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Detective stories in which the great Thomas Carnacki investigates the supernatural using scientific tools, such as photography, and tools that are augmented by theories of the supernatural, such as the...

The Trial For Murder, written in 1865, is a short story by Charles Dickens. It is one of Dickens' ghost stories, and is perhaps the best known outside of "A Christmas Carol."

A collection of related short stories by British author G. K. Chesterton. Each story is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade"). To gain admittance...

War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic...

Meredith's beloved brother has died, and his troubled, teenage daughter Kimberly blames herself for his death. Meredith tries to comfort her niece but instead witnesses Kimberly disappearing into thin...

During the past year, in the intervals of an active life, I have amused myself with constructing this tale. It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment—in England and abroad, during long...

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was already a man of forty-six, and a tale writer of some twenty-four years’ standing, when “The Scarlet Letter” appeared. He was born at Salem, Mass., on July 4th, 1804, son of a...

On a bright, snowy night in December, some years ago, Dr. Spenlove, having been employed all the afternoon and evening in paying farewell visits to his patients, walked briskly toward his home through...

Grimm's Fairy Tales are the most famous and enchanting collection of fairy tales ever written down and published. For the past two centuries, these delightful stories, gathered together by brothers Jacob...

In the fantasy story Trials of Baromir, Baromir spends two weeks out of his farming life visiting the continenthe lives on. From Helva province he travels to Lagosia province and ends up in the city of...

Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's life for two years and two months...

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between...

For fans of Bridgerton, in Regency England, a woman who seeks more than a tepid society marriage finds herself rescued by the Season's most wicked rake…Desperate to enjoy one glorious adventure before...

In An Ordinary Immigrant—Ties That Bind, we once again meet the quiet and steadfast Roelena, her vivacious friend Marliese, and Roelena's war bride sister-in-law, Ingrid.Roelena's dreams for her future...

In this tender and warm-hearted story about young love and the importance of family, three young women struggle to reconcile their aspirations for the future within the limitations and confines of their...

Meredith's only goal in the Lands of Vendome is to track down the one person who can send her home. But this mysterious Traveler resides in a distant city. Meredith's only guide on this long and dangerous...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901...

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 189394. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyards...

The Phantom of the Opera is a novel that combines romance, horror, mystery and tragedy. The story is about a mysterious man who terrorizes the Paris Opera to attract the attention of a young singer he...

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's...

The Communist Manifesto (Das Kommunistische Manifest), originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 publication written by economic and...

WHEN a young man is very much in love with a most attractive girl he is apt to endow her with qualities and virtues which no human being has ever possessed. Yet at rare and painful intervals there enter...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all...

ON the bank of the Godavari River is a kingdom called the Abiding Kingdom. There lived the son of King Victory, the famous King Triple-victory, mighty as the king of the gods. As this king sat in judgment,...

Elizabeth Brewster sat by the window of her sewing-room in the fading light of the winter afternoon. She had been straining her eyes a little over her work and the intent look did not leave them as she...

The title of the essay comes from Woolf's conception that, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". Woolf notes that women have been kept from writing because of their...

Peter Pan makes night-time calls on the Darlings' house in Bloomsbury, listening in on Mrs. Mary Darling's bedtime stories by the open window. One night Peter is spotted and, while trying to escape, he...

"Now you polish up those buckles real good, won't you, 'Zekiel? I will say for Fanshaw, you could most see your face in the harness always." The young fellow addressed rubbed away at the nickel plating...

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for...