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“henry holt”

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  • The Midnight Mail

    by Henry Holt ...
    The Midnight Mail, first published in 1931, is a classic, fast-paced British murder mystery by leading author Henry Holt. The book, published as part of the Crime Club series, opens with an attempted murder on a train … more murders follow as the police attempt to identify and catch the killer. ... Read more

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  • Fitzroy North 3068

    by Yvette Henry Holt ...
    Fitzroy North 3068 explores Henry Holt's pulsating psycho-geographical R.M. Williams footprints from Western Arrernte (Hermannsburg) to Westminster with many stops in between. It is a wild and erotic ride.In Fitzroy North 3068 poet Yvette Henry Holt weaves a web of humour, confrontation, complaints, sex, childhood, livelihood, reflection, deferred intimacy, poetry, insecurity, truth, and emotional ... Read more

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  • Tales of Time Warps: 20 Sci-Fi Classics

    Victorian and Edwardian Visions of Utopias, Dystopias, Temporal Horror, and Scientific Romance

    by Abraham Merritt, Edward Bellamy, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Mark Twain, Frederic W. Farrar, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, Edmond About, Henry Holt, Robert Hugh Benson, Edith Nesbit, Edwin Lester Arnold, Jane C. Loudon, William Henry Hudson, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Francis Stevens, William Morris ...
    Tales of Time Warps: 20 Sci-Fi Classics maps the formative imagination of speculative fiction through temporal displacement, lost worlds, prophetic futures, and encounters with altered histories. Its twenty selections range from satirical fantasy and scientific romance to Gothic adventure, social prophecy, and metaphysical horror, revealing that "time travel" has long served as a means of testing ... Read more

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  • The Man With The Broken Ear

    Enriched edition. A Tale of Political Revolution and Personal Redemption in 19th Century France

    by Edmond About, Shane Payne ...
    Translated by Henry Holt ...
    Edmond About's "The Man With The Broken Ear" is a satirical novel intricately woven within the frameworks of 19th-century French literature. The narrative centers on the peculiar adventures of a man who discovers a dismembered ear, serving as both a literal and metaphorical symbol of the disjointed realities confronting society. About's prose is marked by his sharp wit and keen observational ... Read more

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  • 20 Time Travel Classics

    Victorian and Edwardian Voyages Through Utopias, Dystopias, Gothic Fantasies, and Far-Future Worlds

    by H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Mark Twain, Abraham Merritt, Edward Bellamy, Frederic W. Farrar, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, Edmond About, Henry Holt, Robert Hugh Benson, Edith Nesbit, Edwin Lester Arnold, Jane C. Loudon, William Henry Hudson, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Francis Stevens, William Morris ...
    20 Time Travel Classics surveys the imaginative history of temporal displacement, assembling romances, satires, speculative adventures, moral fables, and proto-scientific narratives from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its selections reveal time travel not merely as a device of wonder but as a means of testing progress, empire, religion, technology, gender, and social order. ... Read more

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    Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond

    by Jessica J. Lee, Amy Key, So Mayer, Sophie Mackintosh, Ava Wong Davies, Nina Mingya Powles, Deborah Moggach, Sharlene Teo, Leanne Shapton, Esther Freud, Margaret Drabble, Eli Goldstone, Nell Frizzell ...
    Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies' Bathing Pond.Floating in the Pond's silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it's easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers from eight to eighty-plus can be found waiting to take a dip before sunbathing in the adjoining ... Read more

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  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    by Mark Twain ...
    Camelot," said I to myself. "I don't seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely."It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of insects, and the twittering of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there was no stir of life, nothing going on. The road was mainly a ... Read more

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  • The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon

    by Washington Irving ...
    I am of this mind with Homer, that as the snaile that crept out of her shel was turned eftsoones into a toad I and thereby was forced to make a stoole to sit on; so the traveller that stragleth from his owne country is in a short time transformed into so monstrous a shape... ... Read more

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  • The Short Stories Of Alexandre Dumas

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we ... Read more

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  • War and Peace (Volume 2 of 2)

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Considered one of the best books ever written, "War and Peace" has remained in the upper echelon of world literature because it masterfully captures an intimate view of humanity on an epic scale. Through the use of fictional narrative, Tolstoy utilizes a huge cast of characters, centering on five aristocratic Russian families in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars. These characters, particularly ... Read more

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  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

    Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

    by Washington Irving ...
    With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van Winkle to Ichabod Crane, his gifts were not confined to the short story alone. He was also a master of satire, essay, travelogue, and folktale, as evidenced in this classic collection.Henry Wadsworth ... Read more

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  • The Country Doctor (Mobi Classics)

    by Honore de Balzac,Ellen Marriage (Translator),Clara Bell (Translator) ...
    On a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a valley of some considerable length. The melting of the snows had filled the boulder-strewn bed of the torrent (often dry) ... Read more

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