1846 - 1848)8. David Copperfield (Serial 1849 - 1850)9. Bleak House (Serial 1852 - 1853)10. Hard Times (Serial 1854 - 1854)11. Little Dorrit (Serial 1855 - 1857)12. A Tale of Two Cities (Serial 1859 - 1859)13. Great Expectations (Serial 1860 - 1861)14. Our Mutual Friend (Serial 1864 - 1865)15. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)

• Two of Susan Coolidge's Katy series of books (Volumes IV and V) are in this Kindle eBook: Clover & In The High ValleyClover (1888)Katy is all grown up in the fourth book of the five-volume series. Will she or won't she get married? Meanwhile, Clover takes their youngest brother out West for health reasons. There are lots of amusing and endearing moments in this novel.In The High Valley (1891)In the fifth and final volume in the Katy Chronicles, Lionel Young and his sister leave their home in England to travel to the remote High Valley in America where Lionel hopes to take a stake in a cattle business. Clover is now living in the High Valley and clashes with Imogen before Katy arrives on the scene.About The AuthorAmerican author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835 - 1910) used the pen name Susan Coolidge. She is best known for following the adventures of 12-year-old American girl Katy Carr and her family. They live in the fictional Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s. Sarah Woolsey was born into a wealthy, influential New England family and she spent much of her childhood in New Haven Connecticut. She worked as a nurse during the American Civil War (1861–1865), after started to write afterward. She resided at her family home in Newport, Rhode Island, until her death. She is best known for her classic children's novel What Katy Did (1872). The fictional Carr family was modeled after her own. The brothers and sisters were modeled on her four younger siblings: Jane Andrews Woolsey, Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey. Theodora Walton Woolsey, and William Walton Woolsey. Other "Katy Series" Books By The Same Author: Book I: What Katy Did (1872)Katy, a 12-year-old tomboy, is always finding trouble but aspires to be beautiful and loved. When an accident makes her an invalid, her recovery gradually teaches her to be good and kind.Book II: What Katy Did at School (1873) Katy and Clover attend the fictional Hillsover School (set in Hanover, New Hampshire).Book III: What Katy Did Next (1886)Katy's new friend takes her on a thrilling trip to Europe.

• This Kindle edition contains Alec Waugh's 1919 classic The Prisoners of Main, describes the author's experiences as a Prisoner of war in Germany during World War I.About the AuthorBritish author Alexander Raban "Alec" Waugh (1898 – 1981), brother of author Evelyn Waugh, was an author, critic and publisher. He was born in London and his first, semi-autobiographical novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), was based partly on his experience at Sherborne School, in Dorset. The book was controversial as it mentioned homosexual relationships between boys. Waugh served in France during World War I. He was captured by the Germans in 1918, and spent time in prisoner-of-war camps in Karlsruhe and in the Mainz Citadel. His work is reminiscent of W. Somerset Maugham, and his 1955 novel Island in the Sun was a best-seller. His work includes:The Loom of Youth (1917)Resentment Poems (1918)The Prisoners of Mainz (1919)Pleasure (1921)Public School Life: Boys, Parents, Masters (1922)The Lonely Unicorn (1922)Myself When Young : confessions (1923)Card Castle (1924)Kept : a story of post-war London (1925)Love In These Days (1926)On Doing What One Likes (1926)Nor Many Waters (1928)The Last Chukka : Stories of East and West (1928)Three Score and Ten (1929)"...'Sir,' She Said" (1930)The Coloured Countries (1930)Hot Countries (1930), with woodcuts by Lynd WardMost Women (1931)So Lovers Dream (1931)Leap Before You Look (1932)No Quarter (book)|No Quarter (1932)Thirteen Such Years (1932)Wheels Within Wheels (1933)The Balliols (1934)Jill Somerset (1936)Eight Short Stories (1937)Going Their Own Ways (1938)No Truce With Time (1941)His Second War (1944)The Sunlit Caribbean (1948)These Would I Choose (1948)Unclouded Summer (1948)The Sugar Islands: a Caribbean travelogue (1949)The Lipton Story (1950)Where the Clocks Chime Twice (, 1898-1981)

