Böcker utgivna av DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP

The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary ( series of letters) novel by famous English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book relates the adversities of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a recognised anti-Catholic bias. In this amazing novel of relationships, psychological convolutions, and fraud, a priest comes between an responsive man and the young woman he loves. A high ranking Catholic priest plans to recover land knowing Church property. It analyses very patiently a intense friendship between two men, Lewis Romayne and Arthur Penrose, which in some ways transforms in its power the principal heterosexual relationship depicted in the work. The Black Robe is full of Victorian England's religious views and influences Collins' general commentary about domestic issues and the condition of women. Through the description of the Church's spiritual elite, its priests, and characters' comments, England's anti-Catholicism views are apparent. This book is a kind of enigma, though nobody is murdered. It is a combination of realist late-Victorian fiction with an advice of Gothic.

Meet the top-most hero-villain, a complete masterpiece of suspense, a Chinese criminal of endless wealth, mind, and mysterious powers whose goal is nothing less than to overpower the world; he is Dr. Fu-Manchu, a master of disguise who commands the criminal societies of Asia. His foil is Denis Nayland Smith, a plodding Englishman with unclear connections with Scotland Yard, and his physicist friend, Dr. Petrie. This novel is the first and best-seeming instalment in the series of Dr. Fu-Manchu mysteries, among which a few are film adaptations. The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu presents a cast of beautiful characters in a materialistic, climatic story with so much suspense hidden inside the story, which creates more excitement to know what is going to happen.

Leaves of Grass is a wonderful poetry collection written by American poet Walt Whitman. First edition of this collection was published in 1855 with twelve poems. Through out his life, he revised this composition and after four decades, it was compiled in a collection of 400 poems. In these poems he expressed philosophy of life and humanity. He has written praiseworthy poems on nature. He didn't follow rhyme and standard rules for meter and line length rather he set his own style. He emerges as a hero in epic 'Song of Myself'. His incredible writing depicts as he has seen all the world. He has written all sorts of poems like - social, political, personal and sexual in nature. His poetic journey and self exploration are most commendable, represents his philosophy of life. He has shown an impressive comparison between fallen autumn leaves and rebirth of a new life after death. His passionate writing is delightful and pleasure giving. He expresses his deep concern for people's individuality and immortality. 'Song of the Open Road' is such a marvellous composition. In his poems as a true patriotic citizen he sings for glorious America.

The Rainbow Trail is written by Zane Grey and is a sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage. It was published in 1915 and re-edited in recent years. The story takes you ten years in the future from Riders of the Purple Sage. In this book, the wall of Surprise Valley wall is broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but the theme is treated more explicitly in The Rainbow Trail. The story revolves around the victimization of women in the Mormon culture.The story of Riders of the Purple Sage revolves around the struggle of a Mormon woman who sacrifices her wealth and social status to keep her away from becoming the junior wife of the head of the church. Whereas, The Rainbow Trail compares older Mormons with a growing generation of Mormon women who will not tolerate polygamy and Mormon men who do not want it.A movie is also made in 1931 by the same name.

The Woman in White is a mysterious sensational novel, written by Wilkie Collins, published in 1860. A young art teacher Walter Hartright, meets an entirely white dressed mysterious woman, while he was returning, after meeting his mother and sister. Later, he came to know that she has escaped from an asylum. Walter joins a job in Limmeridge House to teach art to Laura Fairlie and Marian Halcombe Laura's step sister. Walter surprises that there is resemblance between Laura and the woman in white known as Anne Catherick. In spite of her love to Walter Laura marries to Sir Percival Glyde as she promised to her dying father. After six months of her marriage Clyde with Fosco conspirates against Laura to steal her inheritance. Story takes sensational turn Laura and Anne's places were exchanged. After persisting efforts of Walter and Marian the truth revealed, Laura's identity proved and Glyde and Fosco are killed and in the end Walter marries to Laura.

Great American astronomy writer Garrett P. Serviss has written this book Pleasure of Telescope, first published in 1901. When this book was published there was an outrage, as on it's cover page picture of a nude goddess shown later it was changed into plain blue cover. It's a classical astronomy book and illustrated guide for amateur astronomers who studies for pleasure and curiosity. Seeing the importance of this book efforts are made to protect, preserve and promote it. In his views telescope is a valuable instrument of knowledge through which things can be observed and discoveries became possible. Since, childhood telescope was his most precious possession. He says it's an instrument generally kept by intelligent and curious people. In an introductory series, he has shown stars and maps more vividly, naked eye visible and visible through telescopes stars are shown differently. Constellation are pointed out by usual symbols and nebulae by a little white circle. The smaller stars are shown by dots and larger by star- shaped figures.

