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Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns...

This book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are...

Les Misérables (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a twenty year...

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great...

The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. This is a wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy...

BUT the basin of the Mississippi is the Body of The Nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The...

Little imagined police officer Pepe Gómez the amount of troubles in which he would get into when they assigned him the investigation of Luis`s murder. At first it seemed very simple but as the clever...

“We felt like another one of the characters,”- Un Lector Indiscreto (Blog). “I want more, please, you can’t finish now,” -Libros en el Petate (Blog). “Full of intrigue and suspense,” -Books and Companies...

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas...

An ancient English Cathedral Tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty...

"The only thing to be done with this country is leave it, once and for all." Ángel could never have pictured himself in a situation like this — hungry, tired, and unsure if he’ll live to see tomorrow....

Emma is just a girl who is unaware of her magnetic charm. An orphan since an early age, she lives with her best friend Serena, a sunny and sociable girl who supports and assists Emma through the hard...

“The last scene, seared in my mind, was that of a girl with long brown hair, gripping a wooden stake and upholding the honour of our race. We are what we are and she had just joined our fate. We are what...

A suspense filled tale of action, adventure, pursuit… and a manuscript. Alba is a translator who thinks she has a boring job in Madrid, until she receives a translation assignment that will change everything…

At the time that the Tang dynasty was reigning there lived a man named Liu I, who had failed to pass his examinations for the doctorate. So he traveled home again. He had gone six or seven miles when...

One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe on foot. After much thought, I decided...

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...