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  • The King's Favourite

    Weston can manage alone, replied the old man, nodding towards the sulky manservant. He looked up again at the tumultuous sky; he really felt inspired and stimulated, almost as if with the aid of the bright sunbeams he could peer into those affairs of mankind that amused him, Simon Forman, so much, and from which he drew so comfortable a profit. A fine scattered rain fell, coming like a veil ... Read more

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  • GOTHIC HORRORS - Bowen's Greatest Occult & Supernatural Tales

    Enriched edition. Chilling Tales of the Occult and the Supernatural

    Marjorie Bowen's "Gothic Horrors - Bowen's Greatest Occult & Supernatural Tales" is a masterful collection that encapsulates the essence of early 20th-century Gothic literature. With a rich, atmospheric prose style, Bowen transports readers to shadowy landscapes filled with eerie occurrences and profound psychological depth. This compilation showcases her expertise in constructing gripping ... Read more

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  • So Evil My Love (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Based on a True Crime Story

    So Evil My Love is a dark Victorian melodrama of spiritual corruption, criminal intimacy, and social dread. Bowen shapes the story around Olivia Harwood, a missionary's widow whose return to England draws her into the orbit of the charismatic but predatory Mark Bellis. Written with the atmospheric density of Gothic fiction and the psychological precision of the sensation novel, it belongs to a ... Read more

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  • The Soldier from Virginia

    Enriched edition. A Confederate Soldier's Journey Through Love and War

    In "The Soldier from Virginia," Marjorie Bowen deftly interweaves historical fiction with rich character development, encapsulating the intricacies of the American Civil War through the lens of personal sacrifice and heroism. Set against the backdrop of a tumultuous period, the narrative captures the fervor of youthful ideals as well as the brutal realities of war. Bowen's prose is notable for its ... Read more

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  • The Aborigines of Western Australia

    ANY attempt to fathom the depth of mystery which surrounds the history of the Australian Aboriginal must necessarily be--in the main--a failure. The subject is surrounded with difficulty. Captain Dampier was the first Englishman known to have made the acquaintance of the Australian natives, whom he calls "the poor winking people of New Holland, the miserablest people on earth," and so forth. ... Read more

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  • HORROR & SUPERNATURAL Boxed Set: 40+ Mystery Novels & Short Stories (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Gothic mysteries and twilight tales of Victorian dread and paranormal suspense

    Gathering more than forty mystery novels and tales, HORROR & SUPERNATURAL Boxed Set displays Marjorie Bowen's command of the Gothic imagination: haunted houses, cursed inheritances, spectral visitations, moral corruption, and crimes whose consequences exceed ordinary detection. Her prose is elegant, swift, and atmospheric, combining the historical richness of late-Victorian romance with the ... Read more

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  • The Viper of Milan

    The Viper of Milan was first published in 1906 when its author, Marjorie Bowen, was only sixteen years old. The book has been hailed by many critics as an exemplary first novel, and one of England’s leading writers, Graham Greene, has this to say: “I think it was Miss Bowen’s apparent zest that made me want to write. One could not read her without believing that to write was to live and enjoy.”The ... Read more

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  • Feng Shui, or the Rudiments of Natural Science in China

    What is Feng-shui? This is a question which has been asked over and over again for the last thirty years. Ever since foreigners were allowed to settle down on the confines of this strange empire of China, this same question has been cropping up continually here and there. When purchasing a site, when building a house, when pulling down a wall, or raising a flagstaff,--residents in the Treaty Ports ... Read more

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  • Kings-at-arms

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Marjorie Bowen's Kings-at-Arms is a sweeping historical epic of conquest, collapse, and defiant endurance in Northern and Eastern Europe. At its center stands Karl XII of Sweden, a formidable and isolated ruler whose ambition drives him through debt, exile, war, and the ruin of his kingdom. Around him move Peter the Great, John Reinhold Patkul, Aurora von Königsmarck, and Augustus of Saxony, each ... Read more

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  • The Viper of Milan

    A Romance of Lombardy

    It is a day in early summer, as beautiful as such days were in the Southern lands of 500 years ago. It is Italy steeped in golden sunlight which lies like a haze over the spreading view; the year 1360, when cities were beautiful and nature all-pervading. Here is Lombardy, spread like a garden in the hollow of the hills, ringed about with the purple Apennines, covered with flowers, white, yellow, ... Read more

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  • The Viper of Milan

    A Romance of Lombardy

    Series series Adventure & the Sea
    Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi and Canaletto. Fourteenth-century Lombardy, the Visconti tyrant of Milan and the Della Scala prince he has broken - a book with no hero in it and a villain of real magnificence. Marjorie Bowen wrote it at sixteen; a string of publishers turned it down before it appeared in 1906. This edition is bound with ... Read more

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  • The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories

    Series series Monster, She Wrote
    Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) was a prolific author of some 150 books and counted Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, and Graham Greene among her many admirers. Her most enduring work is her tales of the ghostly and supernatural, her favorites of which she collected in 1949 under the title The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories.Included in this volume are some of her most famous stories, including 'The ... Read more

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