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Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the...

"The Aeneid" is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises...

Ralph Henry Barbour was an American novelist, who wrote popular works of sports fiction for boys. During his career, Barbour produced more than 100 novels as well as a number of short stories.

A HALF-HOUR had passed. The train upon which I had every reason to expect Mr. Gryce had arrived, and I stood in the doorway awaiting with indescribable agitation the slow and labored approach of the motley...

LONG before Columbus discovered America, there were brave men in the north of Europe who dared to sail farther out upon the unknown waters of the Atlantic than any other people in the world. These daring...

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic,...

The Shadow-Line is a short novel being written from February to December 1915. The novella is notable for its dual narrative structure. The full, subtitled title of the novel is The Shadow-Line, A Confession,...

"Five bullets, five kills, in case you didn't notice."  He smiled and sheathed his gun.  "Not bad if i do say so myself.""Oh great," she thought, "another egoamainac." Paul Campbell was already freaked...

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR... A Westwick Witches Cozy Paranormal Mystery Dead billionaires are not good for business! That's what Aunt Pearl complains to Cen when the dead body is found in the cozy...

THAT a secret society, based upon the lines of similar institutions so notorious on the Continent during the last century, could ever have existed in the London of our day may seem impossible. Such a...

In this great crucible of life we call the world—in the vaster one we call the universe—the mysteries lie close packed, uncountable as grains of sand on ocean's shores. They thread gigantic, the star-flung...

A tendril of the strange fragrance spiraled up from the great stone block. Kenton felt it caress his face like a coaxing hand. He had been aware of that fragrance—an alien perfume, subtly troubling, evocative...

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Written pseudonymously as "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional...

The War in the Air, a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, written in four months in 1907 and serialised and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine, is like many of Wells's works notable...

Only when the Nan-yang Maru sailed from Yuen-San did her terrible sense of foreboding begin to subside. For four years, waking or sleeping, the awful subconsciousness of supreme evil had never left her....

Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic...

In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble. When I first saw the sexton he was standing motionless behind a stone. Presently he moved on again, pausing at times, and turning right and left...

Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet...

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature,...

Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (1645–1707) was a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as De...

New York City. 1976. Lee is off to Greenville, Wyoming, to invesigate a mining accident thatresulted in the deaths of ten coal-miners.  His client, Lori Hartford, isconvinced that they were murdered.

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...

Musiata Akafekwa's rendition and original work, 'The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem,' is a contemporary take on the classic 1744 long-form poem by John Armstrong. In this updated version, Akafekwa provides...

First published in 1813 and selling over 20 million copies, this novel is considered as the best love story eever written.

Is freedom always worth the cost, even when it would cost you everything? ~ After the life-changing week she had in “Destiny’s Kiss”, Destiny Walker knows she’s messed up, but she isn’t stupid. Her magic’s...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. This edition contains: The Alchemist At the Mountains of Madness Azathoth...

One of the best novel ever written about Love and Passion...

A Sinister Crime Lies Deep Underwater… On fraud investigator Katerina Carter’s trip to a remote island aboard a luxurious yacht, she suspects the boat’s slick and charming owner is hiding a dark secret.Kat...

'HIS MASTERPIECE,' which in the original French bears the title of L'Oeuvre, is a strikingly accurate story of artistic life in Paris during the latter years of the Second Empire. Amusing at times, extremely...

"The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", often known simply as "Tom Jones", is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. The novel is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel....