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A forty-year-old man named Dmitri Gurov is intrigued by a young woman walking along the sea front of Yalta with her small Pomeranian dog…   Anton Chekov’s 1899 story The Lady with the Dog tells of an adulterous affair between a Russian banker and a young lady he meets while vacationing...

Every version of Little Red Riding Hood in one beautifully formatted eBook with stunning original art.  Little Red Riding Hood  Little Red Cap  Little Red Hood  The Grandmother  The True History of Little Golden-Hood  The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck  Red Riding-hood ...

Ice duels. Twin gods. Slayers and Saviors. An unbreakable sword. Saga Six Pack 3 presents another scintillating sextet of Scandinavian superhero stories: The Story of Burnt Njál The Saga of Magnus the Good The Song of Atli The Hell-Ride of Brynhild The Saga of Olaf Kyrre The Lay of Hamdir Also...

Life is long if you know how to use it. From the author of ***Letters From A Stoic (Epistulae Moralis)***, comes another brilliant, timeless guide to living well. Written as a moral essay to his friend Paulinus, Seneca’s biting words still pack a powerful punch two thousand years later....

"We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise with those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice."  Little is known about 2nd century Greek Stoic philosopher Hierocles....

First published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, The Diamond as big as The Ritz is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s under-rated masterpieces. John T. Unger is a sixteen-year-old boy from an affluent family in Hades, Mississippi on his way to St. Midas' preparatory...

"Apocalypse" is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling." As a genre, apocalyptic literature details the authors' visions of the end times as revealed by a heavenly messenger or Angel. This...

'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe Decades before Sherlock Holmes, American author Edgar Allan Poe created the detective story in this remarkable trilogy of short stories featuring genius French criminologist C. Auguste Dupin. 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' represents...

The philosophy of the ancient Syrian-Roman Publius Syrus defies easy categorization. Part Stoic, part Epicurean, and even part Sceptic and Cynic, the wit and wisdom of this former slave turned playwright transcends doctrine and embraces humanism. His celebrated dramatic works are all but lost –...

They roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice—  They roused him with mustard and cress—  They roused him with jam and judicious advice—  They set him conundrums to guess.  When at length he sat up and was able to speak,  His sad story he offered to tell; ...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870) created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him...

“Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” - Epicurus. Epicurus posited a materialistic physics, in which pleasure, by which he meant freedom from pain, is the highest good. Serenity, the harmony of mind and body, is best achieved, through virtue and simple...

"To relax the mind is to lose it." Gaius Musonius Rufus (c. AD 30–100) was one of the four great Roman Stoic philosophers, the other three being Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Musonius’s pupil Epictetus.  Rufus taught philosophy in Rome during the reign of Nero, as a consequence of which...

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. Casaubon’s famous 1634 translation of Meditations was the first English version of the Stoic masterwork to be reprinted many times because of its widespread popularity....