Start Classics: 796 books

Cover of The Brass Bottle
by F. Anstey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

A djinn, sealed in a jar for three thousand years, has been found by Horace Ventimore, a young and not very flourishing architect. Upon his release the djinn expresses his gratitude by seeking to grant his benefactor's every wish--generally with results the very opposite to those desired!
Cover of The Evil Eye
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014

Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of...
Cover of The Valor of Cappen Varra
by Poul William Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014

We have said that there are many and strange shadows, memories surviving from dim pasts, in this FANTASTIC UNIVERSE of ours. Poul Anderson turns to a legend from the Northern countries, countries where even today the pagan past seems only like yesterday, and tells the story of Cappen Varra, who came to Norren a long, long time ago.
Cover of Spanish Prisoners of War

Spanish Prisoners of War

From 'Literature and Life'

by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
Cover of Grove of the Unborn
by Lyn Venable
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014

Bheel still stood on the patio, transfixed with horror. He heard the terrified cry "Dheb Tyn-Dall"—and then the vigilant Guardians got him....
Cover of The Cruise of the Dazzler
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014

Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing.The Scarlet Plague was written...
Cover of The Four Million
by O. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen--the census taker--and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million."
Cover of Ultima Thule
by Dallas McCord Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014

Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Dallas Ross, Mark Mallory, Clark Collins, Dallas Rose, Guy McCord, Maxine Reynolds, Bob Belmont, and Todd Harding. His work is noteworthy for its focus on socioeconomic speculation, usually expressed in thought-provoking...
Cover of A Ride Across Palestine
by Anthony Trollope
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office to run for Parliament...
Cover of The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Ro
by Anthony Trollope
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office to run for Parliament...
Cover of A Chance Acquaintance
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

The sun shone with a warm yellow light on the Upper Town with its girdle of gray wall and on the red flag that drowsed above the citadel and was a friendly lustre on the tinned roofs of the Lower Townwhile away off to the south and east and west wandered the purple hills and the farmlit plains in such dewy shadow and effulgence as would have been enough to make the heaviest heart glad.
Cover of Waifs and Strays

Waifs and Strays

Twelve Stories

by O. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

The Red Roses of Tonia Round The Circle The Rubber Plant's Story Out of Nazareth Confessions of a Humorist The Sparrows in Madison Square Hearts and Hands The Cactus The Detective Detector The Dog and the Playlet A Little Talk About Mobs The Snow Man
Cover of Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag

Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc.

by Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.
Cover of Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
by Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle (both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon), he was also a prolific essayist, biographer...
First 7 8 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 Last
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy