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Businessman Mr. Stoughton is the owner of a legendary vault that no one has ever been able to open. Though he can't be sure that the safe contains anything valuable, speculation is rampant among those who know of its existence. Will anyone ever be able to find out what the vault holds? Find out in this fast-paced mystery story from Anna Katharine Green.

Fans of golden-era mysteries will delight in J. S. Fletcher's Scarhaven Keep, a tightly plotted page-turner set in a coastal region of northern England. A young actor and theater manager has gone missing, and several of his friends and business associates set out to track him down. The trail leads to nearby Scarhaven, where the details of a nefarious plot begin to be revealed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is strongly linked to Transcendentalism, a spiritual and philosophical movement that gained a great deal of popularity in mid-nineteenth-century America. Like his acclaimed essays, Emerson's poetry is deeply rooted in the beauty of the natural world, extolling the virtues of independence, clarity of thought and self-reliance.

Spanish-born philosopher George Santayana made a number of significant contributions to his academic discipline, but his popularity stretched beyond the ivory tower when he began to publish his essays and observations for a wider audience. The collection Winds of Doctrine offers readers a glimpse of...

This charming and thoroughly entertaining collection of interwoven short tales from W. W. Jacobs all spring from the same fictional source: a nightwatchman on the docks who has lots of time on his hands to opine, philosophize and reminisce, often about his run-ins with unruly sailors.

Acclaimed sci-fi scribe Poul Anderson was the rare talent who combined a thorough grasp of technology with keen insight into psychological and political motivations. The novella "Industrial Revolution" is a seamless amalgamation of both of these, unfurling a thrilling tale about a group of insurgent asteroid miners who spark a resistance against their distant, arrogant overlords back on Earth.

A giant in the genre of twentieth-century motivational literature, Dr. Delmer Eugene Croft provides practical steps to perfect one's personality and attitude in Supreme Personality. Reminding readers to rediscover joy in the simple things in life, Croft provides a series of short lessons and tips designed...

Immerse yourself in a gripping tale from the golden era of action-adventure fiction. This fast-paced story from Harry Castlemon, a popular author of young adult fiction, is packed with cliff-hanging suspense and plenty of thrills and chills, without being too gory or complex for younger readers to enjoy.

In the late sixteenth century, English playwright Ben Jonson revitalized an ancient style of comedic theater known as "comedy of humours." Drawing on the theory that each person has a particular trait -- or "humour" -- that defines their personality and perspective, Every Man in His Humour explores what happens when people with diametrically opposed humours are forced to interact with each other.

Written under the pen name "Walter Bupp," this short story from science-fiction luminary John Berryman is part of a series of linked tales having to do with psychic powers. A unique social club tries to ban protagonist Tex Robertson from its gambling tables on the grounds that he possesses telekinetic powers, a claim that Tex vehemently denies.

Classic romance fans will swoon over this emotionally engaging story from Ruby M. Ayres. A pair of young lovers who have grown up together decide to get married in the aftermath of a family tragedy. Soon, however, the real world intervenes, and legal tangles threaten to usurp their budding romance. Will the pair be able to stick it out and find their own version of happily ever after?

This spine-tingling collection of horror, mystery and suspense tales brings together some of the best authors in the genre, including Edgar Allan Poe and Algernon Blackwood. If you're a fan of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century mystery and suspense stories, be sure to give Famous Ghost Stories a read.

In this short story from Jesse F. Bone, immunology researcher Alan Thurston is on the brink of making a major scientific discovery that will impact humanity for thousands of years. But at a crucial juncture in the project, something goes horribly amiss. Will Thurston and his team be able to set things right again before it's too late?

Immerse yourself in a more innocent time in this enchanting tale about a sweet little girl named Dorothy. In spite of her guileless and kind demeanor, Dorothy often finds herself at the center of controversy and scuttlebutt. In this, the first volume of the beloved Dorothy Dale series, Dorothy and her best pal Tavia take on grumpy teachers, ailing parents, and other challenges of daily life.