Ejlp: 59 books

The Earth was green and quiet. Nature had survived Man, and Man had survived himself. Then, one day, the great silvery ships broke the tranquillity of the skies, bringing Man's twenty-thousand-year-lost inheritance back to Earth....

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert’s literary career. Includes “The Dance of Death,” “The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller,” and “A Simple Soul.”

Futuria Fantasia was an American science fiction fanzine created by Ray Bradburyin 1938, when he was 18 years old.

Some women may be superficial in education and accomplishments, extravagant in tastes, conspicuous in apparel, something more than selfassured in bearing, devoted to trivialities, inclined to frequent public places. It is, nevertheless, not without cause that art has always shown the virtues in woman's...

It is a well known fact that we can produce any effect desired when we understand causes, and can master those causes. And as the process of thinking is the one underlying cause in the life of man we naturally become master over all life when we can understand and master the process of thinking. Each...

"Franklin Winslow Kane" Is a More Poignant and Charming Novel Than Its Title Indicates.

It is a common trend, up until this very day, to reveal the difficult side of being a great artist. Madame Okraska is no different. Great artists are, sometimes, very complicated. Sometimes the price of success is too high, for them and for those around them. Would Madame Okraska and her adopted daughter...

Every teacher requires a working knowledge of the fundamental nature of the human mind. Without it teaching cannot be made either an interesting or a creative occupation. When psychologically uninformed, the teacher can operate on the mind of youth only in a formal and mechanical way, applying traditional...

This Freedom was published to controversy, seen by the women's rights movement as an anti-feminist novel. G. K. Chesterton, however, suggested that "while the story might be criticized, the criticisms can certainly be criticized." In any case, This Freedom proved to be highly successful and...

Fans familiar with the polished and polite on-screen version of this indelible Western hero may be taken aback at their first encounter with his literary predecessor. In Clarence E. Mulford’s wildly popular series of novels and short stories, Hopalong Cassidy is rough around the edges, prone to...

"Beyond the Door" is a low fantasy short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the January 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe. The plot follows a cuckoo clock, which may or may not be intelligent, and a cuckolded husband.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining...

Conditionally Human is set in a future where the crisis of overpopulation has caused the implimentation of rigid controls on procreation based on genetic screening. To satisfy the parental instinct in those who were not permited children, a device named the evolvotron was invented. Through genetic...

A Gentleman of Courage is a novel of love and adventure in a French-Canadian pioneer village on Lake Superior in the 1890s.