tysroby Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 NOTE: If you get a notification, saying you can't get a book on Amazon, simply change the ".com" domain name within the link to the domain name of your country's Amazon store (.co.uk., .fr, .ca, .de, and so on). Or you can follow this tutorial on how to change the country of your Amazon Store: https://www.howtogeek.com/328197/how-to-change-your-country-on-your-amazon-so-you-can-buy-different-kindle-books/ (No need to input real information, you can use: https://www.fakeaddressgenerator.com/ ). You may also simply search for the exact title of the book in your own country's Amazon Store and add it like that to your library. [1] "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo A thrilling tale of narrow escapes, romance in the midst of a revolution, and battlefield heroism, Victor Hugo's sprawling 1862 novel focuses on the Parisian underworld. Ex-convict Jean Valjean, who served 19 years in prison for stealing bread, attempts to redeem his life by helping the downtrodden. But his every move is dogged by the implacable policeman, Inspector Javert, whose relentless pursuit of a reformed criminal reflects a morally empty state that values retribution rather than justice. One of the first modern novels, Les Misérables took the unprecedented step of featuring a working-class hero and examining society's role in fostering crime and criminal behavior. Its portrait of altruism in the face of misery, poverty, and injustice is memorable for its vivid characterizations and its gripping plot, which unfolds in the manner of a detective story. DOWNLOAD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094S24VV1/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36377471-les-miserables [2] "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup 12 Years a Slave is the memoir of Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. Director Steve McQueen, who adapted this memoir into his critically acclaimed film of the same name, compared Northrup's memoir at par with Anne Frank's diary in terms of national hero status and in giving the first-hand account of brutality of slavery. DOWNLOAD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BG6Y1TN/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18478222-twelve-years-a-slave [3] "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies surrounding its anti-slavery sentiments. In fact, it is a compelling adventure story with richly drawn characters and has earned a place in both literary and American history. Stowe's religious beliefs show up in the novel's final, overarching theme—the exploration of the nature of Christianity and how Christian theology is fundamentally incompatible with slavery. DOWNLOAD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081QNWB3P/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46787.Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin [4] "Eugenics and Other Evils" by by G. K. Chesterton In the second decade of the twentieth century, an idea became all too fashionable among those who feel it is their right to set social trends. Wealthy families took it on as a pet cause, generously bankrolling its research. The New York Times praised it as a wonderful "new science." Scientists, such as the brilliant plant biologist, Luther Burbank, praised it unashamedly. Educators as prominent as Charles Elliot, President of Harvard University, promoted it as a solution to social ills. America's public schools did their part. In the 1920s, almost three-fourths of high school social science textbooks taught its principles. Not to be outdone, judges and physicians called for those principles to be enshrined into law. Congress agree, passing the 1924 immigration law to exclude from American shores the people of Eastern and Southern Europe that the idea branded as inferior. In 1927, the U. S. Supreme Court joined the chorus, ruling by a lopsided vote of 8 to 1 that the sterilization of unwilling men and women was constitutional. That idea was eugenics and in the English-speaking world it had virtually no critics among the "chattering classes." When he wrote this book, Chesterton stood virtually alone against the intellectual world of his day. Yet to his eternal credit, he showed no sign of being intimidated by the prestige of his foes. On the contrary, he thunders against eugenics, ranking it one of the great evils of modern society. And, in perhaps one of the most chillingly accurate prophecies of the century, he warns that the ideas that eugenics had unleashed were likely to bear bitter fruit in another nation. That nation was Germany, the "very land of scientific culture from which the ideal of a Superman had come." In fact, the very group that Nazism tried to exterminate, Eastern European Jews, and the group it targeted for later extermination, the Slavs, were two of those whose biological unfitness eugenists sought so eagerly to confirm. DOWNLOAD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081ZCRL6X/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184421.Eugenics_and_Other_Evils [5] "Japanese Fairy Tales" by Yei Theodora Ozaki English translation of 22 tales include ghouls, goblins and ogres; sea serpents and sea kings; kindly animals and magic birds; demons and dragons; princes and princesses. Some are "Momotaro, "The Son of a Peach", "The Jellyfish and the Monkey", "The Mirror of Matsuyama", "The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child", "The Stones of Five Colors and the Empress Jokwa." DOWNLOAD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081QNMXP4/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642956.Japanese_Fairy_Tales [6] "Our Cosmic Journey" by A.B. Forbes hope you enjoy my short story which explains in layman's terms how the Universe has evolved since its birth 13.8 billion years ago. The fictional journey has been used as a help in the understanding of how vast and ancient the Universe really is. This ebook should stir your imagination and give you a new perspective on life. DOWNLOAD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077KGG7KF/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56037646-our-cosmic-journey [7] "Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings" by Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of black American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, and he produced seven Uncle Remus books. He wrote these stories to represent the struggle in the Southern United States, and more specifically in the plantations. He did so by introducing tales that he had heard and framing them in the plantation context. He wrote his stories in a dialect which represented the voice of the narrators and their subculture. For this choice of framing, his collection has encountered controversy. DOWNLOAD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081QQDWG2/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223633.Uncle_Remus [8] "A Thin Ghost and Others" by M.R. James Collection of stories by Montague Rhodes James, a noted medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College. He is best remembered today for his ghost stories in the classic Victorian Yuletide vein. DOWNLOAD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081QNTY24/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2700389-a-thin-ghost-and-others [9] "Collected Novels, Short Stories, Essays & Articles" by H.G. Wells This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and Wells is called a father of science fiction. Table of Contents: H. G. Wells by J. D. Beresford Mr. Wells as Historian by Arnold Wycombe Gomme Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants by G. K. Chesterton Essays and Articles Novels and Short Stories: A Modern Utopia Ann Veronica Bealby In the Days of the Comet Joan and Peter Kipps Love and Mr. Lewisham Marriage Mr. Britling Sees It Through The Chronic Argonauts The First Men in the Moon The Food of the Gods The History of Mr Polly The Invisible Man The Island of Dr Moreau The New Machiavelli The Passionate Friends The Prophetic Trilogy The Research Magnificent The Sea Lady The Secret Places of the Heart The Soul of a Bishop The Time Machine The Undying Fire The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The Wheels of Chance The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The Wonderful Visit The World Set Free Tono-bungay When the Sleeper Wakes Collections of Short Stories Short Stories: A Catastrophe A Deal in Ostriches A Dream of Armageddon A Slip Under the Microscope A Story of the Days to Come A Story of the Stone Age A Tale of the Twentieth Century A Talk with Gryllotalpa How Gabriel Became Thompson How Pingwill Was Routed In the Abyss Le Mari Terrible Little Mother Up the Morderberg Miss Winchelsea's Heart Mr. Brisher's Treasure Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation Mr. Marshall's Doppelganger Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland My First Aeroplane Our Little Neighbour Perfect Gentleman on Wheels Pollock and the Porroh Man The Empire of the Ants The Flowering of the Strange Orchid The Flying Man The Grisly Folk DOWNLOAD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07354N26P/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25507149-h-g-wells [10] "The Black Tulip" by Alexandre Dumas Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in deadly political intrigue and is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival. Condemned to life imprisonment, his only comfort is Rosa, the jailer's beautiful daughter, and together they concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret. Dumas' last major historical novel is a tale of romantic love, jealousy and obsession, interweaving historical events surrounding the brutal murders of two Dutch statesman in 1672 with the phenomenon of tulipomania that gripped seventeenth-century Holland. DOWNLOAD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073GZMR5M/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7182.The_Black_Tulip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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