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1) Missing
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This early work by Mary Augusta Ward was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'Missing' tells the story of an Englishwoman working on the home front during the First World War. She finds spiritual freedom in her occupation and this entertaining drama highlights the emerging new role for women in society. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting...
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The book begins: "A stifling hot day! General Hobson lifted his hat and mopped his forehead indignantly. What on earth this place can be like in June I can't conceive! The tenth of April, and I'll be bound the thermometer's somewhere near eighty in the shade. You never find the English climate playing you these tricks. Roger Barnes looked at his uncle with amusement. Don't you like heat, Uncle Archie? Ah, but I forgot, it's American heat."
4) Missing
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Mrs. Humphry Ward tells the story of a pretty, clinging Englishwoman, who learns through the war's hard lesson the essential dishonesty of clinging. Work brings her spiritual freedom, as it has brought spiritual freedom to hundreds of women since the beginning of the war.
"Missing" might be a contribution to the contemporary literature about woman, as vital in its way as "A Woman of Genius," but, like most of Mrs. Ward's work, it lacks reality. It...
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"Milly and Olly" by Humphry Mrs. Ward. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
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Laura Fountain is raised by her father Stephen, a Cambridge scholar who wasn't religious and raised his daughter the same way. Laura's step mother Augustina was raised a catholic in Bannisdale, but she denounced her faith upon her wedding with Stephen. When Stephen dies Augustina takes Laura to Bannisdale where a young skeptic lady is initially repelled by the heady atmosphere of Catholic ritual that greets her there. Laura also starts on a wrong...
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Sir George Tressady is a young and rich mine owning noble man who gets married out of boredom with no much love for his lady. His marriage gets even more in trouble when he gets under the influence of Marcella, an older lady married to a distinguished statesman Aldous Raeburn, who tries to win Tressady's support for her husband's political campaign. Unaware of Lady Raeburn's intentions, Tressady falls in love for her and risks to completely ruining...
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"Hullo, Preston! don't trouble to go in." The postman, just guiding his bicycle into the Rectory drive, turned at the summons and dismounted. The Rector approached him from the road, and the postman, diving into his letter-bag and into the box of his bicycle, brought out a variety of letters and packages, which he placed in the Rector's hands. The recipient smiled.
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Ripped from the headlines of her day, Mrs. Ward's 1905 bestseller was based on the whirlwind lives of Britain's rich and powerful. Distinguished statesman William Ashe falls in love with the "quite mad" Kitty Bristol, but their marriage fails to end her blazing jealousy over William's old flame.
10) Hamlet
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A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.
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