Ficción

AUTHOR: RITA B. half English half Italian lives in Romagna Italy with her husband Umberto since 1980. DARK GAMES PEOPLE PLAY is the third volume of six short stories. Volume 4 to follow. Stories that...

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition,...

"The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The story...

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The patents had already retired to rest; the old clock ticked monotonously from the wall; the windows rattled with the whistling wind, and the chamber was dimly lighted by the flickering glimmer of the...

This is the original version of Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont which became the basis for all future versions, including the new 2017 movie adaptation.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.

War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's...

In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not...

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is...

The author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked...

When Peace reigns and China is newly reformed, the Circle of Alchemy – the seven most powerful alchemists in the kingdom – are summoned by emperor Qin Shihuang and given the task of producing the elusive...

Romanzo fantapolitico, nel quale si narra l'ascesa di un'oligarchia dittatoriale negli Stati Uniti e della lotta del nascente Partito Socialista Americano contro le ingiustizie, i soprusi e le angherie...

"The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales #24 in September 1925. The story is narrated as a "found manuscript" penned by Karl...

Luca is a doctor who loves travelling. During a holiday in Tenerife, he meets a fascinating woman who eventually guides to a course on self-awareness. The other participates turn out to be competitors...

It is about an English-style detective novel.On 29 of October 2003, Ms. Carol Tompkins, an antique dealer, finds herself involved, for a strange twist of fate, in the murder of Sally Barnes, who was killed...

The Logan Ryvenbark saga continues with adrenaline-fueled battles against an alien artificial intelligence that plans on destroying all of humanity. Ryvenbark and his team make a desperate last stand...

A mercenary's work is never done, and Major Logan Ryverbark knows this all too well. In fact, the only thing he's surprised about these days is that he actually has a moment to rest amid all the madness....

A warlike race is busy launching invasions and taking over planets, so when Major Logan Ryvenbark gets a call from interplanetary CEO Belen Morganthal, he assumes that he and his mercenaries are going...

On the planet Verdunne,an exploratory squad sent by intergalactic CEO Belen Morganthal is under assault from an unknown force. Logan Ryvenbark and his squad are sent to save the survivors and put a stop...

This story, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1858, was the first of the great weird-scientific stories. It won immediate popularity for the author—a popularity which continued unbroken until his death...

The spirit of nationalism that swept over the small peoples of Europe in the early nineteenth century touched faraway Finland and started the Finns on the quest of the Finnish. There as elsewhere scholars...

In this romance, the author has vividly pictured the ravishing fierceness of the love which sways the Latins and bends them to its desires. Graphically she has shown how their passions force them beyond...

Humanity is on the brink of extinction, afflicted by an irreversible form of sterility.  "When was the last time we walked alongside the gods?" As the slow and inexorable disintegration of human societies...

«Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero» is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's...

We are in November 1859 and Elizabeth Gaskell decides to spend a vacation of 15 days in Whitby, Yorkshire town. Here he began to do research on whaling, the forced conscription of sailors in the British...

«In Search of Lost Time» is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust...

Private Investigator Sam Dyke is hired to find a man who’s been released from prison and subsequently gone missing. But the ex-con is an ex-cop who might have been imprisoned for a crime that he didn’t...

Sam is a private investigator from a working-class environment who works amongst the wealthy and privileged of the Cheshire set—those whose morals and levels of discretion are offensive to him and go...

WINNER OF THE 2014 CHANTICLEER CLUE AWARD FOR PRIVATE EYE/NOIR FICTION! Sam Dyke is back! The private investigator who never gives up until the bad guys are caught—or worse. For Sam, taking this particular...