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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the “Arabian Nights”) – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries)...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the “Arabian Nights”) – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries)...

Excerpt: ““Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad” …The second, well he was a rubber-doll, who talked through a whistling hat. His speech ran over with folderol, but his jokes they were never at. He squeaked and creaked with his heart care-free, such things as this tale will tell, but whether asleep or at work was he The little maid loved him well….”

These four short plays by sometime fantasy author John Kendrick Bangs rely on misunderstandings, miscommunication, and funny asides to the audience for their humour. (Goodreads)

In this collection of short stories “Over the Plum Pudding” – John Kendrick Bangs attempted to master a comically debunking style of fantasy which was like that of Mark Twain.

A collection of humorous tales and scetches by sometime fantasy author John Kendrick Bangs

Excerpt:" Mollie had been romping in the hay all the afternoon. With her were Flaxilocks, the French doll, and young Whistlebinkie, the rubber boy, who had got his name from the fact that he had a whistle set in the top of his beaver hat. Flaxilocks and Whistlebinkie could stand a great deal...

Much that Mr. Bangs writes seems to be very easily written. (...) As a popular humorist, Mr. Bangs has long been conspicuous, and there is no reason why everybody who has found his previous works amusing should not laugh long and heartily over the jokes of The Dreamers. - The New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art

In The Nabob Alphonse Daudet writes fluidly and somewhat romantically about a nouveau riche Frenchman (originally from the south of France, like Daudet) returning from Tunis and determined to buy his way into the upper reaches of Paris society. He is led from one mistake to another, humbled and humiliated....

"Die Versuchung des Pescara" ist eine Novelle von C.F. Meyer. Sie wurde 1887 veröffentlicht und gilt als eines seiner bedeutendsten Werke. Die Erzählung spielt im Italien des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts. In dieser Zeit ist Italien politisch in Stadtstaaten und diverse Fürstentümer im Norden,...

Excerpt: "There never was a more unfounded calumny, than that which would impute to the Irish peasantry an indifference to education. I may, on the contrary, fearlessly assert that the lower orders of no country ever manifested such a positive inclination for literary acquirements, and that,...

Excerpt: "There is no country in the world whose scenery is more sweetly diversified, or more delicately shaded away into that exquisite variety of surface which presents us with those wavy outlines of beauty that softly melt into each other, than is that of our own green island. Alas! how many...

(Excerpt): "Spaceship crews should be selected on the basis of their non-irritating qualities as individuals. No chronic complainers, no hypochondriacs, no bugs on cleanliness—particularly no one-man parties. I speak from bitter experience. Because on the first expedition to Mars, Hugh Allenby...

Drum-Taps is a collection of poetry by American poet Walt Whitman. The book, which was written during the American Civil War, was first published in 1865. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)