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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.' Including Poe's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the...
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Tales from Grace Chapel Inn volume 21
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Auction fever strikes the residents of Acorn Hill. But while some bidders go home winners, disappointment---even heartache---is in store for others. Guests at Grace Chapel Inn worry about their teenage son; two music lovers offer hope to a former prodigy; and an award-winning poet, who reads "Wonder Woman" as well as Wordsworth, brings celebrity to the inn. Will prayer, laughter, and kindness help Louise, Alice, and Jane resolve their own difficulties...
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Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens's portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant...
5) Kidnapped
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In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
6) Heidi
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. This edition of the classic tale includes illustrations and notes about the life of the times.
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Tales from Grace Chapel Inn; one of the three Howard sisters, Louise, is off on a long journey with some townsfolk, and they quickly discover that the age-old practice of storytelling is a wonderful way to pass time. The travelers find that excitement, adventure and even a little bit of romance make any trip a memorable one. Meanwhile, back at home, Alice gets caught up in a good-natured competition between Fred and Vera Humbert, and soon the whole
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