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Books by publisher "Waking Lion"
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By
George Macdonald ,
Arthur Hughes
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By the author of "Princess and Goblin", this is the story of Diamond, the coachman's son, and his adventures with the mysterious North Wind. Leaving his hayloft, Diamond sets off with North Wind flying through the night on all sorts of strange, beautiful and sometimes even dangerous missions. Originally published... more
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By
George Eliot
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2013]
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From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by society, and must face the consequences... more
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By
Homer
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2013]
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A vivid adventure on the Aegean waters spurts out pure poetry. Travel with the cunning Odysseus around the world. Along the way, the courageous Greek will face the wrath of gods and monsters in this epic mythological work. Also look for the Barnes & Noble World Digital Library Edition of... more
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By
George Mac Donald
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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This novel was one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites. Though George MacDonald's stories are based on some of the themes and characteristic attributes of classical European fairy tales, he has replaced meaningless and ghoulish plots with a layer of Christian reference. Here, the eight-year-old Princess Irene lives in a mountaintop... more
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By
J Buchan
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2013]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been... more
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By
Franz Kafka
[Ebook, Microsoft reader desktop 2009]
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A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on... more
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Joseph Conrad
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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Passing the time while he and his shipmates wait for the tide to turn, Marlow, a seaman, tells of his journey up the Congo; a journey in search of ivory, wealth and power. His tale is dominated by the distant but fascinating figure of Kurtz; worshipped and feared by invaders... more
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By
Kate Chopin
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.' Heralded as one of the first instances of feminist literature and rejected at its... more
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Charles Dickens
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2013]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed... more
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James Joyce
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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'In Joyce's eyes, Dublin is the whole world' - J G Ballard. Candid, controversial and often disturbing, James Joyce's collection of stories on Dublin life shocked readers at the beginning of the century with their startling realism. Unlike the capital of today, the Dublin Joyce describes is a tired, often... more
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By
R L Stevenson
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2013]
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'It was the last I saw- a thunderbolt seemed to strike me; I saw a great flash of fire, and fell senseless.' Left a penniless orphan at the age of sixteen, David Balfour sets out to find his one living relative, the reclusive and mysterious Uncle Ebenezer. Far from being... more
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Willa Cather
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North... more
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Niccolo Machiavelli ,
George Bull
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2013]
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A newly revised translation of the bible of realpolitik, with a new chronology, a translator's note, a list of Machiavelli's principal works, and a map of Italy. Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud... more
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Jane Austen ,
Ros Ballaster
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The Dashwood sisters are very different from each other in appearance and temperament; Elinor's good sense and readiness to observe social forms contrast with Marianne's impulsive candor and warm but excessive sensibility. Both struggle to maintain their integrity and find happiness in the face of a competitive marriage market. The... more
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By
Johann D Wyss ,
Elizabeth Janeway ,
William Godwin
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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Pastor Robinson and his family are traveling from Switzerland to New Guinea when they are shipwrecked somewhere in the far southwestern Pacific Ocean. They remain onboard until the water loosens the planks from the hull, and the vessel is torn apart. The four Robinson children help load the animals and... more
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By
R L Stevenson
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about... more
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By
S Butler
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2013]
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Spanning four generations, Way of All Flesh critiques Victorian philosophy through Ernest Pontifex. Our unlikely hero rejects the life of religious responsibility forced upon him for one of freedom only to find that life on the other side can be lonely when no one else has risen to the occasion... more
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By
P G Wodehouse
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: Inasmuch as the scene of this story is that historic pile, Belpher Castle, in the county of Hampshire, it would... more
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By
Somerset Maugham
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2007]
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A club-footed orphan struggles for independence, his intellectual development and his attempt to become an artist. It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there." Originally published... more
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By
George Eliot ,
A S Byatt
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2003]
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From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by society, and must face the consequences... more
