Ficción

This fourth novel of Boothby's Dr. Nikola series reveals that Nikola has discovered all of the facts necessary to extend a human being's life. He has studied science and magic secrets of Tibetan monks....

My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song...

Some people complain that science is dry. That is, of course, a matter of taste. For my own part, I like my science and my champagne as dry as I can get them. But the public thinks otherwise. So I have...

Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as "Hard Times") is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and highlights the social and economic...

KING CHARLES THE SECOND was the son and successor of King Charles the First. These two are the only kings of the name of Charles that have appea-red, thus far, in the line of English sovereigns. Nor is...

The Discovery of the Future is a philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. Before appearing...

Looking back to those days of old, ere the gate shut behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect. But to those whose nearest...

The longer stories in this book are called Fairy Stories, because that is the name by which such tales are always known to children; and yet only a very few contain any direct reference to fairies. The...

Obscure Destinies is a collection of three short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932. Each story deals with the death of a central character. When Doctor Burleigh told neighbour Rosicky he had...

Not Under Forty is the last book published in Cather's lifetime (1873-1947). It is a collection of six essays that critique various writers and the craft of writing in general. Whatever is felt upon...

One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather which won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a native of Nebraska around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful...

North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television...

At the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. It first appeared as a four-part serial in All-Story...

Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. The story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter but privileged white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a...

TRAVELERS who go into Scotland take a great interest in visiting, among other places, a certain room in the ruins of an old palace, where Queen Mary was born. Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was...

At nine o'clock on the morning of the first of May, 1919, a young man spoke to the room clerk at the Bilt-more Hotel, asking if Mr. Philip Dean were registered there, and if so, could he be connected...

Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart gropes a wistful way back to the time of the horse and buggy, when some men and some women loved deeply and truly and make themselves miserable and hugged their misery. Small...

The struggle of man against his unseen and silent enemies, the lower or bacterial forms of life, once one becomes alive to it, has an irresistible fascination. More dramatic than any novel, more sombre...

My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves...

"Sometimes, when I have watched the bright beginning of a love story, when I have seen a common feeling exalted into beauty by imagination, generosity, and the flaming courage of youth, I have heard again...

It is 2080 and an electronics engineer by accident discovers a pain relief method which could threaten the Mobility and Pharmaceutical industries, both of which take steps to prevent its use, but with...

In the vast, luxurious world of the Faruk Rachid family, Kaled Faruk Rachid stands as a powerful and seemingly invincible CEO in Dubai, head of the oil-rich Faruk Rachid empire. Alongside his brothers...

On New Year's Eve, Artemis Mortimer expected to see many things, but not his own murder. Given a second chance at life by forces beyond his understanding, he is caught in the sights of a necromancer dead...

Despite physical distance, subtle links exist between souls that remain interconnected. Their love is a mess, yet it is the light amidst the chaos. Their reunion is a disaster, and their separation brings...

In the not-so-distant future of 2225, the Earth has been ravaged by the catastrophic effects of climate change. Once-fertile lands have turned to dust, crops have withered, and the delicate balance of...

Modern life has changed beyond all recognition over the last 50 years, it would seem, but this is an illusion. This new research into cave paintings reveals that much that we take today as of recent origin...

Sigurd Westall has been abducted from the Venus station TRISHARANA by alien intelligences. While the Mernchen, an alien race, continue to infiltrate the Life-Int-Ltd. on Earth, the organic spaceship Paurusheya...

THE YEAR 1400 opened with more than usual pea-cefulness in England. Only a few months before, Richard II—weak, wicked, and treacherous—had been dethroned, and Henry IV declared King in his stead. But...

PRE-FREAKOUT is a short story e-book containing four stories. In "The Harris Four", Bek and her friends have planned a bank robbery that does not go asplanned. The tense situation is filled with blood...

A legendary soldier on Earth, during a mission, perished alongside his formidable enemy, only to unexpectedly find himself transported to a world called the Azure Continent. Upon waking, he realized he...