Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. With detailed research, historian and author...
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Author: Taylor, Robert RatcliffeSummary:
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Author: SakiSummary:
Presents 16 short stories including: Esmé, Tobermory, Mrs. Packeltide's tiger, Sredni Vashtar, The Easter egg, The Byzantine omelette, and The open window.
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Author: Pepys, SamuelSummary:
Presents excerpts chronicling one of the most colorful periods of the Restoration.
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Author: Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:
Presents a Hawaiian couple who find themselves saddled with a genie in a bottle who is no bargain; and three other supernatural tales: Markheim; Thrawn Janet; and Olalla.
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Author: Wells, H. G.Summary:
Author H.G. Wells, deeply committed to social improvement in turn-of-the-century Britain, used extra-terrestrial invasion to predict the results of a not-entirely-impossible violent upheaval in...
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Author: De La Torre, LillianSummary:
The author's most unusual detective duo is at it again in this collection of short stories. The Boswell pen captures every observation, every gem of Johnsonian wisdom.
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Author: Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:
In 1815 in Scotland, having realized that the corpses he and his peers examine in anatomy class are stolen from fresh graves, a young medical student finds that he must procure the next specimen;...
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Presents six short stories by the masters of mystery and horror.
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Author: Johnson, SamuelSummary:
In 1773, a 63 year old literary giant and a 32 year old Scottish lawyer set out on horseback to travel the roads of Scotland.
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Author: London, Jack, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Kipling, RudyardSummary:
Three timeless stories that will whisk you into exotic lands and unforgettable adventures.