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Cover of How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Choles
by Lord Dunsany
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015

Despite the advertisements of rival firms, it is probable that every tradesman knows that nobody in business at the present time has a position equal to that of Mr. Nuth.
Cover of Florville and Courval
by Marquis de Sade
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

Courval has asked Florville to marry him. Florville decides that before she can marry him she must confess all of her sins to him so that they will have no secrets. The tales are sordid and come together in an entirely unexpected way for both the narrator and the reader. A classic.
Cover of Three
by Marquis de Sade
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

The Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary, and writer of philosophy-laden, and often, violent pornography. He was a philosopher of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure being the highest principle. There is perhaps no more...
Cover of Mahomet
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

This powerful work was read by Voltaire to Frederick of Prussia in 1740, to the king's great delight. The play was withdrawn after the fourth representation, under pressure of Church authorities who professed to see in it a bloody satire against the Christian religion. Almost three hundred years later...
Cover of Mariamne
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

It is enough: the power of Salome, By all acknowledged, and by all obeyed, On its firm basis stands immovable: I fled to Azor, with the lightning's speed, Even from Samaria's plain to Jordan's spring, And quick returned: my presence there indeed Was needful, to cut off the aspiring hopes Of Israel's...
Cover of Catiline
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

In his preface to this play Voltaire says: "The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrative of Catiline's conspiracy: a tragedy, they very well know, is not a history, but they will see a true picture of the manners of those times: all that Cicero, Catiline, Cato and Cæsar do in this piece...
Cover of The Orphan of China
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

The Chinese tragedy, which they call "The Orphan," was taken out of an immense collection of the theatrical performances of that nation, which has cultivated this art for about three thousand years before it was invented by the Greeks, the art of making living portraits of the actions of men, establishing...
Cover of The Scotch Woman
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

I don't belong to the house, sir; but I spend most of my time in the coffee-room; write news, politics, and so forth, and am always ready to do an honest gentleman service. If you have any friend you want to have praised, or any enemy to be abused; any author you want to protect or to decry; 'tis...
Cover of Merope
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so...
Cover of The Prude
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

This comedy is partly imitated from an English piece, called the Plain Dealer. It does not suit very well for the French stage; the manners are too rough and bold, though much less so than in the original. The English seem to take too much liberty, and the French too little. -Voltaire Wilder Publications...
Cover of The Tatler
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

Don't imagine, my dear, that, by what I'm going to say, I mean to exercise the authority of a mother, always ready as you know I am, to listen in my turn to your reasons when I think them good; my intention is not to lay my commands on you, but to give you my advice; it is my heart which speaks to...
Cover of The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton¿s most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood...
Cover of The Slizzers
by Jerome Bixby
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

The main trouble is that you'd never suspect anything was wrong; you'd enjoy associating with slizzers, so long as you didn't know....
Cover of The Picture in the House
by H. P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.
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