Word Wise: 97 books
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
An Accursed Race by the renowned Victorian novelist and writer Elizabeth Gaskell is rather a historical essay that deals with the tragic history of the Cagots. The latter were a European group of people who lived around Western France and Northern Spain and whose existence was marked by harsh discrimination...
by Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this foundational classic play, Christopher Marlowe beautifully retells the legend of Doctor Faustus in a masterful combination of verse and prose. The celebrated moral of the play is about how excessive ambition and unlimited lust for knowledge and power lead to self-destruction and damnation. The...
by Lieut. William Bligh
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
In the long history of the Royal Navy the mutiny on board HMS Bounty has long had a strange fascination. Life on board was harsh as it was across all ships. Here the Captain who was deposed from his ship gives us his account.
by John Quincy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
John Quincy Adams served as the sixth president of the United States winning the election in 1824. It was controversial as the House of Representatives chose amongst the top 3 vote winners. Adams had lost both the popular vote and the electoral vote but was nonetheless elected. He was a great negotiator...
by Rabindranath Tagore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who was a gifted Bengali Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a philosopher, social and political reformer and a popular author in all literary genres. He was instrumental in an increased freedom for the press and influenced Gandhi and the founders of modern India....
The Soul Of Man
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Dublin, then at Oxford. Wilde moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With his biting wit, flamboyant...
The Lifted Veil
"I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
George Eliot was a great literary talent. With classics such as Silas Marner, 'Middlemarch' and 'Adam Bede' her reputation was set for eternity. Yet she produced other works just as compelling. Just as good. Yet in spite of that talent she had to use a male pseudonym. But she persevered and triumphed. 'The Lifted Veil' is one of her best.
A Son Of The Gods, A Horseman In The Sky & An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born June 24, 1842 was one of the great American short story writers though his talents extended to Journalism and as a critic. With the motto Nothing matters it can be safely assumed that no one was free from his scathing viewpoint. As a writer he was distinctive. He would...
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Round the Sofa is the title of a two-volume collection of short stories by the famous nineteenth-century English novelist and writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It includes My Lady Ludlow, The Half-Brothers and An Accursed Race. The latter is in the form of a historical essay that condemns the racism and the...
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Percy Bysshe Shelley is more widely known as one of the great Romantic Poets. Yet in his short life he was active politically but also as an essayist where his thoughts and ideas were fresh and innovative. Included in this collection is In Defence Of Poetry which contains the quite wonderful suggestion...
by Rabindranath Tagore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this volume we venture to the East. To met a writer who speaks a common language of love and mysticism which continues to convey valuable insights into universal themes in contemporary society. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who was a gifted Bengali Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a philosopher,...
An Essay Collection, Volume 1
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Robert Louis Stevenson. In the Scottish canon to be placed alongside Burns for your poems is high praise indeed but its a rightful place for one of Scotlands finest novelists. Born in 1850 he managed to cram much into his 44 years travelling widely to France, the United States, Samoa and the South Seas....
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sketches of Young Gentlemen is a collection of texts that was first published anonymously by the renowned Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. It came at a time when Dickens was only an enthusiastic young writer right after the phenomenal success of The Pickwick Papers and Sketches by Boz. Dedicated to...
Charles Dickens - Thoughts About People
"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...