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This eBook contains an exhaustive supply of mathematical problems and puzzles, providing many ours of entertainment for those who really enjoy mathematics.
The Hunting of the Snark is a classic nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.
The Black Dwarf by Sir Walter Scott is the first title in The Tales of My Landlord. Set in the early part of the 18th century in the Liddesdale hills, it tell the story of the dwarf named Sir...
Quote, "In those houses which are strictly double houses--that is, where the hall is in the middle--the fireplaces usually are on opposite sides; so that while one member of the household is...
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett is a time management guide book about how one should spend the day.
The Frogs is a comedic play by Aristophanes. The play contains the only fragments from several tragedies by Euripides and Aeschylus.
Quote, "You should imagine a large plain, but not an empty plain, nor a plain entirely without hills. There are a few hills, including at least one very fine eminence (an agreeable old town on the...
Peace is a comedic play by Greek Old Comic dramatist Aristophanes
Quote, "A Feringi can then refuse gold?" said the Fakir. "I thought they took it from every hand, whether pure as that of an Houri, or leprous like Gehazi's--even as the hungry dog recketh not...
Omoo by Herman Melville is a sequel to the novel Typee. It tells the story of the main character's adventure on the island of Tahiti, including imprisonment and the eventual exploration of native...
Quote, "AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If not exactly in the sky."
Quote, "The man at the tiller was in fact, looking, with mingled curiosity and hostility, at the gunboat that he was passing but a few yards away, and did not notice a canoe, manned by six rowers,...
The Beasts of Tarzan takes place around the middle of Tarzan's life. Now living as Lord Greystoke, Tarzan is forced back into the jungle by old enemy Nicholas Rockov. There, he faces the task of...
Five Little Plays by Alfred Sutro
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is David Hume's philosophical debate about the nature of God's existence.
Quote, "Her voice and manner were quite enough to arrest him where he stood with a pleased surprise in his fresh and ingenuous face. She looked at him more closely. He was, in spite of his long...
At the Earth's Core is a science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs about the land of Pellucidar.
New Burlesques is a collection of short stories by Bret Harte.
Quote, "Four weeks of this change, with broken spaces of sunlight and intense blue aerial islands, and then a storm set in. All day the summit pines and redwoods rocked in the blast. At times the...
Quote, "The olive and fig trees at once lost their characteristic outlines in formless masses of shadow; only the twisted trunks of the old pear trees in the mission garden retained their...
Quote, "As the master of the Indian Spring school emerged from the pine woods into the little clearing before the schoolhouse, he stopped whistling, put his hat less jauntily on his head, threw...
Etexts from The Snow Image is a collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Earth's Holocaust comes from a collection of stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne called Mosses from an Old Manse.
Quote, "It was scarcely thirty feet from the road. The only object that met Cass's eye was a man's stiff, tall hat, lying emptily and vacantly in the grass. It was new, shiny, and of modish shape....
Quote, "Not a whit," said the old man. "England will never understand America; for England never does understand a foreign country; and whatever you may say about kindred, America is as much a...
Fanshawe was Nathaniel Hawthorne's first novel, a romantic story based on personal experiences during his time at Bowdoin College in the early 1820's.
Condensed Novels is a collection of novels by Bret Harte.
Quote, "Little Pansie was the one earthly creature that inherited a drop of the Dolliver blood. The Doctor's only child, poor Bessie's offspring, had died the better part of a hundred years...
The Old Manse is one of the stories from a collection of stories called Mosses from an Old Manse. The Old Manse was the house where he and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage.
The Gorgon's Head by Nathaniel Hawthorne comes from a collection of books called A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. These books are a re-writing of some most famous ancient Greek myths in a volume...
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent is a story about reporter Claudius Bombarnac and his voyage in covering the travels of the Grand Transasiatic Railway which runs between Uzun Ada,...
Quote, "The hand that had been placed in the bride's cold fingers slipped from them and mechanically sought Gideon's again. The significance of the unconscious act brought the first spontaneous...
