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"Tales of Troy" recounts the Homeric legends of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic.  

Daughters of the Vicar is a book written by D.H. Lawrence and published in 2004. The book revolves mainly around the story of the two eldest daughters of Mr Lindley, who is a vicar. Mr Lindley and his...

The village of Moonfleet lies half a mile from the sea on the right or west bank of the Fleet stream. This rivulet, which is so narrow as it passes the houses that I have known a good jumper clear it...

IT was an old manor-house, not a deserted convent, as you might suppose by the name. The conventual buildings from which no doubt the place had taken its name, had dropped away, bit by bit, leaving nothing...

Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known...

Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of...

Indulge in the scandalous world of Jane Austen's "Lady Susan," a deliciously wicked novella that exposes the cunning and manipulative nature of its eponymous protagonist. Lady Susan Vernon is a beautiful...

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series...

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was originally classified as a comedy, but is now also classified as one of Shakespeare's problem...

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,...

The place of God in healing. Expressed in the most elegant language. “I know of no bodily ill or handicap which we may not eventually rise above and beyond by means of brave spiritual progress.” The state...

The Christmas Kalends of Provence written by an American story-writer and historian Thomas A. Janvier. This book is one of many works by her .Published in 1902. And now republish in ebook format. We believe...

Once Upon a Time... Go into the woods with Grimm's Fairy Tales. Full of magic and trickery, these stories have delighted generations with such timeless classics as Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Hansel...

English author of Victorian "sensation" novels. Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which...

A nightmarish tale of religious madness, this chilling classic of Scottish literature tells the story of a young man who falls under the spell of a mysterious doppelganger and is seduced into committing...

"The Knights" is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.  

Post-Mediaeval Preachers written by Sabine Baring-Gould who was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar . This book is one of many works by him....

Step into the captivating world of "Northanger Abbey," a novel that offers a delightful satire on the popular Gothic novel genre of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Written by Jane Austen, the...

Immerse yourself in the world of 19th century England with Jane Austen's beloved classic, "Mansfield Park". Follow the captivating story of Fanny Price, a young girl taken from her humble beginnings and...

Enter the world of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", a beloved classic that has captivated readers for over two centuries. Set in Georgian England, the novel follows the story of Elizabeth Bennet,...

Immerse yourself in the world of Georgian England with Jane Austen's beloved classic, "Sense and Sensibility". Follow the captivating story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they navigate...

"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori. The work is often viewed as the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. John William Polidori...

Step into the elegant world of Georgian England with Jane Austen's beloved classic, "Emma". Meet Emma Woodhouse, a young woman with a passion for matchmaking who is convinced she knows best when it comes...

Arnold Bennett, in full Enoch Arnold Bennett (born May 27, 1867, Hanley, Staffordshire, England, died March 27, 1931, London), British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist whose major works form...

Herein you will find 25 of Europe’s finest and most popular fairy tales. This was the sixth and last time that the famous folklorist Joseph Jacobs teamed up with the equally famous illustrator John D....

By 1915 the trenches of the Western Front were in different states of repair, including the captured trenches, which had all but been destroyed as a result of shell fire. The countryside and villages...

I fully expected to find a Constable in the kitchen, waiting to take me up. But not only was there no Constable there, but no discovery had yet been made of the robbery. Mrs. Joe was prodigiously busy...

Isabella "Belle" Kendrick Abbott was an American author from the Deep South, whose only published novel, Leah Mordecai, was issued in 1875. A native of Atlanta, she married Benjamin F. Abbott, and lived...

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: her years of wandering and learning and Heidi : How she used what she...

When a million dollars worth of gold, bonds and money goes missing from a locked bank vault, the authorities are stumped, especially because there’s a dead man with a knife in his back where the gold...