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  • My Brilliant Career (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A 19th-century Australian coming-of-age of a young woman confronting class, rural hardship, and empire - an introspective feminist classic.

    by Miles Franklin, Kevin Nicholls, Abigail Hill ...
    Set in the backblocks of New South Wales, My Brilliant Career follows Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong teenager who narrates her refusal of the marriage market amid drought, debt, and the drudgery of bush life. In brisk, first‑person prose blending satire with lyrical landscape, the novel adapts the European Bildungsroman to the Bulletin school's realism. Franklin probes class precarity, artistic ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Sailor's Word-Book (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A nautical reference guide to maritime terminology and seafaring vocabulary, with shipbuilding terms and oceanic language for enthusiasts

    by W. H. Smyth, Abigail Hill, Abigail Hill ...
    The Sailor's Word-Book is an encyclopedic lexicon of the sea's technical and vernacular speech, arranged alphabetically and ranging from seamanship, navigation, gunnery, rigging, shipbuilding, to messroom slang and ceremonial usages. Smyth's definitions are concise yet richly allusive, with cross-references and etymological notes drawn from Admiralty practice, voyages, and classical sources. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Anabasis of Alexander or, the History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Primary Source on Alexander the Great's Campaigns and Strategy

    by Arrian, Abigail Hill, Abigail Hill ...
    Translated by Edward James Chinnock ...
    Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander is a lucid, classicizing chronicle of the Macedonian's campaigns from the Hellespont to the Hyphasis. In measured, Xenophontic prose, it marries crisp battle narratives—Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela—to analyses of logistics, siegecraft, and provincial settlement, with ethnographic asides and sparing speeches. Rejecting the sensational Cleitarchan stream, Arrian ... Read more

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  • The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An Anthropological Journey into Celtic Fairy Lore across Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and the Isle of Man

    by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Owen Lennox, Abigail Hill ...
    The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries surveys living belief across Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man. From extensive field interviews, Evans-Wentz assembles typologies of apparitions, changelings, abductions, and processions, preserving long testimonies alongside notes and a bibliography. Blending folklore, comparative religion, and psychical research within the ... Read more

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  • Max Havelaar; or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A 19th-Century Satire of Dutch Imperialism, Corruption, and East Indies Exploitation

    by Multatuli, Nigel Blackwood, Abigail Hill ...
    Translated by Alphonse Nahuys ...
    Max Havelaar; or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (1860) is a searing, formally adventurous indictment of Dutch rule in the East Indies. Framed by the philistine broker Droogstoppel and the idealistic clerk Stern, it intercuts satire, documentary fragments, and the elegiac tale of Saïdjah and Adinda to expose abuses in Lebak and the metropolitan profits built on them. Sudden ... Read more

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  • Perfect Sight without Glasses (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Self-Help Guide to Natural Vision Improvement with Visual Exercises, Eye Muscle Strengthening, and Mind-eye Connection Methods

    by William Horatio Bates, Selene Dorswell, Abigail Hill ...
    Perfect Sight Without Glasses sets out Bates's radical claim that vision improves by relieving strain rather than by wearing lenses. In clinical yet polemical prose, he braids case histories, retinoscopic notes, and exercises—palming, sunning, shifting, "central fixation"—arguing that accommodation reflects extraocular muscular action and that refractive errors fluctuate with attention and emotion ... Read more

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  • Bambi (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Deer Prince's Coming-of-Age: Forest Life, Motherly Love, Woodland Adventures, and Nature's Wisdom

    by Felix Salten, Abigail Hill, Abigail Hill ...
    Translated by Whittaker Chambers ...
    First published in 1923, Bambi: A Life in the Woods traces a deer's growth from fawn to seasoned survivor through seasons of courtship, scarcity, and mortal risk. Salten's spare, lyrical realism and unsentimental anthropomorphism produce a modernist animal bildungsroman: impressionistic vignettes, close focalization, and the ominous figure of "Him" refract ecological fact into parable, guided by ... Read more

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  • Home Life in Colonial Days (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An exploration of colonial American customs, domestic routines, and the furnishings that shaped 17th-century family life

    by Alice Morse Earle, Kelsey Ramsey, Abigail Hill ...
    Home Life in Colonial Days, first published in 1898, is a capacious tour of early American domesticity—from hearth and house-building to spinning, candle-making, schooling, medicine, travel, and courtship. Earle's prose is lucid, anecdotal, and meticulously sourced, weaving quotations from diaries and town records with descriptions of surviving artifacts. Situated within the late‑nineteenth ... Read more

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  • The String of Pearls (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Victorian London Gothic: a murderous barber, sinister meat pies, and secrets in underground passages.

    by James Malcolm Rymer, Abigail Hill, Abigail Hill ...
    The String of Pearls inaugurates the legend of Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, in a heady blend of urban Gothic, crime fiction, and sensational melodrama. Serialized in a penny weekly in 1846–47, the novel fuses labyrinthine London topography with a suspense engine of cliffhangers, shifting viewpoints, and theatrical set‑pieces. Its plot—pirated wealth condensed into the titular ... Read more

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  • Middlemarch (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A character-driven portrait of 19th-century provincial England: marriage ideals, political intrigue, and social satire in a Midlands town

    by George Eliot, Abigail Hill, Abigail Hill ...
    Set in the years around the 1832 Reform Bill, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life interweaves Dorothea Brooke's thwarted idealism, Lydgate's medical ambitions, and the Vincys' fortunes into a patient anatomy of a town. With an omniscient, gently ironic narrator and masterly free indirect discourse, Eliot builds a realist web where marriage, vocation, religion, finance, and politics reveal how ... Read more

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  • East Lynne (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Victorian melodrama of love, betrayal, and redemption amid class divides and moral ambiguity

    by Henry Mrs. Wood, Lydia Marchmont, Abigail Hill ...
    East Lynne, a keystone of the 1860s sensation novel, fuses domestic tragedy with legal drama. It charts the ruin and remorse of Lady Isabel Vane, who, after eloping with the rakish Sir Francis Levison, returns incognito as "Madame Vine" to serve in the household of her steadfast former husband, lawyer Archibald Carlyle. Through cliffhangers, courtroom revelations, and close social detail, Wood ... Read more

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  • The Tavern Knight (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Fast-paced 17th-century adventure of political intrigue and historical romance, as a swashbuckling hero faces betrayal and finds redemption

    by Rafael Sabatini, Abigail Hill, Abigail Hill ...
    Set amid the English Civil War's last convulsions, The Tavern Knight follows a scarred Cavalier, notorious in alehouses yet haunted by a secret past, whose private vendetta entwines with the fortunes of Charles II and a beleaguered gentry household. Pursuits, sieges, and duels uncover betrayals, mistaken identities, and the possibility of redemption. Sabatini's early style is brisk, ironical, and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD