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Cover of A Difficult Problem
by Anna Katharine Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

A Difficult Problem' is one of Green's short stories of crime and mystery. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green...
Cover of The Tremendous Adventures of Major Ga
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014

As soon as I entered the tents a host of menials sprang forward, some to ease me of my armour, some to offer me refreshments, some with hookahs, attar of roses (in great quart bottles), and the thousand delicacies of Eastern life. I motioned them away. "I will wear my armour," said I; "I shall go...
Cover of Within the Tides
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

A collection including "The Planter of Malata " "The Partner " "The Inn of the Two Witches " and "Because of the Dollars."
Cover of A Texas Matchmaker
by Andy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015

Author of the classic THE LOG OF A COWBOY, Andy Adams was a true Texas cowboy, a veteran of the long, dangerous trail drives of the 1880s. In this novel, Adams weaves the tale of "Uncle Lance" Lovelace, a sixtyish, thrice-married rancher with a penchant for finding mates for his ranch hands. The narrator,...
Cover of The Sins of Séverac Bablon
by Sax Rohmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. This is one of his novels.
Cover of Dope
by Sax Rohmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. This is one of his novels.
Cover of The Four Faces

The Four Faces

A Mystery

by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

William Le Queux was a famous journalist, writer and celebrated novelist, a master of the spy genre, and a vociferous critic of Britain's weak military defences before the First World War, known at the time and for the next twenty years as "The Great War". He is acknowledged as the principal precursor...
Cover of The Superstition of Divorce
by G. K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014

British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies-he is impossible to categorize as "liberal" or "conservative," for instance-across a wide variety of avenues: he was an arts critic, historian, playwright, novelist, columnist, and poet....
Cover of Doctor Ox's Experiment
by Jules Verne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

"Dr. Ox's Experiment" ("A Fantasy of Dr Ox") is a short story by the French writer and pioneer of science-fiction, Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a novel gas lighting system to an unusually stuffy Flemish town of Quiquendone.
Cover of The Path of the King
by John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014

We wonder that so great a man as Abraham Lincoln should spring from humble people — but who knows what his more distant ancestry might have been? In a series of dramatic chapters, Mr. Buchan tells what he imagines to have been the ancestry of Lincoln. The worthy son of a northern chieftain who had...
Cover of Strange Alliance
by Bryce Walton
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014

Bryce Walton (May 31, 1918 - February 5, 1988) was an American pulp fiction writer. He was credited as a writer for the TV serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers. In 1961, he won the Alfred Hitchcock Best Short Story award. He wrote three episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and two of his stories...
Cover of Charmides
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013

The Charmides is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as "temperance", "self-control", or "restraint". As is typical with Platonic early dialogues, the two never arrive...
Cover of Reed Anthony, Cowman
by Andy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015

From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature.
Cover of You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did
by David E. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015

"Every century has its advantages and its drawbacks," he said. "We, for instance, have bred out sexual desire. And, as for you people ..."
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