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In the distance, on the summit of a high beech, the golden oriole sang its flute-like evening song, which told of still deeper forest loneliness, for the listener seldom hears the notes of the "Pirol,"...

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a likeness to a caterpillar crawling from the south to the north. Standing on its red-and-white...

The plot is a loosely based melange of motifs from previous Conan short stories, most notably "The Scarlet Citadel", with which it shares an almost identical storyline. It takes place when Conan is about...

There are two things about herself that Izzy has always known with absolute certainty: One, that she was adopted and two, that she has an affinity for the sea. For from her earliest memories on, the ocean...

MOTOR STORIES - THRILLING ADVENTURE MOTOR FICTION. Characters that appear in this story: Matt King: concerning whom there has always been a mystery--a lad of splendid athletic abilities, and never-failing...

Harry's Island written by Ralph Henry Barbour who was an American novelist. This book was published in 1908. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original...

The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile written by L. Frank Baum who  was an American author. This book was published in 1907. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important...

The Bears of Blue River written by Charles Major who was an American novelist . This book was published in 1901. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its...

The Yellow Holly written by Fergus Hume who was a prolific English novelist. This book was published in 1903. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original...

The Sundial written by Fred M. White. This book was published in 1908. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to...

Oscar in Africa written by Harry Castlemon who was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels. This book was published in 1892 and 1894. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is...

Normally, a 25-year-old man has some prospects for the future. The protagonist of this story do not. He is brutalized by the life he leads and everything seems futile, unnecessary and unhealthy. He received...

What is here set down is the fruit of long and careful research among disjointed records left by survivors of the terrible events described. The writer wishes frankly to say that, in some instances, he...

The publication of the following narrative of Dr. Walter T. Goodwin has been authorized by the Executive Council of the International Association of Science. First: To end officially what is beginning...

I am a man, sad and disappointed. Every morning I need to look at the sea, I need to draw energy from its majesty. After I built with my own hands a rowing boat deciding to get it over, I take off. I...

There came a sudden sound, breaking the shadowy silence of Longwood forest. Crash followed crash, at short intervals, with the snapping of dry twigs and bush branches, and then came ringing, clear and...

As I look back on my life, eventful enough in spots, but placid, even monotonous in the long stretches between spots, I think the greatest thrill I ever experienced was when I saw the dead body of Sampson...

Centenary at Jalna brings us to 1953 when the Whiteoaks gather to mark the 100th anniversary of their estate. It has now been a century since Captain Philip and Adeline Whiteoak arrived in Canada and...

Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman"...

It tells the story of Thomas Saunders, a sailor's son and neglected street urchin struggling to survive in Greenwich, London in the early 19th century. ("Poor Jack" was the title given by the waterfront...

IN refashioning, for the pleasure of readers of the twentieth century, these versions of ancient tales which have given pleasure to story-lovers of all centuries from the eighth onward, I feel that some...

Maitland Fitzturgis and his sister, Sylvia Fleming, travel from Ireland for his official acceptance by the family as Adeline’s husband. Finch and Maurice also return, and Maurice brings with him his own...

This collection brings together five different fantasy tales. The Last – Terrorized by the thought of death, a man lets himself be contaminated by vampirism to prolong his life indefinitely. However,...

Heaven, Purgatory and Hell, the three realms of the afterlife. Agents from each side try to manipulate Man, making it do things it wouldn't normally do, to influence its final destination. All to get...

De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is an epistle written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas.

The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, a slum in the East End of London.

The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. It has been...

With Phèdre, Racine chose once more a subject from Greek mythology, already treated by Greek and Roman tragic poets, notably by Euripides in Hippolytus and Seneca in Phaedra. In the absence of her royal...

An American-born girl, Tressa Norne, has been held in bondage in the Temple of Erlik, an Oriental devil-god of Central Asia. After many years of captivity, Tressa finally escapes to America knowing that...

Originally published in 1905, The White Stone was, in part, a rebuttal to the racist "yellow peril" fever of the time - a book about "white peril" and the rise of socialism...