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Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 – March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, she was the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942. In this ebook: The Vanishing of Betty Varian The...

The Romance of Lust A classic Victorian erotic novel VOLUME I. CONTENTS The Novice—Mrs. Benson—Mary—Mrs. Benson's Correspondence with Mrs. Egerton—Miss Evelyn—Eliza There were three of us—Mary, Eliza, and myself. I was approaching fifteen, Mary was about a year younger,...

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 – 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers. Oppenheim featured on the cover of Time magazine on September 12, 1927. He was the self-styled "prince of storytellers."...

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was an Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying...

Oliver Goldsmith (1730 – 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase...

«La ferrovia sotterranea» è il nome con cui si indica, nella storia degli Stati Uniti, la rete clandestina di militanti antischiavisti che nell’Ottocento aiutava i neri a fuggire dal Sud agli stati liberi del Nord. Nel suo romanzo storico dalle sfumature fantastiche, Colson Whitehead la trasforma...

Raphael Sabatini (1875 –1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and adventure. He is best known for his worldwide best-sellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), a tale of an Elizabethan Englishman among the pirates of the Barbary Coast; Scaramouche (1921), a tale of...

Poemas sobre la soberbia y el amor.

Au crépuscule de sa vie, alors que son pays est désormais aux mains de l'ennemi, Louise de Ramezay fait le bilan de son existence. Celle que l'on surnommait «la très noble demoiselle» a-t-elle eu raison de se méfier de l'amour? Le bonheur éprouvé après chaque conquête n'était-il qu'illusion?...

Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser, August 7, 1928 in Brooklyn, NY, died February 22, 2008 (aged 79), in Williamsburg, Virginia) was anAmerican author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. He is best known...

Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 – March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet of Children's fiction books. In this ebook: Patty at Home Patty's Summer Days Patty's Social Season Patty Blossom Patty and Azalea Patty in Paris Patty's...

Dans cet ouvrage, l’auteur nous fait découvrir comment vivaient les citadins – bourgeois et nobles, mais aussi le petit peuple – de Québec, de Trois-Rivières et de Montréal entre 1680 et 1760. Plusieurs aspects sont évoqués : leur environnement (rues et maisons), leurs besoins fondamentaux...

Author: Sewell Peaslee Wright ISFDB Author Record # 1142 Legal Name: Wright, Sewell Peaslee Birthplace: Butler, Pennsylvania, USA Birthdate: 7 August 1897 Deathdate: March 1970   In this ebook: The Infra-Medians The God in the Box...

Edgar Fawcett (May 26, 1847 - May 2, 1904) was an American novelist and poet. In this ebook: An Ambitious Woman Some Reminiscences of old Victoria The Adventures of a Widow A Lost day