Musaicum Books: 2517 books
The Land Beyond the Blow
After the method of Swift, who followed Lucian, and was himself followed by Voltaire and many others
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
"The Land Beyond the Blow" is a collection of terse short stories and personal reminiscences by the great satirist, Ambrose Bierce. Contents: Thither Sons of the Fair Star An Interview with Gnarmag-Zote The Tamtonians Marooned on Ug The Dog in Ganegwag A Conflagration in Ghargaroo An Execution...
by Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Francis Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The story is set on an island separated from the rest of the world, on which evolution has taken a different course. "The Nightmare" resembles Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time...
Jerry & Michael - Two Beloved Adventure Novels for Children
The Complete Series, Including Jerry of the Islands & Michael, Brother of Jerry
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story – Jerry is an Irish terrier who finds himself on the island of Malaita, after the ship he was on got attacked. Jerry is accepted by the local tribe, but when the tribe's sorcerer decides to sacrifice him, he manages to avoid it and his adventure begins. Michael,...
Ausgewählte amerikanische Kurzgeschichten: Erzählungen von Herman Melville, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne und anderen
Die Legende Von Sleepy Hollow + Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue + Adams Tagebuch + Das schwatzende Herz + Bartleby + Staatswirtschaft + David Swan + Die karmesinrote Kerze...
Language: German
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Inhalt: Washington Irving Die Legende Von Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle Herman Melville Bartleby...
Die Maske des roten Todes (Horror Klassiker)
Eine unheimliche Grusel- und Schauergeschichte: der Name Red Death ist mit Bedacht gewählt, sterben seine Opfer doch an einer Art hämorrhagischen Fiebers unter furchtbaren Blutungen
Language: German
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Die Maske des Roten Todes (engl. The Masque of the Red Death) ist eine Erzählung von Edgar Allan Poe, die erstmals 1842 in Philadelphia in Graham's Magazine, in dessen New Yorker Redaktion E.A. Poe ein Jahr lang als Chefredakteur arbeitete, herauskam. In ihr beschreibt Poe das Scheitern des Versuchs...
DER RABE (Illustrierte Ausgabe)
Mit einer Biografie von Edgar Allan Poe
Language: German
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Der Rabe ist ein erzählendes Gedicht des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers Edgar Allan Poe. Es ist eines der bekanntesten US-amerikanischen Gedichte. Es schildert den mysteriösen, mitternächtlichen Besuch eines Raben bei einem Verzweifelten, dessen Geliebte verstorben ist. Der lyrische Erzähler...
Die Maske des roten Todes: Horror-Krimi
Gothic Klassiker
Language: German
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Die Maske des Roten Todes ist eine Erzählung von Edgar Allan Poe. In ihr beschreibt Poe das Scheitern des Versuchs einer Gruppe von Privilegierten, sich vor einer Seuche, einem Unheil in Sicherheit zu bringen. Ungeachtet der Tatsache, dass eine Krankheit (der Rote Tod) die Hälfte der Untertanen...
History of the WW1 (Complete 6 Volume Edition)
First-hand Accounts of World War 1: Interviews With Army Generals, Private Letters & Diaries, Eyewitness Testimonies, Including Detailed Description of the Main Battles of the British Army
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "History of the WW1" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book is a complete six-volume history of the First World War, written during the war by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle interviewed army generals,...
by P. G. Wodehouse
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Rupert Psmithis a recurring fictional character in several novels by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being one of Wodehouse's best-loved characters. The P in his surname is silent ("as...
by Lew Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell follows the adventures of the Wandering Prince who takes his role in the creating of history, by stepping into the service of Turkish Sultan and gets involved in Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. Lew Wallace...
A LIFE: THE HUMBLE TRUTH
Satirical novel about the folly of romantic illusion from one of the greatest French writers, who had influenced Tolstoy, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Chekhov and Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"A Life" is a satirical novel about the foolishness of romantic illusion. The novel tells the story of young Jeanne, full of hope and dreams of love, who discovers the outside world after finishing an education in a convent. She is looking forward to her new life and she is dreaming of the...
by Richard Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Madge and Ella are two young ladies who have taken up residence at Clover Cottage, the former home of Tom Ossington, a house that has long stood empty with a bad reputation for being haunted....
WASHINGTON SQUARE
Satirical Novel from the famous author of the realism movement, known for Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Princess Casamassima, The Bostonians, The American…
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Washington Square is a tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father. The plot of the novel is based upon a true story told to James by his close friend, British actress Fanny Kemble. The book is often compared with Jane Austen's work...
The Decameron (World Classics Series)
(Rigg Translation)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society, London in 1886. Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, the Decameron is an allegorical work famous for its bawdy portrayals...