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"He was a baby of some seventy years... and he was born in a crib."In 1860 Baltimore, the prominent Button family is scandalized when their newborn son arrives not as a soft-skinned infant, but as a seventy-year-old man with a long white beard and a stooped back. So begins the extraordinary life of Benjamin Buttona man destined to grow younger as the world grows older. Fitzgerald tracks Benjamins reverse journey through the shifting landscape of American history, from the Civil War to the glittering Jazz Age, as he navigates the complexities of love, fatherhood, and a social order that has no place for a man out of time.A Masterpiece of Social Satire: While often remembered for its fantastical premise, Benjamin Button is a sharp-witted critique of the rigidity of high society. Fitzgerald uses Benjamins condition to expose the absurdities of social expectations, fashion, and the obsession with "appropriate" behavior. It is a story where the tragedy lies not in the supernatural, but in the human inability to accept what is different.The Heartbreak of Out of Sync Love: The emotional core of the story is Benjamins relationship with Hildegarde Moncrief. For a brief, shining moment, their ages meet in the middle, allowing for a fleeting period of conventional happiness. But as she ages into the autumn of her life, Benjamin continues his descent into the spring of his, leading to a poignant and inevitable separation that serves as a metaphor for the universal experience of growing apart.Witness a life lived against the clock. Purchase "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" today and experience Fitzgeralds most inventive tale.

"Emma was looking for a reason to live, a reason to die."Emma Rouault is a woman born out of her time. Raised on a diet of sentimental romance novels and dreams of Parisian high society, she marries Charles Bovarya dull, well-meaning country doctoronly to find herself suffocated by the grey monotony of provincial life. In a desperate bid to find the "ecstasy" she has read about, Emma enters a spiral of illicit affairs and reckless luxury, unaware that her pursuit of the ideal is leading her toward inevitable ruin. Flauberts meticulous prose captures the heartbreaking gap between our grandest fantasies and the brutal reality of our lives.The Architect of Realism: Flaubert famously spent days searching for le mot juste (the right word). Madame Bovary is celebrated for its precise, unemotional observation of human folly. By pioneering the "Free Indirect Discourse" technique, Flaubert allows the reader to step inside Emmas delusional mind while maintaining a critical distance, creating a reading experience that is both intimate and chillingly objective.A Critique of Romanticism: Emma is the ultimate victim of her own imagination. She views life as a stage, her lovers as heroes, and her surroundings as mere set dressing. Flaubert uses her story to critique the shallow romanticism of the 19th century, showing how the refusal to accept "the ordinary" can become a toxic force that destroys not only the self but everyone in its wake.Witness the birth of the modern novel. Purchase "Madame Bovary" today and experience the beauty of a tragedy told with surgical precision.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is Agatha Christies debut novel and the first appearance of her legendary detective, Hercule Poirot. Set in an English country house, the story revolves around a suspicious death by poisoning, hidden motives, and carefully concealed secrets. With meticulous plotting, logical clues, and a fair-play mystery structure, Christie established the blueprint for modern detective fiction. Elegant, clever, and timeless, this novel remains an essential read for fans of classic mysteries and crime literature.

Moonchild is Aleister Crowleys most famous novel, blending fiction with esoteric philosophy and ceremonial magic. Centered on a spiritual battle between rival occult orders, the story explores power, mysticism, and the metaphysical struggle for human destiny. Provocative and symbolic, it is a cornerstone of occult literature.

OS FÃS QUEREM UMA CONTINUAÇÃO!Os últimos jovens da Terra estão prestes a enfrentar seu maior desafio até agora: criar a continuação da sua história em quadrinhos de sucesso! E, como toda continuação,

Atlas De Vaus loves his job as a Carlisle K-9 officer. When his canine partner Evie senses a problem during a semitrailer traffic stop, a search of the truck reveals illegal immigrants being transported to New York. Local shelters can house the women while the case is processed, but they cant accommodate the lone man. Unwilling to leave a vulnerable person alone at the mercy of the system, Atlas takes him in until a place can be found for him. When Bazel Dadianis family and village discovered his secret, his only option was to leave his home country of Georgia. Hes used every cent he had to reach America, but hes determined to get where hes going, no matter how scared he is. He appreciates Atlas offering him a place to stay, but hes forgotten how to trust anyone, much less a figure of authority like Atlas.Slowly, Atlas and Eviemostly Eviebegin to win him over, leaving Bazel even more confused by his developing feelings for Atlas. They circle each other, each reluctant to make the first move. Just when they might be on the same track and close to catching the traffickers, government red tape threatens to separate them forever.

A few months before the Russia-Ukraine war started, Patrick rode a motorcycle from Moscow to the Caucasus. Across the Cossack Plains to Mount Elbrus, where he swapped the motorcycle for a snow scooter. From the Orthodox-Christian Russia in the Moscow area to the Muslim South and finally to Sochi at the Black Sea coast. Before that trip he tested Covid19 rules in various European countries, causing Patrick to re-name the place Coronistan. He also updated some of his earlier travel stories: Earthquake Italy, a wedding in New Zealand, riding with Vikings in Georgia, searching for Vultures in the Spanish Pyrenees, burning insence in Shanghai, sweating away in Englands Lake District and enjoying high roads and tunnels in Switzerland. The many people Patrick meets make the stories come alive. Hop on board for an enjoyable journey across the landscapes and history of many countries from the comfort of your settee. Travel is Food for Thought so youll get plenty of that in this book.

