The Book of Romance - format ePub

"A collection of some of the most significant literary work on the English Lake District prior to Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). The poet Thomas Gray takes the reader from Brough south to...

An example of one of the leading literary magazines of the early 20th Century. Poetry by e.e. cummings and Louise Bryant (aka Mrs. John Reed, of "Reds" fame), a short story by Sherwood Anderson, a memoir...

Sixteen Christmas stories or essays. (David Wales)

"In 1840 Louisa Stuart Costello published in Fraser’s Magazine an article on classic Persian poetry, which included a section on Omar Khayyam with translations of some verses. Interest in the poetry of...

A selection of short works about Christmas. (Summary by david wales)

Women of History is a further development of the idea which suggested the companion volume, Men of History, viz.: "To exhibit views of the world's great men and women, as set forth in the best words of...

Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of the Trial of major German war criminals, the International Military Tribunal directed the publication of the Record of the Trial....

A further instalment of a budget of breezy little narratives—exciting, humorous, and curious—hailing from all parts of the world. This month's collection deals with a thrilling fight between a jaguar...

It is to be supposed that children do not read Prefaces; these are Bluebeard's rooms, which they are not curious to unlock. A few words may therefore be said about the Romances contained in this book....

The experiences of EXPERIENCES of Walter Besant, Robert Michael Ballantyne, James Payn, Israel Zangwill, William Clark Russell, Morley Roberts, Grant Allen, David Christie Murray, Hall Caine, Marie Corelli,...

JOHN RUSKIN has laid down some broad and simple rules which are especially applicable to DESIGN IN JEWELLERY AND FANS. He says, "Never encourage the manufacture of any article not absolutely necessary,...

KITTY'S BASKET RIDE. TIME. THANKSGIVING AT GRANDPA'S. A QUEER PLACE FOR A BIRD'S HOME. LITTLE FIDGET. THE GOOD LITTLE MILKMAN. SIX NICE DUCKS ROBBIE'S DRUM. LITTLE MISS SONNET. THE PIPPIN-TREE. MOUSIE'S...

To read the old Nursery Rhymes brings back queer lost memories of a man's own childhood. One seems to see the loose floppy picture-books of long ago, with their boldly coloured pictures. The books were...

This volume, as its title indicates, is a collection of engravings illustrative of the Bible—the designs being all from the pencil of the greatest of modern delineators, Gustave Dore. The original work,...

This book is a compilation of scholarly lectures by distinguished experts delivered at Cambridge in August 1916. The titles of the lectures reveal the contents of each presentation and include the following:...

St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-written and often by authors who became famous later on. This...

Emma Jones thought she'd left heartbreak behind in her sleepy Welsh village, pouring her soul into her cozy bookstore and café. But when autumn returns, so do memories and a message from Daniel, the man...

In a museum after dark, in the hush of a Stockholm winter, she looks straight at the one thing everyone else's mind refuses to hold.He has survived by staying unremarked. By letting humans edit him out....

The epic fantasy trilogy that began with The Resonant Awakening and The Fractured Concord reaches its breathtaking conclusion in The Legacy of Flame and Breath—a sweeping tale of revelation, renewal,...

Steal from a fae prince. Touch a cursed stone. Unleash a power that should not exist.Nyra Vale is a survivor. Thief, liar, orphan—she's spent every breath evading capture and the memories of a fire that...

Eleven years ago, Lydia Hale walked away from her family without a word.Now she's back.Ben Hale was a baby when his mother disappeared. Raised by his father and stepmother, he's grown up in a quiet village...

In the futuristic world of Valeria, magic is a forgotten myth, replaced by cold technology. Elara, a young woman with a mysterious past, discovers she is the vessel of the Phoenix Goddess. Hunted by the...

February Frolics: A Fairy Tale InterludeShe appeared on the village green with the February dawn—a girl with silver-blonde hair, a tent the colour of morning mist, and a smile that made the snowdrops...

