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Classic murder mystery featuring two upstanding citizens in northern towns who wish to keep their past secret.

Alexei Ivanovich Velchaninov is a land owner who stays in Saint Petersburg for a trial about a piece of land. He receives a visit from Pavel Pavlovich Trusotsky, an old acquaintance who recently became...

A young Sussex gentleman named John Openshaw has a strange story: in 1869 his uncle Elias Openshaw had suddenly come back to England to settle on an estate at Horsham, West Sussex after living for years...

LORCA'S WOMEN are some of the women in the poetic and theatre world of Federico Garcia Lorca who, through these stories, acquire an identity of their own and new life. Bernarda, Yerma, Soledad and the...

The fragile but strong friend next door, in search of Love, inner Beauty and whatever else the life and a trip to India will dedicate her. Stefania through the latter will explore costumes, customs, traditions...

Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting...

Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views...

If a man is not eager for adventure at the age of twenty-two, the enticement of romantic possibilities will never come to him.

It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the...

Frank meets Svetlana in the corridors of the Paris metro station. Neither is aware that their relationship is at the starting point of a difficult love affair. Through desires and doubts, suffering will...

Tales of Space and Time is a fantasy and science fiction collection of three short stories and two novellas written by the English author and visionary H. G. Wells between 1897 and 1898. A must-read for...

"La-ha-hoo! la-ha-hoo!" Far down the widening valley, and up the wild, picturesque ravine, rang the strange but not unmusical call. It awoke the slumbering echoes of the still place, and a hundred voices...

In this classic, a lone camper in the forest overhears a conversation that convinces him to leave his wild paradise to save a young woman from certain doom. The Man of the Forest isn't about to let a...

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who...

Beckford's Gothic novel, Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was 21. It is the story of Caliph Vathek, whose eye can kill at a glance, who makes a pact with the Devil,...

Kott?: Being Japanese Curio's with Sundry Cobwebs written by Lafcadio Hearn who was a writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories. This...

The Fate of a Crown written by Schuyler Staunton who was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books. He was better known as L. Frank Baum. This book was published in 1905. And now republish...

Lucian the dreamer written by J. S. Fletcher who was an English journalist and author. This book was published in 1903. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important...

With a very cinematic style, Mostafa Mastur explores the pulsing everyday life of an apartment building in Teheran, a metaphysical megalopolis in which the unresolved contradictions of an entire society...

The journey of a young knight between the three kingdoms of evil ruled by the sons of the Lord of Darkness. Charles will face in epic battles demons and hellish creatures that hurl against the God of...

The book tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.

Owen Clancy's Run of Luck: or, The Motor Wizard in the Garage written by Burt L. Standish who was a writer of dime novels and is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories. Owen Clancy's Run...

The Rising Tide written by Margaret Deland who was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. This book was published in 1916. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys,...

As the Revolutionary war draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number to massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian...

There's a hard-boiled plot that starts with a disaster at sea. There's stolen gold and gun-play. There's suspense, there's a good guy, some really bad guys, and at least two complex characters who contain...

Night was nearly gone. All slept in the beautiful bright city of Osaka. The harsh cry of the sentinels, calling one to another on the ramparts, broke the silence, unruffled otherwise save for the distant...

A non-stop Sax Rohmer yarn. A slipper believed to belong to the prophet Mohammed has been stolen by a British archaeologist and a Muslim sect are after all who come into contact with it, the leader of...

The Train Boy written by American writer Horatio Alger Jr.. This book is one of many works by him. It has already Published in 1883. Now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important...

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his...