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In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned,...

The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre...

Shackleton's Drift is a compelling parallel story, comparing the famed Antarctic explorer's epic travails on the ice with those of an author trying to write Shackleton's story. The narrator is struggling...

The fury of the “dark tides”, a kind of powerful cosmic event, had destroyed all who had remained on the surface of planet Earth. Arachnids, groups of techno-rebels, escaped the catastrophe underground....

In a own key, and contrary to what you'd expect, especially Koala speaks of change. How things change, how people change, the change is there, as well as what never will be. Love and hate, wealth and...

An adventurous story concerning the taming of a wild dog in the Klondike.

This classic work is essential reading for any serious student of psychology. Dr. Freud covers the hidden meanings within our dreams, especially repressed sexual desires, the purpose of our conscious...

Ellen Key was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early...

Stendhal's masterpiece chronicles the struggles of a young man with the duality of his nature. Julien Sorel, a young dreamer of the province whose imagination is on fire with the ideals of Napoleon, began...

In a provincial village far from Paris, a doctor named Charles Bovary marries a beautiful farm girl: Emma. She rapidly grows bored with him and takes a rich landowner as a lover. When her lover rejects...

Sentimental Education is considered the most influential of the nineteenth century novel he describes the life of a young man (Federic Moreau), and his love for an older woman during the revolution of...

"In the Penal Colony is a short story by Franz Kafka. This story is set in a penal colony with no name. The book describes the last use of a torture and execution device developed sculpting condemned...

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a gothic novel by the Scottish Robert Louis Stevenson. The novel tells of a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange events between...

The Charterhouse of Parma narrates the adventures of the young noble Italian Fabrizio del Dongo, from its birth in 1798 to his death. Fabrice spent his early years in the family's castle on Lake Como,...

"The Black Cat", one of the great masterpieces of Edgar Allan Poe, lives again in a brand new illustrated edition. Text is accompanied by beautiful original illustrations, animated and with soundtrack....

Dracula is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror...

One stone, one prophecy, two worlds collide.Torn between her own desires and her destiny to seal the doors to Fae, Fenora strikes a bargain with the evil Fae, Amae'n, but in doing so sacrifices her magic...

Passing fatigues or A Hard Life is an autobiographical novel written by Mark Twain towards 1872 that narrates a trip from Missouri to Nevada in the heat of gold fever.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

New Atlantis is Sir Francis Bacon's creation of an ideal land where its citizens uphold the common qualities of "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit." This short...

Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being "one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written", The Night Land is a classic horror fantasy novel by William Hope Hodgson published in 1912. Telling...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels written by the author of The Phantom of the Opera. It is the first novel starring fictional detective Joseph...

The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is the archetypal Gothic novel. A young woman, Emily St. Aubert, suffers the death of her father, followed by worsening physical and psychological death, mirrored in a...

Sketches New and Old is a group of fictional stories -- except for "The Case of George Fisher" -- by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875.

From the discovery of a strange parchment in an old bookseller's shop to the fantastic descent through a dormant volcano into a subterranean world of danger and beauty, A Journey to the Center of the...

Forty-three million miles from the earth--a succession of the weirdestand most astounding adventures in fiction. John Carter, American, findshimself on the planet Mars, battling for a beautiful woman,...

In this era of pandemic fears, the gripping tale of the Great Plague that brought Europe to its knees in the mid-1600s is a surprisingly timely read. Defoe's fictionalized account of life in plague-stricken...

The title story is Twain's darkly fantastic take on religion, reality, and the meaning of life. It takes place in 1590 in the remote Austrian village of Eseldorf, where few young boys greet an unexpected...

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series. The series chronicles the further adventures of Dorothy both in and out of Oz, as she deals with the characters, situations and desires...

The secluded old apple orchard in which Eric Marshall, a young Canadian, finds the beautiful, though dumb, Kilmeny, is on Prince Edward Island. Eric is the son of a wealthy man and had come to a small...