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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by Alice Hegan Rice, telling of a southern family's humorously coping with poverty. The book was highly popular on its release, and has been adapted to film several times. Rice was inspired to write the book during her "philanthropic work in a Louisville,...

Illustrated digital edition of a Shakespearean tragedy prepared in accordance with the principles of The World in Pictures project, providing a complete set of illustrations, among them 27 illustrations by outstanding painters, with a comprehensive rendering of the plot. Texts by Charles and Mery...

As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the...

A road novel fifty years before Kerouac, The Valley of the Moon traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland at the turn of the century through Central and Northern California in search of land they can farm independently—a journey that echoes Jack London's own escape...

It was a quiet night in the Shovel. At the bar, which ranged along one side of the large chinked-log room, leaned half a dozen men, two of whom were discussing the relative merits of spruce-tea and lime-juice as remedies for scurvy. They argued with an air of depression and with intervals of morose silence.

Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text editions include the following visual enhancements to foster a deeper understanding of the work: Word Clouds at the start of each chapter highlight important words. Word, sentence, paragraph counts, and reading...

It began in the swimming pool at Glen Ellen. Between swims it was our wont to come out and lie in the sand and let our skins breathe the warm air and soak in the sunshine. Roscoe was a yachtsman. I had followed the sea a bit. It was inevitable that we should talk about boats. We talked about small boats,...

This book is a collection of eight essays and memoirs by American adventure writer and journalist Jack London, published in 1917. In the title essay, London explores the evolution of civilization.

It is a misfortune to some fiction-writers that fiction and unveracity in the average person’s mind mean one and the same thing. Several years ago I published a South Sea novel. The action was placed in the Solomon Islands. The action was praised by the critics and reviewers as a highly creditable...

MIVAR technologies of the development of intelligent systems and the creation of the active multi-subject online MIVAR encyclopaedia. The basic results of 25 years of development of the MIVAR technologies are described and compared with other methods of data storage and processing. A new project of creation of the active online MIVAR encyclopaedia is proposed.

Da Terra à Lua (no original em francês De la Terre à la Lune) é um livro do escritor francês Júlio Verne, publicado em 1865. Conta a saga do Gun Club (Clube do Canhão), uma organização americana especializada em armas de fogo, canhões e balística em geral, e da ideia de seus membros em...

Édition électronique illustrée du conte de fée de Charles Perraul préparé conformément aux principes du projet The World in Pictures, fournissant un ensemble complet d'illustrations, dont 38 illustrations de peintres exceptionnels, avec un rendu complet de l'intrigue. La publication utilisé des...

L’Ecclésiaste (traduction grecque de l'hébreu קהלת Qohelet, « celui qui s'adresse à la foule »), est un livre de la Bible hébraïque, faisant partie des Ketouvim, présent dans tous les canons. L'auteur se présente en tant que "Qohelet", fils de David, et roi d'Israël à Jérusalem (1:1,...