A new governess is hired to care for the two children, Flora and Miles, living at Bly. She takes up a friendship with Mrs. Grose who has been there much longer. Everything goes well with the governess and dear sweet Flora until her brother Miles comes home, expelled from school. The governess is puzzled by this, because when she lives and works with Miles he is the sweetest boy alive. Then one evening during her walk outside the governess sees a human form up in the abandoned tower. After telling Mrs. Grose the governess is convinced it is the ghost of a man who has lived in the house. When a second ghost shows, this time a woman, things get really out of hand and the children seem to know more about it and their involvement becomes apparent with every day the governess is with them.
this is a preview of the turn of the screw — henry james
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Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, is still a boy at heart. He is loud, some would say obnoxious, optimistic and sociable very present. But when he hangs out of a window in his favorite pub and catapults the hat off of his brother in law, a grumpy barrister, he couldn’t have imagined what kind of actions he sets in motion. Actions he will be in over his head, but also enjoys tremendously. Who could have thought that a catapult could result in a scandalous bestseller, a film script, strange romantic entanglements and the awakening of a dodgy couple.
this is a preview of cocktail time — p.g. wodehouse
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Huckleberry Finn, the friend of Tom Sawyer in his own adventure. A true boy’s adventure.
He has it bad with his father and when things really get from bad to worse, he decides to stage his own death and go south in his boat. On his way he meets a slave he knows, who is going towards his freedom. As of then they travel together. They become friends and look out for each other even when it is made hard by people and circumstances.
Will they both reach their goal?
this is a preview of the adventures of huckleberry finn — mark twain
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Mary Katherine (‘Merricat’) Blackwood lives, together with her older sister Constance and Uncle Julian, in a castle, long ago bought by her ancestors. It is a beautiful and mighty castle, but something horrible happened eight years ago and that is why the fences and castle doors are closed for all (town) people. Mary Katherine has to go to town twice a week for groceries and has her own ritual to go around there, because otherwise she gets lost in hateful sneers and looks of the town people. The rest of the time the Blackwoods are cut of from everyday life, but they like it that way.
Until, one day cousin Charles appears at the doorsteps of the castle. His intentions are clear for Mary Katherine, but Constance is dragged into Charles’s mindset and all that has happened eight years ago is coming back to the service.
this is a preview of we have always lived in the castle — shirley jackson
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