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The play opens with a party on a terrace in Lady Hunstanton's estate. The upper class guests spend the better part of Act I exchanging social gossip and small talk. Lady Caroline Pontrefact patronizes an American visitor, Hester Worsley, and proceeds to give her...

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1934 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Daughter of Erlik Khan' is a story in the El Borak series about a Texan gunman in early 20th...

Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and Peter and Wendy are the stage play and novel (respectively) which tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy...

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

The Passing of Marcus O'Brien is a short story written by Jack London. "It is the judgment of this court that you vamose the camp . . . in the customary way, sir, in the customary way." Judge Marcus O'Brien was absent-minded, and Mucluc...

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret...

Adventure is a novel by Jack London released in 1911 by The Macmillan Company. The novel explores the themes of domination of one people over the others, the differences between races, emancipation of women, and the strength of the human spirit, strengthened in a...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a book of history written by the English historian Edward Gibbon, which traces the trajectory of Western civilization (as well as the Islamic and Mongolian conquests) from the height of the Roman...

This publication presents to the reader the epic poem "Narqyz", by national aqyn (poet improviser) Nurpeis Baiganin. Discover the epic poem Narqyz, a precious cultural artifact from Kazakhstan, now available in English thanks to the talented translator Yelden Sarybay. Written by renowned Kazakh poet...

Context in Literary and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that deals with the challenges of studying works of art and literature in their historical context today. Author: Jakob LadegaardISBN-10: 1787356256ISBN-13: 9781787356252Publisher: UCL PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2019Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Just in time for the nostalgic 80's craze! 10 deliciously riveting short stories set against the music and fashion and the entertainment industry of Manhattan. .One reader said "Sometimes harrowing but always hopeful".There are levels of love. There are levels of lies. Zelly was...

While searching for special birthday presents for Princess Ozma of Oz, Dorothy, the Wizard, and the Cowardly Lion discover a treasonous plot. In addition to familiar faces from previous Oz stories, this exciting and amusing tale introduces a host of new characters. 101 black-and-white...

Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion. It was first published in 1903. Keller was the first deaf-blind person to attain a Bachelor of Arts degree, became...

She is the story of Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey, and their journey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. The journey is triggered by a mysterious package left to Leo by his father, to be opened on his...

Etienne Gerard is a hero of the French army, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, and a vain and boastful teller of tales that star himself and his exploits. This collection of satiric short stories, originally published in The Strand magazine in the 1890s,...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer and physician. He was born on 22nd May 1859 and was died on 7th July 1930. He was renowned for his 'Sherlock Holmes Stories'.His famous work includes: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The...

New Thought proponents at the turn of the 20th century sought to use mysticism to unleash the forces of the universe in themselves. One of the most influential thinkers of this early "New Age" philosophy promises here, in this 1904 book, to show the...

In the previous book Jane and her infant son Jack had been kidnapped by Tarzan's enemy Nikolas Rokoff and his henchmen. Of course, Tarzan tracks down his wife and son and finally dispatches his enemies. The Son of Tarzan, first published in 1917, is...

Writing in the early part of the 20th century, author Burton Hendrick noted that his father and grandfather probably wouldn't understand his business vocabulary. The terms "trust," "subsidiaries," and "syndicates" simply meant nothing to earlier generations. But they are important to the remarkable development...

The Slayer of Souls, concerns a young American girl rased by the Yezidee-Mongols, a murderous cult of killers with psychic power, who want to rule the world. Because of her training in the East and her own powers, she is all that stands in...

The unnamed narrator of the story is driving to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, but gets lost in the unfamiliar countryside. He comes across a rundown plantation house, and finds the only inhabitant is an emaciated old man called Antoine de Russy. The narrator asks if...

"The Jumping Frog" (The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County) is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim...

The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper class husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, has been paralysed from the waist down due to a Great War injury. In addition to Clifford's physical...

The book was written for non-specialist readers and attracted widespread interest upon its publication. As Darwin was an eminent scientist, his findings were taken seriously and the evidence he presented generated scientific, philosophical, and religious discussion. The debate over the book contributed to the...

The King Pest, in which there is an allegory, is a story of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe first published in September 1835. King Pest is the main antagonist of the story,"King Pest". He is the supposed ruler of a kingdom, in reality,...

Pyle synthesized many traditional Robin Hood legends and ballads in this work, while toning them down to make them suitable for children. For instance, he modified the ballad "Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham", changing it from Robin's killing fourteen foresters for not honoring a...

If there is a submerged theme it is that of 'disappearance'. Renouard wishes to disappear from society in general - which is why he has established himself on the remote island of Malata in the first place. He is drawn back into the gravitational...

As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne to visit Romayne's aunt, who is dying. While there, Romayne attends a card game, where he has an argument with a corrupt card sharp, the General, who challenges him to a...

Dorothy is a young girl who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry and her little dog Toto on a Kansas farm. One day, Dorothy and Toto are caught up in a cyclone that deposits her farmhouse into Munchkin Country in the magical...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May...

The following pages were not in the first instance written to prove the divinity of the Catholic Religion, though ultimately they furnish a positive argument in its behalf, but to explain certain difficulties in its history, felt before now by the author himself, and...

IT was ten o'clock on the morning of December 5 when M. S. and I left the study of Professor Daimler. You are perhaps acquainted with M. S. His name appears constantly in the pages of the Illustrated News, in conjunction with some very...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

"Thoughts on African Colonization" from William Lloyd Garrison. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer (1805-1879).Author: The Perfect Library, William Lloyd GarrisonISBN-10: 1511698349ISBN-13: 9781511698344Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2015Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1879 Edition.Author: Father Sinistrari of AmenoISBN-10: 1498193323ISBN-13: 9781498193320Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.Author: Christiana Jane HerringhamISBN-10: 1498199135ISBN-13: 9781498199131Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.68d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.Author: Abraham CohenISBN-10: 1498193501ISBN-13: 9781498193504Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.Author: Louis Emil MengerISBN-10: 1498187986ISBN-13: 9781498187985Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.40d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1852 Edition.Author: Thomas Darcy McGeeISBN-10: 149819219XISBN-13: 9781498192194Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.51d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.Author: Benedetto CroceISBN-10: 1498191878ISBN-13: 9781498191876Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.49d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.Author: Walter Esplin MasonISBN-10: 1498183026ISBN-13: 9781498183024Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d

The Return of Tarzan is a novel by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs, first published in 1915. It is the second book in the Tarzan series and continues the story of Tarzan, who has decided to leave the jungle and return to civilization. The...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.Author: Karl MarxISBN-10: 1498181899ISBN-13: 9781498181891Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.26d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1863 Edition.Author: Henry TattamISBN-10: 1498184782ISBN-13: 9781498184786Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.33d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1887 Edition.Author: William Gardner HaleISBN-10: 1498178413ISBN-13: 9781498178419Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.16d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.Author: Carl SandburgISBN-10: 1498178545ISBN-13: 9781498178549Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.16d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1855 Edition. Comprising Practical Information On The Cleaning And Management Of Arms, And On The Making Of Cartridges.Author: S. Bertram BrowneISBN-10: 1498177077ISBN-13: 9781498177078Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13d

The New Testament In Modern Speech is a book that contains an idiomatic translation of the New Testament into everyday English. The translation is based on the text of The Resultant Greek Testament, which was published in 1903. The book was written by Richard...

The Mythology Of All Races V3: Celtic, Slavic is a comprehensive book that explores the mythology and folklore of the Celtic and Slavic cultures. Written by Louis Herbert Gray, this volume is part of a larger series that covers the mythology of all the...