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21st Century Poet/Author

THE UNTROUBLED MIND

Illustrated by S. R. Wilkerson A very wise physician has said that “every illness has two parts–what it is, and what the patient thinks about it.” What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease. What the patient thinks of life, what life means to him is…
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Within You is the Power

Illustrated by S. R. Wilkerson There is a power lying hidden in man, by the use of which he can rise to higher and better things. There is in man a greater Self, that transcends the finite self of the sense-man, even as the mountain towers above the plain. The object of this little book…
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THE WAY OF PEACE

Illustrated by S. R. Wilkerson Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is the mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Every saint has climbed it; every sinner must sooner or later come to it, and every weary pilgrim that turns his back upon self…
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Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus

Illustrated by S. R. Wilkerson In 1794, in the Arctic Sea, Captain Robert Walton is a man obsessed to reach the North Pole, pushing his crew to exhaustion. When his ship hits an iceberg, it is stranded in the ice. Out of the blue, Captain Walton and his men overhear a dreadful cry and they…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Illustrated by S. R. Wilkerson The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine’s editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde’s knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of…
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Dubliners

Illustrated by S. R. Wilkerson Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search…
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Wuthering Heights

Illustrated by S. R. Wilkerson In 1801, Lockwood, a wealthy young man from the south of England, who is seeking peace and recuperation, rents Thrushcross Grange in Yorkshire. He visits his landlord, Heathcliff, who lives in a remote moorland farmhouse, Wuthering Heights. There Lockwood finds an odd assemblage: Heathcliff, who seems to be a gentleman,…
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Something New

Illustrated by S. R. Wilkerson Ashe Marson and his fellow lodger Joan Valentine discover that they both work as writers for the Mammoth Publishing Company. Joan urges Ashe to overcome his discontentment and take a fresh direction in life.Meanwhile, Freddie Threepwood, younger son of the Earl of Emsworth, is engaged to marry Aline Peters, the…
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Clairvoyance and Occult Powers

Illustrated by S. R. Wilkerson In preparing this series of lessons for students of Western lands, I have been compelled to proceed along lines exactly opposite to those which I would have chosen had these lessons been for students in India. This because of the diametrically opposite mental attitudes of the students of these two…
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The Adulteress: A Variation of The Scarlet Letter

In 1642 Boston, Emma Baker, a young woman had a child out of wedlock. Emma thought she was a widow, but her husband, Mason Cox, arrives in Boston very much alive and hides his identity. Emma is forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as punishment for her adultery. After Ms. Baker…
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