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The Good Girl is the 1832 anonymously published book on etiquette. The Good Girl is an illustrated guide that details the proper ways in which a girl should act. It is very concise and to the point. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Adventures of Gerard is a collection of historical short stories about a fictional hero during the Napoleonic Wars written in 1902. It is the sequel to the Exploits of Brigadier Gerard and follows Gerard on even more adventures. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Sense and Sensibility is the 1811 novel by Jane Austen first published anonymously. The story is about the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, both of age to be married. They experience love and heartbreak as they pursue romance in eighteenth century England. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Illustrated copy of The Heart of Princess Osra. The Heart of Princess Osra is part of Anthony Hope's trilogy of novels set in the fictional country of Ruritania and which spawned the genre of Ruritanian romance. This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: it was written immediately after the success of The Prisoner of Zenda and was published in 1896, but is set in the 1730s, well over a century before the events of Zenda and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau. The stories deal with the love life of Princess Osra, younger sister of Rudolf III, the shared ancestor of Rudolf Rassendyll, the English gentleman who acts as political decoy in The Prisoner of Zenda, and Rudolph V of the House of Elphberg, the absolute monarch of that Germanic kingdom. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Indiscretion of the Duchess: being a story concerning two ladies, a nobleman, and a necklace is the 1894 work by the famed author of the swashbuckling work, The Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope. The novel is noted as one of the slower, but more complex and developed of Hope's romantic novels Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Jokes for All Occasions is a joke book from the turn of the century. Many may be course by todays standards and many may be tame. It is summed up by the author as they state, "The ways of telling a story are as many as the tellers themselves. It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which any one may perfect himself in the art, but it is possible to offer suggestions by which to guide practise in narration toward a gratifying success." The joke book is full of many short jokes from the early twentieth century. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is the short story by the American author, Herman Melville. Published in 1853 it was originally serialized in Putnam's Magazine. The story follows a fictional lawyer as he hires a scrivener to copy legal documents. The scrivener is a great employee at first but soon things turn. In a phrase that has become famous the Scrivener soon refuses work with a a simple "I would prefer not to." The story has been praised as, "unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction." Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

This book contains both The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and the sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a bildungsroman, or coming of age, novel that follows the adventures of a young boy named, Tom Sawyer, as he grows up along the Mississippi River towards the end of the nineteenth century. The setting is a fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Twain's home town of Hannibal, Missouri. The novel has become quintessential Americana. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the sequel novel to Mark Twains, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The story is a direct sequel to the first novel and follows the protagonist's best friend from the first novel as told in first person. The novel gained notoriety for using vernacular English throughout as well as its colorful painting of the American Midwest and Antebellum South. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the sequel novel to Mark Twains, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The story is a direct sequel to the first novel and follows the protagonist's best friend from the first novel as told in first person. The novel gained notoriety for using vernacular English throughout as well as its colorful painting of the American Midwest and Antebellum South. Odin's Library Classics Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Academica of Cicero is the work of the Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. The work concerns the art of teaching Romans. It was originally written in 45 BC and translated in 1874. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Secrets of the Harem was originally published anonymously in 1894. It describes the intricacies in Turkish Harems, discussing the roles of the women, the benefits, and the traditions. It is a relatively short book that fell out of popularity for a number of decades, but has since regained popularity recently. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The illustrated copy of The Kin's Mirror. The King's Mirror is the 1899 work by the famed author of the swashbuckling work, The Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope. The story concerns a fictional king, King Augustin, as he recounts his life from his boyhood coronation and early exploits to his attempts to woo his wife. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Tolstoi for the Young is an illustrated collection of short stories by the author Leo Tolstoy. The stories include: Ivan the Fool Where there is Love, there is God also A Prisoner Emelian and the Empty Drum The Great Bear Three Questions The Godson Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Love's Pilgrimage is the 1911 autobiographical novel by the famous Pulitzer Prize winning author and playwright, Upton Sinclair. The story concerns a struggling writer, Thyrsis as he gains commercial success. He tries desperately to balance this newfound success with his literary aspirations and his devotion to the love of his life, a beautiful young woman, Corydon. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Karl-Ludwig Sand Karl Ludwig Sand (Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia (then in Prussia), 5 October 1795 - Mannheim, 20 May 1820) was a German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft (student association). He was executed in 1820 for the murder of the conservative dramatist August von Kotzebue the previous year in Mannheim. As a result of his execution, Sand became a martyr in the eyes of many German nationalists seeking the creation of a united German national state. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales is a collection of short stories by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Released in late 185, it is the final collection of tales by Hawthorne published in his lifetime. The Collection includes: The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Ethan Brand The Canterbury Pilgrims The Devil in Manuscript My Kinsman, Major Molineux Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

