Ficción

"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...

Carthinal is alone in the world. His parents and grandparents have died. Without money and a place to live, he faces an uncertain future. After joining a street gang, Carthinal begins a life of crime. Soon...

• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top. • For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter. • With a picture...

• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top. • For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter. • With a picture...

• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top. • For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter. • With a picture...

• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top. • For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter. • With a picture...

Megan is a thirteen-year-old teenage girl, who realises that she has psychic powers that others do not have. At first, she tried to talk to her mother about them, but with disastrous consequences, so...

Dorian Gray is young and in great demand. He enjoys life to the full. He fervently desires to keep his youthful appearance forever. Instead of his, only his portrait on a painting should show the traces...

When the tiger Shere Khan attacks a village in the Indian jungle, little Mowgli is separated from his parents. A pack of wolves accepts him as their own offspring and feeds him. Mowgli is raised by the...

“Queer Folk: Seven Stories” by the Rt. Hon. E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., Author of “Crackers for Christmas.” Illustrated by S.E. Waller. ….. They are queer folk—the “Pig-faced Queen,” “Little Grub,”...

A truly unique novel, The Crock of Gold is a mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the neverending battle of the sexes, written with charm, humour and good grace. It achieved enduring popularity,...

As I sit writing in my study, I can hear our Jane bumping her way downstairs with a brush and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to...

Have you ever wanted to find out why Santa missed Christmas, why he had to take public transportation to the north pole, why he needed a magical snowman to defeat his evil twin brother and why he made...

There is a floating island in the sea where no explorer has set foot, or, setting foot, has returned to tell of what he saw. Lying at our very doors, in the direct path of every steamer from the Gulf...

"A week before the day set for her wedding, in a bright hour of early April, Hera rode forth from the park of Villa Barbiondi. Following the margin of the river, she trotted her horse to where the shores...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: The Travels of Robert Louis Stevenson "St. Ives" (AKA St. Ives: The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England) is an unfinished novel created...

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery;...

When retired captain James Clipper gets his nickname, Granddad Bracey, he little realizes that it will involve them in an epic adventure on a far-away planet called Seven Seas. There, together with his...

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" (German: "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers") is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774; a revised edition...

NOW that you are soon about to return from Paris, Caroline—polished, let us hope, in education—it may be interesting for us to have some little talks together upon the meaning of things and the aspects...

"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a children's novel. The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone....

The original classic. DRACULA by Bram Stoker    

It is the chief object of the following narrative to give an account of the treason of Arnold, its causes, the plans for carrying it forward, and its final issue. In executing this design, it was necessary...

What's a little marriage between friends?   Mia has been Braxton's best friend for years. Even when they no longer lived in the same foster family, even after he'd aged out of the system, he'd continued...

Can a Marine turned baker and a jaded contractor find their way to a second chance? Braxton Whitmore needs a change. After leaving the Marines, he’s free to build a new life. But is he gonna be a baker?...

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami...

Arabella was the first at the farm to become aware of Mr. Teesdale's return from Melbourne. She was reading in the parlour, with her plump elbows planted upon the faded green table-cloth, and an untidy...

Cassandra learns that she is now the new Destiny. She must fight Vitus, demons from another world who, have been feeding for centuries on the vital energy of humans to ensure their existence. When her...

Short novel set in vibrant Toronto, Canada.  An inspiring story on diversity, innovation, and sustainability, spiced up with facts and real role models. *** There is an exciting opportunity waiting for...

I SAW a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances,...