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IT rose for them—their honey-moon—over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own.

"One of the greatest [French novels]." —Malcolm Cowley "A story of hopeless love and mute renunciation in which the stately tenor of the lives depicted is hardly ruffled by the exultations and agonies...

Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface. Their nature more precisely, and as modified by the creeping hours of time, was known only to those who watched the circumstances...

Edmund James "Ted" Banfield (4 September 1852 – 2 June 1923) was an author and naturalist in Queensland, Australia. He is best known for his book Confessions of a Beachcomber. His grave on Dunk Island...

THE other day, in looking over my papers, I found in my desk the following copy of a letter, sent by me a year since to an old school acquaintance:— "DEAR CHARLES, "I think when you and I were at Eton...

Fy-Sy Fables Colonising Creativity A collection of stories about technology’s desire to be the master of creativity, and what results when it tries to take total control of this human trait. Fy-Sy Fables...

"Once, there was a man who went crazy from too much reading. He only read books about knighthood; that was the problem." So begins this charming retelling of Don Quixote de la Mancha, one of the most...

One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in...

Mr. Giles never needs convincing to hunt down a criminal who piques his feline curiosity and threatens the peace of their sleepy town. But if he is on the right track will the humans in his life be able...

On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him...

"Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women… O ye men, how can it be but women should...

Book Bundle for The Hounds of Annwn: Books 1 & 2. ---- To Carry the Horn: Book 1 of The Hounds of Annwn.      NEW JOB, NEW FAMILY, AND IN TWO WEEKS THE END OF A WORLD HE’S JUST DISCOVERED, IF HE...

The Plutonidians were a really curious species. They came from nomadic intergalactic populations settling uninhabited new planets, rather than living together with different species in the most attractive...

Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications,...

American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000. According to Erich Fromm, Bellamy's novel Looking Backward is "one of the most remarkable books...

Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications,...

"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid...

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to...

The Universal Connection was the way in which knowledge flowed around the Mother Galaxy. It was a plasma that permeated everything. It gave and received knowledge almost unconsciously. Unfortunately the...

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in French. "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (French: "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers") is a classic science fiction novel...

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "Rumpelstiltskin" (also spelled as "Rumplestiltskin") is the antagonist of a fairy tale that originated in North Highlands...

Edmund James "Ted" Banfield (4 September 1852 – 2 June 1923) was an author and naturalist, best known for his book Confessions of a Beachcomber.

Edmund James "Ted" Banfield (4 September 1852 – 2 June 1923) was an author and naturalist, best known for his book Confessions of a Beachcomber.

Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film (font. Wikipedia)

Life is much more than a body, much more than a time, not empty with death, not born in one day. Life happens every time, transcends space-time and spills beyond the physical, so nothing worth taking...

A world that underwent various reconstructions and reforms based on a social class at risk, with weak social integrity and governed by a treaty that has regulated the relationships of the City-States...

On the outskirts of the city of Larissa - the stronghold of Thessaly - a magnificent aristocratic dwelling stands, bordered by the river Peneus. Captivated by the estate, Senator Fotios wants to acquire...

LodeStar Book 6 In space, there are even more ways to lose your lover  She lost everything . . . Ilya Mondas once lived her dream—life with a band of space gypsies wandering the wild plains of Frontiera,...

Though Doyle had killed off his character by 1894, he still wrote other short stories for publication in the "Strand Magazine". "The Lost Special" was one such story, a seemingly inexplicable mystery...

THOSE who delight in roaming about amongst the fields and lanes, or have spent any time in a country house, can hardly have failed to notice the custodian of the woods and covers, or to observe that he...