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The preparations were being completed for a grand event. For on the morning of the next day a deep wrong was to be made right by the marriage of the young and beautiful Lady of Lone to the chosen lord...

Collection of novelettes: “The Haunted Homestead,” “The Presentiment,” “The Specter Revels” and “The Gilberts.”

These stories were created from writing exercises where a picture prompt is used to create a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end in only one hundred and fifty words. Snap Shots are short stories...

The kid awakes in the hold of a ship. Next to him are two men: a stranger (dead) and his former English professor (alive but injured). A tale of murder and intrigue, intense love and back-stabbing betrayal...

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

The Jungle Book: Illustrated (1894) is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations,...

The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth,...

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. Contains illustrations by C. E. Brock. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners,...

Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt by Georg Ebers. The character of "Uarda" and the present story have grown out of the memory of a Fellah girl, half child, half maiden, whom I saw suffer and die in a...

The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real: Illustrated. A children's novel written by Margery Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson. It chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit and his quest...

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals largely with the life of Mr. Verloc and his job as a spy. The Secret Agent...

Intelligence agents have uncovered something beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA's greatest adversary is sending its own agents back through time! And someone (or something) is...

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants...

Deep waters hold deep hidden secrets. Three fishermen brave the elements to earn a living. Their nets bring up something from the deep that should have stayed below...

The colony members of Death Planet are forced to make an emergency landing on Desert Planet in the Andromeda Galaxy on their way home from captivity. They encounter a mysterious cult led by a manipulative...

“Over the river” (1933) is a novel that ends the "trilogy of Dinny" and is especially a great slice of English life (along the nearly fifty years between 1886 and 1932) described by Galsworthy through...

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

A shadow hangs over the world. Desa Kincaid and her friends must embark on one last, desperate journey to stop a threat from the edge of reality itself. A creature of the void. Tommy's revolution makes...

Straight-laced Rose loves books, swimming and the folk choir. So when her gregarious best friend arrives home from a ten year around-the-world trip, her safe, comfortable existence is thrown into disarray....

He was created in the Kingdom of Heaven, provided with faculties that distilled their own brilliance, becoming the Bearer of Light, being an example of beauty and intelligence, a masterpiece, full of...

This is the annotated version of the book Riders of the Purple Sage. We annotated it by adding a summary of approximately 55000 words at the end of the book in Red font. The Brief Description of the...

The Wyvern Mystery combines all the elements of nail-biting horror, romantic fairy tale, psychological thriller and rich period drama to create a compelling story. When young Alice Maybell is orphaned...

Again a story of the Six Girls of whom we are fond, is dedicated to you. It will tell you what delightful things grew out of their Tea Room, and how the "Patty-Pans flat" was filled with happiness till...

“Jack, Jack, I have had a truly wonderful inspiration!” cried Pam as she came dashing down the stairs like a whirlwind. Unfortunately Barbara, the little maid-of-all-work, was at that moment toiling upwards...

A collection of nine stories, including "Silver Pitchers" and "Independence: A Centennial Love Story" by the author of "Little Women."Das E-Book Silver Pitchers wird angeboten von Books on Demand und...

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be...

To the learned man, ugly of form and face but sound at heart, Holly by name, a citizen of a northern land whom at times I think that once I knew as Noot the Holy, that philosopher who was my master in...

I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia. Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much suffering. Or, perhaps,...

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary...

When twelve-year-old Anne Shirley came to Avonlea, she quickly won everyone's heart. Now, she's five years older, almost a woman, and about to embark on a new adventure: becoming the teacher in her old...