Ficción

The town of Middle Forest had long since pushed the forest from all sides. Its streets, forked as lightning, ran up to the castle and down to the river. The river here was near its mouth, and wide. The...

Seorang muslim yang taat maka sudah selayaknya menjadikan hari-harinya menjadi sesuatu yang memiliki kemanfaatan baik bagi dirinya maupun bagi orang lain. Agar tiap hari waktunya bermanfaat, maka selayaknya...

The Law of the Jungle—which is by far the oldest law in the world—has arranged for almost every kind of accident that may befall the Jungle People, till now its code is as perfect as time and custom can...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures...

Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is...

Hiroto Takahashi is one of the most popular living ecopols on Earth, a man who has dedicated his entire existence to harmonizing the needs of our civilization, and the needs of our planet. His job is...

Glaide, a young man who dreams of living on Another World, and three of his friends find themselves tossed onto Galadria, a land filled with magic and mystery. Soon, the discovery of an enemy who has...

ROUGH draughts of some of the following tales and essays were actually written during a residence in the Alhambra; others were subsequently added, founded on notes and observations made there. Care was...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction. A young Scottish boy relates his adventures growing up with his three brothers in a small country town in northern Scotland where their father is clergyman.

An intense crime thriller you can´t put down A small and peaceful and uneventful  university town in Iowa is shaken one morning when a student is found brutally murdered and with no apparent explanation....

She’s out to avenge her sister’s death - he’s on a path to self-destruction. Heather Todd’s life had never been easy, but when her sister died as a result of overcut cocaine, everything changed. Now...

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured...

In the words of a Russian critic, who seeks to explain the feeling inspired by Dostoevsky: "He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more...

Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that...

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging...

The first digital edition of the novella ‘The Crystal Empire’, originally published in ‘Wrong Things’ by Poppy Z. Brite and Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press, 2001). A story of a senseless and brutal...

Throughout history humankind has been attracted to the supernatural. Spirits, ghosts and many other strange creatures have filled our minds and captured our imaginations. Strange and beguiling spectres...

Diminutive tough-talking ex-narco cop Stacia Black has discovered the key to escaping the violence and poverty ridden streets of Chicago. Nick Miller runs a smoky bar in Sydney’s Kings Cross. He’s content...

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. The story centres on the character Anodos and takes its inspiration from German...

The Chaplet of Pearls (1868) is an historical novel written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and set mainly in France between 1559 and 1594, the period of struggle between Roman Catholics following the Reformation....

Dia adalah laki-laki yang hebat. Memiliki nama besar dalam sejarah dunia. Namun capaiannya tidak banyak dikisahkan. Tidak seperti Abu Bakar dan Umar bin al-Khattab radhiallahu ‘anhuma. Bukan berarti capaiannya...

"'Lourdes' came to be written by mere accident. In 1891 I happened to be travelling for my pleasure, with my wife, in the Basque country and by the Pyrenees, and being in the neighbourhood of Lourdes,...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley that tells the story of a young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque...

The windmill had been completely forgotten, belittled, ignored. No one had ever cared about it. Until the day when three children showed up and changed the situation. They would find out amazing things...

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 book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are...

Les Misérables (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a twenty year...

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great...

The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. This is a wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy...

BUT the basin of the Mississippi is the Body of The Nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...