Literary Collections

Stella Fregelius - A Tale of Three Destinies - H. Rider Haggard - World Classics. This supernatural love story features a device that induces telepathy between sympathetic parties and ultimately leads to communication with the dead. The author feels that...

Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me. I grow elderly. I have,...

Who that has ever seen them can forget the ruins of Blossholme Abbey, set upon their mount between the great waters of the tidal estuary to the north, the rich lands and grazing marshes that, backed with woods, border it east and south, and to the west...

The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa - H. Rider Haggard - World Classics. Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (22 June 1856 - 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World...

There are some who find great interest, and even consolation, amid the worries and anxieties of life in the collection of relics of the past, drift or long-sunk treasures that the sea of time has washed up upon our modern shore. The great collectors are...

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare : 9781502882523Author: E. NesbitPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 18, 2014Number of Pages: 144 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502882523ISBN-13: 9781502882523

Dickie lived at New Cross. At least the address was New Cross, but really the house where he lived was one of a row of horrid little houses built on the slope where once green fields ran down the hill to the river, and the old houses of the Deptford...

New Treasure Seekers: or the bastable children in search of a fortuneAuthor: E. NesbitPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 18, 2014Number of Pages: 152 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502883090ISBN-13:...

The most extraordinary thing that ever happened to me was my going back to town on that day. I am a reasonable being; I do not do such things. I was on a bicycling tour with another man. We were far from the mean cares of an unremunerative profession; we...

The Enchanted Castle : 9781502883377Author: E. NesbitPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 18, 2014Number of Pages: 166 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502883376ISBN-13: 9781502883377

TO understand this story you will have to believe in the Greater Gods-Love and Youth, for example, and Adventure and Coincidence; also in the trusting heart of woman and the deceitful spirit of man. You will have to reconcile yourself to the fact that...

This happened a very little time after we left our humble home in Lewisham, and went to live at the Blackheath house of our Indian uncle, which was replete with every modern convenience, and had a big garden and a great many greenhouses. We had had a lot...

To have your hair cut is not painful, nor does it hurt to have your whiskers trimmed. But round wooden shoes, shaped like bowls, are not comfortable wear, however much it may amuse the onlooker to see you try to walk in them. If you have a nice fur coat...

It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast-Robert's, I fancy-as to the quality of the fireworks laid in for the Guy Fawkes celebration. 'They were jolly cheap, ' said whoever it was, and I think it...

Philip Haldane and his sister lived in a little red-roofed house in a little red-roofed town. They had a little garden and a little balcony, and a little stable with a little pony in it-and a little cart for the pony to draw; a little canary hung in a...

The Railway Children : 9781502883513Author: E. NesbitPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 18, 2014Number of Pages: 150 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1502883511ISBN-13: 9781502883513

There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit. One day they had the good fortune to find in the sandpit a strange creature. Its eyes were on long horns like snail's eyes,...

Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop-eh, what?' These were the dreadful words of our Indian uncle. They made us feel very young and angry; and yet we could not be comforted by calling him...

The murder of Monty Paliser, headlined that morning in the papers, shook the metropolis at breakfast, buttered the toast, improved the taste of the coffee. Murdered! It seemed too bad to be false. Moreover, there was his picture, the portrait of a young...

Strange moans and mysterious lights haunt the south wing of the Mazzini castle where Julia, the beautiful younger daughter of the Marquis de Mazzini, lives. The terrors of the unknown fade to insignificance when Julia's father orders her to marry the...

Chapter I There is one characteristic which may be safely said to belong to nearly all happily-married couples-that of desiring to see equally happy marriages among their young friends; and in some cases, where their wishes are strong and circumstances...

The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only...

Essays: First Series, is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1841, concerning transcendentalism. This book contains "History" "Self-Reliance" and "Compensation" among othersAuthor: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Createspace...

The great majority of men seem to be minors, who have not yet come into possession of their own, or mutes, who cannot report the conversation they have had with nature. There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars,...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

"The crisp air;Moon-light bouncing off the ocean.The gristled sand betwixt our toes;The scent of salt flowering through the breeze.Hand in hand;And heart to heart -My love for thee grows more and more as the moon doth to rise.A kiss so tender;Nice and...

El Comendador Mendoza. JUAN VALERA ALCAL?-GALIANO. Espa?a 1824 - 1905Author: Juan ValeraPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 04, 2014Number of Pages: 92 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1503105776ISBN-13:...

La Alt?sima. FELIPE TRIGO Espa?a 1864 - 1916Author: Felipe TrigoPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 13, 2014Number of Pages: 124 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1503227022ISBN-13: 9781503227026

En la carrera. FELIPE TRIGO Espa?a 1864 - 1916Author: Felipe TrigoPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 14, 2014Number of Pages: 126 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1503232921ISBN-13: 9781503232921

The Virgin & the Strip Mall contains 62 essays, most of which were originally published over a period of years in the Sunday Gazette in Schenectady, NY. They deal with a wide variety of topics, most with some connection to the area. While this book does...