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Vera

or, The Nihilists

by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014

Mich. No, Father Peter, not yet; 'tis a good three miles to the post office, and she has to milk the cows besides, and that dun one is a rare plaguey creature for a wench to handle. Peter. Why didn't you go with her, you young fool? she'll never love you unless you are always at her heels; women like...
Cover of Karl Ludwig Sand
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

With a little amplification, the novel is almost a non-fictitious story of Karl-Ludwig Sand. It narrates his crime against the royalty and the relentless pursuance of the criminal afterwards. Read with maturity of mind it provides deep insight into the atrocities perpetuated by the royalty and the hatred of the people for such authority.
Cover of Massacres of the South
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

Written by noted French author, Alexandre Dumas, "Massacres of the South" is an essay belonging to his collected title "Celebrated Crimes" which features famous criminals and crimes from European history.
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by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014

A belief that modern Christmas fiction is too cheerful in tone, too artistic in construction, and too original in motive, has inspired the author of this tale of middle-class life. He trusts that he has escaped, at least, the errors he deplores, and has set an example of a more seasonable and sensational style of narrative.
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by Arthur Dekker Savage
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

A young man and a young woman alone on the first over-the-moon ship. The world cheered them as the most romantic adventurers in all history. Do-gooders decried them as immoral stunters. Gaunt, serious militarists pronounced them part of the most crucial experiment ever undertaken....
Cover of Earthsmith
by Stephen Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014

Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. This is one of those stories.
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by Arthur Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014

A bright, quickly moving detective story telling of the adventures which befell a mysterious lady flying from Calais through France into Italy, closely pursued by detectives. Her own quick wits, aided by those of a gallant fellow passenger, give the two officers an unlooked-for and exciting "run for...
Cover of The Garden of Survival
by Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious...
Cover of How to Fail in Literature
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014

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,...
Cover of Sound of Terror
by Don Berry
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

What is more frightening than the fear of the unknown? Johnny found out!
Cover of Three More John Silence Stories
by Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Secret Worship, The Camp of the Dog, A Victim of Higher Space
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American Lutheranism Vindicated

or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics

by Samuel Simon Schmucker
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013

"American Lutheranism Vindicated: or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics" is a religious text written by Samuel Simon Schmucker.
Cover of The Appreciations and Criticisms of t
by G. K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014

Born in London, Chesterton was educated at St. Paul's, but never went to college. He went to art school. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200...
Cover of War of the Classes
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014

The class struggle -- The tramp -- The scab -- The question of the maximum -- A review -- Wanted: a new law of development -- How I became a socialist
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