Irving: 935 books

This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...

Rip Van Winkle, one of the most important works by Washington Irving now in an epub3 AudioeBook version based on LibriVox audio and Project Gutenberg texts. Proudly brought to you for free by ReadBeyond

In most ideally conceived Utopias the world as it exists is depicted as a mushrooming horror of maladjustment, cruelty and crime. In this startlingly original short novel that basic premise is granted, but only to pave the way for an approach to Utopia over a highway of the mind so daringly unusual...

    The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow is the now timeless tale of a New England schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, undone by his fears of a fabled headless horseman. Or was he? On the basis of this one classic tale, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving is now...

Washington Irving read Don Quixote as a child, sparking a lifelong interest in Spain. When published, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada—a history of the fifteenth-century Spanish war against the Moors in Granada—was acclaimed for its engaging writing style, which made it seem less like a history and more like an adventure tale.

This classic text by Washington Irving is a sly satire on self-important local history that brought ''Knickerbocker'' into the American lexicon.

The Guardians – All hell breaks loose when a young girl tries to fulfil her curiosity about the prohibited knowledge of her universe and defies the orders of her elders… Perchance to Dream – What do you do in a totalitarian society when even your dreams are under the control of state? Can you...

A biography of legendary sociologist C. Wright Mills, author of The Power Elite and White Collar, among other works,by eminent sociologist Irving L. Horowitz. Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a famed sociologist, social commentator and critic. Noted for his anti-authoritarian, flamboyant...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Review essays and statements written for special occasions may reveal as much about the writer as those written about; this is the presumption undergirding this collection of thirty-five years of criticism and commentary by Irving Louis Horowitz. For this volume, he selected his comments on famous,...

In one of his final works, Stephen Jay Gould spoke of the human race "as a wildly improbable evolutionary event well within the realm of contingency." Drawing on his personal knowledge of fifty figures from the world of twentieth-century social science, Irving Louis Horowitz offers commentaries...

A sleepy little town is famous for its legend of the Headless Horseman and other specters. Ichabod Crane, the town’s new school teacher, is fond of a good ghost story or two. He is in love with beautiful Katrina Van Tassel, but a handsome man named Brom Bones wants Katrina for himself. Then a party...

The sages of the Mishna lived through one of the greatest transitions of Jewish history: the destruction of the Temple and withdrawal of divine revelation. Assuming responsibility for the future of the Torah, the sages set about bringing it out of the Temple and into everyday life, determined to keep...

De wereld volgens Garp is een zeldzaam komische, originele maar ook schokkende roman die John Irving in één klap beroemd maakte. Sinds de verschijning in 1978 hebben miljoenen lezers genoten van de excentrieke, non-conformistische Jenny, haar zoon T.S. Garp en de fanatici, onschuldige kinderen, transseksuelen, hoeren, worstelaars en de vele andere figuren die de wereld van Garp bevolken.