Deadtree Publishing: 166 books
Leo Tolstoy - The Live Corpse
“Music is the shorthand of emotion”
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...
Leo Tolstoy - Fruits of Culture A Comedy in Four Acts
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...
Leo Tolstoy - The Light Shines in Darkness
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...
Leo Tolstoy - The Cause of it All
“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...
Leo Tolstoy - Bethink Yourselves
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...
by Lucy Fitch Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Lucy Fitch Perkins was forty-eight when she was approached by a publisher friend who, impressed by her talents as both an illustrator and writer, which he knew through correspondence, urged her to write. He was so earnest that she thought of an idea for a children’s book the next morning, and she immediately...
Leo Tolstoy - The First Distiller, A Comedy
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...
Sketches & Other Short Stories
"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
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...
Italian Hours
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 and 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...
Our Bore & Other Stories
"Accidents will occur in the best regulated families."
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 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....
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What is our darkest fear? Death? Or the thought of spending eternity in Hell for spreading evil in our three score and ten years on Earth. Whether we think of Hell or Hades as our final destination the idea of meeting any incarnation of the Devil Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Iblis, and his other various...
A Family Man
"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."
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...
For Love Of The King
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
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. With his education complete Wilde moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With...