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The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first pu...

Boris Pasternak was a Nobel Prize and gret modern russian poet and writer. Pasternak's first book...

Mostly of a fiction nature this book tells a great tale of Adam and Eve and the Generations befor...

This collection of short stories tell the tales of an unnamed wanderer who travels Russia at the ...

Zanoni is an 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a story of love and occult aspiration. By way of...

The Black Riders and Other Lines is a book of poetry written by American author Stephen Crane (18...

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville,...

'WE' is an autobiographical account by Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) about his life and the ev...

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The problems facing China in the early 1920's were many and complex, and philosopher Bertrand Rus...

Tales of the Jazz Ageis a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer, who cre...

Stepping Heavenward is the journal of a girl named Katherine Mortimer. She struggles with very or...

Obscure Destinies is a collection of three short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932. Each...

A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722.The nove...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his o...

Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale...

Thomas Watson (c. 1620 - 1686) was an English, Nonconformist, Puritan preacher and author.He was ...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Al...

The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered her most experimental work, and con...

Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deq...

Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, escaped slave, abo...

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific ...

Excerpts:Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great...

The House Without a Key is a novel that was written in 1925 by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first...

Henry Drummond (1851 - 1897) was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer, born in Stirling. He...

The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is the story of Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniles...

Annie Besant (née Wood; 1 October 1847 - 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist,...

Henry IV (Italian: Enrico IV) is an Italian play (Enrico IV) by Luigi Pirandello written in 1921 ...

The Outlaw of Torn is a historical novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, originally published as a five-...

Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author ...

Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set pri...

One of the greatest books I have ever read. It explains the processes of the mind on a level so c...

The Great Roxhythe is a novel written by Georgette Heyer. The book opens in 1668 and closes in 16...

L'Épave du Cynthia Salvage from the Cynthis, Jules Verne. The plot revolved around a dark-haired ...

Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery (French: L'École des Robinsons, literally The School for Ro...

Mary Grant Bruce (24 May 1878 - 2 July 1958), also known as Minnie Bruce, was an Australian child...

Fabulous piece of writing. It is really quite astounding that Machen is largely forgotten as a wr...

The book starts with a reference to Damon and Pythias, which in the Victorian age -- and apparent...

Sir Edwin Arnold, (born June 10, 1832, Gravesend, Kent, Eng.-died March 24, 1904, London), poet a...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála 'Emmuska' Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 - ...

Sarah Knowles Bolton (September 15, 1841 - February 21, 1916) was an American writer. She was bor...

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and...

In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes....

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and...

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an Ame...