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Maiwa's Revenge, or The War of the Little Hand is a short novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard about the hunter Allan Quartermain. The story involves Quartermain going on a hunting expedition, then taking part in an attack on a native kraal to...

Whaur are ye aff til this bonny mornin', Maggie, my doo?" said the soutar, looking up from his work, and addressing his daughter as she stood in the doorway with her shoes in her hand. "Jist ower to Stanecross, wi' yer leave, father, to...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812Author: Charles DickensISBN-10: 1985262894ISBN-13: 9781985262898Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2018Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.48d

The story begins with Conan the Cimmerian adrift at sea, having had to escape from rivals in the Barachan Isles. He clambers aboard The Wastrel, a ship belonging a different pirate order, bitter rivals of the Barachan ones. After a terse conversation with the...

The Great God Pan is a novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen's story was only one of many at the time to focus on the Greek God Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism.Author: Yasmira Cedeno, Arthur MachenISBN-10:...

The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial in New York's Metropolitan Magazine (September-October) in the English...

The story opens with the narrator wandering the streets of St. Petersburg. He contemplates how he has always been a ridiculous person, and also, how recently, he has come to the realization that nothing much matters to him any more. It is this revelation...

On Liberty is a philosophical work by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between...

The play tells of the scandalous affair between the Roman general Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Their blind passion which leads to their ultimate downfall and deaths. The plot encompasses the strong themes of ambition, power, love, friendship, deception and disaster.Author: Mybook, William...

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Although the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted...

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social class and of consumerism, derived from the social stratification of people...

At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge....

Tolstoy is most famous for his two major novels, Anna Karenina and War and Peace, but he also produced several minor masterpieces, of which The Death of Ivan Illyichis the most outstanding. In this tale he deals with the subject ofdeath, which for civilised...

Turgenev's novel about conflicting ideas, social classes and generations questions human nature and man's place in the universe. This is one in a series offering a critical analysis of Russian texts and surveying the different interpretations that have been suggestedAuthor: Ivan TurgenevISBN-10: 1853993190ISBN-13: 9781853993190Publisher:...

On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair's "War on Terror." Six years on, where have the policies of Bush and Blair left us? Bringing together some of the finest contemporary writers, this wide-ranging anthology,...

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Henry VI is a series of three history plays by William Shakespeare, set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Henry VI, Part 1 deals with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of...

Charles Robert Darwin, 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a...

Marie Corelli was an English novelist and mystic. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I.Author: Marie CorelliISBN-10: 1722174455ISBN-13: 9781722174453Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2018Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Andrew Lang, FBA was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.Author: Andrew...

A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home - and its even stranger, jade-green double, seen by the recluse on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and...

Henry James, the master of psychological literature, is at it again disturbing readers with the story of a man who feels he might be missing something important in life -- a man who also has a secret, the unstated in his life now which...

Pascal's Pens es is a masterpiece, and a landmark in French literature. This is Pascal's most influential theological work-in it he surveys several philosophical paradoxes: infinity and nothing; faith and reason; soul and matter; death and life; meaning and vanity-seemingly arriving at no definitive...

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One Timeless Day We heard the call of the Muse and began our journeys into the many Landscapes of the Soul. "Behold your visions and dreams that now awaken you to who you are. You truly are a being of many facets, as a...

Alfred Castner King was known as "the blind poet of Colorado," having lost his eyesight in a mine explosion while working as an assayer in Colorado. After the accident, he moved to Grand Junction where he helped in the construction of apartment buildings, which...

Eugen Neuhaus was born on August 18, 1879, in Germany. He moved to the United States in 1904, ultimately becoming a US citizen in 1911. He began teaching various art and design classes at colleges in northern California, including the University of California. He...

Love and Deception--Hortensio and Gremio are competing suitors for the hand of the beautiful Bianca. However, Bianca's father will not let her wed until after her older sister Katherina has wed. Unfortunately Katherina is known as an ill-tempered shrew and as a result has...

Author: Oscar WildeISBN-10: 1613822545ISBN-13: 9781613822548Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2012Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

Knut Hamsun was a major Norwegian author who received the Noble Prize for Literature in 1920. Hamsun writing makes excellent use of symbolism. Glahn and Edvarda fall in love in the spring, they are lovers in the summer and their relationship deteriorates in the...

Mar Ka lives in and writes from the foothills of Alaska's Chugach Mountains. Be-Hooved, her new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundings--structured along the seasons and the migration patterns of the...

Author: David Eugene SmithISBN-10: 1602066906ISBN-13: 9781602066908Publisher: Cosimo ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2007Pages: 544Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.21d

Christian Science axiom dictates that it is faith in God that will heal all physical and mental ills. In The Christ Within, first published in 1925, Lillian De Waters provides a poetic and persuasive argument for the thesis that the power to heal oneself...

This collection brings together some of this much-loved writer's prose work. In it, Oscar Wilde touches on a wide range of topics as only he can. He discusses the decay of lying, the critic as artist, and the truth of masks. He provides criticism...

The legendary H. L. Mencken exists solely in the minds of his hostile critics and his least intelligent admirers, who have derived their impression of him from his opponents rather than from himself. -from H. L. Mencken In this spirited exploration of the career...

An Attempt at Self-Criticism, Foreword to Richard Wagner, The Birth of TragedyAuthor: Nietzsche FriedrichISBN-10: 1594627517ISBN-13: 9781594627514Publisher: Book JungleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2007Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.50d

Tres ensayos sobre teor a sexual es una obra de 1905 de Sigmund Freud que avanza su teor a de la sexualidad, en particular, su relaci n con la infancia. Junto con la Interpretaci n de los sue os, estos ensayos son una de...

A tale of love, Indian vengeance, and a mystery of the North. The danger trail is over the snow-smothered North. A young Chicago engineer, who is building a road through the Hudson Bay region, is involved in mystery, and is led into ambush by...

Two newspaper editors brawl it out in their respective newspapers, though one has it in mind to sabotage his competitor by stealing his much-loved letter O's from the type-setting bench.Author: Yasmira Cedeno, Edgar Allan PoeISBN-10: 154504192XISBN-13: 9781545041925Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2017Pages: 26Format:...

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant",...

The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte is the recollections of Georgia-born Confederate scientist Joseph Le Conte.Author: William Dallam Armes, Joseph Le ConteISBN-10: 1541303288ISBN-13: 9781541303287Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2016Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d

The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic...

Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens's major novels, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by...

It was a terrible night. None of the passengers ventured upon deck. Indeed, such was the motion that it would have been dangerous, as even the sailors found it difficult to keep their footing. Harry was pale and quiet, unlike his friend from Brooklyn,...

It is the only novel by Emily Bront . It was first published in 1847. under the pseudonym Ellis Bell His sister Charlotte Edito A second posthumous edition. Although it is now considered a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights Initial WAS HOSTING lukewarm...

A Book from Walt Whitman. ETHIOPIA "Drum-Taps" SALUTING THE COLOURS. Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet Why rising by the roadside here, do you the colours greet? ('Tis while our army...

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleAuthor: Arthur Conan DoyleISBN-10: 1536811408ISBN-13: 9781536811407Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2016Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.52d

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he...