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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Volume 2 [en] (1781)
Edward Gibbon
This is Volume 2 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes, covering the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from 180 to 1453, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behavior...
Genre: History
Goody Two-Shoes [en] (1888)
Anonymous
Goody Two-Shoes is a children's story. The story is the origin of the popular phrase "goody two-shoes," often used to describe an overly virtuous person. Goody Two-Shoes is a variation of the Cinderella story.
Genre: Young Readers
Salute to Adventurers [en] (1915)
John Buchan
Andrew Garvald is a young Scottish merchant who has bravely come to make his fortune in a newly colonised America. Outlawed from Virginian society for opposing the London traders' monopoly, his friends are Red Ringan, a pirate and gentleman adventurer and Shalah, an exiled Indian prince. When...
Genre: Action/Adventure
The Survivors of the Chancellor [en] (1875)
Jules Verne
Mr. Kazallon thought that booking passage on a cargo ship from Charleston to Liverpool would be a charming way to return to his English homeland. If only he knew! A crazed sea captain, a disaster in the hold, storms, oppressive heat, sharks and starvation are just some of the many travails...
Genre: Action/Adventure
The Frog Prince and Other Stories [en] (1874)
Anonymous
The Classic tale of the Frog Prince comes to life as originally published by George Routledge 1874. Included in this book are three books: The Frog Prince, Princess Belle-Etoile and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Includes the original colorful illustrations of characters.
Genre: Fairy Tales/Folklore
The Man Who Would Be King [en] (1888)
Rudyard Kipling
Two former British soldiers who were sent in the early 19th century to British controlled India to search for adventure end up becoming kings of Kafiristan. This story is inspired by Josiah Harlan, an American adventurer who claimed the title of Prince of Ghor after leding a military force...
Genres: Action/Adventure, Short Stories
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Volume 1 [en] (1776)
Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes, covering the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from 180 to 1453, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behavior and decisions that...
Genre: History
Soldiers Three [en] (1888)
Rudyard Kipling
Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills. Soldiers Three and other stories consists of three sections which each had...
Genre: Short Stories
The Brothers Karamazov [en] (1880)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky’s towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues–brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality–that made his work so immensely popular in...
Genres: Philosophical Fiction, Thriller / Suspense
Grimm's Household Tales [en] (1884)
Brothers Grimm
Included here are fairy tales from "Children's and Household Tales" by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt. The translation is based on the last edition of the book, featuring 200 fairy tales and 10 children's legends and includes such firm favourites as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl,...
Genre: Fairy Tales/Folklore
The War in the Air [en] (1908)
H. G. Wells
This thrilling tale is H. G. Wells at his modernist, visionary best. In 1907, a naive Londoner named Bert Smallways finds himself an unwitting passenger on a fleet of German airships heading over the Atlantic to attack New York. What unfolds in characteristically Wellsian fashion is a clash...
Genres: Science Fiction, War
Ulysses [en] (1922)
James Joyce
Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each...
Genres: General Fiction, Sexuality
Celebrated Crimes [en] (1841)
Alexandre Dumas
Written between 1839 and 1841, Celebrated Crimes is an 8-volume collection of 18 essays based upon historical facts of famous criminals and the crimes they committed. The Borgias, The Cenci, Massacres Of The South, Mary Stuart, Karl-Ludwig Sand, Urbain Grandier, Nisida, Derues, La Constantin,...
Genres: Crime/Detective, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Thriller / Suspense
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems [en] (1869)
Lewis Carroll
Phantasmagoria is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost (a Phantom) and a man named Tibbets. Carroll portrays the ghost as not so different from human beings. They may gibber and jangle their chains, but they, like us, simply have a job to do and that job is to haunt....
Genre: Poetry
The New Machiavelli [en] (1911)
H. G. Wells
As H. G. Wells sat down to write, he realised with almost shuddering accuracy that he had reached the exact same age as Machiavelli was when he fell from politics and wrote of the restlessness of his spirit. And it was this same restless passion that compelled H G Wells to write a similar...
Essays [en] (1842)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was first known as an orator but converted many of his orations in to essays. This his second books was first published in 1841 and includes the famous essay, "Self-Reliance." His aunt called it a "strange medley of atheism and false independence," but it gained favourable...
Genre: Essay
The Lilac Fairy Book [en] (1910)
Andrew Lang
The twelfth in Andrew Lang's Fairy Book series containing 33 tales from Portugal, Ireland, Wales and points East and West, among them "The Brown Bear of Norway," "The Enchanted Deer," "The Story of a Very Bad Boy," and "The Brownie of the Lake". First published in 1910 and includes 51...
Genres: Fairy Tales/Folklore, Short Stories, Young Readers
The Olive Fairy Book [en] (1907)
Andrew Lang
The Olive Fairy Book contains eight Punjabi tales, five from Armenia, 16 other stories from Turkey, Denmark, the Sudan, and more. An enchanting world of flying dragons, ogres, fairies, and princes transformed into white foxes with illustrations by H.J. Ford.
Genres: Fairy Tales/Folklore, Short Stories, Young Readers
Tarzan the Terrible [en] (1921)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lieutenant Obergatz had fled in terror from the seeking vengeance of Tarzan of the Apes. And with him, by force, he had taken Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane. Now the ape-man was following the faint spoor of their flight, into a region no man had ever penetrated. The trail led across seemingly...
Genre: Action/Adventure
Mankind in the Making [en] (1903)
H. G. Wells
Certain wholesale aspects of man-making with a skin of infinite delicacy that life will harden very speedily, with a discomforted writhing little body, with a weak and wailing outcry that stirs the heart, the creature comes protesting into the world, and unless death win a victory, we and...
Genre: Non-Fiction