Quote, "A few years ago the world was suddenly astounded by hearing of an experiment of a most novel and daring nature, altogether unprecedented in the annals of science. The BALTIMORE GUN CLUB, a...
East and West Poems by Bret Harte
Facing the Flag is a patriotic novel written by French author Jules Verne. It's main them centres around France being threatened by a super-weapon.
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book XI by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Quote, "After some further discussion, it was gravely settled that Kearney should furnish water brought from the Union Ditch, twenty miles away, at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, to feed...
Quote, "But, one day, of a sudden, the traveller lost the child. He called to him over and over again, but got no answer. So, he went upon his road, and went on for a little while without meeting...
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book X by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book IX by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Quote, "In case confusion should arise in the public mind (which it is open to confusion on many subjects) respecting what is meant or implied by the term Waiter, the present humble lines would...
Quote, "Who could have seen his hollow cheek; his sunken brilliant eye; his black-attired figure, indefinably grim, although well-knit and well-proportioned; his grizzled hair hanging, like...
Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens originally appeared as Christmas tales.
Quote, "CAPTAIN HEWETT, - I am very proud and happy to have been selected as the instrument of conveying to you the heartfelt thanks of my fellow-passengers on board the ship entrusted to your...
Quote, "But you hold out no inducement, you offer no relief from listlessness, you provide nothing to amuse his mind, you afford him no means of exercising his body. Unwashed and unshaven, he...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Charles Dickens' last novel before he died and was left unfinished. The story centres on Edwin Drood's jealous uncle John Jasper and the disappearance of Edwin Drood.
A Modest Proposal is a satirical pamphlet written by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
Quote, "Well, if in any woes or wars I bought my naked right to be, Grew worthy of the grass, nor gave The wren, my brother, shame for me."
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VI by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VII by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Quote, "I intend in a short time to publish a large and rational defence of this art, and therefore shall say no more in its justification at present, than that it hath been in all ages defended...
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VIII by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Quote, "SATIRE is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so...
Bel Ami by Henri Rene Guy De Maupassant is a story of corrupt journalist Georges Duroy and his rise to power.
Quote, "Get on my back," says the stork, our green island's sacred bird, "and I will carry thee over the Sound. Sweden also has fresh and fragrant beech woods, green meadows and corn-fields. In...
Battling insomnia Charles Dickens spent his time taking long walks through London. The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches Dickens made during that period.
To be Read at Dusk is a collection of stories by Charles Dickens
The Cricket on the Hearth is a Christmas tale written by Charles Dickens, and it is the third book in a five book Dickens' series.
Quote, "A slothful, unsavoury, nasty reversal of the laws of human mature," said the Traveller; "and for the sake of GOD'S working world and its wholesomeness, both moral and physical, I would put...
Quote, "Notwithstanding my being, as I have mentioned, quite ready for a voyage, still I had some doubts of this voyage. Of course I knew, without being told, that there were peculiar difficulties...
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Quote, "Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten...
The Wheels of Chance is a witty tale about a man on a bicycle.
Quote, "One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the Tour of the Front. After some months of suppressed information--in which even the war correspondent was discouraged to the...
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book I by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book II by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Quote, "The last years of the nineteenth century were for Russia tinged with doubt and gloom. The high-tide of vitality that had risen during the Turkish war ebbed in the early eighties, leaving...
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev Translated by Constance Garnett, portrays a negative view of Russian society in pre-revolutionary period.
Rampolli by George MacDonald
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book III by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book IV by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Alice, or The Mysteries, Book V by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Hedda Gabler is play written in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
The War in the Air is a fictional air warfare story as told by H. G. Wells.
The World Set Free is s story about a fictional atomic bomb. Written well before the atom was split and before an idea for an atomic chain reaction had been conceived.
Virginibus Puerisque is a collection of papers by Robert Louis Stevenson that he wrote in British magazines.
The Invisible Man is one of Wells best known and classical novels about a scientist who makes himself invisible as an experiment. This psychological tale explores the terrors imposed on to people...