TRILOGY - Three of G.A. Henty's war adventure books are in this Kindle eBook: With the British Legion & Through the Sikh War & With the Allies to Pekin With the British Legion, A Story of the Carlist Wars (First published 1903)The little-known story of the British Legion under Sir de Lacy Evans in Spain. The expedition was a failure, and that from no want of heroic courage on the part of the soldiers, but from the most scandalous neglect and ill-treatment by the Government of Queen Christina. Within six months of their arrival in the Peninsula nearly 5,000 -- half of the Legion -- had either died from want, privation, or fever in the hospitals of Vittoria, or were invalided home. The remainder, although ill-fed and with their pay nine months in arrear, showed themselves worthy of the best traditions of the British army. Only at the end of their two years' engagement, finding all attempts to obtain fair treatment from the Government unavailing, they took their discharge and returned home. The history of their doings as described in this story.Through the Sikh War (First published 1903)Among the many wars by which, province by province, the Empire of India was won, few, if any, were more brilliant and hard fought than those which terminated in the annexation of the Punjaub. It is satisfactory to know that the conquest of the Sikhs—a brave and independent race—was not brought about by any of the intrigues which marred the brilliancy of some of Britain's early conquests, or by greed for additional territory, but was the result of a wanton invasion of the states under Britain's protection by the turbulent soldiery of the Punjaub, who believed themselves invincible, and embarked upon the conflict with a confident belief that they would make themselves masters of Delhi, if not drive the British completely out of India. It was fortunate for Britain that the struggle was not delayed for a few years, and that there was time for the Punjaub to become well contented with British rule before the outbreak of the Mutiny; for had the Punjaub declared against Britain at that critical period it would assuredly have turned the scale, and the work of conquering India must needs have been undertaken anew. With the Allies to Pekin, A Tale of the Relief of the Pekin Legations (First published 1903)The campaign which ended with the relief of the Pekin Legations is unique in its way, carried on by an army made up of almost all European nationalities. The quarrel originated in the rising of a mob of ruffians known under the name of Boxers. The movement spread like wildfire, and developed into the wholesale massacre of the missionaries of Northern China. The Empress, seeing the formidable nature of the rising, and hoping to gain by it the expulsion of all foreigners from her dominions, allied herself with the Boxers, besieged the various Legations, and attacked Tientsin, which stands upon the river by which the trade with Pekin is carried on. Admiral Seymour, with a force of little over a thousand men, marched to the relief of the Legations. The railway, however, was cut both before and behind him, and after severe fighting he retired upon a Chinese fortress a few miles from Tientsin, where he maintained himself until he was relieved by another force which had arrived by sea and had destroyed the forts at the mouth of the river. Tientsin itself was captured by the allies after one dayʼs hard fighting, and the army then advanced to the relief of the Legations.

• Three of American author John Fox Jr's westerns (two of them made into Hollywood films) are bound together in this Kindle book: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, A Mountain Europa & Christmas Eve on Lonesome And Other StoriesThe Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903)While Chad loves Melissa, he leaves for Kentucky before the outbreak of the civil war. He dreams of getting a college education but joins the Yankee army instead.After the war, Chad hopes to rekindle his romance but Melissa has other ideas. Fox's novel was made into three films in 1920, 1928 and 1961.A Mountain EuropaClayton must leave behind university to help his family with their financial problems.Christmas Eve on Lonesome & Other StoriesA short story collection from American author John Fox Jr first published in 1904.About The Author Kentucky-born author John Fox, Jr. (1862–1919) was a journalist for the New York Times. His novels include: The Last Stetson,The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, A Novel (1908)The Heart Of The Hills, A Novel (1913)The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908)The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903)A Mountain Europa (1899)A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895)A Knight of the Cumberland (1906)In Happy Valley'Hell fer Sartain' and Other StoriesThe Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903)A Mountain Europa (1899)Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories (1904)