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The first edition of this little book has been long out of print, and for several years, I have been asked to enlarge it, but until the present time sufficient leisure has not been found to collect the...

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is well known for having created the character Conan the...

Pascal's Pensées' is a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy written by 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism...

En commençant mes études le premier pas m’a plu si fort, Le simple fait de la conscience, ces formes, la motilité, Le moindre insecte ou animal, les sens, la vue, l’amour, Le premier pas, dis-je, m’a...

Civilizations must make sense somehow. But was this one the gaudy, impossible exception?

This story, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1858, was the first of the great weird-scientific stories. It won immediate popularity for the author—a popularity which continued unbroken until his death...

Ester, Miriam and Jessica are three twenty-year old girls who get to know each other in the beautiful city of Florence. Ester enrolls at the Polimoda, her dream is to become a well-known fashion designer....

In this volume, Laurence Housman, retells 6 of the most popular tales from 1001 Arabian Nights. While there are only 6 tales in this volume, they are brought to life with 50 lavishly illustrated images...

Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. 

Thurston of Orchard Valley written by Harold Bindloss an English novelist who wrote many adventure novels set in western Canada. This book is one of many works by him which  published in 1910. And now...

Tom Thatcher's Fortune written by Horatio Alger Jr. who was a prolific 19th-century American writer. This book was published in 1888. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...

The tale tells the story of a man who is born old and dies child, traveling in reverse all ages and stages of life. Too shabby and weak for children’s peers games, and too child to enlist in World War...

This is a classic sufi text written by the Persian poet Farid Ud-Din Attar. In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their king, as they have none. The hoopoe, the wisest of them...

This is the story of Rip Van Winkle--that curious fellow, who with his dog, Wolf, ran away from a hard day's work to the Catskill Mountains only to discover in a forgotten valley a strange band of revelers...

"The Masque of The Red Death", one of the great masterpieces of Edgar Allan Poe, lives again in a brand new illustrated edition. Text is accompanied by beautiful orginal illustrations, animated and with...

An Act in a Backwater written by E. F. Benson  an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. This book is one of many works by him which  published in 1903. And now...

Móric Jókay de Ásva , known as Mór Jókai; (18 February 1825 – 5 May 1904),  was a Hungarian dramatist, novelist and revolutionary. He was active participant and a leading personality in the outbreak of...

The book containing 14 Fairy and folk tales from the land formerly known as Jugoslavia. These have been selected from a larger mass of material which can now be found in Jugoslav, Czechoslovak, Bulgarian,...

The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) is the most famous novel written by the English Gothic novelist Eliza Parsons. First published in two volumes during 1793, it was one of the seven "horrid novels" recommended...

Recounts the heroic and adventurous life of a thoroughbred collie that was particularly devoted to his owners.

An ancient Hopi parable states “He who tells stories, rules the world.” The stories which this Russian grandmother tells can be found, with many others, in a collection of “Tales and Legends of South...

Written in the form of a Socratic dialogue, The Republic is an investigation into the nature of an ideal society. In this far-reaching and profoundly influential treatise, Plato explores the concept of...

"This," said the Franciscan, "is my Automaton, who at the proper time will speak, answer whatsoever question I may ask, and reveal all secret knowledge to me." He smiled as he laid his hand affectionately...

What will cosmic rays do to a living organism? Will they destroy life, or produce immortality? The eminent Dr. Blair Gaddon thought he knew ...

This peculiar collection is a very real treat: we envy you the reading of it. Among the treasures in this volume are "The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla," "How the Office of Postman Fell Vacant in Offord-Under-the-Wold,"...

In Nesbit's twilight world, the dead return from the grave, scientists pursue knowledge to the gates of death - and beyond; souls are bartered to the Devil in exchange for one last wish; a casual wager...

When the Great Galactic Union first encounters Earth ... is this what is going to happen?

Suddenly the biggest thing in the universe was the very tiniest.

He was as ancient as time—and as strange as his own frightful battle against incredible odds!

The creature from Venus didn't know right from left—and life and death hung in the balance!