Classic fiction: literary and general
Double 9 Booksllp The Rainbow Trail, a Romance
Book SynopsisThe Rainbow Trail is written by Zane Grey and is a sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage. It was published in 1915 and re-edited in recent years. The story takes you ten years in the future from Riders of the Purple Sage. In this book, the wall of Surprise Valley wall is broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but the theme is treated more explicitly in The Rainbow Trail. The story revolves around the victimization of women in the Mormon culture.The story of Riders of the Purple Sage revolves around the struggle of a Mormon woman who sacrifices her wealth and social status to keep her away from becoming the junior wife of the head of the church. Whereas, The Rainbow Trail compares older Mormons with a growing generation of Mormon women who will not tolerate polygamy and Mormon men who do not want it.A movie is also made in 1931 by the same name.
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Double 9 Books LLP With Clive in India
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Double 9 Booksllp Villette
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Double 9 Booksllp Heart of Darkness
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Double 9 Books The Wind In The Willows
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Double 9 Booksllp The Little Demon
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Double 9 Booksllp An American Tragedy
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Double 9 Booksllp The Red Record
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Double 9 Booksllp Eugene Pickering
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Double 9 Booksllp A Millionaire Of Yesterday
Book SynopsisE. Phillips Oppenheim's A Millionaire of Yesterday was first released in 1900. The book follows the story of a young man's struggle for fortune in colonial Africa and his quest for happiness there. Young Scarlett Trent, who is eager to become wealthy in the gold mines of Africa, must struggle with his own sense of good and evil while juggling the difficulties he faces and his desire to succeed. His buddy Monty, a dubious alcoholic with a murky past, accompanies him on his mission. The suspense is maintained throughout the novel, whether they will be successful in achieving their goals or whether Monty's past returns to haunt them both. Despite his best efforts, Trent is obstructed by several opponents who only bring him immense tragedy. The readers will find themselves immersed in the experience of the novel as it leads them towards a happy ending. The Long Arm of Mannister, The Great Impersonation, and The Moving Finger are some of Oppenheim's best known works.
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Double 9 Booksllp Ismailia
Book SynopsisIsmailia (1874) can be considered an autobiography of Sir Samuel W. Baker as it describes the author's expedition to Central Africa. An exceptional narrative of Sir Samuel W. Baker's mission to stop the slave trade in Central Africa. Baker took charge of the Sudanese area in southern Egypt alongside a force of 1700 men from the Khedive Authority. He engaged in multiple conflicts with slave traders before establishing a reliable trading territory in Equatoria. The heroics of Sir Samuel are apparent throughout the novel and the realistic situation keeps the readers wanting more. The anecdotes and episodes are written beautifully as it transports the readers. Baker's second expedition, which is documented here, was to annex Sudan for Egypt and eliminate the slave trade there. He brought his second wife, who provided military and domestic assistance to the expedition party. The Bakers engaged in big game hunting and fought several fierce battles against the slave traders. The second expedition started in 1869, the same year Baker was appointed governor-general of the equatorial Nile basin for a four-year tenure by Khedive Ismailia.
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Double 9 Booksllp The Devil's Paw
Book SynopsisE. Phillips Oppenheim's World War I-set novel The Devil's Paw, written in 1920, is rife with international espionage and intrigue. After being given access to extremely private documents, Miss Katherine Abbeway is quickly detained on suspicion of being a spy. She gives the confidential papers to a friend, but are they really secure? Will they fall into the wrong hands? The Devil's Paw is a perfect illustration of both Oppenheim's qualities and flaws. The plot, which centers on an attempted Bolshevik-style revolution in England during World War I, starts off as both an exciting thriller and a masterful representation of the political premise that battles on the subject that overthrow rulers are frequently required to safeguard a free society. Peace is not the greatest virtue. The backdrop of World War I provides the readers an insight into the hardships of people during that time. This is a compelling book because of the combination of suspicion, conspiracies, and the general threat of war which is present throughout the course of the novel.
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Double 9 Booksllp The Pride Of Palomar
Book SynopsisThe Pride of Palomar '' is written by Peter B. Kyne and written before 1921. The novel is intended to paint the picture that will remain the longest in your memory. The plot revolves around a soldier who is inaccurately reported as dead and returns home to his Spanish family's estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral land in the hands of strangers. How will they overcome this shocking news? To know the complete story readers should read this novel! The goal of this collection of ideas by Peter B. Kyne is to gather many of his well-known concepts into one draft that is inexpensively priced and accessible to everyone. Some tales are amazing and interesting, while others subtly ensnare you. This edition of The Pride Of Palomar has a striking new cover and a professionally typeset manuscript, making it current and readable. The plot includes so many turns and twists that it may keep a reader interested.
