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The Rape of Lucrece

William Shakespeare

This is a beautiful and touching poem. Shakespeare uses language and metaphor clearly and very accessible. This is a very sad poem, and he embodies the tragedy of events. Values, loyalty, virtue, shame and revenge are carefully studied. Lucretias rhetorical mastery, combined with an incredible ecphratic passage depicting Troy, creates a truly amazing poem.

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The Raw Youth

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The protagonist in the novel is a young man of 19, Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the peasant woman Sophia. From childhood, he almost did not see his parents. He was sent to a special institution for rich children, where he was always humiliated and called, a footman. And after graduating from school he receives a letter from his father, in which he calls Arkady to St. Petersburg, where the main events of the novel take place with him.

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The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

Joseph Smith Fletcher

Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a beautiful woman stops his car to ask for directions to Scotland. Odd time to be traveling so far and in such a hurry, but Allerdykes mind is elsewhere. When he finally arrives in Hull, he finds his cousin dead in his hotel room and a valuable consignment of jewels missing. Allerdykes only clue rests with that woman hurrying off to Scotland. Written in beautifully period English, this mystery has many threads to solve. The main characters work wonderfully with each other to solve the mystery, with the assistance of the British police. There are enough twists and turns and revelations to keep you busy right to the end.

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The Reckoning

Robert W. Chambers

It is historical fiction set during the Revolutionary War in northern New England. The protagonist has been a spy in New York for a long time and then uses his intimate knowledge of Native American Indians to aid the war effort during the latter part of the war.

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The Red Bandanna

George Owen Baxter

Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels. Clancy Morgan must learn how to shoot a gun when his best friend is unjustly accused of murder; John Manner, on the lam from the law, finds a new identity in the frozen Arctic. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre. Max Brands action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world.

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The Red Ledger

Frank L. Packard

Ewen Stranway answers an advertisement to meet an old gentleman Henri Raoul Charlebois who has told him that he is in debt. At his flat, he removes from his safe a large book bound in red morocco in which it lists his debts. When he was very poor, Stranways father had given him a dime. Now, fabulously wealthy, he desires to pay back all those who helped him as well as those who did not and he recruits Stranway to continue when he is too old to handle it himself. All those who done him well, will be protected and secured, but those who done him wrong will live to regret it... Frank Packard (1877-1942) authored many popular novels, several of which were made into movies, including a series in which he originated the idea of a heroic crime fighter with a secret double identity.

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The Red Mass

Valentine Williams

On the day of the execution, Voulland saw the tumbrils approaching. Come, said he to those who were at his side, let us go to the high altar and see them celebrate the Red Mass. The Red Mass is a bustling action tale of the French Revolution and of the sulky and wild young British officer who in one day in London manages to insult a French nobleman, get challenged to a duel and throw a glass of wine in the face of the Prince Regent George the Fat. Sent abroad on a secret mission, both he and his French sweetheart come close to the guillotine. But that is not the end far from it. Written in 1925 by English journalist, actor, lecturer and screenwriter Valentine Williams who was the son of G. Douglas Williams, Chief Editor of the Reuters News Agency.

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The Red One

Jack London

The plots of the stories of the collection The Red One (1918) unfold in various parts of the globe from the Solomon Islands and Ecuador to Nebraska and Klondike. When Bassett conducted scientific research in the jungle, he was attacked by the natives and became their captive. It was then that the scientist first heard the strange voice of the Red deity, which drove into his soul an irresistible desire to see the idol with his own eyes, even at the cost of his own life.