Literary Collections

A HUNDRED dollars a month-it's a fortune!" Jean Bruce exclaimed gayly, pirouetting about on her tip-toes in front of a huge Japanese umbrella fastened upright in the ground in the middle of the orchard at the Rainbow Ranch. Jacqueline Ralston gazed half...

Excerpt from Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul Araxes!" and wailing past, sank with a profound echo into the deep recesses of the vast Egyptian tomb. Moonlight and the Hour wove their own mystery; the mystery of a Shadow and a Shape that flitted out...

A cloud floated slowly above the mountain peak. Vast, fleecy and white as the crested foam of a sea-wave, it sailed through the sky with a divine air of majesty, seeming almost to express a consciousness of its own grandeur. Over a spacious tract of...

The Land of The Long NightAuthor: Paul Du ChailluPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 26, 2015Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517534283ISBN-13: 9781517534288

This book consists of three unpublished essays and of fifteen reprinted from Longman's Magazine, Fraser's Magazine, the New Quarterly, Knowledge, Chambers's Magazine, the Graphic, and the Standard, where they have probably been little noticed since the...

"Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti" from Hall Caine. Manx author (1853-1931).Author: Hall CainePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 27, 2015Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Excerpt from The Scapegoat: Illustrated This book in its present form is new to American readers, although a book under the same title, telling practically the same story, was published in America seven years ago. That was just after the passing of the...

"[...] CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE WAR OF THE ELEMENTS. CHAPTER II. THE LOVERS. CHAPTER III. THE CLOUD AND THE SIGN. CHAPTER IV. UNDER THE CLOUD. CHAPTER V. THE BURSTING OF THE STORM. CHAPTER VI. AFTER THE STORM.[...]."Author: T. S. ArthurPublisher:...

Trials and Confessions of A HousekeeperAuthor: T. S. ArthurPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 27, 2015Number of Pages: 236 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517539374ISBN-13: 9781517539375

"The Pagans" from Arlo Bates. American author, educator and newspaperman (1850-1918).Author: Arlo BatesPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 02, 2015Number of Pages: 186 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Excerpt from A Book O' Nine Tales He lay upon an old-fashioned bed stead whose carved quaintness would once have pleased him, but to which he was now indifferent. He rested upon his back, staring at the ceiling, on whose white surface were twinkling...

"Talks on the study of literature" from Arlo Bates. American author, educator and newspaperman (1850-1918).Author: Arlo BatesPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 02, 2015Number of Pages: 174 pagesBinding: Paperback...

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 LeverPublisher:...

Excerpt from Diary and Notes of Horace Templeton, Late Secretary of Legation, 1848, Vol. 1 of 2 It is a strange tiling to begin a "Log" when the voyage is nigh ended! A voyage without chart or compass has it been: and now is land in sight - the land of...

Some years ago there was a trial in Dublin, which, partly because the parties in the cause were in a well-to-do condition of life, and partly because the case in some measure involved the interests of the two conflicting Churches, excited considerable...

When Columbus sailed from the shores of Spain, it was not in search of a New World, but only to find a nearer path to the East. He sought a western passage to India. He had adopted a traditionary belief that the earth was round; but he did not once dream...

The American JudiciaryAuthor: Simeon E. BaldwinPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 05, 2015Number of Pages: 202 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 151765937XISBN-13: 9781517659370

The Bishop's ShadowAuthor: Ida Treadwell ThurstonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 05, 2015Number of Pages: 166 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517659582ISBN-13: 9781517659585

The Torch BearerAuthor: Ida Treadwell ThurstonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 05, 2015Number of Pages: 170 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517659671ISBN-13: 9781517659677

From Veldt Camp FiresAuthor: Henry Anderson BrydenPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 05, 2015Number of Pages: 152 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517659817ISBN-13: 9781517659813

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...smoking his big pipe as usual...

"The Cost" from David Graham Phillips. American novelist and journalist (1867-1911).Author: David Graham PhillipsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 05, 2015Number of Pages: 202 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

"The Deluge" from David Graham Phillips. American novelist and journalist (1867-1911).Author: David Graham PhillipsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 05, 2015Number of Pages: 230 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Excerpt from The Masquerader: A Novel Two incidents, widely different in chapter yet bound together by results, marked the night of January the twenty-third. On that night the blackest fog within a four years' memory fell upon certain portions of London,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

"[...] CHAPTER II HIS LOVE AFFAIRS [...]."Author: Hamlin GarlandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 06, 2015Number of Pages: 188 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517681472ISBN-13: 9781517681470

Excerpt from The Light of the Star: A Novel After the appointment with Miss Merival reachedhim (through the hand of her manager), young Douglass grew feverishly impatient of the long days which lay between. Waiting became a species of heroism. Each...

Hamlin Garland informs us in his foreword of psychical phenomena which came under his observation. It is the story of the experiences of a group of people brought together by the author to listen to the revelations of one of their number who turns out to...

"[...]sent away to play when they came. Oh, Gil"-his voice broke-"she is a medium, but she's not the awful creature they make her out." "Of course not. We all know how these things go." "You see, I went away to boarding-school when I was ten. This paper...

Excerpt from A Mortal Antipathy: First Opening of the New Portfolio "A Mortal Antipathy" was a truly hazardous experiment A very wise and very distinguished physician who is as much at home in literature as he is in science and the practice of medicine,...