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Description Charles Swinburne and his friend, the private detective Rupert Grant, are startled when Major Brown recounts the things that happened to him that morning. Along with Rupertโs brother, the ex-judge Basil Grant, they launch headlong into their investigation only to discover that the antagonist is a member of the Club of Queer Trades. Over the course of six short stories, the secrets of the Club come to light in surprising ways. The Club of Queer Trades was one of G. K. Chestertonโs
Description Arthur Pinero wrote The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1893 after penning several successful farces. Playing on the โwoman with a pastโ plot that was popular in melodramas, Pinero steered it in a more serious direction, centering the play around the social consequences arising when Aubrey Tanqueray remarries in an attempt to redeem a woman with a questionable past. The playโs structure is based on the principles of the โwell-made playโ popular throughout the 19th-century. But just as
Description Greenmantle is the second of John Buchanโs novels to feature Richard Hannay, a Scottish intelligence office in the British army, and as such is the sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps . The book gives the account of Hannay and his associateโs separate journeys through war-torn Europe to Constantinople to thwart an uprising that is poised to throw the Middle East, India, and North Africa into disarray, changing the course of the war. The book was popular when first published and although
Description Written in 1881, when melodrama and farce were still at their peak of popularity, Ibsenโs Ghosts is a three-act tragedy that explores uncomfortable, even forbidden themes. It is also a highly critical commentary on the morality of the day. The play centers around the widow of a prominent Norwegian sea captain whose son returns home and, with tragic consequences, revives the ghosts of the past that she has long labored to put to rest. Ghosts immediately became a source of controversy
Description Gustave Flaubert was an influential novelist who had both the characteristics of a romanticist and a realist. The short stories in this collection put that dichotomy on display. Flaubert wrote the first story, โThe Dance of Deathโ when he was only 17 years old. It is written in a play formatโthough sometimes referred to as a prose poemโand features a conversation between Death, Satan and Nero. โThe Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitallerโ is a story about Julian the Hospitaller, a
Description Ivan Bunin was a Russian author, poet and diarist, who in 1933 (at the age of 63) won the Nobel Prize in Literature โfor the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing.โ Viewed by many at the time as the heir to his friend and contemporary Chekhov, Bunin wrote his poems and stories with a depth of description that attracted the admiration of his fellow authors. Maxim Gorky described him as โthe best Russian writer of the dayโ and