Description: The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us, admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions ...
Description: This book has especially been republished to raise funds for the BBC's Children in Need appeal. The words 'Fairy Tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which something 'fairy', someth...
Description: In spite of the fact that there are certain highly respectable individualists of a rabid type who prefer to call themselves Anarchists, it must be owned that it requires some courage to write about An...
Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A publication of 1891, A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde. It is a magical and mystical presentation that presents grand characters such as princes, princess...
Author: Willey, Norman Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Three kingdoms at war.Two kings are dead.One king is missing.Are the god's playing around?An assassin sent to find and end the life of the missing king.Will the king find his way home in time to c...
Author: Burroughs, E. R. Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 'I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollec...
Author: Bangs, John Kendrick Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Stuart Harley, despite his authorship of many novels, still considered himself a realist. He affected to say that he did not write his books; that he merely transcribed them from life as he saw it, a...
Author: Rider, H. Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Most of you will have heard that Allan Quatermain, who was one of the party that discovered King Solomon's mines some little time ago, and who afterwards came to live in England near his friend Sir He...
Description: This book has been especially republished to raise funds for the American Indian Education Fund, benefitting the education of Native Americans across the United States of America. Ask anyone anywhere ...
Author: London, Jack Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly- headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a c...
Author: Aesop Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Aesop was an Ancient Greek story-teller and slave, famed and cherished for his short fables that often involve personified animals. In the renowned collection of works that is Aesop's Fables, he weave...
Author: Aesop Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aesop was an Ancient Greek story-teller and slave, famed and cherished for his short fables that often involve personified animals. In the renowned collection of works that is Aesop's Fables, he weave...
Author: Cooper, James Fenimore Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The writer has published so much truth which the world has insisted was fiction, and so much fiction which has been received as truth, that, in the present instance, he is resolved to say nothing on t...
Description: 'I HAVE taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of interest, which, so far as I know, has at least the merit of not having been used before....
Author: Dumas, Alexander Père Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who mad...
Author: Haggard, H. Rider Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 'I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken. It is very hard having only one son to lose him thus, but God's will be done. Who am I that I should ...
Author: Haggard, H. Rider Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: It was your native name which I borrowed at the christening of that Allen who has become as well known to me as any other friend I have. It is therefore fitting that I should dedicate to you this, his...
Description: This book has been especially republished to raise funds for the American Indian Education Fund, benefitting the education of Native Americans across the United States of America. Originally publishe...
Description: ANANZI or Ahnansi (Ah-nahn-see) "the trickster" is a cunning and intelligent spider and is one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore. The Anansi tales are believed to...
Author: White, Stewart Edward Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The ring around the sun had thickened all day long, and the turquoise blue of the Arizona sky had filmed. Storms in the dry countries are infrequent, but heavy; and this surely meant storm.
Description: Over the plains of Armenia towers Mount Ararat, on which, the Bible states, Noah's Ark rested after the flood. Here also is the traditional site of the Garden of Eden, and the four rivers that Genesis...
Description: AUSTRALIA makes an appeal to the fancy which is all its own. When the first white settlers arrived in Australia, all was novel, and, while seeming fresh, was inestimably old. The grey gum-trees did no...
Author: Curwood, James Oliver Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 'Since the publication of my two animal books, 'Kazan, the Wolf Dog' and 'The Grizzly King,' I have received so many hundreds of letters from friends of wild animal life, all of which were more or les...
Author: Haggard, H. Rider Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The autumn afternoon was fading into evening. It had been cloudy weather, but the clouds had softened and broken up. Now they were lost in slowly darkening blue. The sea was perfectly and utterly stil...
Author: Haggard, H. Rider Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: who bound all to her and, while her father cut his way through the hordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished of the hardships of war at Buluwayo on 19th May, 1896, I dedicate these tales and more parti...
Author: Perrault, Charles Publisher: The Planet Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The classic fairy tale of Blue Beard illustrated by Walter Crane. Crane's work in children's books in cooperation with the publisher Edmund Evans earned him worldwide fame in the latter 19th century.
Author: Patterson, Elizabeth A. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: So far, life has been pretty ordinary and dull for fifteen-year-old twins Henry and Haley Miles. But after their father purchases a large estate in northwestern Idaho, they are thrilled to begin a new...
Author: Bulfinch, Thomas Publisher: Waking Lion Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The single most useful and concise guide to mythology, Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of timeless tales from around the world. Written not for scholars but for the common reader, Bulfinch's comm...
Author: Sabatini, Rafael Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater.
Description: The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet.
Author: Serfozo, Larry Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Blending old world supernatural with modern American business practices, CARA NEGRA is a sophisticated tale of predispositions and missed opportunities. Tweaked with a wry sense of humor, at times bo...
Description: From Denver to Spokane, from El Paso to Fort Benton, men talk of Casey Ryan and smile when they speak his name. Old men with the flat tone of coming senility in their voices will suck at their pipes a...
Author: Arthur, T.S. Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: IN this romance of real life, in which the truth is stranger than the fiction, I have lifted only in part the veil that hides the victims of intemperance and other terrible vices after they have fall...
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: THE 25th day of August, 1751, about two in the afternoon, I, David Balfour, came forth of the British Linen Company, a porter attending me with a bag of money, and some of the chief of these merchants...
Author: Jacobs, Joseph Publisher: Andrews UK Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of Celtic Fairy tales was put together by noted Celtic expert Joseph Jacobs in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Including famous legends such as 'Conal Hammerclaw' and 'The Sea M...
Author: N/A Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The success of a fairy book, I am convinced, depends on the due admixture of the comic and the romantic: Grimm and Asbjörnsen knew this secret, and they alone. But the Celtic peasant who speaks G...
Author: N/A Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The success of a fairy book, I am convinced, depends on the due admixture of the comic and the romantic: Grimm and Asbjörnsen knew this secret, and they alone. But the Celtic peasant who speaks G...
Description: Celtic folklore overflows with vivid stories that fire the imagination. At the end of his highly successful English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs compiled Celtic Fairy Tales, a book of 26 stories from ar...
Description: From childhood we listen to tales of ghosts, banshees, haunted castles and mischievous sprites. But it is not until you immerse yourself in Gaelic literature that you realise what a heritage awaits, f...
Author: Haggard, H. Rider Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: For twenty years, I believe I am right in saying, you, as Assistant Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, and in other offices, have been intimately acquainted with the Zulu people. Moreover, you ar...
Author: London, Jack Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A weary journey beyond the last scrub timber and straggling copses, into the heart of the Barrens where the niggard North is supposed to deny the Earth, are to be found great sweeps of forests and str...
Description: It was an uninspiring bit of street: narrow, paved with cobble; hot and noisy in summer, reeking with unwholesome mud during the drizzling and snow-slimed months of winter. It looked anything this May...