The story takes you to the Civil War when a Union regiment rested and camped along a riverbank for weeks for a war. Henry Fleming who is a teenager joins the army because of his love for the army but finds himself in the middle of the battle against the Confederate soldiers. In the battle, Confederate soldiers charge but are repelled by the Union. But soon Confederate soldiers charge again. Henry is terrified and leaves his comrades. He goes to a jungle where he finds a body decaying, while escaping from the place he finds a group of injured soldiers returning from the war. They ask Henry to show his wound. He tries to run from that place but things come in disarray. A soldier hit him with his rifle on his head. Exhausted, hungry, thirsty, and now wounded he decides to go back to his regiment. He faces shame and hatred from another soldier. He has to prove himself to get back his respect and pride.It is the story of a person who leaves the battleground out of fear. The story revolves around maturation, heroism, cowardice, and the indifference of nature.

This novel by Alexander Dumas pere, published in French as Les Trois Mousquetaires in 1844. It is a historical romance and it describes the experiences of four heroes who lived under the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, who ruled during the 17th and early 18th centuries. At the beginning of the story, D'Artagnan enters in Paris from Gascony and becomes involved in three fights with the three musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. It is in the daredevil category, which has heroic, gallant swordsmen who fight for justice. It depicts various injustices, abuses and ridiculousness of the Ancient Regime, showing the novel an additional political importance at the time of its publication, a time when the discussion in France between Republicans and monarchists was still ferocious. Writer analyses the coming-of-age story of young d'Artagnañ who allows to leave his country life behind and change into a member of the king's elite guard. Three skilled musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis mentor d'Artagnañ as he jumps into political interest and daring adventure. In the world of The Three Musketeers, heroes triumph through loyalty, bravery, and friendship. Thus, 'The Three Musketeers' is a consolidation of Romance, Action and History.

'Curiosities of the Sky' is a fascinating book written by Garrett P. Serviss, an American astronomer, published first time in 1909. His writings popularize astronomy and generates curiosity among the people to know the unrevealed facts of science specially universe. His writing is unbelievable, 100 years earlier he has given such a firm and factual information about the stars to us. When he has written all these description only telescope was the means through which all universe can be observed. In a very interesting writing style he amused his readers and covered topics like - strange surroundings of sun, unfixedness of the fixed stars, comets and meteors, transformation of comets and their tails, northern lights, black holes, solar storm, novae and many more. He has given amazing facts about Mars still these facts are centre of attraction, searching the possibility of life there.

A Pair of Blue Eyes is a novel by Thomas Hardy printed in 1873. This is the story of Elfride Swancourt, a blue-eyed heroine. Elfride is divided between two lovers, the young, kind-hearted, socially inferior Stephen Smith, an architect; and much older and honest Londoner, Henry Knight, a literary man and Stephen's mentor. She also has to assure the belief of her father, the Rector of Endelstow. This is a moving and touching story about love, social protocols, limitations women faced in the 19th century, honour, sacrifice and loss. This book is set in Hardy's fictional Wessex of southwestern England. Characters are very well illustrated and developed. A Pair of Blue Eyes beyond its fun romance is Hardy's brand commentary on a rebellious shift in English life and culture. It mainly noteworthy as exclusive work of remarkable boldness and originality. A fascinating feature of this book is that it's nearly based on Hardy's relationship with his first wife, Emma Gifford.

Adam Bede is George Eliot's ( Mary Ann Evans), first novel published in 1859. The story is laid in a village Hayslope. There are youthful and lively characters, in a quest of true love. Adam Bede is a young carpenter lives in this village. He is an honest and hardworking man so, that his master Jonathan Burger choose him for his daughter. But Adam loves a charming and pretty girl Hetty Sorel. Hetty is unaware of Adam's love, she is interested in Captain Arthur Donnithrown. Adam's brother loves Hetty's cousin Dinah Morris, she is a Methodist preacher. For his love Adam confronts with Arthur and as a agreement he leaves Hetty. Adam and Hetty's marriage is settled but before the marriage she came to know about her pregnancy. In fear of social consequences, she leaves the village, wanders in search of Arthur. She delivers the baby but unfortunately she dies. Hetty is found guilty and imprisoned. Eventually, Adam and Dinah realize their love bonds, they pass out their life in peace and happiness.

