Word Wise: 97 books
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (3rd December 1857 3rd August 1924) was a Polish author regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties when he settled in England and was subsequently granted British nationality. ...
by Ring Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Ring Lardner was by most accounts a writer who excelled at creating situations about apple pie America and them warping them with his exceptional satirical gifts to an altogether different plane. In The Big Town he and the missus go to New York to help her sister Katie find a husband. A simple enough premise but life in the Big Apple with Lardners writing is pure genius.
Admiral Guinea
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
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 JM Synge
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Synge was educated privately at schools in Dublin and Bray, and was later to study piano, flute, violin, music theory and counterpoint at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. After graduating, Synge, with plans to be a professional musician went to Germany. He stayed at Coblenz during 1893 before moving...
by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Richard Harding Davis was born on April 18, 1864. He was a journalist of some renown. He was the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt and he also played...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk, Scotland, the eldest of the eight children. After a comprehensive education including St Andrews and Oxford he soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day. His list of works is extensive and covers everything from biographies to fairy...
A Cynic Looks At Life
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
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 Alice Meynell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
In this volume we look at the works of the poet Alice Meynell. She was born Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson on September 22nd 1847. Her early years were in England, Switzerland, and France as the family moved around finally settling in Italy where she was thereafter raised mainly in Italy. Her great...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Seven Poor Travellers is one of Charles Dickenss Christmas stories that was first published in the 1854 Christmas issue of the Victorian Novelists periodical Household Words. It follows the adventures of six travelers in addition to the story of the seventh traveller who is none but the narrator...
Across The Plains
“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
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 Honore De Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1831, Honore de Balzacs The Hidden Masterpiece, or Le Chef-doeuvre inconnu, is a short story that deals with the theme of artistic creativity and appreciation. It has influenced a variety of literary men and artists including the American novelist Henry James and the renowned painter...
by Honore De Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Honore De Balzac may only have lived for 51 years but his work lives on through such vital classics as Albert Savarus. Written in 1836 and part of a series of novels known as La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy) which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (18151848).
Eureka - A Prose Poem
"No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th 1809 and was orphaned at an early age. Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy, West Point where he failed to become an officer. His early literary works were poetic...
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
The protagonist in Gustave Flauberts A Simple Soul is a housemaid named Félicité who devotes her entire existence to serving her mistress, Madame Aubain. Félicité is depicted as a simple, hardworking woman of great character and endless loving power. Despite her very miserable youth, being harshly...