Little Wars is a set of instructions, written by H. G. Wells, on how to play with toy soldiers. The book was first published in 1913.
Quote, "MARINA. [Shaking her head] This house is topsy-turvy! The Professor gets up at noon, the samovar is kept boiling all the morning, and everything has to wait for him. Before they came we...
Quote, "In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a "War of Ideas." A phrase, "The War to end War," got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a...
In the Days of the Comet is a fantasy story by H. G. Wells about a day in war when the earth suddenly pauses due to a collision with a comet. How will people perceive life once the world has been...
An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells
The Silverado Squatters is Robert Louis Stevenson's personal account from his travels to Monterey California in 1880. It was the period when Stevenson was broke and had just gotten married.
Quote, "So perfectly like other people had she been in the water, that even yet the prince could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw her ascend slowly, grasp the balcony, and disappear through...
The Lady From The Sea is a 19th century play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It tells the story of Ellida Wangel, who is married to the much older Doctor Wangel, and their stuggle to...
Quote, "If you call them dreams. Night after night. Vivid!--so vivid . . . . this-- (he indicated the landscape that went streaming by the window) "seems unreal in comparison! I can scarcely...
Quote, "Now, however sceptical I may yet feel about the truth of all Darwin's theory, I cannot sit quietly by and see him misrepresented in such a scandalously slovenly manner. What Darwin does...
Quote, "Let him think of the vastness of the earth, and of the activity by day and night through countless ages of such countless forms of animal and vegetable life as that no human mind can form...
Letters on England by Voltaire
Quote, "Mr. Bridges had long been desirous of becoming a candidate for this distinction, but, until the death of Mr. Leader, no vacancy having occurred among the scholars, he had as yet had no...
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement is a story about life and sheep farming in 19th century New Zealand.
Quote, "That is like a woman! But seriously, Nora, you know what I think about that. No debt, no borrowing. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt....
Quote, "Not that the child was a fool. Had she been, the wise woman would have only pitied and loved her, instead of feeling sick when she looked at her. She had very fair abilities, and were she...
Quote, "Robert Louis Stevenson first came to California in 1879 for the purpose of getting married. The things that delayed his marriage are sufficiently set forth in his "Letters" (edited by...
Quote, "KATERINA. Yes, I am well.... It would be better if I were ill, it's worse as it is. A dream keeps creeping into my mind, and I cannot get away from it. I try to think--I can't collect my...
Father Damien was a Flemish Catholic missionary of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who dedicated his life to in service to the lepers of Molokai, Hawaii. Today father...
Quote, "Engstrand. And it was when your mother was in a nasty temper. I had to find some way of getting my knife into her, my girl. She was always so precious gentile. (Mimicking her.) "Let go,...
Prayers Written At Vailima and A Lowden Sabbath Morn is a collection of prayers by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Quote, "Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was...
The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson
Quote, "When I am very weary with hard thought, And yet the question burns and is not quenched, My heart grows cool when to remembrance wrought That thou who know'st the light-born answer sought...
Certain Personal Matters is a collection of humorous essays by H. G. Wells including "The Pleasure of Quarrelling" and "How I Died".
Quote, "Again without waiting to think, and only afterwards waking up to the fact and meaning of what she had done, she turned, went back to the entry-door, and knocked. It was almost suddenly...
The Pocket R.L.S. is Robert Louis Stevenson's collection of favourite passages from his own novels.
Quote, "When you have read, you carry away with you a memory of the man himself; it is as...
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Marquise de Brinvilliers is Alexandre Dumas's story about this French poisoner. She was sentenced to death for the poisoning murder of her father, brother and two sisters, all whose property she...
Quote, "About the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul I--that is to say, towards the middle of the first year of the nineteenth century--just as four o'clock in the afternoon was sounding from...
Quote, "March 23, 1819, Karl-Ludwig Sand murdered August von Kotzebue, a playwright in the service of the Russian government, because of his criticism of the student associations and their...
