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The Masquerader (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

The Masquerader is a work of fiction that explores themes of identity, deception, and the complexities of human nature. The protagonist, a master of disguise, navigates through life by adopting different personas. This EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition offers a comfortable reading experience with its larger font size, making it accessible to a wider audience. more

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Katherine Cecil Thurston
Katherine Cecil Thurston

Katherine Cecil Thurston was an English novelist known for her profound insights into Victorian society and culture. Her works often focused on female characters and gender inequality, reflecting the complexities and contradictions of the time. more

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“Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances. 'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'”

“It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.”