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Elfride finds herself caught in a battle between her heart, her mind and the expectations of her parents and society. The novel is notable for the strong parallels to Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford....

A scholar, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, accompanied by his manservant Joe and his friend Richard "Dick" Kennedy, sets out to travel across the African continent — still not fully explored — with the help of a...

One of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a...

Joam Garral grants his daughter's wish to travel to Belém where she wants to marry Manuel Valdez in the presence of Manuel's invalid mother. The Garrals travel down the Amazon River using a giant timber...

Maria Antoinette: Makers of History written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott who was an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer. This book is one of many works by him. It has already Published...

The Sauciest Boy in the Service: A Story of Pluck and Perseverance written by W. Gordon-Stables who was a prolific author of adventure fiction, primarily for boys.  This book is one of many works by him....

When Mike Bray is grabbed off the street on his way home on an ordinary Friday night, his world is turned inside out. Forced by the head of a South London crime gang to impersonate low-level criminal...

Emile Gaboriau is frequently credited with being the creator of the modern detective story. He drew on the 40 years of slow evolution of the crime story, following Edgar Allen Poe in the United States,...

Back in the 1890s the most serious rival to Sherlock Holmes, as far as popularity with reading public was concerned, was probably Martin Hewitt. He was the creation of Arthur Morrison, a writer who achieved...

Zhandalee is a fifteen-year-old dark-skinned girl who arrived from the sea to the land of Sicily at the age of two in the arms of a girl who used her last strength to deliver the baby in the arms of two...

The dark night of soul” is the continuation of “The seer”. The main character returned to a mountain in search of answers for a troubled period of its life, moments who forgot of God, of its principles,...

Adrift In the Pacific, or Two Years Vacation is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1888. Know also has The Strange Adventures of a Schoolboy Crew; Long Vacation; Second Year Ashore. The...

The Great Gatsby is a tormenting love story, the pursuit of an impossible dream, a masterpiece of contemporary literature. The novel is a great portrait of the so-called “Jazz Age”. The past in not repeatable:...

Whiteoak Harvest chronicles the 1930s saga of Renny Whiteoak and his wife, Alayne. Finch Whiteoak and wife, Sarah, return from their honeymoon to upset the Jalna household with Eden Whiteoak's love child....

The president of the United Planets Alliance ordered Major Jezlynn Chambers to negotiate a treaty with the Alliance's former enemy, the Khajari. She expects the mission will cause turmoil, not only for...

Lady Cristiana Kendal craved passion, a fleeting escape from her lonely world—until one stolen night with the irresistible Adam Brighton changed everything. She now harbors a secret she vows to protect...

Persuasion is Jane Austen’s last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely,...

Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation written by  an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris. This book is one of many works by him. It was published...

Peanut: The Story of a Boy written by an American author and biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. This book is one of many works by him which published in 1913. And now republish in ebook format. We believe...

Complex murder mystery in the classic style of the time.

MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa, second King of Rome. Thus the most religious...

The Notting Hill Mystery is a detective novel written by Charles Warren Adams under the pseudonym Charles Felix who was an English lawyer, publisher and anti-vivisectionist. The Novel as it appeared in...

Kew Gardens is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf. It was first published privately in 1919, then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday. Originally accompanying illustrations...

It has been said since ancient times that Dartmoor is the haunt of the Pixies. In this volume you will find 6 illustrated children’s stories, told in full, about the Pixies of Dartmoor which go some way...

On the borders of the “Land o’ Dreams” and broad daylight, the real and the unreal are so strangely blended that children are puzzled to know where the boundary lies. It is from this land that these 28...

Abducted from her world and dropped onto his, she's as alien to him as he is to her. That doesn't mean they can't have some fun with their differences. Semeera needs a plan for starting her life over....

Herein you will find 10 European illustrated fairy tales and legends of giants, dwarfs, fairies, water-sprites and hobgoblins translated from the German of Villamaria. The stories in this volume are:...

It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the...

Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title...

The Water Babies: Illustrated By Charles Kingsley. On the surface, Charles Kingsley's 'The Water Babies' appears to be a traditional fairy tale complete with fairies, sea-beasts and talking animals....