Quote, "And I am not in the habit of running useless risks, most noble cavaliers. You are, it is true, two against one; but," he added, throwing back his cloak and grasping the hilts of a pair of...
Urbain Grandier is a story about the parish priest of St.-Pierre-du-Marché of Loudun who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft.
Quote, "One afternoon, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the picturesque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine the caves there. Halfway...
You Never Can Tell by G. Bernard Shaw is a play involving a comedy of errors about Mrs. Clandon and her three children, Dolly, Phillip and Gloria.
Quote, "We were a week working up as far as Yarmouth Roads, and then we got into a gale--the famous October gale of twenty-two years ago. It was wind, lightning, sleet, snow, and a terrific sea....
Quote, "But now, all at once, Servigny, by a few words, the brutality of which she felt without understanding them, awakened in her a sudden disquietude, unreasoning at first, but which grew into...
Alexandre Dumas's Martin Guerre is a story about a man who uses his resemblance to another man to steal his life and identity.
Marquise de Ganges by Alexandre Dumas follows the story around the times of Louis XIV. After refusing their advances towards her, Marquise de Ganges was stabbed by her two brothers-in-law assisted...
Quote, "Ah! what folly; you have had some words with Alexis. What then? A harsh word can not be hung up by the neck. He gives you impertinence, give him the same; if he give you a slap, return the...
Quote, "But the hour was not unpropitious for the indulgence of some discreditable whim. Earlier, he might have been detected; later, he might find himself cut out. Tempted by a glance which is...
Quote, "Caesar's ambition was only fed by victories: scarcely was he master of Faenza before, excited by the Mariscotti, old enemies of the Bentivoglio family, he cast his eyes upon Bologna; but...
A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to an Indian newspaper that propelled controversy as well as helped to form a friendship between Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi who had been...
Quote, "And Simon and Matryona understood who it was that had lived with them, and whom they had clothed and fed. And they wept with awe and with joy. And the angel said: "I was alone in the...
Quote, "It was the Day of the Assumption in the year 1825; the sun had been up some four or five hours, and the long Via da Forcella, lighted from end to end by its slanting rays, cut the town in...
Quote, "Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put upon my trial, which lasted seven years. In charging the jury, the judge of the Court of...
The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay is Alexandre Dumas's own analysis about the final volume of the Three Musketeers series.
The Girl with the Golden Eyes is a story about Henri de Marsay who after having seduced a woman he desired, discoveres that Paquita Valdes has another lover, his half-sister.
Quote, "The disembodied party sank uninvited into a chair, spread out his knees and stared blankly at a Dutch clock with an air of weariness and profound discouragement. Perceiving that his guest...
Quote, "But this is unjust. I not only do not repudiate art and science, but, in the name of that which is true art and true science, I say that which I do say; merely in order that mankind may...
Quote, "It was the shock of this disappointment, perhaps, coming soon after the loss of his wife, that had driven him crazy on that point," the barber suggested, with an air of great psychological...
Ticket No. 9672 by Jules Verne
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad is a classic sea tale about a Captain Macwhirr who sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a typhoon.
Quote, "Jacobus having put me in mind of his wealthy brother I concluded I would pay that business call at once. I had by that time heard a little more of him. He was a member of the Council,...
Twelve Types by G.K. Chesterton is a collection of biographical essays about twelve history defining European figures, including Byron, Pope, St. Francis of Assisi, Rostand and Sir Walter Scott.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes is Robert Louis Stevenson's personal travel account of his 12 day trek through the Cevennes. His donkey Modestine features regularly in this journal of travel...
Quote, "The sun has risen higher and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be. Nothing can now prevent us from reaching that wonderful land which stretches...
The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum is an underwater fantasy tale that features sea monsters, mermaids and other colourful characters that make this book exciting to read.
The Sea Gull by Russian author Anton Checkov, a romantic play, was inspired by a real-life incident of the death of a sea gull.
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad is a sea tale whose themes of loneliness and isolation whilst at sea for a long time are central to the story.
