Deadtree Publishing: 166 books
Nobody's Story
"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is regarded by many readers and literary critics to be THE major English novelist of the Victorian Age. He is remembered today as the author of a series of weighty novels which have been translated into many languages and promoted to the rank of World Classics. The latter...
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It seems unlikely that there could be any subject to have preoccupied writers throughout the ages more than the pursuit of love. This may have reached an all time high in the Victorian era when a new age of romanticism captured hearts and minds. However, whilst love might have been the ultimate quest...
The Fight For Barbara
“It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake. ”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of Women In Love or Lady Chatterley’s Lover? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values....
by Father Joseph Ohrwalder
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Father Joseph Ohrwalder was born on March 6, 1856 at Lana in the South Tyrol was a Roman Catholic priest, who was taken captive by the Mahdists in Sudan while working as a missionary there. He spent ten years in captivity but eventually escaped. He died on August 8th, 1913 at Omdurman in the Sudan....
Spirits Rebellious
“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Khalil Gibran was one of a number of Arab intellectuals and writers who lived in the United States in the beginning of the twentieth century and who had a great influence on the development of modern Arabic literature through the exploration of Western literary movements. The group was presided by Khalil...
The Poetry Of Thomas Chatterton - Vol 1
"There is a time for all things - except marriage my dear."
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Thomas Chatterton was born on November 20th, 1752 in Bristol. Somewhat lonely as a child his consuming interest was the contents of several chests of books, parchments and documents in the church at St Mary Redcliff of which his family was sexton. By the age of twelve he had written “Elinoure and...
Katherine Mansfield - The Short Stories - Volume 2
“When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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...
Katherine Mansfield - The Short Stories - Volume 3
“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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 Arthur Conan Doyle, Ambrose bierce, Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
We all love a good crime story. An anthology of short crime stories, written by the finest of craftsman of their age, is always a welcome treat. 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...
Omoo
"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words, he understands hard things."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819 the third of eight children. At age 7 he contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight. By 12 his Father, bankrupted by a failed fur business with the embargo’s of the 1812 war with England, died. The family...
The Forsythe Saga - Man Of Property
"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Galsworthy was born at Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, England, on August 14th 1867 to a wealthy and well established family. His schooling was at Harrow and New College, Oxford before training as a barrister and being called to the bar in 1890. However, Law was not attractive to him and he travelled...
Strife
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he...
Studies And Essays
“the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he...
The Skin Game
"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he...