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The Lightning Conductor: The Strange Adventures of a Motor-Car

Enriched edition. Journeys of Freedom and Destiny: Tales from the Early 20th Century Automobile Era

by C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, Hudson Redwick ...

The Lightning Conductor: The Strange Adventures of a Motor-Car presents a fascinating excursion into the nascent world of automotive travel at the turn of the 20th century. This anthology encapsulates a range of literary styles, from thrilling adventure to contemplative travelogue, all revolving around the central motif of a motor-car journey across Europe. The collection's significance lies in ... Read more

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The Lightning Conductor: The Strange Adventures of a Motor-Car presents a fascinating excursion into the nascent world of automotive travel at the turn of the 20th century. This anthology encapsulates a range of literary styles, from thrilling adventure to contemplative travelogue, all revolving around the central motif of a motor-car journey across Europe. The collection's significance lies in
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The Masterpiece

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by Émile Zola ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his ... Read more

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The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his
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My School Days

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A captivating work of juvenile fiction penned in Nesbit’s signature style. It is an amazing recollection of her childhood. The book captures the joys and innocence of early days in a realistic manner which will appeal to young readers. Fascinating and tempting! ... Read more

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A captivating work of juvenile fiction penned in Nesbit’s signature style. It is an amazing recollection of her childhood. The book captures the joys and innocence of early days in a realistic manner which will appeal to young readers. Fascinating and tempting!
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Louis Couperus's Collected Works

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Louis Couperus's Collected Works contained 8 works written by Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (The Hague, 10 June 1863 – De Steeg, 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches. Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch ... Read more

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Louis Couperus's Collected Works contained 8 works written by Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (The Hague, 10 June 1863 – De Steeg, 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches. Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch
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About Paris

by Richard Harding Davis ...

THE street that I knew best in Paris was an unimportant street, and one into which important people seldom came, and then only to pass on through it to the Rue de Rivoli, which ran parallel with it, or to the Rue Castiglione, which cut it evenly in two. It was to them only the shortest distance between two points, for the sidewalks of this street were not sprinkled with damp sawdust and set out ... Read more

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THE street that I knew best in Paris was an unimportant street, and one into which important people seldom came, and then only to pass on through it to the Rue de Rivoli, which ran parallel with it, or to the Rue Castiglione, which cut it evenly in two. It was to them only the shortest distance between two points, for the sidewalks of this street were not sprinkled with damp sawdust and set out
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The Beautiful Lady

by Booth Tarkington ...

Is there something about aesthetic beauty that can soothe the soul of even the most troubled individual? That's the question at the center of Booth Tarkington's eminently entertaining short novel The Beautiful Lady. In the story, a down-on-his-luck Italian who is barely scraping by in Paris has his whole life turned upside down by a chance encounter with the enchanting temptress referred to in the ... Read more

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Is there something about aesthetic beauty that can soothe the soul of even the most troubled individual? That's the question at the center of Booth Tarkington's eminently entertaining short novel The Beautiful Lady. In the story, a down-on-his-luck Italian who is barely scraping by in Paris has his whole life turned upside down by a chance encounter with the enchanting temptress referred to in the
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Marthe

The Story of a Whore

by Joris-Karl Huysmans ...

First published in 1876, Marthe was an important landmark in J.K. Huysmans's literary career: it was the 28-year old writer's first excursion into the novel form and propelled him into the growing ranks of the Naturalist movement, then beginning to take shape under Zolaï¿½s direction. Marthe was one of the first French novels to tackle head-on the subject of prostitution, a theme that was to ... Read more

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First published in 1876, Marthe was an important landmark in J.K. Huysmans's literary career: it was the 28-year old writer's first excursion into the novel form and propelled him into the growing ranks of the Naturalist movement, then beginning to take shape under Zolaï¿½s direction. Marthe was one of the first French novels to tackle head-on the subject of prostitution, a theme that was to
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My Friend the Chauffeur

by Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, Frederic Lowenheim ...

A CHAPTER OF SURPRISES WANTED, LADIES, TO CONDUCT. An amateur automobilist (English, titled) who drives his own motor-car accommodating five persons, offers to conduct two or three ladies, Americans preferred, to any picturesque centres in Europe which they may desire to visit. Car has capacity for carrying small luggage, and is of best type. Journeys of about 100 miles a day. Novel and delightful ... Read more

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A CHAPTER OF SURPRISES WANTED, LADIES, TO CONDUCT. An amateur automobilist (English, titled) who drives his own motor-car accommodating five persons, offers to conduct two or three ladies, Americans preferred, to any picturesque centres in Europe which they may desire to visit. Car has capacity for carrying small luggage, and is of best type. Journeys of about 100 miles a day. Novel and delightful
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My Friend the Chauffeur

by A. M. Williamson ...

A.M. Williamson is best known for her fiction, many of which were co-written with her husband. A number of Williamson's works center around motoring and were written in the early days of the sport. ... Read more

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A.M. Williamson is best known for her fiction, many of which were co-written with her husband. A number of Williamson's works center around motoring and were written in the early days of the sport.
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His Masterpiece, from the Rougon-Macquart series of novels, in English translation

by Emile Zola ...

Classic naturalist novel, in English translation. First published in 1886. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first major novel, Therese Raquin (1867), Zola started the long series called Les ... Read more

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Classic naturalist novel, in English translation. First published in 1886. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first major novel, Therese Raquin (1867), Zola started the long series called Les
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The Princess Passes

by Williamson, C.N. ...

According to Wikipedia: "Alice Muriel Williamson (1869 - September 24, 1933) was a British novelist. Born Alice Muriel Livingston, she married Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) in 1894 and many of her books were jointly written with her husband. After her marriage she introduced herself as Mrs. C.N.Williamson. A number of their novels cover the early days of motoring and can also be read as ... Read more

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According to Wikipedia: "Alice Muriel Williamson (1869 - September 24, 1933) was a British novelist. Born Alice Muriel Livingston, she married Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) in 1894 and many of her books were jointly written with her husband. After her marriage she introduced herself as Mrs. C.N.Williamson. A number of their novels cover the early days of motoring and can also be read as
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The Princess Passes

by Alice Muriel Williamson, Charles Norris Williamson ...

Series series World Classics
"The girl's reputation as a beauty had marched before her, blowing trumpets. She was the prettiest girl in Davos, as she had been the prettiest in London; and I shared with other normal, self-respecting men the amiable weakness of wishing to monopolise the woman most wanted by others. During the process I fell in love, and Helen was kind."A wealthy American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess ... Read more

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"The girl's reputation as a beauty had marched before her, blowing trumpets. She was the prettiest girl in Davos, as she had been the prettiest in London; and I shared with other normal, self-respecting men the amiable weakness of wishing to monopolise the woman most wanted by others. During the process I fell in love, and Helen was kind."A wealthy American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess
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