Literary Collections

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: Martha FinleyPublisher:...

"English Fairy Tales" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).Author: Flora Annie SteelPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 04, 2015Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

"In the Permanent Way" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).Author: Flora Annie SteelPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 04, 2015Number of Pages: 256 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

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: Flora Annie SteelPublisher:...

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...

"A Hero of Romance" from Richard Marsh. British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857-1915).Author: Richard MarshPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 09, 2015Number of Pages: 248 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

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: Richard MarshPublisher:...

"Violet Forster's Lover" from Richard Marsh. British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857-1915).Author: Richard MarshPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 09, 2015Number of Pages: 254 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

When the doctor had gone, and the two women from the village he had been waiting for were upstairs shut in with her dead father, Lucy went out into the garden and stood leaning on the gate staring at the sea. Her father had died at nine o'clock that...

THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the...

Queen VictoriaAuthor: Lytton StracheyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 29, 2015Number of Pages: 254 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1519571658ISBN-13: 9781519571656

The slum is as old as civilization. Civilization implies a race to get ahead. In a race there are usually some who for one cause or another cannot keep up, or are thrust out from among their fellows. They fall behind, and when they have been left far in...

South American Fights and Fighters and other Tales of AdventureAuthor: Cyrus Townsend BradyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Dec 19, 2015Number of Pages: 238 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

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: Ada CambridgePublisher:...

Let me gaze down the vista of the tristful past. Ah! there are things that cannot be uttered; there are scenes that still entrance me, and incidents so unexpected and terrible that they cause me even now to hold my breath in horror. The prologue of this...

"But if the new plans for our naval base at Rosyth have already been secured by Germany, I don't see what we can do," I remarked. "What's the use of closing the stable-door after the horse has been stolen?" "That's just what we generally do in England,...

In this story I have dealt with an extraordinary phase of modern life in London, which to the majority will come as a startling revelation. Some will, perhaps, declare that no such amazing state of things exists in this, the most enlightened age the...

"One fact is plain. Vittorina must not come to England." "Why? She, a mere inexperienced girl, knows nothing." "Her presence here will place us in serious jeopardy. If she really intends to visit London, then I shall leave this country at once. I scent...

The Great White Queen by William Le Queux 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 you can just send an email to...

"Why, what's the matter, child? Tell me." "Nothing, dad-really nothing." "But you are breathing hard; your hand trembles; your pulse beats quickly. There's something amiss-I'm sure there is. Now, what is it? Come, no secrets." The girl, quickly snatching...

The scene was Dean Street, Soho, and this story opens on a snowy winter night in the January of 1888. The modern improvements of Shaftesbury Avenue were as yet unmade, and the foreign district of London had still to be opened up. A cold north wind was...

"See! It's-it's in my kit-bag, over there! The thing-the Thing at which the whole world will stand aghast!" The thin, white-faced, grey-bearded man lying on his back in bed roused himself with difficulty, and with skinny finger pointed at his strong but...

"Curious affair, isn't it?" "Very." "Now, you're a bit of a mystery-monger, Vidal. What's your theory-eh?" "I haven't one," I replied with a smile. "I knew the old boy quite well by sight. Didn't you?" asked my friend, Major Keppell, as we stood...

A true "whodunit" with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd is summoned to Courtenay Manor to examine the slain man and discovers a clue that might solve the case. But, he...

"Then it's an entire mystery?" "Yes, Phrida." "But it's astounding! It really seems so utterly impossible," declared my well-beloved, amazed at what I had just related. "I've simply stated hard facts." "But there's been nothing about this affair in the...

The shabby stranger seated himself familiarly in a nook beside the wide-open chimney of the tap-room, and stretched out his long thin legs with a sigh. "I want something to eat; a bit of cold meat, or bread and cheese-anything you have handy-and a glass...

As the Right Honourable Reginald Monkton walked towards Charing Cross on that June morning his fifty-odd years appeared to weigh lightly upon him True, his hair was tinged with grey, yet that was but natural after over twenty years of political strife...

Two o'clock-two o'clock in the morning. The bells had just chimed the hour. Big Ben had boomed forth its deep and solemn note over sleeping London. The patient constable on point-duty at the foot of Westminster Bridge had stamped his feet for the last...

"Yes! I'm certain it was Gordon Gray-the man whose face I can never forget, and whom I could identify among a million! Gordon Gray! Returned from, the dead!" The white-haired rector, the Reverend Norton Homfray, a tall, sparely-built man of sixty-five,...

An honest girl unwittingly marries a scoundrel who is part of a criminal gang. Eventually she learns the truth. But how can she avoid bringing dishonour on her second husband? There's a sub-plot with German spies, a bunch of burglars and con-men, and...