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The Lock and Key Library - Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Dickens, Bulwer-Lytton, De Quincey, Maturin, Sterne, Thackeray
Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece.
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The Lock and Key Library - Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English by Kipling, Doyle, Castle, Weyman, Collins, Stevenson
Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter Besant.
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"Sir John Maundeville, Kt.," was his prototype, and Father Prout was his patron saint. The one introduced him to the study of British balladry, the other led him to the classic groves of Horace.
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Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily by W. Cope Devereux
Fair Italy, the land of song and cradle of the Arts, has been so often written about, and so well described both in prose and in verse, that I feel there is a presumption in my attempting to say anything fresh of that classic land, its art treasures, and its glorious past.
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"Os clássicos são livros que, quanto mais pensamos conhecer por ouvir dizer, quando são lidos de fato mais se revelam novos, inesperados, inéditos".
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woodmasta1 (Jason White) from
Smyrna GA, United States
I'm mostly a magazine reader. If I try to read a novel in bed, I conk out right away. I am interested in trying to read classics in this new format - upright, during daylight hours!
Last book read: HEART OF DARKNESS
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IdaBenedetto (Ida Benedetto) from
Brooklyn, NY, United States
Modern poetry, cyberpunk, popular science, feminist classics
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fayandflower (BookGlutton Member) from
Anywhere, United States
Classic music & opera
English, western, and Chinese,and other literatures
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H-Dog (BookGlutton Member) from
Brooklyn, United States
It is safe to say that I am not a reader of the "classics", however I am very open-minded and will read a wide array of different titles across many different genres and themes.
Favorite Authors: Arthur Nersesian, Mumia Abu-Jamal, David Mamet, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernesto Sabato, Ray Bradbury, Michael Cunningham
Last book read: THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP
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captainblood (BookGlutton Member) from
Anywhere, United States
Scifi (space opera, speculative, short stories)
Fantasy (Susanna Clarke, Neil Gaiman)
Classics (Marquez, du Maurier, Forster, Fitzgerald)
Last book read: MY MAN JEEVES
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austen bronte buddhism clarke dumaurier fantasy gaiman scifi
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