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"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about a white man, referred to as "Tuan", who is travelling through an Indonesian...

Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature. Conrad's style influenced many of the great authors that followed him. This edition...

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot...

"A Smile of Fortune: Harbour Story" is one of the best-known novellas written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1912, the tale is centered around a young sea captain who has to face a bewildering...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The Mahābhārata is an epic legendary narrative of the Kurukṣetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the...

The Tale by Joseph Conrad brings together in one collection four stories by Joseph Conrad. Set onboard a ship during an unnamed war, the title story is a harrowing account of guilt and responsibility,...

Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad's first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of...

Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father's business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter's proper upbringing,...

The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The publication...

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns...

This carefully crafted ebook: "SWANN'S WAY (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. When the night falls, the unnamed narrator finds it...

This book contains the Tom Sawyer complete collection. - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer Abroad - Tom Sawyer, Detective The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...

The Confessions of a Young Man is a memoir by Irish novelist George Moore who spent about 15 years in his teens and 20s in Paris and later London as a struggling artist. The book is notable as being one...

Prosas profanas Rimas Cuentos y poemas individuales Azul Lira póstuma

This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men.

"Think and Grow Rich" is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title...

On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight...

Darker Pacific tales, including "Mauki" and "The Terrible Solomans."

In "Eight Pillars of Prosperity", James Allen outlines the exact qualities we need in order to achieve lasting success. According to Allen, prosperity rests on eight pillars: Energy, Economy, Integrity,...

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic...

125 of the most famous, classic fairy tales. Includes The Ugly Duckling, The Toad, The Emperor's New Suit, The Ice Maiden, Thumbelina, The Princess and the Pea, The Snow Queen, and many, many more.

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series...

Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet...

The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his "War and Peace” has been called the greatest novel ever written. The purpose of all...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls...

The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad's later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the "shadow-line"...

A remarkable book, the story of Flora De Barral, daughter of the Great De Barral, a monumental swindler, and her love for the sea captain who married her. Marlow tells the story in his usual quiet manner...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells' novel was originally serialised...

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha La Galatea Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda Novelas ejemplares Viaje del Parnaso

This book contains several tables of HTML content to make reading easier. One of the most influential novels of the nineteenth century, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishmenttells the tragic story...