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Double 9 Booksllp Bellarion The Fortunate A Romance
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EduCart Far Away and Long Ago
Book SynopsisThe author's boyhood in the Argentine pampas is chronicled in this book. The children in his family were warm and affectionate, and because they received their early education at home, they had lots of freedom to explore the natural environment around them. He had a keen eye for observation of birds and other animals because of his early love of the natural world. As he claims that many of the magnificent natural locations he knew as a boy are now permanently lost due to the expansion of agriculture, an elegiac tone is set. Despite the fact that this book was written 100 years ago, the author's views about the elimination of natural places still hold true today. An intriguing autobiography from 1918 describes a boy's childhood in the pampas (plains) of Argentina. The boy never loses his love for nature and eventually comes to have a mystical connection to it, despite engaging in all the cruel things young boys do while growing up in a remote area with older brothers. This book is the author's memoir from his time spent working in the fields of Argentina.
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Double 9 Booksllp The Idiot
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Double 9 Booksllp The Mucker
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Double 9 Booksllp The House Of The Seven Gables
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Double 9 Booksllp Prester John
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Double 9 Books The Book Of The Damned
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Double 9 Books The Agony Column
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Double 9 Booksllp The Case of Jennie Brice
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EduCart Dear Enemy
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Double 9 Booksllp Black Jack
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Double 9 Booksllp I Will Repay
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Double 9 Books The Ghost Ship
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Double 9 Books Little Lord Fauntleroy
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EduCart The Royal Book of Oz
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EduCart The Sea Fairies
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EduCart My Doggie and I
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EduCart No Thoroughfare
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EduCart The Tin Woodman of Oz
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Double 9 Booksllp Tik-Tok Of Oz
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EduCart Aunt Jane's Nieces out West
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Double 9 Booksllp Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz
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Double 9 Booksllp The Lost Princess Of Oz
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Double 9 Booksllp The Devolutionist And The Emancipatrix
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Double 9 Booksllp The Mad Planet
Book SynopsisBurl was aware of wasps with stings nearly as long as his own body that could rapidly kill prey. The skulking tribe members of Burl had minimal fear of wasps since each species had a defined prey item. Invoking the horrifying screams of his grandfather, who had been attacked by a black-bellied tarantula years ago, he opened his mouth to scream. In addition to crickets, beetles, and spiders, Burl once spotted a swarm of large, red Amazon ants moving in a neat line across a blue-green mold that had emerged from the river. Under the same silky covering, the tarantula writhed in agony on Burl's spear point. He awaited the introduction of the poison fangs. Above the flames, moths, flying beetles, enormous gnats, and midges performed the death dance. Burl could see them as the flames drew closer to him. Moths beat the air fiercely with their wildly colored thirty-foot-spread wings. As they fixed their crazed attention on the blazing fires below them, their enormous eyes shone like carbuncles. It didn't matter to Burl that one large insect was consuming another. He kept vigil, his eyes darting from the cricket to the odd opening behind the trap.
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Double 9 Books Off On A Comet! A Journey Through Planetary Space
Book SynopsisThe story opens when a comet named Gallia collects a few tiny bits of Earth while passing by it in midair. The disaster occurred close to Gibraltar on January 1st, 1885. There are still 36 people in the territory the comet has occupied who are of French, English, Spanish, and Russian nationalities. At first, they don't know what's happened and think there's been an earthquake instead of a collision. Adjutant Ben Zoof for Captain Servadac surprises himself by jumping 12 meters (39 feet) in the air as the first indication of weight loss. Soon after, Zoof and Servadac also observe that there are only six hours between day and night, that east and west have switched places, and that water begins to boil at 66 C (151 F), from which they correctly deduce that the atmosphere has thinned and the pressure has reduced. They observe the Earth and the Moon when they first arrive at Gallia, but they incorrectly think it is a newly discovered planet. Their research expedition, which included a ship that the comet also captured, produced additional important data.
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Double 9 Books The Thirty-Nine Steps
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EduCart The Moon Pool
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Double 9 Booksllp Agnes Grey
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Double 9 Booksllp The Rome Express
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Double 9 Booksllp The Warlord Of Mars
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Double 9 Booksllp Tom Swift And His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City Of The Andes
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Double 9 Booksllp Thérèse Raquin
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Double 9 Booksllp The Valley Of Silent Men: A Story Of The Three
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Double 9 Booksllp Beauchamp's Career
Book SynopsisBeauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith that portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirizes the Conservative establishment. The plot revolves around Nevil Beauchamp, a courageous but occasionally irrational naval lieutenant who served in the Crimean War and holds republican ideas. On the other side, his wealthy uncle, Honorable Everard Romfrey has notions that border feudalism. Romfrey even beats Dr. Shrapnel, a friend of Nevil's who is a Republican, during this fight. Romfrey is ordered by Nevil to apologize to Shrapnel, but the uncle declines. Nevil becomes gravely unwell and loses hope for his future because of this and his unlucky love affairs. Will Nevil ever get married? To get an answer to this question, readers should get through the novel!
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