Algernon: 262 books

A collection of essays about nine poets and writers who were working during Shakespeare’s lifetime. Gathered here are insightful portraits of Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, Thomas Dekker, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Heywood, George Chapman, and Cyril Tourneur.

EXTRACTS FROM NOTICES OF THE PRESS. Syracuse Times. "Sword and Pen; or, Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier," is written in a very entertaining style. It gives interesting sketches of Captain Glazier from boyhood down, and many amusing incidents are related, in which is embraced a period covering the lively war times.

This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...

A curious, unusual, puzzling type of book. The story of the awakening of a London financier who, after long years spent in the amassing of a fortune, reverts to his early dream of becoming a great philanthropist. But that's the good part of it...

This 1886 collection of critical and historical essays by the trailblazing English poet includes “Short Notes on English Poets,” “A Century of English Poetry,” “Congreve,” “Collins,” “Wordsworth and Byron,” “Emily Brontë,” “Mary Queen of Scots,” “Keats,” and others—these essays contain strength as well as ironic humor.

This 1915 edition of a collection of critical writings by the heralded English writer includes “The Journal of Sir Walter Scott,” “Beaumont and Fletcher,” “Social Verse,” “Wilkie Collins,” “Whitmania,” “Tennyson or Darwin?”, Eight articles on “The Posthumous Works of Victor...

A novel about a young man who is drawn to a remote house in the Welsh hills to work with the Reverend Philip Skale, who is working on a series of mysterious occult experiments in sound.

The days in which you and I are living are days in which Christians need to know their Bibles, for the only way by which we may know whether or not a system of teaching is of God is by viewing the system through the lens of Holy Writ—reading the system in the light of the Bible and not reading the...

"And what is it makes you think I could be of use in this particular case?" asked Dr. John Silence, looking across somewhat sceptically at the Swedish lady in the chair facing him. "Your sympathetic heart and your knowledge of occultism—" "Oh, please—that dreadful word!"...

A seven-year-old boy suffers a near-fatal injury, after which he lingers for days between life and death. In this liminal period, the young protagonist undergoes a bizarre experience wherein he feels as if he has become untethered from his physical body. Filled with both hopeful wonderment and bursts...