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Their growing love for one another, discovered by an embittered wife, presages an ending to this grim tale that is both shocking and savagely ironic.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456617115745,"sku":"9780486110066","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_44550b37-465c-4bae-bdf1-f81dd10bc3f1.jpg?v=1778565721"},{"product_id":"the-gift-of-the-magi-and-other-short-stories","title":"The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories","description":"Here are sixteen of the best stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. For nearly a century, the work of O. Henry has delighted readers with its humor, irony and colorful, real-life settings. The writer's own life had more than a touch of color and irony. Born William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1862, he worked on a Texas ranch, then as a bank teller in Austin, then as a reporter for the Houston \"Post.\" Adversity struck, however, when he was indicted for embezzlement of bank funds. Porter fled to New Orleans, then to Honduras before he was tried, convicted and imprisoned for the crime in 1898. In prison he began writing stories of Central America and the American Southwest that soon became popular with magazine readers. After his release Porter moved to New York City, where he continued writing stories under the pen name O. HenryThough his work earned him an avid readership, O. Henry died in poverty and oblivion scarcely eight years after his arrival in New York. But in the treasury of stories he left behind are such classics of the genre as \"The Gift of the Magi,\" \"The Last Leaf,\" \"The Ransom of Red Chief,\" \"The Voice of the City\" and \"The Cop and the Anthem\" — all included in this choice selection. 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However, it was these early stories that first earned her a reputation as a writer with \"the liveliest imagination and most delicate style of her time.\" Influenced by Joyce, Proust, and the theories of William James, Bergson, and Freud, she strove to write a new fiction that emphasized the continuous flow of consciousness, time's passage as both a series of sequential moments and a longer flow of years and centuries, and the essential indefinability of character. 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-call-of-the-wild","title":"The Call of the Wild","description":"Jack London's novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations, and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the twentieth century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. The author's restless spirit, taste for a life of excitement, and probing mind led him on a series of hard-edged adventures from the Klondike to the South Seas. Out of these sometimes harrowing experiences — and his fascination with the theories of such thinkers as Darwin, Spencer, and Marx — came the inspiration for novels of adventure that would make him one of America’s most popular writers. The Call of the Wild, considered by many London's greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog that, thrust into the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Adventure and dog-story enthusiasts as well as students and devotees of American literature will find this classic work a thrilling, memorable reading experience.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456852127841,"sku":"9780486110516","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_799ef8be-08ce-4f6f-bfe2-c905991595ed.jpg?v=1778566044"},{"product_id":"the-awakening-1","title":"The Awakening","description":"When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened confines of her domestic situation. Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work \"quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity.\" Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening. Now available in this inexpensive edition, it offers a powerful and provocative reading experience to modern readers.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456858648673,"sku":"9780486110523","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_399d8381-8f13-4b39-b3ae-0e2f21ce8d30.jpg?v=1778566051"},{"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. 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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":"young-goodman-brown-and-other-short-stories","title":"Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories","description":"Throughout his richly varied literary career, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) wrote compelling short stories of enduring appeal. 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This volume contains six stories from those collections as well as another superb selection, \"My Kinsman, Major Molineux.\" In addition to the latter tale and the title story, this edition includes \"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment,\" \"The Birthmark,\" \"Rappaccini's Daughter,\" \"Roger Malvin's Burial\" and \"The Artist of the Beautiful.\" Here are tales rich in atmosphere and suspense, with plots centering on subjects as diverse as witchcraft, revenge, the power of guilt, and a passion for the beautiful, all recounted in the distinctive voice of one of America's great writers.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456907604065,"sku":"9780486110592","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_3290e1a7-5204-467d-9358-820963f5d005.jpg?v=1778566105"},{"product_id":"o-pioneers","title":"O Pioneers!","description":"Set on the Nebraska prairie where Willa Cather (1873–1947) grew up, this powerful early novel tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the lands they have struggled to farm. 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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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Poe's immense powers as a storyteller are at their peak in this anthology containing nine of his best-known short stories. Among them are \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\" a gripping 19th-century detective story that provided a model for future mystery writers; \"The Fall of the House of Usher\" and \"The Masque of the Red Death,\" pervaded with eerie thoughts, impulses, and fears; \"The Tell-Tale Heart\" and \"The Cask of Amontillado,\" masterpieces of wickedness and crime; \"The Pit and the Pendulum,\" with its agonizing specter of imminent and horrifying death; and \"The Gold-Bug,\" a fascinating detective story that combines romance and adventure in an absorbing tale of buried treasure. 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In Herland, a vision of a feminist utopia, Gilman employs humor to engaging effect in a story about three male explorers who stumble upon an all-female society isolated somewhere in South America. Noting the advanced state of the civilization they've encountered, the visitors set out to find some males, assuming that since the country is so civilized, \"there must be men.\" A delightful fantasy, the story enables Gilman to articulate her then-unconventional views of male-female roles and capabilities, motherhood, individuality, privacy, the sense of community, sexuality, and many other topics. Decades ahead of her time in evolving a humanistic, feminist perspective, Gilman has been rediscovered and warmly embraced by contemporary feminists. An articulate voice for both women and men oppressed by the social order of the day, she adeptly made her points with a wittiness often missing from polemical writings. 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His enduring view of the darkness at the heart of the national soul has made The House of the Seven Gables a landmark of American literature.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458269704289,"sku":"9780486115092","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_34381859-1aae-434d-87aa-4f691f310057.jpg?v=1778567730"},{"product_id":"the-sea-wolf-1","title":"The Sea-Wolf","description":"Hailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental conflict. Jack London began his career at sea, and his shipboard experiences imbue The Sea-Wolf with flavorful authenticity. In the story, the gentleman narrator, Humphrey Van Weyden, is pitted against an amoral sea captain, Wolf Larsen, in a clash of idealism with materialism. 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Before George leaves the community, we have learned much about his mother Elizabeth, his friend Helen White, his teacher Kate Swift and other Winesburg residents — the lonely, sensitive Dr. Reefy, the tormented Rev. Charles Hartman and the enigmatic Wing Biddlebaum among them. Through Anderson's art, their stories are woven into a powerful portrayal of community life, and, ironically, of the isolation its close atmosphere can engender. A great success on its first publication in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio profoundly influenced a generation of fiction writers with its deeply moving poetic realism. 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