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The Katy series is a set of novels by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, writing under the pen-name of Susan Coolidge. The first in the series, What Katy Did was published in 1872 and this was followed a year later by What Katy Did at School. What Katy Did Next was released in 1886. Two further novels, Clover...

 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain...

Charles Dickens, Short Stories Collection is contained 62 works written by Charles Dickens, who was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his...

Marjorie Series is Carolyn Wells’s best known Series. Marjorie is a happy little American girl of twelve, up to mischief, but full of goodness and sincerity. The incidents of her summer vacation are such as will delight any little girl.   Marjorie Series ( 5 Works ) Marjorie's...

Willa Sibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather...

Kull Stories is a short story by American fantasy fiction writer Robert E. Howard. It was originally published in the magazine Weird Tales, set in his fictional Thurian Age. The Shadow Kingdom: The story introduces Kull himself, the setting of Valusia, the supporting character Brule the Spear-slayer...

Edinburgh is fortunate in possessing this, one of the world-famous examples of Boucher’s exquisite portraiture. He painted with rare charm more than once this wonderful woman, “the king’s morsel,” Jeanne Poisson, Madame Lenormant d’Etioles, who became the notorious Marquise de Pompadour....

The Collected Works of Charles Dickens Vol.I is contained 10 works written by Charles Dickens, who was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life,...

Romance of History, Mexico(1909) is the timeless historical story written by Margaret Duncan Coxhead and illustrated in colour by J. H. Robinson,  published  by New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers ( 1909 ). …..All ages have their pervading spirit. In the fifteenth...

Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist of what is sometimes referred to as "domestic fiction". She promoted Republican motherhood. Miss Sedgwick’s first publication was “The New England Tale.” In 1836, she commenced writing in quite a new vein, giving a series of illustrations...

The Collected Works of C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne is the collected works of Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne, also known by the pen name Weatherby Chesney, was a novelist. He is perhaps best remembered as the author of The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, which was published as part of the Ballantine...

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky , sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century...

The Collected Works of Charles Dickens Vol.II is contained 10 works written by Charles Dickens, who was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life,...