A Word To The Wise: 89 books
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.
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...
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.
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...
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....
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...
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 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...
by Jerome K Jerome
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Jerome Klapka Jerome is an English writer of the turn of the century. He is known especially for his humorous novels and travelogues, mainly his Three Men in a Boat which has made his fame and wealth. His work entitled Clocks is a humorous essay that speaks about his personal experience with clocks....
by Rabindranath Tagore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who was a gifted Bengali Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a philosopher, social and political reformer and a popular author in all literary genres. He was instrumental in an increased freedom for the press and influenced Gandhi and the founders of modern India....
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...
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 Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
The Evil Genius is Wilkie Collinss novel about marital complications, adultery, divorce and child-custody. Herbert Linley engages in an illicit romantic relationship with his daughters governess, Sydney Westerfield. Sydney leaves the house after being caught by Herberts mother-in-law, yet she returns...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Herman Melvilles Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War takes the form of seventy-two narrative poems that deal with the different events of the American Civil War. The poems, which survey the history of the conflict between the North and the South, are arranged in a chronological order and depict the...