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Two shadows in a dark alley, they look so alike they could easily be twins; I strain my senses and I smell vampire. When I'm killing my mark, a deafening scream comes out of its mouth, so I wake up. I've...
The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893 94. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his...
The fairy Peaseblossom and the goblin Toadstool depart for a strange mission: to find the smile, the funny side of life subjects of fairyland, too serious and polite. To reach their goal the protagonists...
"Heidi" is a delightful story for children of life in the Alps, one of many tales written by the Swiss authoress, Johanna Spyri, who died in her home at Zurich in 1891. She had been well known to the...
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the...
The Time Machine is a science fiction novel 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...
Secret agents, forbidden love, danger, and magic! Supernatural Secret Service agents Owen Sharps and Calvin Springfield meet on the train to their new assignment in St. Louis, and sparks fly between them....
The Seven Voyages of Captain Cook is a story of first encounters and clashes of cultures. But imagine that Captain Cook visited the Pacific not in the past, but in the future. But haunted by his own ghost...
The novel provides a detailed, episodic record of life in the two branches of the wealthy, aristocratic Jia (?) clan—the Rongguo House (???) and the Ningguo House (???)—who reside in two large, adjacent...
I am a spider who is higher in rank than other spiders. With all humility, if all the spiders in this world were put in one hand and I was put in the other I would outweigh them in superiority. I am not...
KING RANDALL OF GOBSHITE has quite the task for one of his loyal subjects. Unfortunately, he scared off many of the nobles by hosting an all-male ball, which resulted in unexpected carnage and a snappy...
{And We inspired Musa (Moses) (saying), 'Throw your staff',’ and behold! It swallowed up straight away all the falsehoods which they showed.} (Al-A'raf: 117) Why is it that a garden is sometimes green...
A pregnancy could tear apart their marriage or bring them closer together... British plastic surgeon Brock Coates wants to keep his dreamy, successful black wife Gabby happy. Gabrielle's life dream is...
AFTER the publication of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" I began to receive letters from children, telling me of their pleasure in reading the story and asking me to "write something more" about the Scarecrow...
H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and...
Trevlyn lands and Trevlyn gold, Heir nor heiress e'er shall hold, Undisturbed, till, spite of rust, Truth is found in Trevlyn dust. "This is the third time I've found you poring over that old rhyme....
"How do you know when you're a young lady?" asked Roberta Grey. She was sitting before the ancient mahogany dressing-table in her—and Wythie's—room, unblushingly regarding herself in the mirror, while...
In life - in our daily life, we experience facts, sensations and feelings. Yet most of the time, in our race against the clock, we forget to take in life’s small details. A simple moment can become unforgettable,...
“Where are you goin’, Julius? Where’s yer blackin’ box?” asked Patrick Riley. “I’ve retired from business,” said Julius. “Did yer rich uncle die, and leave yer a fortune?” “No, but he’s goin’ up the river...
If by any chance you should ever sail on a low ebb-tide along a certain western coast, you will, if you are of a receptive humour and new to the district, receive a somewhat startling impression of the...
The dancing pavilion, separated from the Casino itself by an arched passageway and affording another pretty view of the lake in the moonlight, was filled with young people when Alice entered.
"In the Days of the Comet" (1906) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is "exalted" when a comet causes "the nitrogen of the air, the old azote," to "change out of itself" and become...
Roderigo Borgia had the reputation of a dissolute man. For the Romans there was nothing new in the singular situation of a pope with a mistress and five children. The great thing for the moment was that...
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. Joining the army at 21, he was a war correspondent during the Second Boer...
"The Island of Doctor Moreau" is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who...
"The Wonderful Visit" is an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells. With an angel—a creature of fantasy unlike a religious angel—as protagonist and taking place in contemporary England, the book could be classified...
"The Invisible Man" is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in "Pearson's Weekly" in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin,...
"A Dream of Armageddon" is a short story by H. G. Wells which was first published in 1901 in the British weekly magazine "Black and White".
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