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The plot of the novel is based very loosely on the real-life activities of the Molly Maguires and, particularly, of Pinkerton agent James McParland. The novel is divided into two parts: in the first,...
What is the meaning and purpose of life?’ This is, perhaps, the most important question that has ever been asked. Throughout the ages, philosophers have considered it to be the most fundamental question....
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass...
The long tapers flickered, sending the black shadows wavering along the walls, and the velvet tapestries rippled. Yet there was no wind in the chamber. Four men stood about the ebony table on which lay...
Giovanni Carmelo Verga (2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist (Verismo) writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, and especially for the short story (and...
Mandy's life hangs in the balance as she battles to stay alive after an exposure to lethal levels of radiation in the Hollow cities. Her mind is fragmented and she is plagued by terrible nightmares. She...
In her own time, the works of Kate Chopin (1851–1904) shocked readers and critics with their challenge to contemporary mores. Her stories and novels reveal unsparing truths about the interior lives of...
We often find in a family a jewellery of "high value" passing from one generation to another. But in a mansion of beautiful Athens, a gift of inestimable cost will cause much anguish to its owner, a wealthy...
Imagine... One morning you wake up in the Great World, a few years after a terrible magical battle has taken place between the young wizard Esklaroth and the Queen of Darkness, Melena. Although most cities...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.
Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel...
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is...
Ouida ( 1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). This work has a selection of the...
Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead—that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this...
The life is made of phases. To Know to drain from pain the needed experience to follow in front and to win is what few known .Find out the secret of success.
Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg,...
War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's...
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the...
The young American Lynn Blake is the assistant to the famous photographer Arno Leonardi. She accompanys him to Venice for a photo shoot. Suddenly her boss disappears under mysterious circumstances. Lynn...
The second chapter of a Dystopian saga built on the belief that man knows about and uses only a fraction of the brain’s real ability. A saga in which heart and mind collide against a backdrop of unrest,...
Rose Titus, author of Night Home, After Dark, and All the Way to the Moon, now brings together a collection of her best short stories. Here in this book you will find tales of vampires, werewolves, witches,...
Victoria, a brilliant inventor and the daughter of a wealthy American entrepreneur, enters into an arranged marriage with István Farkas, the crown prince of Taliskia, a mysterious kingdom nestled deep...
"The Three Musketeers" is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas. Set in 1625-8, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves...
Encyclopocalypse Publications invites you to their debut anthology of terrifying folklore. This collection of macabre myths and lurid legends feature tales of Perchta and watchers, sirens and Squonks...
Assassins come for the Savior of Ravenswall.Geneve and the sorcerer Meriwether are beset while burying their dead. The assassins' goal is simple. They will erode support for the queen and take the crown...
The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England.
The king of Vendhya was dying. Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold–domed chamber where Bunda Chand struggled on the...
This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1932 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Gods Arrive' is a sequel to 'Hudson River Bracketed' in which...
This volume collects the complete writings of Henry James: 23 novels, 112 stories and novellas, 12 plays, 6 books with travelogues, 10 with critical essays and 3 autobiographies. Contents: THE NOVELS...
Complete fictional writings of Lewis Carroll with 285 original illustrations. The collection comes with inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter which lead back to the respective tables....
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