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Someday di drwhogivesadamn
Someday
drwhogivesadamn
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a 30 year love story told in 30 days (design by: @perfected, artwork by: James R. Eads)
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People di OscarWilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
OscarWilde
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"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ in order to escape burdensome social obligations.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) di OscarWilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfilment of the senses.
A House of Pomegranates (1891) di OscarWilde
A House of Pomegranates (1891)
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"A House of Pomegranates" is a collection of fairy tales. "The Young King" tells the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, he is brought to the palace to await his accession. "The Birthday of the Infanta" is about a hunchbacked dwarf, found in the woods by courtiers of the King of Spain. The hunchback's father sells him to the palace for the amusement of the king's daughter, the Infanta, on her twelfth birthday. In "The Fisherman and his Soul," a young Fisherman finds a Mermaid and wants nothing more than to marry her, but he cannot, for one cannot live underwater if one has a soul. "The Star-Child" is the story of an infant boy found abandoned in the woods by a poor woodcutter, who pities him and takes him in. He grows up to be exceedingly beautiful, but vain, cruel, and arrogant, believing himself to be the divine child of the stars. Cover done by @zonaamind
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (Completed) di AlexandreDumas
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (Completed)
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Alexandre Dumas elaborated on the story in the novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, the final installment of his D'Artagnan saga: here the prisoner is forced to wear an iron mask and is Louis XIV's identical twin. Dumas also presented a review of the popular theories about the prisoner extant in his time in the chapter "L'homme au masque de fer" in the sixth volume of his Crimes Célèbres.
The Three Musketeers (1844) (Completed) di AlexandreDumas
The Three Musketeers (1844) (Completed)
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The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, which recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, inseparable friends who live by the motto "all for one, one for all" ("tous pour un, un pour tous").
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) (Completed) di AlexandreDumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) (Completed)
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"The Count of Monte Cristo" focuses on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. However, his plans have devastating consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty. Cover by xflowerpetalsx
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) di ArthurConanDoyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his famous detective.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) di MarkTwain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
MarkTwain
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) di MarkTwain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
MarkTwain
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"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.