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Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but the fury of a biochemist scorned is just as great --and much more fiendish.

A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea.

Eat your spinach, little man! It's good for you. Stuff yourself with it. Be a good little consumer, or the cops will get you.... For such is the law of supply and demand!

Smart man, Bruckner—he knew how to handle natives ... but they knew even better how to deal with smart terrestrials!

Never ask "Who am I and where do I come from?" The answers may not be what you'd expect!

Under the cloud of cast-off identities lay the shape of another man--was it himself?

Doctors had given him just one month to live. A month to wonder, what comes afterward? There was one way to find out—ask a dead man!

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist,...

A collection of essays and sermons by the Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, N.Y. first published in book form in 1867.

The Acadian Reminiscences is a word painting of the life of the Acadians in the Teche Country in the long ago. The plain, simple frugal life of these people, their devotion to principle, their unbound faith in the goodness of God, their love for each other during all their misfortunes and perilous...

She had her mind made up--the one way they'd make her young again was over her dead body!

Short story written science fiction author, Robert Arthur.

This story deals with the participants in an expedition that successfully captures the presidency of a Central American republic. It is very exciting, the incidents being fresh and daring with not too much reliance placed on coincidence.

Berthold Auerbach (28 February 1812 - 8 February 1882) was a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions. This is one of his works.