Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Origins of the Fairy Tale from around the World' contains seven different versions of the 'Snow White' story. It includes an in-depth introduction to the fairy tal...więcej »
Published posthumously in 1766, A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift is a complete collection consisting of sixty-five letters he wrote to Esther Johnson, whom he bestowed the name of S...więcej »
The Lady with the Dog is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in 1899. It tells the story of an adulterous affair between a Russian banker and a young lady he meets while vacationing i...więcej »
Henry Morrison works as a fly-fishing guide on a river in Northern Michigan where he first learned to cast a line sixty years earlier. His life should be se...więcej »
The Hill of Dreams is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Welsh writer Arthur Machen.The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhoo...więcej »
Charles Wolfe Collins is an Irish immigrant, ex-spy, Pinkerton operative, and a veteran of the Civil War. Collins is being sent on a hazardous assignmen...więcej »
Even at an allegedly gay-friendly high school, being out isn't easy, not if you play a sport. Remy didn't just play a sport, he lived for a sport. He bled crew and rowed with his best friend, Mi...więcej »
An exploration of the class struggle in nineteenth century London where a potential inheritance turns family and friends into desperate foes eager to escape their circumstance. ...więcej »
The Everlasting Spring: Beyond Olympus is an epic trilogy in three heroic sagas spanning two thousand years in the tumultuous advance of Western Civilization. The Storyteller is an old man who u...więcej »
The Great White Queen (1896) is an adventure novel by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the beginning of Le Queux's career as a leading author of popular thrillers, Th...więcej »
Originally published in 1917, The Black Box follows expert criminologist Sanford Quest, as he and his colleagues attempt to bring a suspected killer to justice. The boo...więcej »
This is one of Edgar Rice Burroughs few contemporary novels (now reads as historical). It makes interesting comments on prohibition, drug addiction, and early Hollywood. The ranch land that the ...więcej »
Over Manhattan's dizzy towers fell that insidious, invisible menace-an unseen cloud of death that first transformed the entire metropolis into a laughing, drunken riot and then blasted it to bit...więcej »
Oh Well, I ThoughtBy: JoVonneOh Well, I Thought is about life, not so much life's ups and downs but about what we thought life would be once love engulfed our h...więcej »
When her father leaves and mother becomes ill, a girl is sent to live with a distant relative where she learns some hard life lessons. The girl encounters both good and bad people, but ma...więcej »
Inconsequential Tales is a collection of previous uncollected -- and even unpublished -- tales by this highly respected modern practitioner of the weird tale.więcej »
In my college writing class I was told to write a modern day Cinderella story. I was not looking forward to it because I hate writing happy stuff. I pull my creativity from a place of pain not a bu...więcej »
The Searching Time is equally a drama, a romance, a social novel, a mystery novel and a lyrical novel. The Searching Time is a rich drama about the intersecting lives of a sixteen-year-...więcej »
Gray Taylor wants to be remarkable but isn't. Gray gets the chance to change this when his mother moves him from Los Angeles to the dying Kansas town of ...więcej »