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Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu • 2019
<p><i>"To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door."</i><br></p> <p><p>Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship--until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla. As Carmilla's actions become more puzzling and volatile, Laura develops bizarre symptoms, and as her health goes into decline, Laura and her father discover something monstrous.</p> <p><p>Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's compelling tale of a young woman's seduction by a female vampire was a source of influence for Bram Stoker's <i>Dracula</i>, which it predates by over a quarter century. <i>Carmilla</i> was originally serialized from 1871 to 1872 and went on to inspire adaptations in film, opera, and beyond, including the cult classic web series by the same name.</p>
Gifts Differing
Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers · 2010
Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins · 2010
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The Well of Loneliness / El pozo de la soledad
Radclyffe Hall • 1928
<p>First published in 1928, "The Well of Loneliness" is Radclyffe Hall's semi-autobiographical pioneering work of lesbian literature. The story follows Stephen Gordon, a girl born to upper class parents in late Victorian England. Her parents having expected a boy decided to christen her with the name that they had chosen for him. A strangely coincidental choice as the youth begins to take on a boyish appearance, cutting her hair short and eschewing girly things. Soon it is clear that Stephen sees herself as a man who is attracted to women. This hugely influential work of homosexual or possibly transsexual fiction was harshly criticized by people who were offended by the subject at the time when it was first published. However since then it has been heralded as a seminal and still important work of gay literature. Presented her is the original edition of Radclyffe Hall's most important novel, "The Well of Loneliness". This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.</p><p><br></p>
Animal Farm and 1984
George Orwell, A. M. Heath · 2003
Fight Club A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk · 2018
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 2015
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte · 2009
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins · 2020
The Handmaid's Tale A Novel
Margaret Atwood · 1998
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 1951
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 2010
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 2006
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2021
Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins · 2026
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle · 2010
1984
George Orwell · 1950
