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1) The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
Shocking, long-hidden secrets lie at the heart of this classic tale of mystery and suspense from the author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White."
2) Kept in the Dark by Anthony Trollope - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
"Kept in the Dark" is a subtle study of a man's jealousy and indignation. Unlike Trevelyan in "He Knew He Was Right," who is wrongly convinced of his wife's past. Before her marriage to Western, Cecil...Show More
3) In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan by Lafcadio Hearn - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
"The Japanese have two kinds of ghosts in their folklore—the spirits of the dead, and the spirits of the living. This classic of Japanese literature invites you to take your choice if you dare. In ...Show More
4) The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thông’s new and absorbingly readable transla...Show More
5) Armadale by Wilkie Collins - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-hair...Show More
6) Senhora by José de Alencar - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
A critique of marriage of convenience, Senhora clarifies universal truths as one-time lovers reconcile as husband and wife. The poor orphan Aurélia is devastated when her true love, Fernando, breaks t...Show More
7) A Floating City by Jules Verne - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains...Show More
8) The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) was an author and is often considered one of the forerunners of today's science fiction. While he was in college he had shown an aptitude for writing verse, and two of h...Show More
9) The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
David Eldridge's new version of Ibsen's classic, published to tie-in with the production at the Donmar Warehouse, London. Should the truth be pursued whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a weal...Show More
10) Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
Spiral into a dimly lit world, down streets lined with madmen and their black deeds, through the cold twists of the catacombs, and into rooms where secrets dwell. From the tortured mind of Edgar Allan...Show More
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe - Book Review by SoundsPress.com
03:21 | Jul 25th, 2023