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"Among the writers who have approached nearest to the manner of the great master, we have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen." —Thomas Macaulay "‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the best novel in the language."...

THE compiler of this little compendium of Telegraph History places it in the hands of the public in the hope that it may be received with favor. The historical data is taken from leading standard authorities.

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life...

"The masterwork of great genius." —William Makepeace Thackeray "An utterance from the depths of a struggling, suffering, much-enduring spirit." —George Henry Lewes "Charlotte Brontë has us by the hand,...

"Dostoyevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss." —Albert Einstein "Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem ‘pathological’,...

Trixy was not a babe, for she had passed her seventh birthday and was as wise and irrepressible as the only child of a loving father and mother usually becomes. Her parents and relations continued to...

The town of Middle Forest had long since pushed the forest from all sides. Its streets, forked as lightning, ran up to the castle and down to the river. The river here was near its mouth, and wide. The...

This book is created for anyone who is looking forward to the next holiday and wants to make the best out of his days away from the daily grind. Whether you are looking forward to get out of town or...

IT has never before happened that in the latest edition of a book I have had to disown so much in preceding editions; my first imperfect and spontaneous idea has never before been so modified and transformed,...

One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman,...

Secret agents, forbidden love, danger, and magic! Supernatural Secret Service agents Owen Sharps and Calvin Springfield meet on the train to their new assignment in St. Louis, and sparks fly between them....

The Seven Voyages of Captain Cook is a story of first encounters and clashes of cultures. But imagine that Captain Cook visited the Pacific not in the past, but in the future. But haunted by his own ghost...

KING RANDALL OF GOBSHITE has quite the task for one of his loyal subjects. Unfortunately, he scared off many of the nobles by hosting an all-male ball, which resulted in unexpected carnage and a snappy...

AFTER the publication of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" I began to receive letters from children, telling me of their pleasure in reading the story and asking me to "write something more" about the Scarecrow...

Joke telling is very fun and can bring a smile to the face of others. Kids love jokes! Jokes can aid in story-telling, create laughs, and help with conversation and social skills. Your child will love...

A cracking collection of hilarious jokes to keep you chuckling not just during Christmas and the festive period, but the whole year round. Kids and children can practice their reading and joke telling...

"How do you know when you're a young lady?" asked Roberta Grey. She was sitting before the ancient mahogany dressing-table in her—and Wythie's—room, unblushingly regarding herself in the mirror, while...

Although practically all the Nature Books of recent years have been carefully studied in order to gather material for this volume, the author desires to make grateful acknowledgment of her indebtedness...

“Where are you goin’, Julius? Where’s yer blackin’ box?” asked Patrick Riley. “I’ve retired from business,” said Julius. “Did yer rich uncle die, and leave yer a fortune?” “No, but he’s goin’ up the river...

If by any chance you should ever sail on a low ebb-tide along a certain western coast, you will, if you are of a receptive humour and new to the district, receive a somewhat startling impression of the...

The dancing pavilion, separated from the Casino itself by an arched passageway and affording another pretty view of the lake in the moonlight, was filled with young people when Alice entered.

THE present edition of this Essay is substantially a reproduction of the first. It is possible, indeed, and I hope probable, that the fruits of nine years’ more experience and study would have manifested...

All day the heavy train of sleepers had been climbing the long rise from the river—a monotonous stretch of treeless, short-grass plains reaching from the Missouri to the mountains. And now the train stopped...

'Lord Kilgobbin' appeared originally as a serial, (illustrated by Luke Fildes) in 'The Cornhill Magazine,' commencing in the issue for October 1870, and ending in the issue for March 1872. It was first...

“It is Destiny, then, that is the Protagonist in the Celtic Drama … And it is Destiny, that sombre Demogorgon of the Gael, whose boding breath, whose menace, whose shadow glooms so much of the remote...

"Land ahead!" The North Foreland had been made advisedly snug for the night. In the middle watch she was under her three lower topsails and fore topmast staysail only. Not that it blew very hard, but...

Charles Marion Russell (1864–1926),also known as Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an artist of the Old American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes...

It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they...

Dr. Woods Hutchinson says that fat people are happier than other people. How does Dr. Woods Hutchinson know? Did he ever have to leave the two top buttons of his vest unfastened on account of his extra...

The narrative, now for the first time presented to the world, was written by the Sieur de Rohaine to while away the time during the long period and painful captivity, borne with heroic resolution, which...