Literary Collections

"Lore of Proserpine" from Maurice Hewlett. English historical novelist, poet and essayist (1861-1923).Author: Maurice HewlettPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 26, 2015Number of Pages: 120 pagesBinding: Paperback...

Excerpt from Miss. Theodora: A West End Story The tourist, with his day or two at a down town hotel, calls Boston a city of narrow streets and ancient graveyards; the dweller in one of the newer avenues is enthusiastic about the modern architecture and...

Far south in the Atlantic there is an island that at first sight from the deck of a ship seems little more than a great rock. In shape it is oblong, with perpendicular sides several hundred feet high. It is called St. Helena because the Portuguese, who...

As we goAuthor: Charles Dudley WarnerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 01, 2015Number of Pages: 102 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1518867219ISBN-13: 9781518867217

Being A BoyAuthor: Charles Dudley WarnerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 01, 2015Number of Pages: 92 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1518867308ISBN-13: 9781518867309

On HorsebackAuthor: Charles Dudley WarnerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 01, 2015Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1518867367ISBN-13: 9781518867361

The Story of PocahontasAuthor: Charles Dudley WarnerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 01, 2015Number of Pages: 72 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1518867731ISBN-13: 9781518867736

A Treasury of Eskimo TalesAuthor: Clara Kern BaylissPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 01, 2015Number of Pages: 82 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1518868185ISBN-13: 9781518868184

The editor of that much-abused New York daily, Liberty, pushed back his editorial typewriter and opened one letter in the pile which the office-boy-no respecter of persons-had just laid upon the desk while whistling a piercing tune between his teeth...

Geoffrey Holland stood up and for the second time surveyed the restaurant in search of other members of his party, two fingers in the pocket of his waistcoat, as if they had just relinquished his watch. He was tall enough to be conspicuous and well bred...

"In the Tideway" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).Author: Flora Annie SteelPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 04, 2015Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

He darted through the orange orchard searching for slugs for his breakfast, and between whiles he rocked on the branches and rang over his message of encouragement to men. The song of the Cardinal was overflowing with joy, for this was his holiday, his...

George MacDonald was one of the foremost fantasy writers of the 19th century and influenced just about every writer that came after him. He was a mentor of Lewis Carroll, a friend of Mark Twain's, and a man who helped shape the works of authors like...

The Lumley AutographAuthor: Susan Fenimore CooperPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jan 04, 2018Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1519170041ISBN-13: 9781519170040

Excerpt: ...this God is an infinite God, and an infinite God is a God without any bounds or limitations; and a God without bounds or limitations is an impersonal God; and an impersonal God is Atheism. But may not this be the incoherency of prophecy which...

May 2nd.-Last night after dinner, when we were in the garden, I said, "I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life. I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Nobody shall be invited to stay with...

Les dames vertesAuthor: Geroge SandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 22, 2015Number of Pages: 92 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1519456980ISBN-13: 9781519456984

Fran?ois le champiAuthor: Geroge SandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 22, 2015Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 151945712XISBN-13: 9781519457127

Un homme, Pierre. Il a voyage, il est revenu de tout, et n'etait la nature qui l'entoure et qu'il aime, je dirai qu'il souffre de spleen. Face a lui, une jeune fille, Marianne. Elle possede une metairie et y vit simplement. Elle est un mystere pour...

Loups-garous, lavandieres, farfadets et lupins...phenomenes etranges, a la fois inquietants et singulierement seduisants... Ce livre est un vrai temoignage de l'engouement des intellectuels de l'epoque pour les contes populaires et pour les traditions...

Dans un acces de desespoir, un beau et honnete marin noie sa cousine Jenny dont il est amoureux, car il est marie a une mauvaise femme dont il est separe et ne peut vivre honnetement avec Jenny."Author: George SandPublisher: Createspace Independent...

Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou...

Circumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and compelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount of Olives, and the Church of the Sepulchre alone. I acknowledge myself to be a gregarious animal, or, perhaps, rather one of those which nature has...

In the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental city. We knew it was actually there, but had such vague notions of its ways and looks! Let any one remember his early...

Of all the spots on the world's surface that I, George Walker, of Friday Street, London, have ever visited, Suez in Egypt, at the head of the Red Sea, is by far the vilest, the most unpleasant, and the least interesting. There are no women there, no...

Excerpt from Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life Just a fortnight before Christmas, 1871, a young man, twenty-four years of age, returned home to his dinner about eight o'clock in the evening. He was married, and with him and his...

Why Mrs. General Talboys first made up her mind to pass the winter of 1859 at Rome I never clearly understood. To myself she explained her purposes, soon after her arrival at the Eternal City, by declaring, in her own enthusiastic manner, that she was...

It is generally supposed that people who live at home, -good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the parlour hearth-rug ever warm, -it is generally supposed that these are the people who value home the most, and best...

John Munroe Bell had been a lawyer in Albany, State of New York, and as such had thriven well. He had thriven well as long as thrift and thriving on this earth had been allowed to him. But the Almighty had seen fit to shorten his span.Author: Anthony...

Landmarks in French LiteratureAuthor: Lytton StracheyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 29, 2015Number of Pages: 124 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1519571631ISBN-13: 9781519571632