Sax Rohmer's thriller adventure and most beloved hero-villain character are back in the series. Fu-Manchu is a cunning, manipulative, evil genius attempting to control the world and destroy his enemy Nayland Smith and his loyal companion, Dr. Petrie. The tricky doctor gets back to Great Britain with his alliance of professional killers, the feared Si-Fan. Smith has come back to Burma and has heard that Fu Manchu is still alive and has gotten back to England to take his revenge on them. The book is a series of episodes that find Smith and Petrie attempting to find Manchu and fight his dacoits and different executions of his terror. In the era of Sherlock Homes, the author has created a character and his tales of adventure that are appreciated by many people around the globe.

O Pioneers is a novel written by Willa Sibert Cather in 1903. In this book, Cather unfolds the story of Bergson, are Swedish-American immigrant in the farm country near the town of Hanover, Nebraska.Alexandra Bergson is the leading character of the story; she inherits the family farmland when her father dies. She devotes her life in making the farm an enterprise when other immigrant families are leaving the prairie.The story also revolves around the relationship between Alexandra and her family friend Carl Linstrum and Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.O Pioneers is divided into five parts.Alexandra's father is dying. His last wish is that his daughter runs the farm after he is gone. The story showcases the struggles of Alexandra and how she mortgages the farm to buy more land in the hope to become rich as a landowner.Although, Alexandra gets financial success but fails in her love life. Carl Linstrum leaves Alexandra and lives in a different city. After 16 years he makes a surprise visit to her. Lou and Oscar are married and they both hold their separate farms. Also, things started getting nasty between Emil, Alexandra's favorite youngest brother, and Marie Shabata. Later, Emil decides the best thing for him is to get away.

While the author was hoisted on board the Queen of Portugal bound for Lisbon in June 1754, he had a small desire to survive the milder Portuguese winter.Fielding was dying from different kinds of disorders, and the weight of his sickness sets up the adventurous humour and tragedy of the journal. In this essay, Fielding examines his body's decay and the corruption of English society, destroying with irony his own high claims for former conduct as a London magistrate. He has described the daily events of the difficult journey, the abuses faced by the sailors, the dedication of his wife and daughter, the terror of cyclones, the sunset and the moonrise at sea, and the description of his food and drink.Tom Keymer gives an enlightening introduction to this volume, which finally gets popular and is available in a scholarly edition of the journal.

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel printed in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is place in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story accompanies the fortunes of the four Beverley children (Edward, Humphrey, Alice and Edith) who are orphaned during the war, and hide from their Roundhead tyrants in the shelter of the New Forest where they grasp to live off the land. These four children in the novel usually become ideal models of manhood and womanhood, and even the gypsy boy Pablo is trained into their civilising ways. The peril they build to bait cattle catches more than they deal for, leading to one experience after another. Against all chances they dextrously exercise through the traitorous landscape of the times, usually recovering their family estate. Their deeds and efforts to live in the forest form the center of this novel. This book is a celebration of genteel ness, courage and tolerance.

Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking- Glass was published in 1871, it's a sequel to Alice Adventures in Wonderland. It's a valuable amusing pearl in the children's literature. Carroll includes themes like reverse viewing and time running backward. While reading this book every child wishes to explore such a hilarious, fantastic and venturesome world of Alice. Alice was playing with kittens suddenly she became curious to see the world beyond the mirror. She climbed over the fire mantle place to see beyond the hanging mirror and in a great surprise she stepped down in a magical world. It is a snowy winter night, she enters in a house, finds an exciting poetry book Jabberwocky there. She leaves the house and enters in a garden flowers are lively they speak with Alice. In her full happiness, she meets a queen. She bewilders that chess pieces can interacts with her and these are very small to pick.

