Bay Bay Online Books L D Edition: 102 books

* Book : The Common Law * Biography * Bibliography Artist Louis "Kelly" Neville is already famous, but finds greatness easier to talk about than achieve. Chance conversation with the model for his new project leads him to put his theories about creativity, society, and love to the...

* Book : The King in Yellow * Biography * Bibliography The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in...

* Book : The Messenger * Biography * Bibliography "Look " said Le Bihan shrilly. I looked. The pile below was a heap of skulls. After a moment I clambered down the gravel sides of the pit and walked over to the men of Bannalec. They saluted me gravely, leaning on their picks and shovels, and wiping their swearing faces with sunburned hands.

* Book : Apology * Biography (The) Apology (of Socrates) is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man "who corrupted the young, did not believe in the gods, and created new deities". "Apology" here has its earlier...

* Book : Kidnapped * Biography * Bibliography Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites;...

* Book : A Christmas Sermon * Biography * Bibliography By the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve months; and it is thought I should take my leave in a formal and seasonable manner. Valedictory eloquence is rare, and death-bed sayings have not often hit the mark of...

* Book : The Master of Ballantrae * Biography * Bibliography Stevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme the elemental struggle between good and evil as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities...

* Book : Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde * Biography * Bibliography Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend,...

* Book : The Blonde Lady * Biography * Bibliography " On the 8th of December last, M. Gerbois, professor of mathematics at Versailles College, rummaging among the stores at a second-hand dealer's, discovered a small mahogany writingdesk, which took his fancy because of its many drawers. "That's...

* Book : Treasure Island * Biography * Bibliography Treasure Island is an adventure novel by author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked...

* Book : The Slayer of Souls * Biography * Bibliography An American-born girl, Tressa Norne, has been held in bondage in the Temple of Erlik, an Oriental devil-god of Central Asia. After many years of captivity, Tressa finally escapes to America knowing that a worldwide organization of murderous...

* Book : Meno * Biography * Bibliography Persons of the dialogue: Meno; Socrates; A slave of Meno; Anytus Meno. Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what...

* Book : Phaedo * Biography * Bibliography Persons of the dialogue:Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius Socrates Apollodorus Simmias Cebes Crito Attendant of the prison Scene: The Prison of Socrates Place of the narration: Phlius Echecrates....

* Book : Protagoras * Biography * Bibliography The Protagoras, like several of the Dialogues of Plato, is put into the mouth of Socrates, who describes a conversation which had taken place between himself and the great Sophist at the house of Callias 'the man who had spent more upon the Sophists...