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Generations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines she's a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school.

Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip...

Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the game is a fictionalization of her life that follows the broad outline of it. The entire...

Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of the...

“I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,” observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest—and most appealing—women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the...

More thriller. Less filler.  Have you met Jack Emery?  The best journalist on the planet versus the darkest conspiracies. The stakes couldn’t be higher: Billions of lives and the survival of America....

“The Europeans” is a short comedy first published in the periodical «The Atlantic Monthly» in 1878. In the same year this novel appeared both in England and in Usa by Macmillan & Co. and Houghton,...

The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar...

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny...

Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy, in Somerset in England's West Country. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted,...

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers,...

        GOLD, GIRLS, and EGYPTIAN GODS await WWII American POW Harold Barton as he unwittingly enters the bizarre world of Nazi chemical warfare experiment Project Brainfire in this 98K word novel. The...

Get Up. Stand Up. America is standing up. Armed with training and new confidence, people who've been owned by seven corporations for too long are forming Workers' Unions, subverting corporate rule, spreading...

Fifteen years after warring artificial intelligences nearly destroyed Earth, Abby, the daughter of Killday hero Leah Gibson, finds an artifact from that struggle, upsetting a delicate balance of power...

This isn't 1% MC or SOA, it's a story full of suspense and twists, brotherhood and family with some hot romance thrown into the mix. Danger is around every corner, as Eve quickly learns when she's exposed...

This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men.

Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) “NUMBER 1 in Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century” “Ulysses is...

HoneyFor years my momma's been at me to lose some extra pounds. To shape up, slim down and look like the pageant queen she'd always wished me to be. But everyone knows the best part of the muffin is the...

What would you do, if someone in a library came up to you and asked, "Will you help to fight monsters?"The small group of people, who got asked this question, step into an adventure they'd never dared...

The trail boss shook his fist after the departing puncher and swore softly. He hated to lose a man at this time and he had been a little reckless in threatening to "fire" him; but in a gun-fighting outfit...

This book tells about a young man who is 21 years old. He moves from Russia to the USA and starts to study at the New York University. Parallelly he works in a publishing house and helps the editor in...

With his training finished, Glaide leaves to seek out his friends.  Along the way, he intentionally lends his aid to a number of people, especially a young stranger who he accompanies back to her homeland....

Christmas is the time when families get together and love abounds. 8 inspirational authors have teamed up to bring you 8 wonderful Christmas novellas sure to bring you joy this holiday season. Enjoy 2...

Nikolai Gogol's novel «Dead Souls» is a satire that exposes the corrupt "underbelly" of Russian nineteenth century society. On a superficial level, the title refers to the book's plot, where the main...

 "The Book of Dragons" is a collection of 8 short stories about dragons.  Edith Nesbit  (15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name...

"I stare at her through the rain. Somewhere a siren is wailing. From the streets below, angry words rendered unintelligible by distance are being exchanged. Gunshots follow. Then screaming. Car horns...

It happened on the morning of the 9th day of May. The little village of Machias in the far away colony of Maine was lively enough as far as fishing towns go, but on this particular time it was in a regular...

O you who believe! Have fear of God, and be among the truthful.” (Quran 9:119) Ask the average person to define truthfulness and the answer will most likely be restricted to something about truthful...

The history of famous detectives, imaginary and otherwise, has frequently been written, but the history of a famous criminal—never. This is a bold statement, but a true one all the same. The most notorious...