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The famous Castlecourt diamonds have gone missing. Their disappearance is strange. To help sort out the mystery, eyewitness and various participants in the case give statements. Six "statements" bring forth the tale of stolen diamonds. The first statement is by the Marchioness' maid who describes the theft, introduces the main characters, and mentions the two detectives, one official, one private. The second section is narrated by "Lilly Bingham, known in England as Laura Brice, in the United States as Frances Latimer, to the police of both countries as Laura the Lady." It's not much of a surprise that Laura stole the diamonds, but was she acting alone, or was she in cahoots with someone else?

Bernice Iverson is a she-devil who runs away from her husband to San Francisco where she begins work in a business office. There she meets Dominick Ryan, a rich young man, whom she seduces and marries. When she proves unable to force her way into the rich social circle in which the Ryan's belong, she becomes infuriated and reveals her true character.

She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy play in five acts by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. It tells the story of how a young man is tricked into thinking that the house of the woman he wants to marry is an inn. Despite the misunderstanding and inappropriate behavior that ensue, his potential fiancée sees the good in him. Meanwhile, an arranged marriage between two other characters is thwarted.

First published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is an American classic of race, culture and education at the turn of the twentieth century. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in a magazine called, Atlantic Monthly.This book comprises fourteen essays written between 1897 and 1903 that range across social, political and economic history, religion and education, psychology, the sociology of music, autobiography and fiction.Throughout the book, Du Bois talks about the black man's struggle before, during and after the Civil War and Reconstruction. He has praised how the African-Americans had the potential to become great contributors to society. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work in American society. The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the first works to deal with sociology.

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His novel Hard Times is regarded as one of the most popular work of the 19th century. It is Dickens' harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, this novel offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with the richness of detail, brilliant characterization, and passionate social concern that typify the novelist's finest creations. In the grim background of Coketown, a wretched community shadowed by an industrial behemoth, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair. Louisa falls into a loveless marriage with Josiah Bouderby, a vulgar banker, while the unscrupulous Tom, totally lacking in principle, becomes a thief who frames an innocent man for his crime. Witnessing the degradation and downfall of his children, Gradgrind realizes that his own misguided principles have ruined their lives.

The novel tells the story of Fanny Price and her development into adulthood. When her overburdened family sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle, she grows up with her four cousins: Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia. She makes a special bond with Edmund as she grows up to be a shy yet morally righteous woman.

The Republic (Greek: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, translit. Politeia; Latin: De Republica) is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.In the dialogue, Socrates talks with various Athenians and foreigners about the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man. They consider the natures of existing regimes and then propose a series of different, hypothetical cities in comparison, culminating in Kallipolis (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿), a utopian city-state ruled by a philosopher-king. They also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the role of the philosopher and of poetry in society. The dialogue's setting seems to be during the Peloponnesian War.

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". These stories explore the ideals of friendship, love, kindness and charity. This collection can be enjoyed both by children as well as adults as underlying the simplistic themes lay metaphorical and allegorical relevant comments on our society.

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells published in 1897.The novel depicts the life of a scientist named Griffin who has gone mad. Having learned how to make himself invisible, Griffin begins to use his invisibility for nefarious purposes, including murder. Written from a third-person point of view, the novel helped establish H. G. Wells as the "father of science fiction".

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast is an entertaining memoir of his years in Paris (1921-26) before he was famous. It captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist form; James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just completed Ulysses; Gertrude Stein held court at 27 Rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of une generation perdue; and T.S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London. It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel The Sun Also Rises, and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.

The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world's most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.The Communist Manifesto summarises Marx and Engels' theories concerning the nature of society and politics, namely that in their own words ""[t]he history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism. In the last paragraph of the Manifesto, the authors call for a ""forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions"", which served as a call for communist revolutions around the world.

Heidi is an orphan girl, raised by her Aunt Dete and then sent to stay with her insolent grandfather in the countryside. Fascinated by the beauty of country-life, she starts enjoying her life in the mountains and befriends Peter, a goatherd. Her life takes a turn when suddenly her aunt arrives and takes her away to Frankfurt, where Heidi starts attending to Clara, a girl on a wheelchair. A series of adventures begin in Heidi's life as she ventures on her journey to refined happiness.

"e;I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning."e; James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce follows the intellectual, moral, and spiritual development of a young Catholic Irishman, Stephen Dedalus, and his struggle against the constraints of the society. The novel begins from his childhood and ends with his adolescence until he reaches the age of eighteen. Finally, he decides to leave his country to be an artist and also eventually meets his sweetheart.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) by Howard Pyle is a novel that recounts the adventures of Robin Hood and his companions known as the Merry Men. People admired them for their humane, though illegal, deeds of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Robin Hood had been an outlaw since his eighteenth birthday, during which he won an archery contest. The losing contestants aimed at Robin, but he escaped, killing one of the assailants in the process. Ever since then, the town Sheriff has been chasing Robin. The Sherriff is callous in his search as his cousin was the archer that Robin killed.

"e;I love mankind, he said, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."e; Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky renders a wonderful plot involving erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs entailing the "e;wicked and sentimental"e; Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sonsthe red-cheeked young Alyosha, the coldly rational Ivan and the spontaneous and sensual Dmitri. The story takes an interesting turn when the mystery around a murder surfaces in the plot. The engrossing events in the lives of the characters expose the Russian life during the golden era of Russian history.