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Jack London (1876-1916) lived a short life over a hundred years ago but is still one of the most widely read and translated authors in the world. His The Call of the Wild and White Fang are studied in schools and universities wherever English is spoken. And a new generation of eBook readers has discovered...

Get ready for the new Showtime series 'Penny Dreadful' with these three Penny Dreadful classics remastered for eReaders: 'Wagner The Wehr-Wolf,' 'Varney The Vampire' and 'The Mysteries of London.'  'Wagner the Wehr-Wolf'  Published in 1847, 'Wagner' is one of the first werewolf novels...

The theme of Volume 6 is life in the city, specifically life in London and Paris. Collected here are five essential Penny Dreadful texts showcasing the sights, sounds and smells, the locations and, most of all, the colorful denizens, from aristocrat to criminal, that populated each metropolis, both...

Fans of feminist trailblazer Charlotte Perkins Gilman are in for a treat. Gathered in this volume are three of Gilman's most famous works: The Yellow Wallpaper This short story is one of the most popular pre-1923 texts in the English language, ranking third only to The Bible and Shakespeare...

"My essential spirituality is made manifest by yet another publication, which stands as a testimony of my praeterhuman innocence. The book is called White Stains and is commonly quoted by my admirers as evidence of my addiction to every kind of unmentionable vice. Asses! It is, indeed, technically,...

Anne of Green Gables recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in Prince Edward Island. First published in 1908, Anne...

The new hit movie Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale is based on two early works by Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Love and Freindship – both of which are included here. Fans of the movie will find the bulk of the plot has been taken from Lady Susan and the title from Love and Freindship. This new digital edition of Love and Friendship includes an image gallery. 

Fans of Victorian pulp literature are in for a treat with Volume 5 of Penny Dreadful Multipacks. The theme is True Crime with excerpts from the widely read Newgate Calendar, a rogue’s gallery of London criminals; an anonymous novella exploring the Spring Heeled Jack phenomenon; Carmilla...

13 outstanding gems from the 1880's and 1890's:  The Lady Or The Tiger? Frank Stockton  An Egyptian Cigarette Kate Chopin  The Bohemian Girl Henry Harland  The House of Shame H. B. Marriott Watson  Wladislaw's Advent Menie Muriel Dowie  A Westmorland Village W. W. Russell ...

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” Seneca composed the Consolations while in exile on Corsica during 40-44 AD and used each opportunity to show off in writing his trendy Stoic ideas about life and the universe. His three letters of condolences De Consolatione ad Marciam, De...

“How then do men act?” The Golden Sayings of Epictetus is one of three key texts, along with the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Seneca’s Letters From A Stoic, from which we know the philosophy of Stoicism. Epictetus (ca. 50–ca. 130 AD) primarily taught about the philosophy...

"My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses as about...

Ambrose Bierce’s haunting 1890 short story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge has a modern twist ending that never gets old. The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern planter as he is being hanged by Union soldiers. In the brief period between the tightening of the noose and the actual...

Society sleuth Fleming Stone is an expert at solving the most baffling of locked-room mysteries. The young detective and his associate Fibsy assist authorities in unsolved homicides on the Upper East Side. British Mystery Multipack Vol. 14 – The Fleming Stone Collection presents the four best Fleming...