This is the complete unabridged and illustrated copy of David Copperfield, published in 1849, it is the eighth novel by the famous author Charles Dickens. The story follows David through his life, from boyhood into maturity, and many aspects resemble Dickens' own life to be noted as a slight autobiography. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Adventure is a novel by Jack London released in 1911 by The Macmillan Company. The novel explores the themes of domination of one people over the others, the differences between races, emancipation of women, and the strength of the human spirit, strengthened in a struggle with the nature and society. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her lover was first published in 1890 by an anonymous author. It is a Victorian erotica novel, though it does not contain the shock language much of the other Victorian erotica novels did. The book gained is fame though sheer story telling, while short, it is noted as one of the best written Victorian era erotica novels. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Poison Belt The Poison Belt is the second story, a Novella, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to follow Professor Challenger, first introduced in The Lost World. Published in 1913, mostly takes place in Sussex, contradictory to The Lost World, which takes place much in South America. The Poison Belt follows Challenger in a new adventure as he believes Earth is about to pass through a poisonous belt of gas in space. Odin's Library Classics Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses. The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters, with sometimes obsessive detail but also with powerful insight. The title is taken from Ecclesiastes 12: "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity."

The Yellow Wallpaper is the 1892 short story by the classic American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is one of the most notable modern feminist literary works. The story is told in first person as journal entries by a woman whose physician husband forbids her to work because of her "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency." The story culminates with the chronical of her descent into psychosis caused by the deeds of her husband and the revelation about postpartum. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great influence on modern feminism because of her view on utopian feminism and unorthodox lifestyle views. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Power of Mesmerism: A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies is a Victorian erotica novel published anonymously. The story follows Frank Etheridge, a man with certain powers that give him the ability to control others. His exploits are some of the more titillating of the Victorian era. This novel is very graphic, even by today's standards. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Wanderings of a Spiritualist is the account of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as he studied spiritualism and the occult in the early 20th century. Originally published in 1921 Doyle gives a fresh account of not just the spiritual movement at the time, but also colonialism. Doyles exceptional writing details history and geography with his dry wit that made the Sherlock Holmes stories so great. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Essay on Truth and Our Social System; and how it affects those who Work for their Living.are two essays by the notable Australian Anarchist philosopher and author Davis A. Andrade. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Knickerbocker's History of New York is the 1809 work by the famous author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat, Washington Irving. The book concerns the history of New York during the fifty year rule by the Dutch in the mid-seventieth century. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, known as the Pickwick Papers, if the very first published novel by Charles Dickens. The novel is an ensemble of stories based on the adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Game of Logic is a book containing diagrams and logic games written by the famous author of Alice's Adventures in Wonder, Lewis Carroll. What made The Adventures in Wonderland series such a hit was Lewis' keen knowledge of logic and it is exemplified by this book. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Decembrists is the unfinished novel about the Napoleonic invasion of Russia by the famous Author Leo Tolstoy. It was to be a sequel to War and Peace following the Decembrist Uprising of 1825.

Alcestis is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It was first produced at the City Dionysia festival in 438 BC. Euripides presented it as the final part of a tetralogy of unconnected plays in the competition of tragedies, for which he won second prize; this arrangement was exceptional, as the fourth part was normally a satyr play. Its ambiguous, tragicomic tone-which may be "cheerfully romantic" or "bitterly ironic"-has earned it the label of a "problem play." Alcestis is, possibly excepting the Rhesus, the oldest surviving work by Euripides, although at the time of its first performance he had been producing plays for 17 years. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.