Literary Collections

THE ideal is the essence of poetry. In the virginal innocence of the world, poetry was a term that meant discourse of the gods. A world grown grey has learned to regard the gods as diseases of language. Conceived, it may be, in fevers of fancy, perhaps,...

The trite and commonplace question of contentment and dissatisfaction is a topic which is not only of every-day interest, but one which in recent years has so claimed the attention of thinkers, that they have broadly divided mankind into those who accept...

It is just as well to say at the onset that the tragedy in which Tristrem Varick was the central figure has not been rightly understood. The world in which he lived, as well as the newspaper public, have had but one theory between them to account for it,...

The Librarian at Play : 9781502930699Author: Edmund Lester PearsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 22, 2014Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502930692ISBN-13: 9781502930699

The Believing Years : 9781502930705Author: Edmund Lester PearsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 22, 2014Number of Pages: 106 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502930706ISBN-13: 9781502930705

It was a lucky thing that the "Hoppergrass" was a large boat. When we started there were only four of us, -counting Captain Bannister. But we kept picking up passengers-unexpected ones- until the Captain said "we'd have the whole County on board." It was...

Retresentative MenAuthor: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 23, 2014Number of Pages: 124 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502948699ISBN-13: 9781502948694

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:...

Collection of prose and poetry from Varenna independent living communityAuthor: Varenna WritersPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 26, 2014Number of Pages: 190 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

From the preface: "MODERN HISTORY is separated from ancient by two great and unparalleled catastrophes; and from the changes occasioned by these catastrophes in the materials and conditions of society in Europe modern history took its beginnings. One was...

Charles Kingsley's book rendered into Chinese. Traditional Chinese edition.Author: Charles KingsleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Dec 14, 2014Number of Pages: 102 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was an English playwright best known for writing satirical plays such as The Alchemist and Every Man in His Humour.Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Dec 24, 2014Number of...

This is the most beautiful version of Russell H. Conwell's classic, Acres of Diamonds.Author: Russell H. ConwellPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Feb 10, 2015Number of Pages: 102 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This imaginative collection of fourteen short stories will take readers on a suspenseful, page-turning journey. After completing these tales that deal with the dark and macabre side of life, one will think twice about what present day reality may hold...

Dr. K.M. Kaung was finishing her dissertation on totalitarian systems when she read about the hostage crisis in Lebanon at that time, and wrote Band of Flesh, about Ying, one half of 2 conjoined twins who yearns desperately to be free. Donna Lee Woods...

Bem-vindo ao maravilhoso mundo de Jos? de Alencar. Nesta edi??o cl?ssica do seu romance Diva, trazemos at? si a melhor edi??o esta admir?vel pe?a liter?ria do final do s?culo XIX. Diva foi publicada inicialmente em 1864. O Romance narra a hist?ria de...

Bem-vindo ao maravilhoso mundo de Jos? de Alencar. Nesta edi??o cl?ssica do seu romance Encarna??o, trazemos at? si a melhor edi??o esta admir?vel pe?a liter?ria do final do s?culo XIX. Publicada postumamente, em 1893, Encarna??o ?, juntamente com A Pata...

Bem-vindo ao maravilhoso mundo de Jos? de Alencar. Nesta edi??o cl?ssica do seu romance Iracema, trazemos at? si a melhor edi??o esta admir?vel pe?a liter?ria do final do s?culo XIX. Iracema, lenda do Cear? ? um romance da literatura rom?ntica brasileira...

'Just for Fun' is an anthology of short stories, some fiction, some faction, some autobiographical, but always interesting. The book is a mix of humour, pathos and a little bathos. The author called the book "Just for Fun' for two reasons. Firstly...

Timur and Attila the Hun dwarf Ivan the Terrible but not very much. In the fury with which Attila pounced on civilisation there is the impersonality of a cyclone. Timur was a homicidal maniac with unlimited power and a limitless area in which to be...

Well, look at this. Scribbles on a sheet of paper.They're supposed to show that I was feeling goodat a point in time. But then I got distracted and I tried to call some old friends, but I failed at that and I looked back at scribbles left above.I...

Disquiet is a feeling of unease when there is nothing obviously amiss. There is no monster chasing you, no claws tearing at your back - but the shadows on the stairs are shifting, and your reason is at war with the pricking of your anxious instincts...

A powerful tale of Skye who loses everything she owns materially, and has to gain courage through self - belief and rejecting what is expected of her . A story of power through re - birth .Author: Michael R. StotenPublisher: Createspace Independent...

"Story Behind the Book: Volume 4" collects nearly 40 essays about writing and editing fiction from some of the most talented authors working today. These essays reveal intricacies and secrets behind the craft and offer a unique and unprecedented insight...

Sometimes we seem worried very much, and then didn't work, read, eat, play. The book about "Road To Happiness" will tell us how to do it!Author: Lo Hui JuiPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 21, 2015Number of...

In this collection of dark erotica, matters of life and death, and the meaning of life and death, are explored in the context of orgasm. St James has a keen eye for the illicit, and the licit within it, and shows in these stories that one is never more...

WHAT IS 'POPULAR POETRY'? 3. SPEAKING TO THE PSALTERY. 7. MAGIC. 11. THE HAPPIEST OF THE POETS. 22. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHELLEY'S POETRY. 27. AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 41. WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE IMAGINATION. 48. WILLIAM BLAKE AND HIS ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DIVINE...

There are everyday moments in life that become legendary events. A law had been passed 18 years before thanks to the idea of a child. That singular event has changed the nation, their vision, their perception of life. Throughout those years the president...

When God set the world that now is after the flood on the new condition of responsible government in man's hand, it was preceded by sacrifice; and the sweet savour was so acceptable, that Jehovah said in His heart, I will not again curse the ground any...

Set during the time of Napoleon, two English boys are washed out to sea, picked up by a French pirate, wrecked in a West Indian hurricane and land on a deserted island.Author: W. H. G. KingstonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...