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During a trip to a nearby village to visit friends, Sir Ashleigh
Carruthers, the adventurous and eligible son of a country squire,
attends an evening service in the small local church. There, he
finds himself seated next to the alluring and hypnotically
beautiful Woman in Black. When the vicar falls ashen and collapses
mid-sermon after looking upon her face--and when he, himself,
becomes sick--Carruthers is left to wonder and then investigate:
Who is this mysterious woman, and why does she cause mad passion,
illness, and fear in her wake? Is she afflicted with the curse of
the vampire?
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The Three Musketeers
(Paperback, Annotated edition)
Alexandre Dumas; Introduction by Keith Wren; Notes by Keith Wren; Translated by William Barrow; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at
Canterbury. One of the most celebrated and popular historical
romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the
early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his
three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos,
Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de
Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the
guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against
the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of
seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the
background. But their most dangerous encounter is with the
Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female
villains, and Alexandre Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative
skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping
and dramatic conclusion. Our edition uses the William Barrow
translation first published by Bruce and Wylde (London,1846)
Meditations is a compendium of ruminations and reflections by the
second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to the
Stoic philosophy. It is a spiritual journal of the author’s
philosophical exercises and a chronicle of the paradox of the
philosopher-king.
The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are among the best loved and
most famous in world literature. This volume features more than
forty of their best-known fairy tales, lavishly illustrated with
line drawings and colour plates by Artur Rackham.
Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its
name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania - one of the three
totalitarian blocks dominating the world - ruled by a mysterious
leader called Big Brother who keeps the population in thrall
through strict surveillance and brutal police repression. In a
society where the individual is suppressed and turned into an
"unperson" for not conforming, and where not only personal thought,
but also historical record and language itself are constantly being
manipulated by the ruling regime, Ministry of Truth worker Winston
Smith tries to make sense of the rebellious thoughts and passions
that are stirring inside him, and finds himself impotent against
the inexorable machine that surrounds him and threatens to crush
him at any time. Arguably the greatest dystopian novel of all time
and the most influential post-war work of fiction - which enriched
the English language with words such as "Newspeak", "doublethink"
and "thoughtcrime" - Nineteen Eighty-Four is a riveting read and a
groundbreaking exploration of mass surveillance, censorship and
mind control, which has a deep resonance with the world we live in.
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