Literary Collections

The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the evening. That it was far above the earth was no expression for it; to the two men in it, it seemed...

"The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton: " Publisher: Kindle E-Book Edition: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-082-1 It is very difficult to classify The Man Who Was Thursday. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of...

The Innocence of Father Brown : 9781502723055Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 18, 2014Number of Pages: 198 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502723050ISBN-13: 9781502723055

"The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton: " Publisher: Kindle E-Book Edition: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-097-5 This is the second book of short stories about G. K. Chesterton's fictional detective. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest...

It was in the season of Christmas that I came out of my little garden in that "field of the beeches" between the Chilterns and the Thames, and began to walk backwards through history to the place from which Christmas came. For it is often necessary to...

What I saw in America : 9781502723178Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 12, 2014Number of Pages: 194 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502723174ISBN-13: 9781502723178

El Silencio de Dios es un libro que tiene como fin el ayudar a los j?venes a pensar mejor las cosas y a entender que no hay nada como caminar tomados de la mano de Dios. En este libro encontraremos las enormes diferencias entre vivir una vida alejada de...

A collection of 23 essays about American culture by Seattle author Amie Ryan. These stories cover a wide range of topics, everything from garage bands to suburban race relations. Some of the stories are humorous while others are deeply moving. Some are...

How Paris Amuses ItselfAuthor: F. Berkeley SmithPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 09, 2014Number of Pages: 134 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502767600ISBN-13: 9781502767608

At that famous period of history, when the seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-killing, reforming, republicanising, restoring, re-restoring, play-writing, sermon-writing, Oliver-Cromwellising, Stuartising, and Orangising, to be sure)...

In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London-perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens-there was once a house of entertainment called the "Bootjack Hotel." Mr. Crump, the...

Memoirs od Mr. Charles J. YellowplushAuthor: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 11, 2014Number of Pages: 136 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502779382ISBN-13: 9781502779380

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A pretty, cheerful nursery-a nursery in which surely children could not but be happy-with pictures on the walls and toys in the glass-doored cupboard, and rocking-horse and doll-house, and everything a child's heart could wish for. Spring sunshine faint...

Autumn-scarcely late autumn yet-and the day had been mild. But as the afternoon wore on towards evening, there came the chilliness and early gloom inevitable at the fall of the year-accompanied, to those who are sensitive to such things, by the...

It stood not very far from the corner-the corner where the lane turned off from the high-road. And it suited its name, or its name suited it. It was such a pretty, cosy-looking house, much larger really than it seemed at the first glance, for it spread...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic 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: Charles DarwinPublisher:...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old man with no friends or family to love him - he's just so miserable and bitter! One freezing cold Christmas Eve, Marley's Ghost pays Scrooge a visit and an eerie night-time journey begins. The Christmas spirits are here to...

Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. Haggard wrote the book over his summer holiday in 1885 immediately after King...

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: H. Rider...

Beautiful, beautiful was that night! No air that stirred; the black smoke from the funnels of the mail steamer Zanzibar lay low over the surface of the sea like vast, floating ostrich plumes that vanished one by one in the starlight. Benita Beatrix...

Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis is a novel written by the author H. Rider Haggard the author of King Solomon's Mines and She.OCo Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."Author: H. Rider HaggardPublisher:...

It was a spring afternoon in the sixth year of the reign of King Henry VII. of England. There had been a great show in London, for that day his Grace opened the newly convened Parliament, and announced to his faithful people-who received the news with...

A search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World...

More than thirty years ago two atoms of the eternal Energy sped forth from the heart of it which we call God, and incarnated themselves in the human shapes that were destined to hold them for a while, as vases hold perfumes, or goblets wine, or as sparks...

This is the story of me, Ana the scribe, son of Meri, and of certain of the days that I have spent upon the earth. These things I have written down now that I am very old in the reign of Rameses, the third of that name, when Egypt is once more strong and...

The Author hopes that the reader may find some historical interest in the tale set out in these pages of the massacre of the Boer general, Retief, and his companions at the hands of the Zulu king, Dingaan. Save for some added circumstances, he believes...

Mr. Meeson's Will By H. Rider Haggard. Mr Meeson's Will is a 1888 novel by H. Rider Haggard. It was based on a well known anecdote of the time.Author: H. Rider HaggardPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 16,...

They knew nothing of it in England or all the Western countries in those days before Crecy was fought, when the third Edward sat upon the throne. There was none to tell them of the doom that the East, whence come light and life, death and the decrees of...

Scientists, or some scientists-for occasionally one learned person differs from other learned persons-tell us they know all that is worth knowing about man, which statement, of course, includes woman. They trace him from his remotest origin; they show us...