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This is a series of vignettes by Louisa May Alcott that illustrate the idea by Sir Philip Sidney that "They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." The reader is introduced to several...

When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great idea. To help them through the dreary months ahead, she, Felicity, Cecily, and...

It was first serialised in the Merry's Museum magazine between July and August in 1869 and consisted of only six chapters. For the finished product, however, Alcott continued the story from the chapter...

A classic romantic tale of suspense and intrigue, first part of story about Sybil.

My mother warned me not to go alone to the grove. But when the moon is full, heat stirs my blood...and it calls to them. The Berserkers came in the night and took me. I woke chained outside the monsters’...

Simmering tensions boil over as the Ragnosians attack the colony world of Alios, beginning a war with Leyria. Jack, Anna and Melissa must defend a planet full of civilians from a hostile invasion force....

“White Fang” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. White Fang is the name of...

Fritz Russell has disappeared into the portal, leaving a trail impossible to follow. This has caused a chain reaction that ripples across the time-space continuum. Undaunted, his friend Ashley searches...

“The Iron Heel” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Iron Heel is a science...

A dark force has awakened in the Highlands. Scotland, 1388. After Fergus Scott of Eildon travels north to investigate reports of a malevolent presence, he encounters the ferocious Alistair Mor. Drawn...

“The Sea-Wolf” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Sea-Wolf is a psychological...

In previous works based on the characters Vittorio D'Aiazzo and Ranieri Velli, ”L'ira dei vilipesi”, ”Il mostro a tre braccia”, ”I satanassi di Torino”, the pair were both police officers (or Public Security,...

Accepting an offer from his uncle, Lord Beddington, to learn about estate management, William Duncan gets involved in raising money to support their local hospital. After a series of unfortunate accidents...

The King of Crimson breathed again and exclaimed how displeased he was with the state of his army's soldiers. They have eaten and drank during the century of peace and become weak and content in life....

The Raven A narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Published originally in January 1845, the poem has a musical quality with stylized language and a supernatural atmosphere. It speaks of a mysterious talking...

“The great spaces of the hall seemed to slope away into impenetrable gloom; velvet darkness deepening imperceptibly into sable density of panelled wall; huge, smoke-blackened beams, stretching wide arms...

Austen's "most wicked tale," Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap...

Middlemarch: Complete 8 Books By George Eliot, first published in 1874. The pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. The epic novel has been called one of the greatest works of English literature....

The Night Horseman by Max Brand. First published in 1920. At the age of six Randall Byrne could name and bound every state in the Union and give the date of its admission; at nine he was conversant with...

What if saving one friend will destroy another? A sleepy rural settlement sits in the crook of Pirongia mountain, trapped in a time warp of indifference. But someone there is a killer. They walk the streets...

One week. Seven days. One hundred and sixty-eight hours to death. Phoenix Du Rose has inherited her mother’s restorative nature, but that’s exactly what will get her into trouble. Some problems are...

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

There was once a sultan of India who had three sons. These, with the princess his niece, were the ornaments of his court. The eldest of the princes was called Houssain, the second Ali, the youngest Ahmed,...

Theodora wanted to spend the lead-up to the holidays and Christmas Eve quietly at home. Alone. But everything turned out differently because her new tenant moved in with her teenage daughter at the end...

What kind of secret could a mother be keeping that would keep long time lovers apart, and force her eldest daughter into a hasty marriage? Young Odalite and her cousin Leonidas have lived the past three...

You will never read a story that is more inspiring and challenging than Ishmael. The heights of success achieved by this young man reveal little of the utter poverty into which he was born. He entered...

THIS was no comedy to those most concerned, of course, for comedy is like happiness—directly a person knows he is in it, he is out of it. Tragedy, on the other hand, can only touch those who do not take...

"LET us hurry to the walls," said Abel-Phittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the tenth day of the month Thammuz, in the year of the world three thousand nine hundred and forty-one—let us...

YE who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many centuries...

A neighbour of mine exclaimed, when I mentioned that I proposed making a small collection of the folklore legends of the tribe of blacks I knew so well living on this station, "But have the blacks any...