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AMONG the many adventurous enterprises which rendered the age of feudalism and chain-armour memorable in history, none were more remarkable or important than the 'armed pilgrimages' popularly known as...

"Prisoner, attention! His excellency the President has permitted Senor Steinbaum to visit you." The "prisoner" was lying on his back on a plank bed, with his hands tucked beneath his head to obtain some...

THE way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled up the slopes of the embankment and crested across...

"This out of all will remain They have lived and have tossed: So much of the game will be gain, Though the gold of the dice has been lost."

The darkness of the tenth century is dissipated by no contemporary historian. Monkish chronicles alone shed a faint light over the discordant chaos of the Italian world. Rome was no longer the capital...

The honour of founding the modern detective story belongs to an American writer. Such tales as "The Purloined Letter" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" still stand unrivalled. We in America no more...

Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant.

On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carrè, in the Museum of the Louvre....

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival...

The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas     AUTHOR’S PREFACE In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names’ ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor...

You can't know there's a war on—for the Snakes coil and Spiders weave to keep you from knowing it's being fought over your live and dead body! A short science fiction novel by American writer Fritz Leiber.

Star Begotten is a 1937 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a series of men who conjecture upon the possibility of the human race being altered by Martians to replace their own dying planet. The...

“Madame,” one of the most brilliant personalities in French society before the War, runs a circle of dashing young adventurers, who commit all sorts of crimes, the members sharing the proceeds. The Virgins...

Test of Evil (based partly on true events)  Genre: Fiction, Psychological Thriller, , Mystery, Suspense, Mental psychopathy, courtroom Test of Evil  is based partly on real events that took place in...

Timmy Dennison is a ten-year-old fifth-grader at Wynhope Elementary School.  When twins Jeff and Jess Billings move into town, their lives quickly become entwined with Timmy and his activities.  Mistaken...

When John Trenholme, artist, accepted a welcome commission from a magazine editor to journey down to a certain old Hertfordshire village and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties, he looked...

Andrew Hilderbrand loses his parents in a tragic automobile accident in Atlanta while they were on an out-of-town business vacation trip. Shortly after, Andrew’s fiancée, Jennie Summers, reveals to Andrew...

Meet the unlikeliest of heroes: Gustav, a wooden goose decoy. His story begins after his creation at the hands of an old German craftsman in 1930's Illinois. Over the course of the next half century,...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTORY, CONCERNING THE PEDIGREE OF THE CHUZZLEWIT FAMILY As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize with the Chuzzlewit Family without being...

When Kitty's aunt is mysteriously murdered, the hunt is on for the killer. Through the tangles of a love triangle, jealousy, a terrible family secret and a hidden fortune, we follow Kitty in her search...

Enoch Strone is a book-loving rustic loner who lives in a remote hand-built cabin. He works as a mechanical engineer in the industrial town of Gascester. One evening he meets a poor factory girl, Milly,...

The love of the wizard knows how to wait, and for a long time, till the end. He never gets impatient. It is enough for him to observe the girl he loves, hidden among the branches of the tree grown near...

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember...

Sarah apartment is broken into and detective Todd Raymond is assigned to the case. They begin a torrid, hot, and steamy affair, but when they break up, someone begins stalking her. Is it the heartbroken...

New year, new beginning--new love? Kate Wood usually spends New Year's Eve with her daughter, but when a group of friends talks her into going to a party with Paul Bryant, she knows things will be different...

The Modern Prometheus is the story of two struggling artists, Francis and Marcia, thrown together by desperation and poverty in a Chelsea boardinghouse. After being forced to give up hope, Francis burns...

Captain Austen Rotherby is on a mission of revenge in Paris and chances upon Louis, the head waiter of his favourite restaurant. Bored, he follows Louis to a shady café where he spots a pair he’s long...

Will this Valentine's Day be a disappointment like all of the others? Valerie Thomas is a waitress at Bishop's Diner. Every Valentine's Day, she watches as couples come in to celebrate their love while...

Will Isabelle find romance this Thanskgiving? Kindergarten teacher Isabelle Swanner has her hands full with her class and the upcoming Thanksgiving play at school. One of her students, Cooper Bryant,...

An individual suddenly bursts into Sophie Santamaria's life. This is a dangerous man. He will take everything she has.