Phoenix: 1848 books

A couple was having dinner with a guest. At midnight, the guest saw a girl in white dress came in the house and go straight into the next room. The same thing happened again the next day and the day after that...

Once upon a time there lived an emperor who had three sons. They were all fine young men, and fond of hunting, and scarcely a day passed without one or other of them going out to look for game...

Jabez Wilson, a London pawnbroker, comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. While studying his client, both Holmes and Watson notice his red hair, which has a distinct flame-like hue. Wilson tells them that some weeks before, his young assistant, Vincent Spaulding, urged him to...

Holmes' client is Helen Stoner, a 32-year-old spinster who lives with her stepfather: Dr. Grimesby Roylott of Stoke Moran. Dr Roylott is the last survivor of what was a wealthy but dissolute and violent tempered aristocratic Anglo-Saxon family of Surrey. After returning from India...

A couple had no children while they were rich, but when they became poor, they had a son, and the father could find no one for a godfather except a beggar. The beggar named the boy Ferdinand the Faithful, gave him nothing, and took nothing, but he gave the nurse a key and said that when...

Two sons of a king went out to seek their fortunes, but fell into disorderly ways. The third and youngest son, Simpleton, went out to find them, but they mocked him. They traveled on, and Simpleton prevented his brothers from destroying an ant hill, killing some ducks, and suffocating...

There was once upon a time a tailor who had three sons, and only one goat. But as the goat supported the whole of them with her milk, she was obliged to have good food, and to be taken every day to pasture. The sons, therefore, did this, in turn. Once the eldest took her to the churchyard, where the finest herbs were to be found, and let her eat and run about there....

In a certain mill lived an old miller who had neither wife nor child, and three apprentices served under him....

Looking for Norbert Street, or Donat Crescent, or maybe Caspian Court ? How about Turnburry Court, Satleville Crescent, or Venetian Drive ?  These are only 6 of the more than 50 new streets created in the last year ( over 250 streets in the last 5 years) in the Greater Moncton area of New Brunswick,...

Newly revised, This Endless Moment  is a book for people on a serious quest for their identity. This book clears away the myths, half-truths and misconceptions that keep us from living fulfilling, clear and meaningful lives. Using stories, illustrations and common sense advice, Wayne...

Iamblichus averred that Hermes was the author of twenty thousand books; Manetho increased the number to more than thirty-six thousand (see James Gardner) figures which make it evident that a solitary individual, even though he be overshadowed by divine prerogative, could scarcely have accomplished...

There was once a woman who had three daughters, of whom the eldest was called Little One-eye, because she had only one eye in the middle of her forehead; and the second, Little Two-eyes, because she had two eyes like other people; and the youngest, Little Three-eyes, because she had three eyes, and her third eye was also in the middle of her forehead... 

Cette farce normande dénonce l'étroite mentalité paysanne. Toine, cabaretier à Tournevent surnommé Toine-ma-Fine, aime rire et s’amuser, jusqu’au jour où il est paralysé suite à une attaque. Il se retrouve alors à la merci...

Imagine what it would be like if you could see everything that goes on during one teacher’s day. A Place of Learning: A Teacher's Story, a fictionalized account based on my experiences in three city high schools, spans three decades. Those who have read the book tell me the anecdotes are outrageous,...