Artisan: 415 books

A Master of Mysteries is a collection of six seemingly impossible (supernatural?) cases narrated by Mr. John Bell, the well-known ghost-hunter who seeks to debunk and expose the truth behind ghosts and haunting. In his own words, Bell “proposes to relate the histories of certain queer events,...

Smith College Stories is Josephine Daskam Bacon’s timeless collection of short stories set at Smith College, the author's alma mater, written in 1900. A stunning tour de force, it reveals the artistry and depth of a major feminist master. It has not been out of print since 1900. It...

The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling's beloved story of Mowgli, the jungle boy rescued and raised by tigers in the heart of the jungle. His tales feature such unforgettable creatures such as Baloo, the kindly brown bear; Bagheera, the graceful black panther; and Kaa, the snake with the hypnotic stare....

The Night Operator follows a panorama of brave railroad men responsible for the safety of others, who meet their obligations with abounding courage: "Toodles," the spunky night operator; Royal Carlton, the big superintendent; Regan, the master-mechanic, and Tim O'Toole, the valorous Everyman. Superbly...

“Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all..." In Memoriam A.H.H. is a poem by the British poet Lord Alfred Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's beloved Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage...

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, (the companion volume to Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination), is an exquisite collection of prototypical works by the master, whose extravagantly macabre tales have inspired such latter-day disciples as H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. Poe is most...

Tales of Mystery and Imagination, (the companion volume to Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque), is an exquisite collection of prototypical works by the master, whose extravagantly macabre tales have inspired such latter-day disciples as H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. Poe is most...

“I am entranced When I can curse my lord behind his back.”     Aristophanes' The Frogs is a timeless comedy, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to delightful effect. Modern critics have acclaimed it as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable...

The fourth of Trollope's Palliser novels, Phineas Redux is one of his most spellbinding achievements. With Phineas Finn, Trollope created one of his most interesting characters, a talented but naive doctor's son from Ireland with Parliamentary aspirations who must make numerous practical and...

“Far away in the western sky, Lanning saw a black dot that moved in wide circles and came up across the heavens slowly, and he knew it was a buzzard that scented carrion…” The Way Of The Lawless is the pioneering novel set in the Wild West by American author Max Brand,...

  A Season in Hell (Une Saison en Enfer) is a lengthy poem written and published in 1873 by Arthur Rimbaud. It is considered by many as his masterwork. Rimbaud began writing the poem in April, during a visit to his family's farm in Roche, on the French-Belgian border....

Aliens (not extraterrestrials!) is a story of revolt against hypocritical conformity and snobbish sentiment, A young artist and writer tells the story of two Carville brothers, one of them a sea-faring man; the other, a strange, sinister character, with great power over women, a character who...

“…Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can. No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles…” Rose in Bloom reveals a very ambitious young Louisa May Alcott finding her voice as a...

A fat, clumsy, and bankrupt English lord loses his estate in 1692, and inadvertently becomes a monster who must feed on blood to survive. Nothing goes right for Alpheus and he is entombed until the year 1996. Immortal, but stuck in his awkward frame, he is terrible at hunting for blood and...