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"It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whitehall. Glory is an effervescent young mother from New England, impulsive and free as a bird. Rita is a Midwestern professor's wife with a love of gardening and a generous, old soul. These two women have nothing in common except one powerful bond: the men they love are fighting in a war a world away from home. Brought together by an unlikely twist of fate, Glory and Rita...
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"Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero--everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst, Karl. It is only when Eli, an eighteen-year-old young man whom the community has ostracized, begins...
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This pioneering work constitutes a classic modern study of the mystical experience. Author Richard Maurice Bucke, a distinguished progressive psychiatrist, explores the phenomenon of transcendent realization, or illumination. Bucke draws upon his firsthand experience of a life-altering insight to explore the theory of cosmic consciousness, an advance in mental evolution with the potential to raise existence to a higher plane. As valuable today as...
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The Black Robe (1881) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written toward the end of Collins' career, The Black Robe shows brilliant flashes of the author's trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease, which made him a household name around the world. Recognized as an important Victorian novelist and pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins was a writer with a gift for thoughtful entertainment, stories written for a popular audience that continue...
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Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the 30 year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover, Gene Vidal. She becomes captivated by the famous pilot who disappeared in 1937. Letter by letter, she understands more about the aviation hero while piecing her own life back together.
When Grace discovers she is pregnant,...
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A 30-something-year-old man, unhappy with his lot in life, once again, enters an old trail to meet a young attractive drifter. The two men, over time, developed a unique relationship. After receiving some life-changing news from his fiancée, the man plans to give his friend a new lease on life. This changes, however, when he stumbles upon a mysterious killer in the woods. Will the man attack, run or experience the fate that befell his friend and...
7) Amado Señor
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Al escribiente de cartas de Amado Señor la cosa se le desvió. Allí donde planeaba, le confiesa a su destinatario, "armar un universo de ficción" a partir de la primera epístola, "abandonar esta conversación e iniciar otra más indirecta", descubre que no puede dejar de escribir cartas: está cansado de narrar, prefiere el coloquio directo. El escribiente no cree en su interlocutor y se lo advierte, pero su falta de fe lo empuja a un panteísmo...
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Las apariencias pueden engañar, y en un siglo en el que destacan, la joven María Ana De LaTour, noble de 22 años, lo aprenderá, ¡y a qué costo!. Su curiosidad la llevará a escribir a una reclusa de su misma edad que pondrá frente a una realidad que conoce de mucho tiempo atrás, pero que se niega a enfrentar. Cuando la nobleza conoce al tercer estado a finales del siglo XVII, pueden tener tanto que decirse que un detalle trastornar por completo...
9) The Sylph
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"The Sylph" by Duchess of Devonshire Georgiana Spencer Cavendish. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" by T. Smollett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature....
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Visits of Elizabeth" by Elinor Glyn. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Somewhere around 1969, I began to grow dissatisfied with the underlying principle of most novels - that a disembodied voice in the first or third person was telling us a story.
I liked the idea of novels passing themselves off as documents and drew inspiration from Mark Harris's Wake Up, Stupid and Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife, the first, ostensibly a collection of letters, the second, duh, a diary. (One could, of course, go back further,...
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Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford was first published in 1933. It's a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancé. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of...
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En un tiempo donde las cartas están ya casi en desuso, a través de ellas, se cuenta cada sentimiento entre la musa y quien escribe. Tomando trazas de lo que se vive, se imagina o ambas. Aunque allí vive una guerra donde la soledad, tras mil batallas, lanza el mayor de los ataques jamás imaginado. Abarcando incluso la realidad. Amenazando una pasión que va deshaciéndose como una vela y se viste por momentos de añoranza, de sentimientos confesados,...
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Shouldn't life be more than simply showing up? Is it enough to be part of a family, make another family, earn your living, and then exit stage left? Or should you engage and be engaged in a bit of purposeful shaking and shoving along the way? These are questions that Kit Bakke urgently needs answered. Tired of self-proclaimed gurus and self-help books, she turns to her childhood role model -- Louisa May Alcott -- for direction. She sends an e-mail...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "There Is Sorrow on the Sea" by Gilbert Parker. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Fortement inspirée et touchée par la dimension mystique du livre Cette aveuglante absence de lumière de l'écrivain franco-marocain, Tahar Ben Jelloun, cette lettre qui lui est adressée est à la fois un regard sur la beauté du monde et son inhumanité.
La narratrice rompt en quelque sorte avec la conscience grégaire o l'on menace de s'endormir, et se met à écrire. Elle est dans un état d'écoute, d'observation, de questionnement... l'écriture,...
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Santiago, despedido, encuentra una noticia sobre la desaparición de un antiguo colega fotógrafo. Su búsqueda lo lleva a reflexionar sobre su vida y el poder de las imágenes. La novela explora el contexto del estallido social y la pandemia en Chile.
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Pamela Andrews is a fifteen-year-old maidservant at an estate in Bedfordshire. When Lady B, her employer, dies, her son Mr. B takes an interest in the innocent young girl, quickly turning from generosity to outright attempts at seducing her. As Pamela rejects his advances, she considers returning home to live in poverty with her parents. When he catches wind of her plan, however, Mr. B accuses Pamela of having an affair, notifying her parents and...
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