The Second Jungle is Rudyard Kipling's sequel to The Jungle Book. It features more adventures of Mowgli in the jungle of India.
L. Frank Baum's The Road to Oz is the fifth in the series of Land of Oz books. The story is based around Dorothy's fourth visit to Oz and new characters are introduced as Dorothy's travel friends.
Quote, "Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them. He has no conception of the subtle atmosphere exhaled by the sex feminine, so long as he...
Quote, "Squire Vane was an elderly schoolboy of English education and Irish extraction. His English education, at one of the great public schools, had preserved his intellect perfectly and...
The Tragedy of The Korosko by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a thrilling adventure tale, based on actual events, about a group of desert travellers that is kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam.
Quote, "The next morning, on awaking, Birotteau thought so much of his prospective canonry that he forgot the four circumstances in which he had seen, the night before, such threatening...
The Tin Woodman of Oz is part of the collection of books that follows on from L. Frank Baum Wizard of Oz.
The Stark Munro Letters is a semi biographical book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that brings forward his personal views on religion, politics, ethics, and society.
The Three Golden Apples by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story about Hercules who searched for the golden apples that grew in the garden of the Hesperides.
Quote, "The attitude of the British public, too, was getting on their nerves. They had been prepared for fierce resistance. They had pictured the invasion as a series of brisk battles--painful...
Uneasy Money by P.G. Wodehouse is a comical novel that tells the story about Lord "Bill" Dawlish, golf lover, and his adventures in romance, golf and the theatre.
Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson is regarded by many in the literary world as one of the greatest unfinished masterpieces. It tells the story of Archie Weir, who is banished by his...
Quote, "Above all it was important that the young recluse should not be alarmed at the thought of marriage, of which he knew nothing, or be made aware of the object of his father's wishes. This...
Quote, "Suddenly he became silent. His grave and earnest face lost its expression of joy; he was comparing the immensity of his hopes with the mediocrity of his means. The walls of the garret were...
Quote, "His room, and everything in it, from the green baize of the bureau to the strip of carpet by the bed, was as clean and threadbare as the chilly sanctuary of some elderly spinster who...
Quote, "A fine thing is the task of a spy, when performed for one's own benefit and in the interests of a passion. Is it not giving ourselves the pleasure of a thief and a rascal while continuing...
Hermann and Dorothea is Goethe's poem written about a German girl who escapes turmoil caused by the French Revolution. This poem's actual basis was the emission of one thousand Protestants from...
Allan's Wife by H. Rider Haggard is a novel about an African adventure of the wife of Allan Quatermain.
Quote, "An awful destiny! Juana, who felt neither esteem nor love for Diard, was bound to him forever, by a rash but necessary promise. The man was neither handsome nor well-made. His manners,...
Quote, "La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go down stream, about a mile below the bridge of Tours. At this point the river, broad as a lake, and covered with...
Quote, "By the end of the second year of his apostolic work, Popinot had turned the storeroom at the bottom of his house into a parlor, lighted by the three iron-barred windows. The walls and...
Quote, "Paz was leading so subterranean a life that the fashionable world of Paris asked who he was when the Comtesse Laginska was seen in the Bois de Boulogne riding between her husband and a...
Quote, "The glory of a surgeon is like that of an actor: they live only so long as they are alive, and their talent leaves no trace when they are gone. Actors and surgeons, like great singers too,...
The Guilty River by Wilkie Collins is a haunting tale about two men and their love for the same woman. This relationships threaten to erupt in violence and murder.
Plato's dialogue Statesman, part of a trilogy, deals with the everyday world of political/social life.
Sophist is a dialogue by Plato. It is also the middle part of a trilogy, that begins with "Theaetetus" and "The Statesman" being the third part.
Quote, "The figure of the Vicomtesse de Beauseant rose up suddenly before him with gracious thronging associations. She was a new world for him, a world of fears and hopes, a world to fight for...
