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The Picture of Dorian Gray eBook
0$9.99The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modernized Edition) by Oscar Wilde is a haunting exploration of beauty, vanity, morality, and the cost of unchecked desire—presented here in a refined modernized edition designed for today’s readers. First published in 1891, Wilde’s only novel shocked Victorian society with its daring aesthetic philosophy and psychological depth, and it continues to resonate as a timeless study of identity, corruption, and self-deception.
This edition is based on the complete 1891 text and has been carefully restored and stylistically formatted to improve readability while preserving Wilde’s wit, lyricism, and philosophical nuance. Archaic typographic conventions have been removed, layout and pacing refined, and the text presented in clear, contemporary formatting—making the novel more accessible without altering its language, themes, or intent.
At the heart of the novel is Dorian Gray, a young man whose portrait bears the marks of his moral decay while he himself remains outwardly untouched by time or consequence. Through this chilling conceit, Wilde interrogates the dangers of aesthetic obsession, the tension between appearance and reality, and the seductive power of influence. The result is a story that feels strikingly modern in its concerns with image, performative identity, and ethical detachment.
Ideal for readers of classic literature, gothic fiction, and psychological novels, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modernized Edition) offers a beautifully presented gateway into Wilde’s most enduring work—one that remains as provocative, unsettling, and relevant today as it was at the close of the nineteenth century.
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The Souls of Black Folk
0$19.99First published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential works of social science and literary thought in American history. In a series of interconnected essays, W. E. B. Du Bois examines race, democracy, education, labor, faith, and culture with a depth and moral clarity that continue to shape modern discourse.
At the heart of the book is Du Bois’s enduring concept of double consciousness—the experience of seeing oneself through the eyes of a society structured by inequality. With remarkable restraint and lyric power, he explores what it means to live divided between inner identity and external judgment, between aspiration and limitation, between belonging and exclusion.
Blending sociology, history, autobiography, and poetic prose, The Souls of Black Folk moves seamlessly from structural analysis to intimate reflection. Du Bois writes of schools and cotton fields, churches and courts, sorrow and song—revealing how social systems shape not only material conditions, but inner lives. The Sorrow Songs that frame each chapter stand as a parallel narrative, carrying the spiritual memory of a people whose history was too often denied.
This Quantum Quill Classic Series edition presents the original public-domain text in a carefully modernized form, preserving Du Bois’s arguments, voice, and cadence while enhancing clarity for contemporary readers. More than a historical document, The Souls of Black Folk remains a searching meditation on justice, identity, and the unfinished work of democracy.
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The Souls of Black Folk eBook
0$4.99First published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential works of social science and literary thought in American history. In a series of interconnected essays, W. E. B. Du Bois examines race, democracy, education, labor, faith, and culture with a depth and moral clarity that continue to shape modern discourse.
At the heart of the book is Du Bois’s enduring concept of double consciousness—the experience of seeing oneself through the eyes of a society structured by inequality. With remarkable restraint and lyric power, he explores what it means to live divided between inner identity and external judgment, between aspiration and limitation, between belonging and exclusion.
Blending sociology, history, autobiography, and poetic prose, The Souls of Black Folk moves seamlessly from structural analysis to intimate reflection. Du Bois writes of schools and cotton fields, churches and courts, sorrow and song—revealing how social systems shape not only material conditions, but inner lives. The Sorrow Songs that frame each chapter stand as a parallel narrative, carrying the spiritual memory of a people whose history was too often denied.
This Quantum Quill Classic Series edition presents the original public-domain text in a carefully modernized form, preserving Du Bois’s arguments, voice, and cadence while enhancing clarity for contemporary readers. More than a historical document, The Souls of Black Folk remains a searching meditation on justice, identity, and the unfinished work of democracy.
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The Time Machine
0$19.99First published in 1895, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells stands as a cornerstone of science fiction and a prescient exploration of humanity’s possible futures. In this visionary novel, a brilliant yet enigmatic scientist invents a machine capable of traveling through time, propelling him hundreds of thousands of years beyond his own Victorian era. There, he encounters a world shaped by the long-term consequences of social division, technological progress, and moral complacency.
More than an adventure tale, The Time Machine is a profound social critique. Wells imagines a future in which humanity has split into two distinct species—the delicate, pleasure-loving Eloi and the subterranean, laboring Morlocks—offering a stark warning about class inequality, unchecked industrialization, and the erosion of intellectual and physical resilience. Through elegant prose and bold speculation, the novel questions whether progress inevitably leads to utopia, or whether it carries the seeds of decline.
This Quantum Quill Classic Series edition presents a modernized yet unabridged text, carefully formatted for contemporary readers while preserving Wells’s original voice, structure, and intent. Ideal for readers of classic literature, science fiction, philosophy, and social theory, The Time Machine remains as relevant today as it was more than a century ago—an enduring meditation on time, humanity, and the cost of forgetting how to strive.
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The Time Machine eBook
0$9.99First published in 1895, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells stands as a cornerstone of science fiction and a prescient exploration of humanity’s possible futures. In this visionary novel, a brilliant yet enigmatic scientist invents a machine capable of traveling through time, propelling him hundreds of thousands of years beyond his own Victorian era. There, he encounters a world shaped by the long-term consequences of social division, technological progress, and moral complacency.
More than an adventure tale, The Time Machine is a profound social critique. Wells imagines a future in which humanity has split into two distinct species—the delicate, pleasure-loving Eloi and the subterranean, laboring Morlocks—offering a stark warning about class inequality, unchecked industrialization, and the erosion of intellectual and physical resilience. Through elegant prose and bold speculation, the novel questions whether progress inevitably leads to utopia, or whether it carries the seeds of decline.
This Quantum Quill Classic Series edition presents a modernized yet unabridged text, carefully formatted for contemporary readers while preserving Wells’s original voice, structure, and intent. Ideal for readers of classic literature, science fiction, philosophy, and social theory, The Time Machine remains as relevant today as it was more than a century ago—an enduring meditation on time, humanity, and the cost of forgetting how to strive.
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The Victorian Masterworks Collection
0$26.99The Victorian Masterworks Collection
Modernized & Curated | Quantum Quill Publishing
The Victorian Masterworks Collection brings together three of the most enduring novels of the nineteenth century—Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and The Picture of Dorian Gray—in a single, thoughtfully curated edition that explores the rise of the modern inner self.
Rather than presenting these works as isolated classics, this volume frames them as a continuous literary and philosophical conversation. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice introduces psychological realism through perception, misjudgment, and moral growth. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre deepens that inquiry, asserting conscience, integrity, and inner dignity as the foundations of identity. Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray concludes the arc with a haunting warning about aestheticism, self-deception, and the cost of abandoning moral responsibility.
This edition features the complete, unabridged texts, carefully modernized for clarity and contemporary readability while remaining fully faithful to each author’s voice and intent. In addition to the novels, the collection includes original editorial essays, historical context, thematic analysis, and curated notes that illuminate Victorian society, aesthetics, and psychological thought.
Elegantly designed and intellectually cohesive, The Victorian Masterworks Collection is ideal for readers seeking not just classic literature, but a deeper understanding of how the Victorian imagination shaped our modern conception of selfhood, morality, and authenticity.