Drum-Taps, is a collection of poetry written by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War, published in 1865. Eighteen more poems were added later in the year to make Sequel to Drum-Taps. In the first group of poems, Whitman shows both eagerness and doubts in regard to the close conflict. These poems also reveal Whitman's trust that this war is a good thing for American ideals. It is the complete Civil War poem collection, including the celebrated, "Oh, Captain, My Captain!" and expanded with Whitman's essays from the period on subjects such as Secession, Abraham Lincoln, working in the Civil War hospitals, and the murder of the president. Whitman begins in a glorious mode. These victorious poems seem to reflect an excitement in the nation as a whole that evil would be defeat by good. Drum-Taps perhaps comes closest to naming the concern that Whitman feels for his country and for his society. It included poems that bother witness to the violence of war with a sense of closeness and fear. The mood of the poetry moves for enthusiasm at the falling-in and equipping of the young soldiers at the beginning of the war to the disturbed recognition of the war's true importance.

Master and Man" (Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) is a story by Leo Tolstoy (1895).It occurred in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas' Day. There was a fete in the church and the landlord, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being an elder member of the church needed to go to the chapel and had to look after his family members and friends at home. Yet, when the last of them had gone, he without a moment's delay started to get ready to drive over to see an adjoining owner about woods which he had been dealing with for quite a while. He was present in a rush to begin, in case purchasers from the town could prevent him from making a beneficial purchase.

'Moon of Israel', first printed in 1918 by John Murray, is a novel by H. Rider Haggard. Haggard devoted his book to Sir Gaston Maspero, an Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum. This book includes adventure, romance, action, historical information and struggles with in the Egyptians and Hebrews and Hebrews and Egyptians. The primary story whirls around Prince Seti, who is disowned because he doesn't continued his father's aim of killing the Jews. This book is a hypothetical account of the Israelites' servitude and escape from Egypt.

The Life and Death of King John, a historical play by William Shakespeare, portrays the rule of John, King of England (ruled 1199-1216), child of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England. It is believed to be written during the 1590s but was not published until it showed up in the First Folio in 1623. John (24 December 1166 - 19 October 1216), also known as John Lackland or Softsword, was the King of England from 6 April 1199 until he died. His rule saw the loss of the duchy of Normandy to the French ruler Philip II in 1204, bringing about the breakdown of the vast majority of the Angevin Empire and the development in the force of the Capetian line over the next of the thirteenth 100 years. The baronial revolt toward the finish of John's rule saw the marking of the Magna Carta, a record frequently viewed as an early advance in the development of the constitution of the United Kingdom. Contemporary chroniclers were generally condemning John's activities as lord, and his rule has been an important topic for discussion and intermittent modification by historians from the sixteenth century onwards. Antiquarian Jim Bradbury has summed up the contemporary authentic assessment of John's positive characteristics, it is today typically viewed as a "focused overseer, a capable man, a capable general to see that John". In any case, present-day students of history concur that he likewise had many deficiencies as lord, including what antiquarian Ralph Turner depicts as "disagreeable, even perilous character attributes", like insignificance, resentment, and brutality.

The Cruise of the Snark is a non-fictitious, represented book by Jack London chronicling his cruising experience across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Going with London on this journey was his better half Charmian and a little group. London showed himself heavenly route and the fundamentals of cruising and of boats throughout this experience and portrays these subtleties to the peruser. During the journey they visited fascinating areas including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii. His first-individual records and photos give knowledge into these remote spots toward the start of the twentieth hundred years.

The Call of the Wild is a short experience novel by Jack London, distributed in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when solid sled canines were sought after. The focal character of the novel is a canine named Buck. The story opens at a farm in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is taken from his home and sold into administration as a sled canine in Alaska. He turns out to be logically more crude and wild in the cruel climate, where he is compelled to battle to get by and overwhelm different canines. By and by, he sheds the facade of human advancement, and depends on early stage intuition and learned insight to arise as an innovator in nature.

'Nada the Lily' is a factual novel by writer H. Rider Haggard, first printed in 1892. Set in South Africa, the book's characters are all black South Africans. The novel tells the story of the hero Umslopogaas, the illegal son of the great Zulu King and General Chaka and his son for 'the most beautiful of Zulu women', Nada the Lily. Nada the Lily is unusual for a Victorian novel in that its entire cast of characters is South African and Chaka was a real king of the Zulus but Umslopogaas was discovered by Haggard. It's about Zulu Kings and the Nada in the title is the most beautiful of the Zulu woman and is loved by the son of the great king Chaka. It's got everything, adventure and a sad ending.

