Deadtree Publishing imprint: 86 books
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on November 11, 1836. His family moved to New Orleans when he was a child and he only returned to Portsmouth in preparation for college. He describes this period of his life in his semi-autobiographical novel The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), in...
Communist Manifesto
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
The Communist Manifesto is without doubt one of the most important political works ever. It's doctrine occcupied the thoughts and lives of many peoples across the globe during the 20th Century. Whilst its influence has waned its ideals, aspirations and thought processes still leave much to be admired.
Charles Dickens - Persons Of Interest
"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs."
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 Julian Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Julian Hawthorne was born on June 22, 1846 the son of the esteemed novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote numerous poems, short stories and novels amongst which is The Golden Fleece in 1892. This helped to cement his reputation. However in 1908 he made his writing and allowed his name to be used to...
Henry James Short Stories Volume 8
Includes - Broken Wings, The Story In It, The Real Right Thing, The Private Life, A Day Of Daysand 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 Clara K Bayliss
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
The Inuit people occupy a bleak but beautiful landscape. It is a culture we think we have some undertanding of but the reality is we know little. In this enchanting book, A Treasury of Eskimo Takes, Clara K Bayliss tells us many stories of Eskimo folklore. It's a wonderful treasure of the culture.
by James J Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
James John Davies was born in Tredegar, Wales, before emigrating with his parents to the United States in 1881 at the age of eight. Apprenticed as a puddler's assistant in a steel mill thereby acquiring his nickname. After stints as City Clerk in Elwood, Indiana, and Recorder of Madison County, Indiana...
Charles Dickens - On Detectives
"Vices are sometimes only virtures carried to excess!"
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 Ring Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Ring Lardner was by most accounts a writer who excelled at creating situations about apple pie America and them warping them with his exceptional satirical gifts to an altogether different plane. In The Big Town he and the missus go to New York to help her sister Katie find a husband. A simple enough premise but life in the Big Apple with Lardners writing is pure genius.
Henry James Short Stories Volume 9
Includes - The Path Of Duty, Mrs Temperly, Sir Edmund Orme, Lord Beaupreand 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...
Admiral Guinea
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
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....
by Ring Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
One of Lardners celebrated stories is Alibi Ike first published in 1915 in the Saturday Evening Post. The author in this short tale follows the career of a funnily strong-headed baseball player who is always ready to give farcical alibis for his failures as well as laughable reasons for his victories....
by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Richard Harding Davis was born on April 18, 1864. He was a journalist of some renown. He was the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt and he also played...