Geoffrey Giuliano
Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous—gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing. It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that it represents the only time she ever used a first-person narrator, and it is the only time she wrote about the supernatural.
The tale...
According to Wikipedia: ""The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a novella by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo; and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who was granted the title Prince of Ghor in perpetuity for
...Novel by the author of Moby Dick. "Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a Gentleman in the Merchant Navy." According to Wikipedia: "Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously after only a few years. By the time of his death
...Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Charles Dickens, 'American Notes.'
American Notes is a fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristic wit and charm. When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank and often humorous
...6) Mortal coils
A ranch foreman becomes a hero in this classic Western novel that inspired five films and a popular TV series.
Loosely based on the Johnson County War of 1892, a bloody clash between big landowners and small ranchers in Wyoming, Owen Wister's The Virginian is the classic saga of a man who embodied the spirit of a growing nation...
"When you call me that, SMILE!"
He wasn't looking for fame or glory. He wasn't looking
"Love and Friendship" is a collection of Jane Austen's early writings, composed during her teenage years. The work is a compilation of letters, short stories, and humorous sketches that showcase Austen's wit, imagination, and satirical prowess.
The title story, "Love and Friendship," is an epistolary novella that parodies the sentimental novels of Austen's time. It follows the misadventures of Laura and her confidante Sophia, whose romantic
...11) Nightmare Abbey
13) American Notes
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Rudyard Kipling, 'American Notes.'
Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence, and expresses astonishment at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that made a mockery of American democracy, and while exhibiting the racist attitudes that made him controversial in the 20th century concludes
...14) Understood Betsy
15) The Devil's Pool
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, 'Mental Efficiency, and Other Hints to Men and Women'.
This book on Mental Efficiency was typical of the self-improvement essays and books that Arnold Bennett produced alongside his outstanding fiction. Even all these years later, it still makes a lot of sense, and modern readers will be amused and instructed!
Bennett (1867-1931) was a British novelist. He was born in a modest
...18) The black arrow
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Charles Dickens, 'The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.'
In this story, Dickens narrates the hair-raising experiences of a professor. As the protagonist dwells on his past sorrows and mistakes, a phantom visits him. It offers him a bizarre escape from painful recollections of yesteryear by offering to eradicate his memory. On seeing the professor turn into a man devoid of emotions, the
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