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This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Charlie Chan, a heroic detective created by Earl Derr Biggers to the delight of mystery lovers American novelist and playwright Earl Derr...

THIS IS THE ANNOTATED VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL BOOK WORTH 124000 (APPROX.) WORDS. WE HAD ANNOTATED THIS BOOK BY ADDING A HANDY SUMMARY OF 68000 (APPROX.) WORDS AT THE END OF THIS BOOK IN RED FONT. THE...

“Animal Farm“ is a novel by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Animal...

Vein of Iron Summary | Thyra Samter Winslow, “The First Reader, ” New York World-Telegram, 29 August 1935| Vein of Iron, by Ellen Glasgow, is published today. That it will go immediately into the best-seller...

Three years have passed since Jack Hunter changed the course of history. Now, a terrorist threatens to fracture the delicate alliance between Earth and Leyria, and Jack finds himself neck-deep in a world...

As Jane steps from the rubble of her West End home she meets Will, who offers laughter and love in abundance. With the Blitz of London upon them, Will teaches Jane to live for the moment and throw caution...

The book is about a young post-graduate student in Africa. He finds himself among two friends who genuinely love him and want to do everything to have him. The fight to be the apple of the eyes of the...

Eileen and Nora, two main characters for a story that can be split into two. Or are they two stories that can be told as one? Whatever the case, the truth is they share more than just one thing. Scottish...

The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown is an 1896 novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. Following the apparent murder of a man, a novelist comes under suspicion.

A beautiful story involving a wealthy Englishman who falls in love with the daughter of an Italian nobleman who lives on the island of Cruta in the Mediterranean. Their progeny, and a very dark influence...

The book tells the story of Anna and Lucia, two girls of Italian origin who after a happy childhood in Borneo, for an outburst decide to leave to settle in Italy. Arrived in Sicily encounter many difficulties...

There were no more vivid episodes in the colonization of the New World than those resulting from the attempts of the French people to gain a permanent foothold on our shores. This fact has long been recognized...

Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. The poem also begins...

An obscure masterpiece until recently discovered because of its eerie predictions, Ingersoll Lockwood's fin de siècle short story 1900; or, The Last President uncannily describes the current political...

The Great Impersonation is the high point in the literature of deception and conspiracy; of all the stories of international intrigue and espionage, no other is written with such consummate skill, and...

The novel opens on a scene in a cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Two men are exiled there. One finds a newspaper which reveals that the murder which they were fleeing from was actually committed...

Mr. Hardross Courage is a wealthy young Englishman whose life has been carefree and uneventful. He plays cricket for his county, he attends to the management of his estates, he serves as a local magistrate....

Yet another collection of linked short stories from Oppenheim. By chance a young man and woman meet and set up an agency to aid Scotland Yard, but is romance in the air? This story deals with a young...

The man had seemed so innocent in the bar—okay, not innocent, per se. He’d been hot, hard, and possessed a butt that I wanted to bite like the last chocolate chip cookie in my stash. He’d also skipped...

A World War I tale of espionage in a fictional “backwater” area in England with no apparent military value called Dreymarsh. The story begins with Dreymarsh residents discovering an observation car from...

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet    VOLUME ONE Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master,...

Four tales take place in the colonial Province House, Massachusetts, where Britain's last governors and governesses exchange tales as the Empire crumbles.

This novella has been written to narrate an anecdote on the role of ego in our lives. Its existence can be so intoxicating that a single blow on us by even a stranger, gets us all warmed up. Our Ego gets...

COLONEL SANDERSTEAD looked gloomily at his wrist-watch for the third time. Punctual to a second himself, he expected an equal clockwork precision from others; and even his long series of disappointments...

FIVE DAYs out from Southampton, the Megantic, nose to New York, forged her way carefully through placid seas. There was fog about, and from time to time the great ship’s siren sent its melancholy call...

Her fate lies in her family's legacy... A mysterious phone call leads to clues about her past... and lands her in trouble. The instructions were clear. Book the first flight to Venice, Italy. Pick up...

Kaylyn Anderson's fascination with abandoned places and dark creatures kindled her work as a paranormal investigator. But when dreams begin to distort reality, she questions what is real and pulls away...

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation. And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young...

It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner. The transatlantic steamship `La Provence' was a swift and comfortable vessel, under the command of a most affable man....