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The story of Alexith and Violet is a science-fiction tale that follows a gamer named Alexith who discovers that the AI he is playing against is actually a being with a tragic past. With the help of his...

The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events...

“What we want,” said Harris, “is a change.” At this moment the door opened, and Mrs. Harris put her head in to say that Ethelbertha had sent her to remind me that we must not be late getting home because...

He who grins in clown's disguise Often hides an aching heart— Sadness, sometimes worldly-wise, Dresses for a motley part— Cap, and bells to cheat the ears, Chalk and paint to hide the tears Lest the world,...

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. If you know Starkfield, Massachusetts, you know the post-office. If you know...

"Undine Spragg—how can you?" her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid "bell-boy" had just brought in. But her defence was as feeble as...

Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton and was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993. The novel is set in the fictional New England town...

This book contains the complete children's stories of Rudyard Kipling in the chronological order of their original publication. - The Jungle Book (a collection of 7 short stories) - The Second Jungle...

Their names pass through my mind. Ersa…. Chloris… Kathika… Isleen… I say a promise to each of them, their faces seemingly fading from my memory.  "I will avenge you… I will live," I whisper into the air....

A sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.

Detective stories in which the great Thomas Carnacki investigates the supernatural using scientific tools, such as photography, and tools that are augmented by theories of the supernatural, such as the...

The Trial For Murder, written in 1865, is a short story by Charles Dickens. It is one of Dickens' ghost stories, and is perhaps the best known outside of "A Christmas Carol."

A collection of related short stories by British author G. K. Chesterton. Each story is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade"). To gain admittance...

War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic...

Meredith's beloved brother has died, and his troubled, teenage daughter Kimberly blames herself for his death. Meredith tries to comfort her niece but instead witnesses Kimberly disappearing into thin...

During the past year, in the intervals of an active life, I have amused myself with constructing this tale. It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment—in England and abroad, during long...

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 with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was already a man of forty-six, and a tale writer of some twenty-four years’ standing, when “The Scarlet Letter” appeared. He was born at Salem, Mass., on July 4th, 1804, son of a...

On a bright, snowy night in December, some years ago, Dr. Spenlove, having been employed all the afternoon and evening in paying farewell visits to his patients, walked briskly toward his home through...

Grimm's Fairy Tales are the most famous and enchanting collection of fairy tales ever written down and published. For the past two centuries, these delightful stories, gathered together by brothers Jacob...

In the fantasy story Trials of Baromir, Baromir spends two weeks out of his farming life visiting the continenthe lives on. From Helva province he travels to Lagosia province and ends up in the city of...

Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's life for two years and two months...

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between...

For fans of Bridgerton, in Regency England, a woman who seeks more than a tepid society marriage finds herself rescued by the Season's most wicked rake…Desperate to enjoy one glorious adventure before...

In An Ordinary Immigrant—Ties That Bind, we once again meet the quiet and steadfast Roelena, her vivacious friend Marliese, and Roelena's war bride sister-in-law, Ingrid.Roelena's dreams for her future...

In this tender and warm-hearted story about young love and the importance of family, three young women struggle to reconcile their aspirations for the future within the limitations and confines of their...

Meredith's only goal in the Lands of Vendome is to track down the one person who can send her home. But this mysterious Traveler resides in a distant city. Meredith's only guide on this long and dangerous...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901...

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 189394. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyards...

The Phantom of the Opera is a novel that combines romance, horror, mystery and tragedy. The story is about a mysterious man who terrorizes the Paris Opera to attract the attention of a young singer he...