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This is an odd one. A very short play about a man and his servant girl, who is of course more than she appears. It opens on an altar, where he is bemoaning his situation... his wife has run off into the...

When she perceived a group of men leaning against the parapet and looking down into the street below, Hippolyte stopped and exclaimed: "What has happened?" With a slight gesture, betraying fear, she placed...

This highly imaginative work of Mary Shelley's twenty-sixth year contains some of the author's most powerful ideas ; but is marred in the commencement by some of her most stilted writing. The account...

A compulsive gambler himself at a certain period of his life, Dostoyevsky wrote this novel with real authority. Set in the appropriately named Roulettenburg, a German spa with a casino and an international...

"The Grand Inquisitor" is a poem in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. It is recited by Ivan, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alyosha, a...

Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives. She was taken care of primarily...

Dollars Want Me' reveals The Secret to attracting money into your life. This little book teaches you how to radiate your mental forces so as to cause the dollar to feel you, love you, seek you out, thus...

THE SACRED THEORY OF THE EARTH (or Telluris Theoria Sacra) CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGINAL OF THE EARTH AND OF ALL THE GENERAL CHANGES WHICH IT HAS ALREADY UNDERGONE OR IS TO UNDERGO TILL THE CONSUMMATION...

Good guys don’t make deals with demons. Do they? The world is approaching the Tipping Point—when the rising demons will outnumber humankind. Assassin for hire, Soren Huxford, needs to pick a side. It...

Alongside Wallace Wattles, author of The Science of Getting Rich, Charles F. Haanel is a significant voice in the early 20th century New Thinking movement with his work, The Master Key System. It purports...

"Mythology, or the history of fable, is necessary to be known, because it explains many books, statues, and pictures, and enables us to comprehend the value of our own simple and true faith — the doctrines...

An unexpected event, such as the fall from the ship on which he is heading out on a crossing to Europe, and the rescue by a fishing boat, will make discover to Harvey Cheyne, the young protagonist, the...

In the case of my former book—my first written for young readers—I inserted a preface stating at some length my reasons for taking up the writing of stories of the kind. In it I pointed out that I had...

They walked side by side, under the gloomy old firs whose heavy branches leaned towards the yellowing lawn. Countess Aubry, with her charm of a negotiator of worldly loves, had just hastily brought them...

Sir Herbert Binney, millionaire owner of ‘Binney’s Buns,’ is found murdered in the ritzy lobby of the New York apartment hotel where he lives with his mother and aunt. The two women are bun-baking competitors...

Some thirty of her Majesty’s men-of-war were involved in this matter; say a dozen battleships of the most recent, and seventeen or eighteen cruisers; but my concern was limited to one of a new type commanded...

Vera or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed....

First book of the series The stragglers, a family of Lycantrophobes, that live straggler from their packs, having to survive in our world, trying no to be discovered, fighting to keep their lives safe...

Andersen’s Fairy Tales written by Hans Christian Andersen who was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels and poems. And now this book republish in ebook format. We believe...

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London,...

The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman who was a prominent American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. This book was...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering...

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

BIRD O’MORE crouched in a little black heap in the corner of the sofa that stood between the closed windows in the farmhouse sitting room. Her eyes, that looked straight before her, yet without seeing...

Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were...

The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events...

Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites....

The Destroying Angel written by an American novelist Louis Joseph Vance, This book is one of many works of him. First published in 1912. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...

Longing looks, one kiss and one dance are all Snyder and Joel have ever shared, but that's about to change. As Thanksgiving looms, Snyder is still brooding over a bad ex. He isn't looking forward to the...

Not only was Edith Nesbit author of “The Railway Children” and “Five Children and IT,”which were both turned into films, but she also compiled and published “The Book of Dragons” and “Nine Unlikely Tales”...