Deadtree Publishing: 166 books
Stories For My Family
"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."
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 Fugitive
"If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one."
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...
Villa Rubein
"Love has no age, no limit; and no death."
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 Poetry Of Robert Bridges - Volume 1
The Growth of Love and Five Books of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Robert Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent on the 23rd of October 1844. He went to study medicine intending to practise until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. Lung disease forced him to retire in 1882, and from that point on he devoted himself to writing and literary research. However,...
by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 28th August 1749 in Frankfurt, All of his siblings died at a young age except for his sister Cornelia and he was home schooled by his father and a range of tutors. He went to Leipzig to study law but preferred writing poetry. However, from these relatively unremarkable...
by Helen Hunt Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, was born Helen Fiske on October 15, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is most famously known for her novel Ramona, about the mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California. Reprinted hundreds of times it is often cited as one of the most ethical novels ever written....
The Angel In The House
"The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so."
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was born on July 23rd 1823 at Woodford in Essex. Although he is still relatively unknown his stature as a Victorian Poet continues to increase. After some uneven success at writing poetry in 1846 Coventry came to the post of printed book supernumary assistant at the...
My First Summer in the Sierra
“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Muir was born in Scotland on April 21st, 1838. His Father wanted his children to have a stricter Religious upbringing and therefore moved the family to the United States. John Muir is perhaps known today as the most pre-eminent naturalist and advocate for the preservation of much of the western...
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Muir was born in Scotland on April 21st, 1838. His Father wanted his children to have a stricter Religious upbringing and therefore moved the family to the United States. John Muir is perhaps known today as the most pre-eminent naturalist and advocate for the preservation of much of the western...
by E.F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
E.F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire on July 24th 1867. Educated at Marlborough and Kings College Cambridge he began his career as a writer at an early age and was published whilst still studying. As an athlete he represented his country at Figure skating. His career was prodigious...
by E.F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
E.F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire on July 24th 1867. Educated at Marlborough and Kings College Cambridge he began his career as a writer at an early age and was published whilst still studying. As an athlete he represented his country at Figure skating. His career was prodigious...
by E.F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
E.F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire on July 24th 1867. Educated at Marlborough and Kings College Cambridge he began his career as a writer at an early age and was published whilst still studying. As an athlete he represented his country at Figure skating. His career was prodigious...
by Booth Tarkington
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Booth Tarkington was born on July 29, 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. When you look through the quality of his work it is easy to understand why. The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, Penrod, Penrod And Sam all classics....
The Flowers Of Evil
“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was born on April 9 1821 in Paris to an amateur artist mother and professional father. His father died when Charles was 6 but his mother remarried shortly after to Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Aupick who later became a prominent ambassador. Consequently Charles received a good...