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| H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) |
Clever advertising and marketing turns Tono-Bungay from an ineffective tonic into a miraculous one with powerful placebo effects and even greater profits. H.G. Wells exposes medical charlatans for what they are in Tono-Bungay. A story of relevance when it was first published in 1909 and very much still relevant today. |
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| Ten Nights in a Bar-Room |
| Timothy Shay Arthur (1809 - 1885) |
1855 Best Seller.
Ten Nights in a Bar-Room is temperance novel that helped demonize alcohol.
In the story a miller gives up his mill and opens a tavern.
The narrator visits intermittently over the years and charts the changes in the proprietor and the town due to the negative influence of alcohol.
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| The Man of the Forest |
| Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1920.
Milt Dale, the man of the forest, overhears a plot to kidnap a young woman and cannot in good conscience do nothing. He sets out to save the girl ...
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| To Have and To Hold |
| Mary Johnston (1870 - 1936) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1900.
English soldier turned Virginia explorer unknowingly becomes entangled in royal intrigue when he makes a quick marriage.
The author drives the plot through a series of adventures, each revealing more of the essential nature of the characters.
One Americas most popular historical novels and very hard to put down.
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| Move Underground http://www.moveunderground.org/ |
| Nick Mamatas (1972 - ) http://nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com/ |
"The American dream reveals itself to be a Lovecraftian nightmare in Mamatas's audacious first novel, set in the early 1960s, which goes on the
road with Kerouac, Cassady, and Cthulhu." -- Publishers Weekly
This novel was nominated for both the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 2005, and made the Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List for books published in 2004.
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| The Man-eaters of Tsavo |
| John Henry Patterson (1867 - 1947) |
The books tells the true story of attacks by man-eating lions on the Uganda railway in Tsavo Kenya in 1898.
Over one hundred people were killed in under a year. The attacks stopped only after the all the lions had been tracked down and killed by Patterson.
In the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness Val Kilmer played Patterson.
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| Aenid |
| Vergil (70BC - 19BC) |
Picks up where the film Troy (loosely based on Homer's Iliad) leaves off and follows Aeneis a fleeing Trojan as he travels to Italy, makes war on the Latins, and becomes an ancestor of the Romans. Virgil was the "Latin world's Shakespeare". |
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