In 1888, H.R. Haggard's short novel, 'Maiwa's Revenge' was published. In the first half of, the story, author narrates hunting expedition of Allan Quatermain. Just for fun Allan and his friends killed a large numbers of birds. It's miserable, for the elephant's tusk Allan killed three elephants. These thrilling stories stun readers mind. In the second half of the story, Allan helped a tribal woman Maiwa, to take her son's revenge, her son was killed in the most hideous way.

Love of life is one of the agent works of American pragmatist author Jack London, who utilizations itemized depictions of mental and philosophical exercises to frame an amazing picture feeling,e.g. in the cruel Canadian tundra, the ravenous, the injured beat the restrictions of their lives and make due in outrageous circumstances, with the goal that perusers can have an vivid understanding experience. In this book, London put the hero into a very troublesome and threatening living climate that is nearly confined from reality as well as extremely definite and sensible subtleties to introduce a emotional and undulating excursion of endurance to perusers by the third individual story point of view.This paper will dive into the exceptional appeal of Jack London's imaginative creation from two points of view: plot advancement and detail portrayal.

South Sea Tales is an assortment of eight interesting stories of imagination and experience in the South Seas. In light of Jack London's own experiences cruising in the South Pacific, "South Sea Tales" incorporates the accompanying short sotries: The House of Mapuhi, The Whale Tooth, Mauki, "Yah! Yah! Yah!", The Heathen, The Terrible Solomons, The Inevitable White Man, and The Seed of McCoy. Perusers, everything being equal, will thoroughly enjoy these stories of nautical experience.

Shakespeare's "merry wives" are Mistress Ford and Mistress Page of the town of Windsor. The two pull-down tricks on Mistress Ford's desirous spouse and a meeting knight, Sir John Falstaff. Happy spouses, desirous husbands, and ruthless knights were normal in a sort of play called "citizen comedy" or "city comedy." In such plays, subjects, courteous fellows, or knights utilize social prevalence to tempt residents' wives. The Windsor spouses, however, don't follow that example. All things considered, Falstaff's proposal of himself as darling rouses their torture of him. Falstaff answers with the very etymological office that Shakespeare gives him in the set of experiences plays in which he shows up, making him the "legend" of the play for some crowds.

'Morning Star', is a novel by H. Rider Haggard. It is a classic story of experience and romance, and tracks a powerful heroine from her royal birth to her final maturation. Morning Star is a tale of gloriousness and the successiveness of the emperor of Egypt. It is the melodrama of a young woman, Tua, who is the only child and heir of the Pharaoh. He, Rames is the son of a king of a state to the south of Egypt. Tua and Rames spent sometime together as children, and he rescues her life from a crocodile. They get detached and she becomes Pharoah upon the demise of her father. This book comprises wizards and magic by distinct personalities.

The book 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy depends on story of novel archives of French assault on Russia in 1812 and the impact of Napoleonic period on Tsarist society through the accounts of pedigreed families in Russia.Tremendous portions of this writing are philosophical discussions instead of account. This exploration paper splendidly follows the characters, from different foundations, as military assaults from grouped establishments laborers and aristocrats, customary people and heroes. As they fight with issues novel to their period and their lifestyle, it portrays speculations and characters transcend their identity. This investigates scholarly gadgets used in the book that are styles of novel that arose in mid-nineteenth century that look like panning, wide shots and close-ups and furthermore explores striking similitudes in 'War and Peace'. This study perceives the reason why novel is everything except an undeniable novel, yet a clever that analyzes events of the new past with the characters of certified people living in the public eye. The contemporary significance of this book in cognizance in feeling, mental strength, and enthusiastic greatness being developed of mankind .

The book 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy depends on story of novel archives of French assault on Russia in 1812 and the impact of Napoleonic period on Tsarist society through the accounts of pedigreed families in Russia.Tremendous portions of this writing are philosophical discussions instead of account. This exploration paper splendidly follows the characters, from different foundations, as military assaults from grouped establishments laborers and aristocrats, customary people and heroes. As they fight with issues novel to their period and their lifestyle, it portrays speculations and characters transcend their identity. This investigates scholarly gadgets used in the book that are styles of novel that arose in mid-nineteenth century that look like panning, wide shots and close-ups and furthermore explores striking similitudes in 'War and Peace'. This study perceives the reason why novel is everything except an undeniable novel, yet a clever that analyzes events of the new past with the characters of certified people living in the public eye. The contemporary significance of this book in cognizance in feeling, mental strength, and enthusiastic greatness being developed of mankind .