Author: Canetti, Veza & Elias Publisher: Other Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love...
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Hawthorne was a 19th century American author. He is noted for his tales of Colonial America. Hawthorne is most noted for his novel The Scarlet Letter. This short story was published in the collectio...
Author: Stockton, Frank R. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It was a beautiful summer morning when slowly I wheeled my way along the principal street of the village of Walford. A little valise was strapped in front of my bicycle; my coat, rolled into a small c...
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historical ma...
Author: Tremble Sr, Gregory Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is designed/written to rub you the reader emotionally. Frictionally speaking this book will not always make you feel good. You will be struck like a match at times and be engulfed in the fla...
Author: MacDonald, George Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Renowned Scottish fiction writer, poet, and minister George MacDonald gained literary acclaim for his creative reinvention of age-old fairy tales. Among the many writers who cited MacDonald as a key i...
Author: Coghill, Harry Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mr. Leigh was in a very depressed and anxious mood. His late conversations with Mrs. Costello had disturbed him and broken up the current of his thoughts, and even to some extent of his usual occupati...
Author: Howells, W. D. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On the forward promenade of the Saguenay boat which had been advertised to leave Quebec at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, Miss Kitty Ellison sat tranquilly expectant of the joys which its departure...
Author: Hudson, W. H. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I do not quite know how it happened, my recollection of the whole matter ebbing in a somewhat clouded condition. I fancy I had gone somewhere on a botanizing expedition, but whether at home or abroad ...
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Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the county town of a certain shire there lived (about forty years ago) one Mr. Wilkins, a conveyancing attorney of considerable standing. The certain shire was but a small county, and the prin...
Author: King, Charles Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The major commanding looked up from the morning report and surveyed the post adjutant with something of perturbation, if not annoyance, in his grim, gray eyes. For the fourth time that week had Lieute...
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Author: Lord Dunsany Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historical ma...
Author: Ewing, Juliana Horatia Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When the children clamour for a story, my wife says to me, "Tell them how you bought a flat iron for a farthing." Which I very gladly do; for three reasons. In the first place, it is about myself, and...
Author: Howells, W. D. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As Don Ippolito passed down the long narrow calle or footway leading from the Campo San Stefano to the Grand Canal in Venice, he peered anxiously about him: now turning for a backward look up the call...
Author: Ewing, Juliana Horatia Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Oh, dear! I wish we weren't going home! "So do I! Can't we stay out a little while longer?" "Why, Flossie and Freddie Bobbsey!" cried Nan, the older sister of the two small twins who had spo...
Author: Stock, St. George Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: One of the most influential schools of classical philosophy, stoicism emerged in the third century BCE and later grew in popularity through the work of proponents such as Seneca and Epictetus. This in...
Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers had all taken their leave of him, bowing their heads to the groun...
Author: Tytler, Sarah Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Is there any sensation equal to that produced by the first lover and the first proposal coming to a girl in a large family of girls? It is delightfully sentimental, comical, complimentary, affron-ting...
Author: James, Henry Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I am ashamed to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tours, however, has some thing sweet and bright, which suggests that it is...
Author: Oppenheim, E. Phillips Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The two men stood upon the top of a bank bordering the rough road which led to the sea. They were listening to the lark, which had risen fluttering from their feet a moment or so ago, and was circling...
Author: Chesterton, G. K. Publisher: IHS Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covering topics ranging from literature to philosophy, history to social criticism, this is a snapshot of thought on 20th-century Europe (and the world) by one of Europe's sharpest wits and ablest pen...
Author: Lang, Andrew Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the...
Author: Howells, William Dean Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We first met Glendenning on the Canadian boat which carries you down the rapids of the St. Lawrence from Kingston and leaves you at Montreal. When we saw a handsome young clergyman across the promenad...
Author: Wodehouse, P. G. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The man in the street would not have known it, but a great crisis was imminent in New York journalism. Everything seemed much as usual in the city. The cars ran blithely on Broadway. Newsboys sho...
Author: Oppenheim, E. Phillips Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Already the sweepers were busy in the deserted hall, and the lights burned low. Of the great audience who had filled the place only half-an-hour ago not one remained. The echoes of their tumultuous ch...
Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A Selection is an anthology of the works of Oscar Wilde that contains his poetry, plays, poems in prose, and prose works. The poems include Ravenna (1878), an early work about the ancient Italian city...
Author: Conrad, Joseph Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A revolutionary war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society. Certain individualities grow into fame through ...
Author: Hornung, E. W. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: If I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but back to our earliest days together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion in existing annals. In so doing I may indeed fill some small part of an in...
Author: Howells, W. D. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I confess that with all my curiosity to meet an Altrurian, I was in no hospitable mood toward the traveler when he finally presented himself, pursuant to the letter of advice sent me by the friend who...
Author: Gawlak, John Publisher: iUniverse Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Silence gives consent," there is much truth in this saying. American history tells us that even unpopular rulings by the Supreme Court were overturned as concerned citizens took to the streets in pro...
Author: Jewett, Sarah Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The sketches in this collection are a brilliant depiction of the life and time to which they belong. In these charming little pieces, Jewett manages to capture the essence of the culture and tradition...
Author: Stephenson, Nathaniel W. Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
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Author: Worman,Nancy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities. Attic comed...
Author: Stevenson, R. L. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: MONDAY. - It was, if I remember rightly, five o'clock when we were all signalled to be present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, anoth...
Author: Ade, George Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ambition came, with Sterling Silver Breast-Plate and Flaming Sword, and sat beside a Tad aged 5. The wee Hopeful lived in a Frame House with Box Pillars in front and Hollyhocks leading down toward the...
Author: George Ade Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: George Ade was a newspaper columnist, playwright and writer. Ade was a humorist writing about the common man. Ade followed in the footsteps of Mark Twain using his ability with colloquial language a...
Author: Ellis, Edward S. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One beautiful misummer night in 18-a large, heavily laden steamer was making her way swiftly up the Pacific coast, in the direction of San Francisco. She was opposite the California shore, only a day'...
Author: Wilfred T. Grenfell Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Wilfred Grenfell was an early 20th century missionary stationed in Newfoundland and Labrador. He obtained his medical degree in England and was then sent to Newfoundland to set up a medical clinic. ...
Author: Kingston, W. H. G. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Some years ago two travellers, mounted on wiry yet strong looking steeds, were wending their way through a forest in Australia. They were both young and dressed much alike in broad-brimmed pith hats, ...
Author: Hutcheson, John Conroy Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: And so, Allan, you wish to go to sea? "Yes, father," I replied. "But, is there no other profession you would prefer-the law, for instance? It seems a prosperous trade enough, judging from th...
Author: Jerome, Jerome K. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: She had not meant to stay for the service. The door had stood invitingly open, and a glimpse of the interior had suggested to her the idea that it would make good copy. "Old London Churches: Their Soc...
Author: Chesterton, G. K. Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Whether you're a reader who is new to G.K Chesterton's work or a longtime fan searching out more of his material, this collection of short stories and essays is sure to fit the bill. The pieces brough...
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