Deadtree Publishing imprint: 86 books
by John Pierpoint
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
John Pierpoint was born in 1785 in Litchfield, Connecticut. His career is mainly that of Educator, Pastor and Social Activist. He was particularly strident on Temperance and the abolition of Slavery. Both of these issues caused him to be at odds with entrenched interests but he was not to be deterred...
by Ring Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
As a columnist with the famous Chicago Tribune, he achieved considerable success, mainly among baseball fans who liked his quips and his satirical and funny commentaries. In 1916 Lardner collected some of his works in a book that he entitled You Know Me Al. The publication was an astounding success...
The Poetry Of Katherine Mansfield
"The pleasure of all readings is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
In this volume we examine the poetry of Katherine Mansfield. She was born on 14th October 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand the middle child of five. A gifted Cello, at one point she thought she might take it up professionally the young Katherines first writings were published in...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
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...
A Gauntlet
Includes a rare poetry collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 1910), the third man to ever win the Nobel Prize in Literature. However when considering the quality of his writing he is perhaps not as celebrated as he should be. Being also a Nobel Laureate in Literature, Bjornson has also been credited with many other impressive successes....
Edgar Allan Poe - Four Beasts In One & Other Short Stories
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th 1809 and was orphaned at an early age. Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy, West Point where he failed to become an officer. His early literary works were poetic...
by Grace Isabel Colbron
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Across the years there have been many great writers of detective fiction. Many spring to mind: Arthur Conan Doyle for example. But few would recognise the the name Grace Isabel Colbron. She's worth delving into. Born in 1869 Grace Isabel Colbron wrote several detective 'whodunits'. Writing detective...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
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 11
Includes - The Wheel Of Time, A Round Of Visits, The Given Case, Collaborationand 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...
In A German Pension
"To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure."
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...
Reginald
"I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
HH Munro, better known by his pen name of Saki has scarcely been out of print since he was first published It has to be admitted that a taste for Saki is something of an addiction. And, like all addictions, once acquired, it is hard to shake off. In the years since his tragically early death in the trenches...
Henry James Short Stories Volume 10
Includes - Owen Wingrave, The Velvet Glove, Poor Richardand 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...
by Charles Southwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Charles Southwell was born in London, the youngest of 33 children! The only child of his Fathers third wife Charles was a difficult but clever child. After being introduced to religion by a Christian colleague, who encouraged him to read the Sermons of Timothy Dwight, he thought seriously about it...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
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...