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Readers can discover these and other aspects of her influential style in the eight stories collected here, among them a delightful, feminist put-down of the male intellect in \"A Society\" and a brilliant and sensitive portrayal of nature in \"Kew Gardens.\" Also included are \"An Unwritten Novel,\" \"The String Quartet,\" \"A Haunted House,\" \"Blue \u0026amp; Green,\" \"The Mark on the Wall,\" and the title story. In recent years, Woolf's fiction, feminism, and high-minded sensibilities have earned her an ever-growing audience of readers. This splendid collection offers those readers not only the inestimable pleasures of the stories themselves, but an excellent entrée into the larger body of Woolf's work.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456790130785,"sku":"9780486110080","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_2d46d034-28f9-4734-899f-47064ce32edf.jpg?v=1778565967"},{"product_id":"the-body-snatcher-and-other-tales","title":"The Body Snatcher and Other Tales","description":"Renowned as the author of such popular adventure stories as Kidnapped and Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson also wrote gripping tales of terror and the supernatural. Stevenson's considerable gifts as a teller of tales shine brightly in this choice collection of three of his best short stories. The Gothic tale of \"The Body Snatcher\" concerns a young medical student's dealings with grave robbers who provide corpses to dissect and study — a practice that takes on increasingly sinister dimensions. Swirling seas, dangerous reefs, and inhospitable islanders provide the grim backdrop for a tale of greed, lunacy, and unbridled fear in \"The Merry Men,\" the name given by the inhabitants of Aros to the fearsome breakers that pound their tiny Scottish isle. \"The Bottle Imp\" — an intricately told tale of love and adventure, avarice and envy, and good and evil — centers on a magical bottle that provides its owner with all he desires, but at a great cost. This exceptional collection of tales will thrill admirers of the author's craft as well as aficionados of classic horror stories.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456796684385,"sku":"9780486110097","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_6114aa6e-a7c9-45ca-8ceb-864941fe62bb.jpg?v=1778565975"},{"product_id":"the-turn-of-the-screw","title":"The Turn of the Screw","description":"Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. The story begins when a governess arrives at an English country estate to look after Miles, aged ten, and Flora, eight. At first, everything appears normal but then events gradually begin to weave a spell of psychological terror. One night a ghost appears before the governess. It is the dead lover of Miss Jessel, the former governess. Later, the ghost of Miss Jessel herself appears before the governess and the little girl. Moreover, both the governess and the housekeeper suspect that the two spirits have appeared to the boy in private. The children, however, adamantly refuse to acknowledge the presence of the two spirits, in spite of indications that there is some sort of evil communication going on between the children and the ghosts. Without resorting to clattering chains, demonic noises, and other melodramatic techniques, this elegantly told tale succeeds in creating an atmosphere of tingling suspense and unspoken horror matched by few other books in the genre. Known for his probing psychological novels dealing with the upper classes, James in this story tried his hand at the occult — and created a masterpiece of the supernatural that has frightened and delighted readers for nearly a century.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456871690337,"sku":"9780486110547","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_e809a69b-0c94-4eb2-aca2-6d88de502ce4.jpg?v=1778566067"},{"product_id":"bartleby-and-benito-cereno","title":"Bartleby and Benito Cereno","description":"Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from his pen. Two of the most admired of these — \"Bartleby\" and \"Benito Cereno\" — first appeared as magazine pieces and were then published in 1856 as part of a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales. \"Bartleby\" (also known as \"Bartleby the Scrivener\") is an intriguing moral allegory set in the business world of mid-19th-century New York. A strange, enigmatic man employed as a clerk in a legal office, Bartleby forces his employer to come to grips with the most basic questions of human responsibility, and haunts the latter's conscience, even after Bartleby's dismissal. \"Benito Cereno,\" considered one of Melville's best short stories, deals with a bloody slave revolt on a Spanish vessel. A splendid parable of man's struggle against the forces of evil, the carefully developed and mysteriously guarded plot builds to a dramatic climax while revealing the horror and depravity of which man is capable. Reprinted here from standard texts in a finely made, yet inexpensive new edition, these stories offer the general reader and students of Melville and American literature sterling examples of a literary giant at his story-telling best.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456881487969,"sku":"9780486110554","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_1199aff4-3370-4ff1-8947-7d251b94e2a5.jpg?v=1778566075"},{"product_id":"the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-4","title":"The Hound of the Baskervilles","description":"At Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face is hideously distorted with terror. 