Release Date November 27 2011: 3362 books

Cover of Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier
by John Pinkerton
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

In the days of Plato, imagination found its way, before the mariners, to a new world across the Atlantic, and fabled an Atlantis where America now stands. In the days of Francis Bacon, imagination of the English found its way to the great Southern Continent before the Portuguese or Dutch sailors had...
Cover of The Side Of The Angels A Novel
by Basil King, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The difficulty was, in the first place, one of date – not the date of a month or a year, but of a generation or a century. Had Thorley Masterman found himself in love with Rosie Fay in 1760, or even in 1860,...
Cover of The Herapath Property
by Joseph Smith Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. This was the third week of Selwood's secretaryship to Jacob Herapath. Herapath was a well-known man in London. He was a Member of Parliament, the owner of a sort of model estate of up-to-date flats, and something...
Cover of Penrod and Sam
by Booth Tarkington
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. During the daylight hours of several autumn Saturdays there had been severe outbreaks of cavalry in the Schofield neighbourhood. The sabres were of wood; the steeds were imaginary, and both were employed in a game...
Cover of The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries
by John N. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

The following pages treat of hell— A Kansas hell and a Missouri hell. Those who desire to peruse works that tell about Heaven only, are urged to drop this book and run. I was an inmate of the Kansas penitentiary for sixteen months, and make mention of what came under my own observation in connection...
Cover of The White Mice
by Richard Harding Davis, George Gibbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

Once upon a time a lion dropped his paw upon a mouse. Please let me live! begged the mouse, and some day I will do as much for you. That is so funny, roared the king of beasts, that we will release you. We had no idea mice had a sense of humor.
Cover of Urbain Grandier Celebrated Crimes
by Alexandre Dumas père
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. On Sunday, the 26th of November, 1631, there was great excitement in the little town of Loudun, especially in the narrow streets which led to the church of Saint-Pierre in the marketplace, from the gate of which...
Cover of The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1
by Thomas Holcroft, Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck, Henry Morley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

There were two cousins Von der Trenck, who were barons descended from an ancient house in East Prussia, and were adventurous soldiers, to whom, as to the adventurous, there were adventures that lost nothing in the telling, for they were told by the authors’ most admiring friends— themselves. Franz,...
Cover of The Imitation of Christ
by William Benham, à Kempis Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

The treatise “Of the Imitation of Christ” appears to have been originally written in Latin early in the fifteenth century. Its exact date and its authorship are still a matter of debate. Manuscripts of the Latin version survive in considerable numbers all over Western Europe, and they, with the vast...
Cover of Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century
by Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx Aveling
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. In the Preface to “The Eastern Question, ” by Karl Marx, published in 1897, the Editors, Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling, referred to two series of papers entitled “The Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston, ” and “Secret Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century, ” which they promised to publish at an early date.
Cover of Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

I have already spoken of my earliest meetings with Lowell at Cambridge when I came to New England on a literary pilgrimage from the West in 1860. I saw him more and more after I went to live in Cambridge in 1866; and I now wish to record what I knew of him during the years that passed between this date...
Cover of The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
by George Gissing
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

The name of Henry Ryecroft never became familiar to what is called the reading public. A year ago obituary paragraphs in the literary papers gave such account of him as was thought needful: the date and place of his birth, the names of certain books he had written, an allusion to his work in the periodicals,...
Cover of Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1
by Thomas Sir Malory
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

THE Morte D'Arthur was finished, as the epilogue tells us, in the ninth year of Edward IV. , i. e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in 1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written before the introduction of printing into this country, and since no manuscript of it has...
Cover of History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Appendix
by Thomas Carlyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

This Piece, it would seem, was translated sixteen years ago; some four or five years before any part of the present HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH got to paper. The intercalated bits of Commentary were, as is evident, all or mostly written at the same time:— these also, though they are now become, in parts,...
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