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The longest, without exception, of Balzac's books, and one which contains hardly any passage that is not very nearly of his best, Illusions Perdues suffers, I think, a little in point of composition from...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. He joined the army at 21 and was a war...

A Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sara Crewe is a bright and charming student at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies, and had a privileged background...

Abel Botelho nasceu em Tabuaço, pequena vila da Beira Alta, a 23 de Setembro de 1854, e faleceu em Buenos Aires, como ministro da República Portuguesa, em 1917. Frequentou o Colégio Militar. Iniciando-se...

The tempest had raged for six days, and on the seventh seemed to increase. The ship had been so far driven from its course, that no one on board knew where we were. Every one was exhausted with fatigue...

It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they...

THE TIME MACHINE is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. Wells is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator...

Synopsis     Natália is the secretary of a famous law firm, a position of which she holds with her hard work, just as her freedom and her independence of being able to afford a simple apartment but hers....

Johnny Ludlow. First Series an English novelist Mrs. Henry Wood. This book is one of many works by her. Published in 1874. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important...

The narrative, now for the first time presented to the world, was written by the Sieur de Rohaine to while away the time during the long period and painful captivity, borne with heroic resolution, which...

Glinda the Good, lovely Sorceress of the Land of Oz and friend of Princess Ozma and Dorothy, has lots of personal acquaintances who want to know more about her. So, in the new Oz story, Mr. L. Frank Baum,...

William Archer (23 September 1856 – 27 December 1924) was a Scottish critic and writer.

"Phantasmagoria" is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled Phantasmagoria and Other Poems.

I cannot pretend that my ambition to paint the Man of Sorrows had any religious inspiration, though I fear my dear old dad at the Parsonage at first took it as a sign of awakening grace. And yet, as an...

Kyros Vindex, treasure-hunter, has a problem. He's carrying a torch for a fellow pirate with the sexual awareness of a teaspoon. Rumors say the man has killed hundreds. He's determined to knock some sense...

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there,...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon,...

En route to a long forgotten place in search of answers, Glaide will discover that his perception of Galadria is being constantly refined, changing the way he views the people and situations he meets,...

A modern fairy-tale as light as the wind, as enchanting as the ocean, as wondrous as the moon.

Frank Franklin has one goal in life, to be the world's most memorable serial killer. But he's grown bored with his routine and craves something fresh and inspiring. He longs for something that will cement...

Two thousand years after the Races War, the continent of Harith woke up in a dark age. Rumors of war run by the Meltar earldom: the family of the Counts fell, a sect of fanatics took power, establishing...

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and...

A Science Fiction Short Story. BORROWING SOMEONE ELSE'S PERCEPTIONS FOR A POPULAR DEVICE CAN ONLY MEAN COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. RIGHT?      Samar Dix, the inventor of the popular DixOcular replacement eyes...

Salmaan the Persian or Salmaan Al-Faarisiy (born Rouzbeh), was a companion of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad SAW and the first Persian who converted to Islam. During some of his later meetings with the...

In the Paris of the Empire there were found Thirteen men equally impressed with the same idea, equally endowed with energy enough to keep them true to it, while among themselves they were loyal enough...

Those who are interested in watching the mental development of a child must have noted that when the baby has learned to speak even a little, it begins to show its growing intelligence by asking questions....

Phil Daring walked toward the village with uneasy, nervous strides. There was an anxious expression upon his usually placid face. “Queer,” he muttered to himself, “that I never thought to ask how we’re...

This collection contains two stories, My Hall and The Wizard And The Ogre. My Hall is about a Dwarf telling you all about his home in the mountains. From his job diggin up fine gems and ores, to the interesting...

With flawless construction and impeccable detail, Germinal chronicles the conflicts, lusts, and deprivation of life in the coal fields of nineteenth-century France. A father and three of seven children...

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, «The Death of Ivan Ilyich» is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability...