Literary Collections

"Mais oui! I tell you one ting. One big ting. Ze big man wiz ze glass eyes, he is vat you call one slik stoff. Ze big man wiz ze glass eyes." "The old man?" "Zat's him! One slik stoff! Ecoutez! Listen! One day, you mek ze gran' trip. Look hout!" Pierre...

Eight hundred and fifty miles of winding coast line bend in and out. So far as the eye can reach over the wrinkling sheet of the Pacific, to where its giant swells beat against bare, brown cliffs and break in smothers of hissing foam, not a sail is seen,...

Mrs. Ussher was having a small house party in the country over New Year's Day. This is equivalent to saying that the half dozen most fashionable people in New York were out of town. Certain human beings are admitted to have a genius for discrimination in...

Excerpt from The Happiest Time of Their Lives ...and then he added in a lets satisfied tone: "Bat friendship is so uncertain. You don't make any announcement to your friends or vows to each other, unless you're at an age when you cut your initials in the...

"From the Five Rivers" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).Author: Flora Annie SteelPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 04, 2015Number of Pages: 152 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

"In the Guardianship of God" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).Author: Flora Annie SteelPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 04, 2015Number of Pages: 162 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

"The Adventures of Akbar" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).Author: Flora Annie SteelPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 04, 2015Number of Pages: 134 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

"The Mercy of the Lord" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).Author: Flora Annie SteelPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 04, 2015Number of Pages: 202 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

For several years Doubleday, Page & Company have been receiving repeated requests for information about the life and books of Gene Stratton-Porter. Her fascinating nature work with bird, flower, and moth, and the natural wonders of the Limberlost Swamp,...

Freckles is a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter. It is primarily set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana, with brief scenes set in Chicago. The title character also appears briefly in Porter's A Girl of the...

George MacDonald (1824-1905), was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Though no longer well known, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels) have inspired admiration in such notables as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and...

Introduction by C. S. Lewis In October 1857, George MacDonald wrote what he described as "a kind of fairy tale, in the hope that it will pay me better than the more evidently serious work." This was Phantastes -- one of MacDonald's most important works;...

I think every man who can should help his people to inherit the earth by bringing into his own of the wealth of other tongues. In the flower-pots of translation I offer these few exotics, with no little labour taught to exist, I hope to breathe, in...

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...

In a kitchen of moderate size, flagged with slate, humble in its appointments, yet looking scarcely that of a farmhouse-for there were utensils about it indicating necessities more artificial than usually grow upon a farm-with the corner of a white deal...

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...

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...

From the man who influenced the minds of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle, comes a classic story about courage and overcoming evil. The story follows young Princess Irene and her friend Curdie as they work to fight wicked goblins who...

Excerpt from The Crofton Boys: A Tale The Crofton Boys: A Tale was written by Harriet Martineau in 1842. This is a 241 page book, containing 59612 words and 42 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books...

An American SuffragetteAuthor: Isaac Newton StevensPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 09, 2015Number of Pages: 132 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1519170025ISBN-13: 9781519170026

"A Second Coming" from Richard Marsh. British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857-1915).Author: Richard MarshPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 09, 2015Number of Pages: 192 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

"The Chase of the Ruby" from Richard Marsh. British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857-1915).Author: Richard MarshPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 09, 2015Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

"The Coward Behind the Curtain" from Richard Marsh. British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857-1915).Author: Richard MarshPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 09, 2015Number of Pages: 222 pagesBinding:...

"The Datchet Diamonds" from Richard Marsh. British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857-1915).Author: Richard MarshPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 09, 2015Number of Pages: 170 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve...

A dozen minor novels that have been published in the periodical press collected together. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help...

If you have a soft spot for Eleanor H. Porter's beloved novel Pollyanna, you should definitely add Just David to your reading list. Written just a few years after Porter penned her best-known work, this emotionally resonant and uplifting tale mines many...

This is the story of orphaned Pollyanna and the 'glad game'. As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life. The 'glad game' she plays, of finding a silver lining...

When Hester was two years old a wheezy hand-organ would set her eyes to sparkling and her cheeks to dimpling, and when she was twenty the "Maiden's Prayer," played by a school-girl, would fill her soul with ecstasy. To Hester, all the world seemed full...

"[...]in the most beautiful city in the world. You never knew such eagerness and persistence as these German boarders have when it comes to praising what is theirs, and also when it comes to criticizing what isn't theirs. They're so funny and personal...