Lighthouse Publishing imprint: 313 books

by Laurence Sterne
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019

  Laurence Sterne, (born Nov. 24, 1713, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ire.—died March 18, 1768, London, Eng.), Irish-born English novelist and humorist, author of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), an early novel in which story is subordinate to the free associations and digressions of its narrator....
by Sarah Warner Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2019

When, by an unlooked-for sequence of events, I became manager of "The Garden with House Attached" (as an important preliminary) along with "The Third Son I went over from Cambridge to take account of its possibilities. And here be it stated that from the time of his first trousers "The...

Tregime shumë të shkurtra për fillestarët

Very Short Stories for Beginners

by Shapa Timayev
Language: Albanian
Release Date: May 14, 2019

Ky libër ka në plan të sigurojë lexuesit me tregime shumë të shkurtra që mund të përdoren për qëllime të ndryshme. Një nga qëllimet kryesore për këtë libër është t'u mësojë fëmijëve parimet e leximit dhe t'u japë atyre një fjalor të gjerë dhe të lehtë që mund të përdoret...
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019

The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life Arthur Schopenhauer, (born February 22, 1788, Danzig, Prussia [now Gdańsk, Poland]—died September 21, 1860, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]), German philosopher, often called the “philosopher of pessimism,” who was primarily important as the...

The Inheritors

An Extravagant Story

by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2019

Joseph Conrad, original name Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (born December 3, 1857, Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Ukraine]—died August 3, 1924, Canterbury, Kent, England), English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent, whose works include the novels Lord Jim...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019

"The Letters of Henry James - Volume I" from Henry James. American writer (1843-1916). Henry James, (born April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 28, 1916, London, England), American novelist and, as a naturalized English citizen from 1915, a great figure in the transatlantic...
by Luka Reid, Arthur Symons
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019

The Confessions of St. Augustine are the first autobiography, and they have this to distinguish them from all other autobiographies, that they are addressed directly to God. Rousseau's unburdening of himself is the last, most effectual manifestation of that nervous, defiant consciousness of other...
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019

"The Red One" is a short story by Jack London. It was first published in the October 1918 issue of The Cosmopolitan, two years after London's death. The story was reprinted in the same year by MacMillan, in a collection of London's stories of the same name. Jack London, pseudonym...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019

Joseph is perfect. He is at his very best—and never was better in his life. I guess he gets discouraged and feels disliked and in the way when he is lying around—but here he is perfection, and brim full of useful alacrities and helps and ingenuities. Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne...
by Oswald Spengler, Pauline Nealy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019

Oswald Spengler, (born May 29, 1880, Blankenburg, Germany—died May 8, 1936, Munich), German philosopher whose reputation rests entirely on his influential study Der Untergang des Abendlandes, 2 vol. (1918–22; The Decline of the West), a major contribution to social theory.   After...
by Thomas Jefferson, Pauline Nealy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president, was a leading figure in America’s early development. During the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), Jefferson served in the...
by Pauline Nealy, Longinus
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019

Longinus, also called Dionysius Longinus or Pseudo-Longinus, (flourished 1st century ad), name sometimes assigned to the author of On the Sublime (Greek Peri Hypsous), one of the great seminal works of literary criticism. The earliest surviving manuscript, from the 10th century, first printed in 1554,...
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2019

This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic prose. Joseph Conrad, original name Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (born December 3, 1857, Berdichev,...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019

Sir,—There are many things that stand in the way of the critic when he has a mind to praise the living.  He may dread the charge of writing rather to vex a rival than to exalt the subject of his applause.  He shuns the appearance of seeking the favour of the famous, and would not willingly be...
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