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It remains a thrilling tale of suspense, must reading for every lover of detective fiction.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456888008801,"sku":"9780486110561","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_fc1ba9fa-c52f-47df-b813-38bf292ef54f.jpg?v=1778566082"},{"product_id":"the-time-machine-1","title":"The Time Machine","description":"English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. The Time Machine was the first of a number of these imaginative literary inventions. 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He is perhaps famous as author of The Red Badge of Courage, the quintessential Civil War classic. However, Crane wrote seven other stories involving this monumental conflict. All are gathered together in this volume. They include \"A Mystery of Heroism,\" \"A Gray Sleeve,\" \"Three Miraculous Soldiers,\" \"The Little Regiment,\" \"An Indiana Campaign,\" \"An Episode of War,\" and \"The Veteran,\" which features Henry Fleming, protagonist of The Red Badge of Courage, years after the war. Attractive and sturdily bound, this modestly priced edition will find an enthusiastic audience among admirers of Crane's work, students of American literature, and Civil War buffs alike. 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University instructors teach courses on how to take a long time to say nothing, and machines are banned for fear they will evolve and be the masters of man. First published in 1872, Erewhon (an anagram for \"nowhere\") is perhaps the most brilliant example of Utopian novels, taking aim at the humbug, hypocrisy, and absurdities surrounding such hallowed institutions as family, church, mechanical progress, advances in scientific theory, and legal systems. Intelligent, inventive, and wickedly humorous, the classic novel protests the blind acceptance of ideas and attitudes, an aspect of Samuel Butler's work that made his fiction enduring, entertaining, and thought-provoking. 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Also included here are \"Journalism in Tennessee,\" in which a novice newspaperman is shown the \"correct way\" to report a news story; \"About Barbers,\" a delightful account of every barbershop customer's worst fear; \"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences,\" Twain's hilarious savaging of that author's style, and four more: \"A Literary Nightmare,\" \"The Stolen White Elephant,\" \"The Private History of a Campaign that Failed\" and \"How to Tell a Story. \"Delightfully entertaining, these charming pieces will find an appreciative audience among students, general readers and lovers of classic American humor.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457159098465,"sku":"9780486111186","price":1.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_6a5f9e32-b11f-4e95-9486-d6c35a6e438a.jpg?v=1778566384"},{"product_id":"the-open-boat-and-other-stories","title":"The Open Boat and Other Stories","description":" This collection features four prized selections by one of America’s greatest writers, Stephen Crane. “The Open Boat” is based on a harrowing incident in the author’s life: the 1897 sinking of a ship on which he was a passenger. “The Blue Hotel” and “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” reflect Crane’s early travels in Mexico and the American Southwest. 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This gem was Twain's last novel about the antebellum South; and despite its frequent injections of humor, it offers a fierce condemnation of racial prejudice and a society that condoned slavery.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457217818721,"sku":"9780486111483","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_a5bee559-3a83-4001-9384-8f9731cb4545.jpg?v=1778566451"},{"product_id":"daisy-miller","title":"Daisy Miller","description":"Daisy Miller is a fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome. First published in 1878, the novella brought American novelist Henry James (1843–1916), then living in London, his first international success. Like many of James' early works, it portrays a venturesome American girl in the treacherous waters of European society — a theme that would culminate in his 1881 masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady. On the surface, Daisy Miller unfolds a simple story of a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. But throughout the narrative, James contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a tale rich in psychological and social insight. 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Professor Lidenbrock can't resist the opportunity to investigate, and with his nephew Axel, he sets off across Iceland in the company of Hans Bjelke, a native guide. The expedition descends into an extinct volcano toward a sunless sea, where they encounter a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life — a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence. Originally published in 1864, Jules Verne's classic remains critically acclaimed for its style and imaginative visions. Verne wrote many fantasy stories that later proved remarkably prescient, and his distinctive combination of realism and romanticism exercised a lasting influence on writers as diverse as Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Jean-Paul Sartre. 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