Ficción

Nostromo – A Tale of the Seaboard is a novel, originally published serially for T.P.’s Weekly in1904, set in Costaguana, an imaginary country of South America that in its description recalls Colombia....

Old Clinkers: A Story of the New York Fire Department written by Harvey J. O'Higgins  a Canada-born American author, playwright and one-time journalist. With Illustration by Martin Justice.This book is...

Famoso romanzo di avventura, che narra le peripezie di Robinson Kreutznaer, detto Crusoe, il quale nella ricerca di avventura e libertà naufraga su un'isola sulla quale vivrà per 28 anni ingegnandosi...

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor....

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, written and superbly illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It follows a mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor after eating...

The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague and he is considered one of the most important novels of the...

A classic story of sea-faring life at the turn of the century; Captain Macwhirr, estranged from his family and his crew, sails the Siamese steam Nan-Shan into the center of a typhoon.

Christmas Stories and Legends is a collection of tales to restore "the real spirit of Christmas" to the jaded world of . . . 1916. Even then, editor Phebe A. Curtiss worried children, especially, might...

When it was published in 1886, this book had a huge success and after a few months, about forty editions were printed. It became a classic in the Italian literature for children. The story represents...

One of the most beautiful and complete collections of stories, legends, myths, folktales, and traditions to ever emerge from Wales. Compiled by an American—the United States consul for Wales in the late...

Typhon is a classic story of the sea. The long story describes the exploits of Captain MacWhirr in dealing with a tropical typhoon under the command of the steamer Nan-Shan. The novel is set in a ship...

Therese Raquin is one of the most famous realistic novels of Zola, and is a tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes of Parisian society of the nineteenth century. Located in the claustrophobic...

Restoring an abandoned house brings two unlikely people together—an uninhibited supermodel flaunting her sexuality and a divorce-scarred architect determined to ignore the person representing the antithesis...

One of the best-selling books of its era, Looking Backwards presents a science-fiction-influenced twist on standard political philosophy. In the novel, protagonist Julian West finds himself transported...

Tony the Tramp: Right is Might written by a prolific 19th-century American writer Horatio Alger. This book is one of many works by him. It has already Published in 1909. Now republish in ebook format....

American humorist and literary master Mark Twain takes on tough issues like slavery, race, and the ugliness that can lurk beneath the surface of rural life in this novel. An interwoven tale of three families...

Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories is a classic short story collection by Mark Twain. 

Rediscover Anne Shirley and her adventures in this beautiful edition of L.M. Montgomery’s classic. The youngest daughter of Anne and Gilbert meets the trials of World War I with irrepressible spirit in...

Madame Bovary became notorious and a bestseller after Gustave Flaubert was acquitted from charges of obscenity in 1856. It details the many adulterous affairs and extravagances of Emma Bovary, a provincial...

The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a...

Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master's baby, and the clever Pudd'nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town...

This volume of 51 illustrated tales is for children and adults alike. All will delight in these beautiful old folktales, which have come to us down the ages from the mists of time. In this volume you...

Jordan Lawrence Mott IV, often referred to as Jordan Lawrence Mott III and better known as Lawrence Mott, was an American novelist and writer on the outdoor life. He was the great-grandson ofJordan L....

Detective Paul Harley investigates cases that go beyond your standard-issue crimes and misdemeanors -- his inquiries often veer into the realm of the supernatural. In the novel Fire-Tongue, Harley finds...

The true story of the flying dogs of the "SICS", the Italian water rescue dogs school narrated by its founder Ferruccio Pilenga

In this book 11 Legends about the Gods of Ancient Egypt have been compiled and retold by Margaret Murray. These legends, were current in the "morning of the world," and have been preserved through stone...

Within this unique volume are 15 legends of Maui. Legends like: MAUI THE FISHERMAN, MAUI LIFTING THE SKY, MAUI SNARING THE SUN and twelve more captivating stories and tales from antiquity from the Polynesian...

Ten classic westerns from arguably some of the top western writers of all time. Salomy Jane (1898) The Virginian, A Horseman Of The Plains (1902) The Log of a Cowboy (1903) Riders of the Purple Sage...

The central character, Melmoth (a Wandering Jew type), is a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life; he spends that time searching for someone who will take over...

Today, he is acclaimed as one of the most famous originators of the genre of detective fiction, but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's literary talents were broad, and he dabbled in many styles and themes over...