After a visit to Whitby in 1890, Stoker began writing a horror novel composed of letters, journal entries, telegrams, ships logs and newspaper clippings. His story gave form to what is now the universal myth of the blood-sucking, immortal, Transylvanian aristocrat, pitted against the redoubtable Professor Abraham Van Helsing.A new Faber Classics edition of the powerfully influential horror novel.

Stevensons shilling shocker is a psychological mystery in which a damnable young man stalks the London fog, connected in some horrific way with the respectable Dr Jekyll and an evil chemical potion. Stevenson said there were Little People inside his head stage-managing the internal theatre of his dreams and he credited these Brownies with giving him the idea for Jekyll and Hyde.A new Faber Classics edition of this uncanny tale of split personality.

The beautiful Dorian Gray sells his soul in exchange for eternal youth. Inspired by his friend the hedonistic Lord Henry, he embarks on a life of decadence, debauchery and corruption: he remains physically unchanged, while his portrait, painted by his friend Basil Hallward and hidden behind a curtain in an attic room, becomes increasingly and monstrously hideous. Basil Hallward is what I think I am, he wrote: Lord Henry is what the world thinks of me: Dorian is what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps.A new Faber Classics edition of the chilling cautionary tale.

Like Ulysses, which Virginia and Leonard Woolf considered for publication at the Hogarth Press, the action of Mrs Dalloway takes place over the course of a single day in June and is told through streams of consciousness, punctuated here by the leaden chimes of Big Ben. The narrative is shared between the middle-aged Clarissa Dalloway, preparing for a party, and Septimus Smith, a First World War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress, both of whose memories return to haunt them over the course of the day.A new Faber Classics edition of Woolfs much-loved modernist novel.

The first novel based on Robert E. Howards uncompromising Puritan anti-hero. A haunting and intense Gothic mystery for readers of Christopher Buehlman, John Langan and Brom.Puritan. Fiend. Fanatic.Solomon Kane.In the wake of several grisly murders, Solomon Kane has been summoned to Windsend, England, to determine a womans guilt. Is Sybil Eastey a witch? And is she behind these gruesome crimes?His first night in Windsend, Kane awakens from horrific nightmares only to witness a man being torn asunder. Fear quickly turns to something more sinister and the villagers are ready to lynch Sybil before Kane intervenes.Kane must establish Sybils true nature and solve the macabre mystery before more blood is spilt. However, nothing is what it seems in Windsend.

A shooting star streaks through the sky and the next day a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common near Woking in Surrey. Soon the tentacled Martian invaders are building killing machines, intent on destroying all humankind with their Black Smoke and Heat-Rays. In 1938, an adaptation of the novel broadcast on American radio, narrated by Orson Welles, is said to have caused mass panic among listeners.A new Faber Classics edition of the Victorian science fiction novel.

Magwitch lurking in a marsh graveyard, Miss Havisham mouldering beside her untouched wedding cake, the haughty Estella playing cards, Jaggers washing his hands. Great Expectations is full of memorable images: Dickens called it a grotesque tragi-comic conception. The story follows the transformation of the humble Pip into a London gentleman, with great but mysterious expectations.A new Faber Classics edition of Dickenss Gothic fairy tale.

Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, and rich and loves to interfere in the romantic lives of others. Austen thought she was a character whom no one but myself will much like, and yet many consider this novel to be Austens masterpiece. Its unreliable narration shares Emmas misconceptions, resulting in a work of exquisite literary misdirection.A new Faber Classics edition of Austens greatest novel.

Little Women is the story of the March girls of Massachusetts: beautiful Meg, the eldest, who marries young; tomboy Jo, based on Louisa May Alcott herself, who is courted by the boy next door; shy and gentle Beth, weakened after scarlet fever; and artistic Amy, who goes on a European tour with their eccentric Aunt March. G. K. Chesterton said this much-loved tale anticipated realism by twenty or thirty years.A new Faber Classics edition of this much-loved tale of sisters coming of age.

Doyle had killed his most famous hero in The Final Problem (1893), at the end of which Sherlock Holmes plunges to his death down the Reichenbach Falls in the arms of his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Nine years later, however, his readers had become so desperate for more Sherlock that Doyle was persuaded to write a new novel about the detective. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), set in the mysterious and misty Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor, has become perhaps the best loved of all the Sherlock Holmes adventures.A new Faber Classics edition of Sherlock Holmess most supernatural adventure.

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Reader love R. O. Thorps murder mysteries:Think Christie but funnier, with more heart.Fast-paced, funny and full of intrigue. Loved every minute of it and cant wait for the next one!Scientist Finn Blanchard is trying not to think about murder. The university administrator Nina Hussar may have fallen to her death down stairs shed used for years, but the only mystery Finn wants to investigate is whether theres a shark in the local lake.But when a professors sudden death unearths cryptic clues to a missing Shakespeare play, Finn is forced to admit his research isnt the fishiest part of university life. After all, as his detective ex-boyfriend says, theres nothing more suspicious than a fall down some stairs.And if Finn cant figure out who the killer is soon, the next blood in the water might be his own . . .Praise for the Blanchard twins series:Brilliant. Ian MooreFun ahoy! Orlando MurrinClever, quirky and irresistibly fun. Jessica Bull

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