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* Book : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn * Biography * Bibliography Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major...

* Book : A Child's Dream of a Star * Biography * Bibliography This early work is Charles Dickens 1871 short children s story, A Child's Dream of a Star . It is the charming and heart-warming tale of a brother and sister s musings on life and death inspired by night-time star-gazing. This timeless...

* Book : The Republic * Biography * Bibliography The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman is more...

* Book : Beatrice * Biography * Bibliography An emotional account of the love affair between Beatrice Granger, an unmarried schoolteacher, and Geoffrey Bingham, an unhappily married barrister who lives in London. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.

* Book : The Three Strangers * Biography * Bibliography The story is a pastoral history told by an omniscient narrator more than 50 years after the event. The sheep-stealer is a kind of folk hero who stole to survive and escaped by outsmarting his hangman. Casterbridge was the name for...

* Book : The Mystery of the Semi-Detached * Biography * Bibliography " He was waiting for her, he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one side and some eligible building sites on the other-and far away to the south-west the twinkling...

* Book : Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc * Biography * Bibliography Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented as a translation...

* Book : The Articles of Confederation * Biography * Bibliographiy The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, commonly referred to as the Articles of Confederation, was the first constitution of the thirteen United States of America. The Second Continental Congress appointed a committee...

* Book : La Cour des miracles * Biographie * Bibliographie Ce deuxième tome va peu à peu dénouer l'écheveau habilement noué par l'auteur dans Triboulet. Trois personnes, enlevées à leurs parents dans leur tendre enfance, vont voir leur destin s'entrecroiser et finalement se réunir après...

* Book : Les Confessions * Biographie * Bibliographie Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau est une autobiographie publiée à titre posthume. Le titre des Confessions a sans doute été choisi en référence aux Confessions de Saint-Augustin, publiées au IVe siècle après Jésus...

* Book : Hard Times * Biography * Bibliography "NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls noth- ing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever...

* Book : A Christmas Carol * Biography * Bibliography In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past,...

* Book : Great Expectations * Biography * Bibliography Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular,...

* Book : The Old Curiosity Shop * Biography * Bibliography The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not quite fourteen". An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends....