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This carefully crafted ebook: «5 Christmas Books (Unabridged and Fully Illustrated: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Christmas Carol The tale has been viewed by critics as an indictment of 19th-century industrial capitalism. It has been credited with restoring the holiday to one of merriment and festivity in Britain and America after a period of sobriety and sombreness. The Chimes The story of Trotty Veck, a poor ticket porter, whose outlook is changed from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Year's Eve. The Cricket on the Hearth Short tale written by Charles Dickens as a Christmas book for 1845 but published in 1846. The title creature is a sort of barometer of life at the home of John Peerybingle and his much younger wife Dot. When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow. Tackleton, a jealous old man, poisons John's mind about Dot, but the cricket through its supernatural powers restores John's confidence and all ends happily. The Battle of Life In this tale, the main characters live in a rural English village that was the site of an historic battle. The battle comes to symbolize the struggles these characters face in their daily lives. The Haunted Man Is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens' Christmas novellas. The story is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays themselves, harking back to the first of the series, A Christmas Carol. The tale centers around a Professor Redlaw and those close to him. Charles

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Mysterious Island Trilogy» contains two translations in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Mysterious Island was originally published as L'Ile mystéreuse in parts in France between 1873 and 1875 in a periodical. It was the last part of a trilogy. The Mysterious Island made the links between the two novels Captain Grant's Children (1865), and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (1869). This idea had been born even before the start of writing of The Mysterious Island. The first English translation was available by Sampson Low in 1875, translated by W.H.G. Kingston. He was a famous author of boys' adventure and sailing stories. However, it is now known that the actual translator of Mysterious Island and his other Verne novels was actually his wife, Agnes Kinloch Kingston. Based on this first English version followed many other variants of translations or abridged versions. In 1876 the Stephen W. White translation appeared first in the columns of The Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia and subsequently as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book. This translation is more faithful to the original story and restores the death scene of Captain Nemo, but there is still condensation and omission of some sections such as Verne's description of how a sawmill works. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Complete Non-Fiction Writings of Mark Twain» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This collection comprises six non-fiction works Mark Twain published over the course of his life. Table of Contents: Old Times on the Mississippi Life on the Mississippi Christian Science Queen Victoria's Jubilee My Platonic Sweetheart Editorial Wild Oats Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called «the Great American Novel», and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

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This carefully crafted ebook: «A Christmas Carol – with the original illustrations by John Leech» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of bitter and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation resulting from supernatural visits from Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 – 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.

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Twenty Thousand (20,000) Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax. As the story begins in 1866, a mysterious sea monster, theorized by some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships of several nations; an ocean liner is also damaged by the creature. The United States government finally assembles an expedition in New York City to track down and destroy the menace. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a noted French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time and is a recognized expert in his field, is issued a last-minute invitation to join the expedition, and he accepts. This ebook edition contains all 70 original illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou.

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Este ebook presenta «Miguel Strogoff (texto completo, con índice activo)» con un sumario dinámico y detallado. «Miguel Strogoff, el correo del zar» es el título de una novela de Julio Verne, publicada en 1876. El zar de Rusia debe entregar una carta al duque de Irkutsk, a fin de prevenir de la inminente invasión tártara encabezada por el traidor Iván Ogareff que quiere asesinarlo y entregar su ciudad a los tártaros. En su apresurado camino conoce a Nadia, una joven que va a la misma ciudad, Irkutsk, para ver a su padre, que fue desterrado. Durante el camino se encuentra con muchos problemas y varias personas que siguen su camino, entre ellos dos reporteros, un inglés y un francés, y tiene la oportunidad de ayudar en el viaje a una joven de los Litonia que busca reunirse con su padre. Al fin Miguel es descubierto, obligado a negar a su madre y como consecuencia queda supuestamente ciego, siendo la joven Nadia la que le guía para cumplir su misión. Jules Verne (1828 – 1905). Escritor francés, considerado el fundador de la moderna literatura de ciencia ficción. Fue célebre por sus relatos de aventuras fantásticas, narradas siempre con un tono de verosimilitud científica. Predijo con gran precisión en sus relatos fantásticos la aparición de algunos de los productos generados por el avance tecnológico del siglo XX, como la televisión, los helicópteros, los submarinos o las naves espaciales.

