Ficción

Even if you're a die-hard fan of the Disney animated classic The Jungle Book, you may not know that the tales upon which the popular movie was based comprised a significant proportion of British author...

Collection of Stories Include: The hero.--The Countess of Amalfi.--The return of Turlendana.--Turlendana drunk.--The gold pieces.--Sorcery.--The idolaters.--Mungia.--The downfall of Candia.--The death...

In order to make himself appear more important, a miller lies to a king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king calls for the girl, shuts her in a tower room filled with straw...

For fans of folklore and mythology, this comprehensive volume offers the best of both worlds: an astute introduction to and overview of the common themes and motifs in Russian fairy tales, plus an eclectic...

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...

There's a killer on the loose, murdering my friends… and now he's coming for me.Rebecca Morgan's a good detective with bad luck and a tragic past. Her superiors were prepared to overlook her drinking...

In this volume you will find 7 children’s stories by the master story-teller - Hans Christian Andersen. These 7 stories are accompanied by 28 exquisite colour plates by another master, Edmund Dulac. Included...

"I say you're a bad lot!" "And I reply that you're a liar!" "Take that!" "Here's the repayment!" The man who had spoken first went down like a log. He was a red-headed creature, with a rasping voice and...

My sister's best friend has always taken my breath away… Declan Tennyson At twenty-two most guys my age are living it up. Swiping left and right, trying to find what's good for the night, instead of what's...

Tory has more bug-out bags and escape plans to get out of Atlanta than there are stars in the sky. And it appears she's gonna need them. With her habit of digitally visiting different servers across the...

Rachel Riordan is not a lawyer. Not even on TV. She's a secretary, and not a very good one at that. But when billionaire Grant Hemming, President of Hemming Industries, asks her to look over a contract,...

What should Trista do when faced with a hunky werebear who can't decide if he wants to kill her or screw her? Half-hyena, Trista has spent years rotating between Grayslake, Redby, and Boyne Falls. When...

CONTENTS: CHAPTER I ABOUT MY STORY CHAPTER II OF MY CHILDHOOD CHAPTER III MY HOME CHAPTER IV MY FATHER CHAPTER V THE DISTRICT SCHOOL CHAPTER VI THE SCHOOL READERS CHAPTER VII THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL...

When it came to holy matrimony, writer H.G. Wells had a rather interesting personal history. He married his first cousin, soon left her for one of his students, and then had multiple affairs (and children)...

H.G. Wells is best remembered as a central figure in the development of the science fiction genre and as the creator of such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and The War of the...

H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this: if the refractive index of a person's body is adjusted to exactly that of air,...

Something of a departure from Wells' best-known works of science fiction, this domestic drama follows the wartime experiences of a famous writer and his family as they struggle to survive—physically and...

Widely recognized as one of the key figures in the development of the science fiction and fantasy genres, H.G. Wells was a prolific writer who produced hundreds of short and long works in these styles....

The Country of the Blind and Other Stories brings together thirty-three of H. G. Wells' science fiction and fantasy short stories which were previously published separately in a variety of periodicals....

Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from...

The stories, characters, situations, portrayals, dialogues are fresh, rich and funny, even though they were written almost a 100 years ago. The language was very Victorian but the stories probably would...

The Mis-Education of the Negro is a book originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that blacks of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than...

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with...

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five “Christmas Books”; However, this novel was less known than his other novels. The...

Women in Love is widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence’s greatest novel. The novel continues where ‘The Rainbow’ left off with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover,...

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (sometimes spelled Dostoevsky). It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments...

And that weekly interval of forty hours, from Saturday to Monday, is yours just as much as the other man’s, though a slight accumulation of fatigue may prevent you from employing the whole of your “h.p.”...

This is the fourth Volume in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. In this volume, Proust’s novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love and examines how destructive sexual jealousy can be...

This is the second volume of In Search of Lost Time. The narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter...

Amusing mystery story, its melodramatic plot unwinding against the charming background of a South Carolina townlet stirred to its depths by the passing of an historic mansion, through a spite will, to...