Deadtree Publishing imprint: 86 books
by Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Washington Irving was born on April 3, 1783. He began to be published in 1802 with a series of observational letters. In 1815 the family business required that he move to England, the business failed but Irving decided to say in England and in 1819 published his first international success The Sketch...
by Lieut. William Bligh
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
In the long history of the Royal Navy the mutiny on board HMS Bounty has long had a strange fascination. Life on board was harsh as it was across all ships. Here the Captain who was deposed from his ship gives us his account.
by John Quincy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
John Quincy Adams served as the sixth president of the United States winning the election in 1824. It was controversial as the House of Representatives chose amongst the top 3 vote winners. Adams had lost both the popular vote and the electoral vote but was nonetheless elected. He was a great negotiator...
Charles Dickens - On London
"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 as is regarded as one of the great literary figures of 19th Century writing. Born in New York, he moved between there and Europe, being tutored in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna, and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 as is regarded as one of the great literary figures of 19th Century writing. Born in New York, he moved between there and Europe, being tutored in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna, and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading...
The Soul Of Man
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Dublin, then at Oxford. Wilde moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With his biting wit, flamboyant...
by Patrick Branwell Bronte
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Patrick Branwell Brontë was born on June 26th. 1817. He was part of Englands greatest literary family together with his sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily Jane. However that perhaps was to prove also his greatest misfortune. Although he was the first to be published as a poet in the 1840s he could make...
The Lifted Veil
"I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
George Eliot was a great literary talent. With classics such as Silas Marner, 'Middlemarch' and 'Adam Bede' her reputation was set for eternity. Yet she produced other works just as compelling. Just as good. Yet in spite of that talent she had to use a male pseudonym. But she persevered and triumphed. 'The Lifted Veil' is one of her best.
A Son Of The Gods, A Horseman In The Sky & An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born June 24, 1842 was one of the great American short story writers though his talents extended to Journalism and as a critic. With the motto Nothing matters it can be safely assumed that no one was free from his scathing viewpoint. As a writer he was distinctive. He would...
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Percy Bysshe Shelley is more widely known as one of the great Romantic Poets. Yet in his short life he was active politically but also as an essayist where his thoughts and ideas were fresh and innovative. Included in this collection is In Defence Of Poetry which contains the quite wonderful suggestion...
An Essay Collection, Volume 1
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Robert Louis Stevenson. In the Scottish canon to be placed alongside Burns for your poems is high praise indeed but its a rightful place for one of Scotlands finest novelists. Born in 1850 he managed to cram much into his 44 years travelling widely to France, the United States, Samoa and the South Seas....
Charles Dickens - Thoughts About People
"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...
Henry James Short Stories Volume 6
Includes - The Siege Of Londonand a unique and detailed biography.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his high standards drop and story retains the poise and simplicity...