Blackmore Dennett: 167 books

In giving this sketch of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, no attempt has been made to present a complete life of the great king. It is a history difficult for young people to understand, and for that reason only the leading events of a most eventful life have been presented. It was first written for...

Anthony Hope was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature,...

The first installment of the Science Fiction Collection, guaranteed to melt your mind! Featuring: Tanks (Murray Leinster) The Stolen Mind (M. L. Staley) Storm Warning (Donald A. Wollheim) The Light Machine (Ray Cummings) The Octopus Cycle (Fletcher Pratt & Irvin Lester) The Pendulum (Ray...

Alexander Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. The Alexander Pushkin Collection features: Marie The Daughter Of The Commandant The Pistol Shot The...

Spring and All is a hybrid work consisting of alternating sections of prose and free verse. It might best be understood as a manifesto of the imagination. The prose passages are a dramatic, energetic and often cryptic series of statements about the ways in which language can be renewed in such...

First published in 1923 in Paris in an edition of three hundred copies, this satiric novel by the great American poet is "a satire on the novel form in which a little -(female) Ford car falls more or less in love with a Mack truck." For the most part, however, this work is a serious attempt...

Kora in Hell: Improvisations, William Carlos Williams said, "is a unique book, not like any other I have written. It is the book I have enjoyed referring to more than any of the others. It reveals myself to me and perhaps that is why I have kept it to myself...I am indebted to Ezra Pound for...

High Court Justice Sir Horace Fewbanks found shot dead in his Hampstead home, a butler with a criminal past, a scorned lover and a hint of scandal. These are the elements of the Hampstead Mystery that Detective Inspector Chippenfield of Scotland Yard must unravel with the assistance of the ambitious...

The Sovereign Pontiff, Leo XIII., in his Encyclical on Scholastic Philosophy, writes as follows: “Let the teachers whom you shall discreetly choose make it their aim to instil the doctrine of Thomas Aquinas into the minds of their scholars, and to set in a clear light his solidity and excellence...

Fifteen short stories by Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (1869 – 1951), an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more...

It started in Greece on the day after tomorrow. Before the last act raced to a close, Coburn was buried to his ears in assorted adventures, including a revolution and an invasion from outer space! We're not given to throwing around the word "epic" lightly, but here is one! Swashbuckling...

William Carlos Williams was still struggling to find his audience at the time that he published Sour Grapes and he was forced to pay for some, if not all, of the publishing expenses himself. As a book, it is highly representative of Williams's early writing. The book is filled out with improvisational...

The best of Henry Kuttner's horror tales show no influence other than his own imagination: ‘‘I, the Vampire’’, is an early sympathetic vampire story set among the demimonde of Hollywood. One of the greatest vampire tales ever told.

In J. Allan Dunn’s fantasy-adventure, “The Treasure of Atlantis,” an orchid hunter’s discovery is the catalyst that prompts an expedition into the interior of South America ... and to the lost remnants of ancient Atlantis! Cut off from the modern world, Atlantis offers swashbuckling...