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Cover of The Ship That Saw a Ghost
by Frank Norris
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015

Benjamin Franklin Norris was an American writer and journalist in a period of “Progressive Era”. He was the first author who brought French naturalism in American literature. Norris was not a supporter of socialism as a political system, but his works were in a socialist orientation and inspired...
Cover of A Bargain with Peg-Leg
by Frank Norris
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015

This story describes Bunt McBride’s account of Peg-Leg Smith, a shameful one-legged offender. Bunt retells the story on his break from the night shift at the mine. Peg-Leg amputated his own leg and fashioned himself one from a tree stub after he was shot. He was known for his aversion and spent...
Cover of A Memorandum of Sudden Death
by Frank Norris
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015

In this story the narrator reads a manuscript written by Arthur Staples Karslake just before he died while serving in the United States Cavalry. The narrator has no personal connection to the author but has received permission from Patterson Karslake, the author’s brother, to publish the manuscript....
Cover of The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2
by Madame D'Arblay
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015

Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d'Arblay is an English diarist, novelist and playwright. During his lifetime, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty volumes of journals and letters. She published her...
Cover of The Price of Blood
by Howard Pyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015

    Howard Pyle (Mar 5, 1853 – Nov 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author. In 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute. On the verge of twentieth century, he has founded his own school of art. His classic publication of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood...
Cover of Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015

Don Quixote, or the full title The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a satire novel written by Spanish novelist, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, published in two volumes in 1605 and 1615. It is regarded as the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden...
Cover of Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015

Charlotte Brontë is an english poetess and romanticist. In a very young age she became the eldest in her family and that strengthened her spirit and personality. She was working as a teacher and loved writing. Her novel that has brought her a vogue was "Jane Ayre" - a love story. After...
Cover of Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015

Gulliver's Travels or the long title: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a novel written by Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist and writer Jonathan Swift. This is a satire on human nature as well as...
Cover of A Old Man Eckert'st
by Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

Philip Eckert lived in an old house near the little town in Vermont. He wasn’t a sociable man and lived alone. He never spoke about his affairs, about his past and no one knew his relatives. There were a lot of gossips about him. One day Philip Eckert disappeared. His neighbors tried to find him,...
Cover of The Adventure Of The Black Lady
by Aphra Behn
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015

Aphra Behn was a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. She wrote under the pastoral...
Cover of Oroonoko
by Aphra Behn
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015

Oroonoko is a short work of prose fiction. The king fell in love with Imoinda. He gave her the sacred veil, and command her to become one of his wives, even though she was already married to Oroonoko. After reluctantly spent time in the king's harem, Imoinda and Oroonoko made a plan to date with the...
Cover of Utopia
by Thomas Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015

The work which has become a legend, a symbol, large as life - Utopia. Thomas Moore put all his thoughts and hopes in this large paper on democracy. Unsuccessfully, but in rather a detailed way, Moore describes the ideal country with an ideal government where there is no descrimination and all people...
Cover of The Fox And The Monkey
by Aesop
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015

Aesop was a legendary  Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.  The life of Aesop is a bit of a mystery. There is even some debate if Aesop was an actual person or just a name used by another writer. Many of the tales...
Cover of The Ass, The Fox, And The Lion
by Aesop
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

Aesop was a legendary  Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.  The life of Aesop is a bit of a mystery. There is even some debate if Aesop was an actual person or just a name used by another writer. Many of the tales...
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