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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON (1835-1915) was one of the most prolific and popular authors of her day. She was responsible for no less than 80 novels, 9 plays, and dozens (perhaps hundreds) of short stories and articles, many of which were published pseudonymously in cheap and sensational magazine...read more

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BIRDS OF PREYBYM.E. BRADDON[Illustration: "Be good enough to take me straight to her,"said the Captain, "I am her father."]CONTENTS:Book the First.FATAL FRIENDSHIP.I. THE HOUSE IN BLOOMSBURYII. PHILIP SHELDON READS THE "LANCET"III. MR. AND MRS. HALLIDAYIV. A PERPLEXING ILLNESSV. THE LETTER FROM THE "ALLIANCE" OFFICEVI. MR. BURKHAM'S UNCERTAINTIESBook the Second.THE TWO MACAIRES. I. A GOLDEN TEMPLE II. THE EASY DESCENT III. "HEART BARE, HEART HUNGRY, VERY POOR"Book the Third.HEAPING UP RICHES. I. A FORTUNATE MARRIAGE II. CHARLOTTE III. GEORGE SHELDON'S PROSPECTS IV. DIANA FINDS A NEW HOME V. AT THE LAWN VI. THE COMPACT OF GRAY'S INN VII. AUNT SARAHVIII. CHARLOTTE PROPHESIES RAIN IX. MR. SHELDON ON THE WATCHBook the Fourth.VALENTINE HAWKEHURST'S RECORD. I. THE OLDEST INHABITANT II. MATTHEW HAYGARTH'S RESTING-PLACE III. MR. GOODGE'S WISDOMBook the Fifth.RELICS OF THE DEAD. I. BETRAYED BY A BLOTTING-PAD II. VALENTINE INVOKES THE PHANTOMS OF THE PAST III. HUNTING THE JUDSONS IV. GLIMPSES OF A BYGONE LIFEBook the Sixth.THE HEIRESS OF THE HAYGARTHS. I. DISAPPOINTMENT II. VALENTINE'S RECORD CONTINUED III. ARCADIA IV. IN PARADISE V. TOO FAIR TO LAST VI. FOUND IN THE BIBLEBook the Seventh.CHARLOTTE'S ENGAGEMENT. I. "IN YOUR PATIENCE YE ARE STRONG" II. MRS. SHELDON ACCEPTS HER DESTINY III. MR. HAWKEHURST AND MR. GEORGE SHELDON COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING IV. MR. SHELDON IS PROPITIOUS V. MR. SHELDON IS BENEVOLENT VI. RIDING THE HIGH HORSE VII. MR. SHELDON IS PRUDENTVIII. CHRISTMAS PEACEBIRDS OF PREYBOOK THE FIRST.FATAL FRIENDSHIP.CHAPTER I.THE HOUSE IN BLOOMSBURY."What about?" There are some houses whereof the outward aspect issealed with the seal of respectability--houses which inspire confidencein the minds of the most sceptical of butchers and bakers--houses atwhose area-gates the tradesman delivers his goods undoubtingly, andfrom whose spotless door-steps the vagabond children of theneighbourhood recoil as from a shrine too sacred for their gambols.Such a house made its presence obvious, some years ago, in one ofthe smaller streets of that west-central region which lies betweenHolborn and St. Pancras Church. It is perhaps the nature ofultra-respectability to be disagreeably conspicuous. The unsulliedbrightness of No. 14 Fitzgeorge-street was a standing reproach to everyother house in the dingy thorough-fare. That one spot of cleanlinessmade the surrounding dirt cruelly palpable. The muslin curtains in theparlour windows of No. 15 would not have appeared of such a smoky yellowif the curtains of No. 14 had not been of such a pharisaical whiteness.Mrs. Magson, at No. 13, was a humble letter of lodgings, always more orless in arrear with the demands of quarter-day; and it seemed a hardthing that her door-steps, whereon were expended much labour andhearthstone--not to mention house-flannel, which was in itself nounimportant item in the annual expenses--should be always thrown in theshade by the surpassing purity of the steps before No. 14.Not satisfied with being the very pink and pattern of respectability,the objectionable house even aspired to a kind of prettiness. It was asbright, and pleasant, and rural of aspect as any house within earshotof the roar and rattle of Holborn can be. There were flowers in thewindows; gaudy scarlet geraniums, which seemed to enjoy an immunityfrom all the ills to which geraniums are subject, so impossible was itto discover a faded leaf amongst their greenness, or the presence ofblight amidst their wealth of blossom. There were birdcages within theshadow of the muslin curtains, and the colouring of the newly-pointedbrickwork was agreeably relieved by the vivid green of Venetian blinds.

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Product Description: A chilling collection of stories from the masters of supernatural fiction, written during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at the height of the genre's popularity. These fifteen tales introduce a variety of ghosts: some warning, some seeking retribution and some malevolent, but all disturbing and offering a view into a world filled with darkness and terror that lies at the boundary between the living and the dead...read more

Product Description: In the latter years of the nineteenth century, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was one of the best known, and best-selling, authors of the day. Arnold Bennett described her, in 1901, as 'part of England', and wrote that while some might know of Hardy or Meredith, EVERYONE knew of Miss Braddon...read more

Product Description: Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) was a British Victorian era popular novelist. She was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is her first novel, Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well...read more

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Product Description: A young girl whose love for her fiance continues even after her death; a sinister old lady with claw-like hands who cares little for the qualities of her companions provided they are young and full of life; and a haunted mirror that drains the beauty from those who gaze into its depths and reflects back a withered old age...read more

In the pocket classics series, this is the story of Fay, the ward of John Fausset, who is taken into the family. A mystery surrounds her, if she is an heiress, why does she arrive with torn embroidery on her under-linen. What is the nature of her relationship with John Fausset, and why does his wife so resent her?

Product Description: A warm summer evening, with a sultry haze brooding over the level landscape, and a Sabbath stillness upon all things in the village of Lidford, Midlandshire. In the remoter corners of the old gothic church the shadows are beginning to gather, as the sermon draws near its close; but in the centre aisle and about the pulpit there is broad daylight still shining-in from the wide western window, across the lower half of which there are tall figures of the Evangelists in old stained glass...read more

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Product Description: In Christian theology, the world, the flesh, and the devil are often traditionally described as the three enemies of the soul. As the sources of temptation, they are sometimes opposed to the Trinity. Nevertheless, let those who think themselves to stand, take heed lest they fall, and, with fear and trembling work out their salvation, in labours, in watchings, in almsdeeds, in prayers and oblations, in fastings and chastity: for, knowing that they are born again unto a hope of glory, but not as yet unto glory, they ought to fear for the combat which yet remains with the flesh, with the world, with the devil, wherein they cannot be victorious, unless they be with God's grace, obedient to the Apostle, who says; We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; for if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live...read more

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more