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Este ebook presenta «La cabaña del tío Tom» con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
La cabaña del tío Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin) es una novela de la escritora Harriet Beecher Stowe. Se publicó por primera vez el en 1852. La historia transcurre en Kentucky, antes de la abolición de la esclavitud y se centra en el relato del tío Tom, un esclavo afroamericano en torno al cual se mueven otros personajes, tanto esclavos como propietarios de ellos. La novela dramatiza la dura realidad de la esclavitud mientras muestra que el amor cristiano y la fe pueden superar algo tan destructivo como la esclavización de seres humanos.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) fue una abolicionista y autora de más de diez libros, siendo el más famoso La cabaña del tío Tom, el cual narra la historia de la vida en la esclavitud. Aunque Stowe nunca había pisado el Sur estadounidense, publicó consecuentemente A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, un trabajo real documentando la veracidad de su descripción de las vidas de los esclavos en la novela original.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Call of the Wild + White Fang + The Son of the Wolf (3 Unabridged Classics)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike. The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The work details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts and the lessons he has learned to become a respected and feared leader in the wild. White Fang is the story of a wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian territory of Yukon during the Klondike gold rush at the end of the nineteenth century. White Fang is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to Jack London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which concerns a kidnapped civilized dog turning into a wild wolf. The book is characteristic of London's precise prose style and his innovative use of voice and perspective. Much of the novel is written from the viewpoint of the animals, allowing London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Collected Works of Jules Verne in English» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: Five Weeks In A Balloon – 1863 A Journey To The Center Of The Earth – 1864 The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras – 1864 From The Earth To The Moon – 1865 In Search Of The Castaways – 1865 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea – 1869 Around The Moon – 1869 Around The World In Eighty Days – 1872 The Fur Country – 1872 The Mysterious Island – 1874 The Survivors Of The Chancellor – 1874 Michael Strogoff – 1876 Off On A Comet – 1877 The Underground City (or The Child of the Cavern) – 1877 Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen – 1878 Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon – 1881 Godfrey Morgan – 1882 Robur The Conqueror – 1886 The Purchase of the North Pole (or Topsy-Turvy) – 1889 The Adventures Of A Special Correspondent (or Claudius Bombarnac) – 1893 Facing The Flag – 1896 An Antarctic Mystery – 1897 The Master Of The World – 1904 Novellas & Stories: A Voyage In A Balloon (Or A Drama In The Air) – 1851 Master Zacharius Or The Clockmaker Who Lost His Soul – 1854 A Winter Amid The Ice – 1855 The Blockade Runners – 1871 Doctor Ox's Experiment (Or A Fantasy Of Dr Ox) – 1872 In The Year 2889 – 1889 Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who pioneered the genre of science fiction. A true visionary with an extraordinary talent for writing adventure stories, his writings incorporated the latest scientific knowledge of his day and envisioned technological developments that were years ahead of their time. Verne wrote about undersea, air, and space travel long before any navigable or practical craft were invented. Verne wrote over 50 novels and numerous short stories.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen: 127 Stories in one volume» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was a Danish writer, best remembered for his fairy tales. Table of Contents: BY THE ALMSHOUSE WINDOW THE ANGEL ANNE LISBETH BEAUTY OF FORM AND BEAUTY OF MIND THE BEETLE WHO WENT ON HIS TRAVELS THE BELL-DEEP THE BIRD OF POPULAR SONG THE BISHOP OF BORGLUM AND HIS WARRIORS THE BOTTLE NECK THE BUCKWHEAT THE BUTTERFLY A CHEERFUL TEMPER THE CHILD IN THE GRAVE CHILDREN'S PRATTLE THE FARM-YARD COCK AND THE WEATHER-COCK THE DAISY THE DARNING-NEEDLE DELAYING IS NOT FORGETTING THE DROP OF WATER JACK THE DULLARD AN OLD STORY TOLD ANEW THE DUMB BOOK THE ELF OF THE ROSE THE GIRL WHO TROD ON THE LOAF THE GOBLIN AND THE HUCKSTER THE GOLDEN TREASURE GRANDMOTHER A GREAT GRIEF THE HAPPY FAMILY A LEAF FROM HEAVEN IB AND LITTLE CHRISTINA THE ICE MAIDEN I.

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