In the vibrant and cozy bordertown of Lindenvale, twenty-three-year-old Rinah Autumnsong bakes muffins and tends her garden like any other proper young lady. Her soft heart and sweet spirit draw friends...

In Broken Logic Units, Myla moves through friendships that look solid on the surface but feel fragile underneath. She learns to read rooms before she speaks, to notice the small shifts in tone, the glances...

The specter of Herobrine looms over the world once more, and with the heroes of old all dead or missing, it falls to whoever remains to put aside their bloody wars and finally slay the Archdemon.Faced...

Believe everything you hear about the Old Kind. That way, you'll never be caught unawares.A grieving flax spinner descending into madness. A fiery rebel stuck between land and sea. Two sisters, divided...

George is too British for the States and far too American for the United Kingdom. As a dual national living in the suffocating heat of Manhattan, he navigates a world of high-society expectations and...

Viking is a ghost of the Vietnam War, a man who survived the Delta only to lose his soul to the American rails. He lives by a simple code: respect the train, and protect your own. When he learns that...

This episode Torchy Tanaka makes "Most Wanted." Not by the police, but by bad actors. They believe he is changing things.

Detective Inspector Slade is a broken tool. After two decades in London's CID, his patience for bureaucracy snapped. He left a suspect hospitalized and his own career in ruins. Suspended indefinitely...

She's a journalist trapped in a world of fluff, weddings, announcements, and shallow love stories, while her real stories lie untouched. When the chance to go undercover in prison to interview the notorious...

A killer is leaving the bodies of magic users brutalized with stab wounds, but that is not the cause of death...Leading members of the Bay Area magical community are being murdered and the police have...

"Love Beyond the Unexpected" is a poignant and uplifting exploration of the human experience, reminding us that love can arrive in the most unexpected ways, and that sometimes, all it takes is a little...

As an orphan, Gerard thought his life was normal, just another child in the crowded halls of Ozark Valley Orphanage. When he was adopted and moved to a farm within a small community, his life felt normal,...

Harper Ellis, a Chicago marketing executive, is devastated by her husband Daniel's death from cancer. His final letter sends her to Seabrook Cove, Oregon, where she inherits a pottery studio from his...

aspar, brother of the king, finally sets out on a long-planned diplomatic journey to the vast land of Mandaria, east of Kalathan. As he and his friends make their way over the mountains towards the beautiful...

Detective Henry Reid has built his career on facts, evidence, and keeping his distance from anything - or anyone - that might complicate his life. So when Adrian Walsh, a passionate true crime podcaster...

In the Ivory Citadel of Morne-Blanc, the city is built of bone. And the dead are dressed in gold.Veda Sallow is a Relic-Dresser. In a city carved from the colossal, chalk-white ribs of an ancient leviathan,...

Tomorrow Wears Many Faces is the book that stops you mid-breath. Four strangers - one dying quietly, one waiting behind prison glass, one drowning in glittering excess, one clinging to a fading laugh...

In the year 2147, silence is more than the absence of noise—it is the law. In the sterile, drone-patrolled "Central Core," human emotion has been outlawed as a "virus" that leads only to chaos. Citizens...

In the White City of Ostraca, perfection is the law. To crack is to sin.Maren Vesper is an anomaly. In a city where citizens are born of cold, hard porcelain, she is "Unfired"—a woman of raw, soft clay....

On a storm-torn night, Tim learns of an ancient treasure powerful enough to destroy the world. Chosen by fate, he sets out with his team to find and destroy it before it is unleashed. After months of...

Abducted! Taken to a remote wilderness area. Set free only to be hunted like a wild animal. What does he do? Run? Hide? Or fight back? He's on a time clock because he hasn't got his epilepsy meds. This...

The Forbidden Moon by Claudetta Aurelia Space Horror / Dark Romance NovellaFugitives bound by love and a dangerous secret, Mireya and Orin flee through the endless night of space, hunted by an empire...

   One missing file. A thirty-year-old secret. And a hospital that will do anything to keep it buried. Dr. Evelyn Hart, a clinical psychologist at Westridge Medical Center, thought her new assignment...