The impoverished Madden sisters are ill-equipped to support themselves when their father dies, and Monica sees her only chance of escape from a life of grinding misery in marriage. When she is befriended by two independent women, who...
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The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet. The cast of characters...
- Author: IBSEN, HenrikSummary:
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A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay and A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson
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A collection of short stories centering on Mariposa, a fictional Mid-West American turn-of-the-century town. This is a gentle journey through a past era, filled with quiet humour and insightful observations of the human condition.
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Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the embarrassment of all. Crichton, his butler, particularly...
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French professor Pierre Aronnax and his servant join the Abraham Lincoln, an American frigate, on a mission to find and destroy a "sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armored...
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