Quote, "This was an untenable position. Cataneo, who only looked for a duchess, thought himself ridiculous as a husband; and, when Massimilla complained of this indifference, he calmly bid her...
Quote, "Or was it, perhaps, that at the outset of an orgy there is a certain unwonted lucidity of mind? Despite the taper light, the clamor of the senses, the gleam of gold and silver, the fumes...
Quote, "In short, sire, I found myself this morning robbed of those jewels you admired so much. They have been ravished from me, sire! To steal the jewels of the Elector of Bavaria! those...
Quote, "The brightest memories of the old man faded at the sight of his nephew's so-called mistress. His anger died away at the gracious exclamation which came from his lips as he looked at her....
Quote, "But how did he make his money?" asked Couture. "In 1819 both he and the illustrious Bianchon lived in a shabby boarding-house in the Latin Quarter; his people ate roast cockchafers and...
The Pothunters by P. G. Wodehouse is a novel set in a fictional school St Austin's. The story follows the school life of several characters who after stealing the school's sports trophies go on...
The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle follows his first novel The Lost World. Again, Professor Challenger is central to this story, in dealing with the problem of Earth's passing through a...
Quote, "It all goes to the shoemakers," she said. "I left a milliner because she failed twice with my hats. The vixen has been here twenty-seven times to ask for twenty francs. She did not know...
Quote, "He has a noble soul! He perceived from the first days of his married life that he would never be his wifes master, so he threw himself into a mechanical occupation and good living."
Quote, "Don't excite yourself like this," remonstrated the other. "That young man's people are very influential, you know, and it looks bad enough on the face of it. The general had to take notice...
The Philanderer is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. Unlike most plays whose purpose is to entertain, this unusual play was written to raise awareness and label criticism at capitalist behaviour.
The New Revelation is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's personal, deep insight into the world of spiritualism. His personal investigation attempts to explain the relationship between modern religion and...
Quote, "The old merchant was to be seen standing on the threshold of his shop, as if by a miracle, the instant the servant withdrew. Monsieur Guillaume looked at the Rue Saint-Denis, at the...
Colonel Chabert is the story of a French military hero of the Napoleonic Wars who's been living in asylum after being left for dead. Returning to Paris he discovers the changes in his absence,...
Quote, "At a dimly remote period in the history of Brabant, communication between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a boat which carried passengers from one shore to the...
Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe is a play that is set in the shadow of Spanish possession of the Netherlands.
Plato's Cratylus, after ancient Athenian philosopher Cratylus, is his only dialogue devoted solely to the relation between language and reality.
Quote, "At this moment he fell back upon his pillow as if he had been shot, while the same look of horror came over his face which I had observed when I first entered the room. At the same instant...
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories is a collection of nine more often witty short stories by Mark Twain, including the titles The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,...
The Light That Failed is Rudyard Kipling's tale about a war correspondent that comes home after the war to reunite with his childhood sweetheart. However, as a result of the war and a wound he...
Quote, "In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had...
The Mintage is a collection of eleven short more often witty short stories by Elbert Hubbard, including the titles Sam, To The West and Five Babies.
Quote, "Monsieur de Manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when...
Quote, "When Paul spoke in that tone and wore that look, Lillian felt as if they had changed places, and he was the master and she the servant. She wondered over this in her childish mind, but...
The Lost World is the first of Conan Doyle's novels to feature Professor Challenger. Set in the jungles of South America it is a story not only about the prehistoric animals that roam the lands,...
Quote, "Then we are drawn up before Alexandria, and again at Gizeh, and before the Pyramids. We had to march over the sands and in the sun; people whose eyes dazzled used to see water that they...
The Dead Alive is a novel written by Wilkie Collins based on the famous Boorn Brothers murder case. Recognised by most as an author of the first legal thriller novel, Collins puts forward the...
Quote ,"The sacred edifice, standing in solemn isolation amongst the converging avenues of enormous trees, as if to put grave thoughts of heaven into the hours of ease, pre- sented a closed Gothic...
The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum is a fantasy story about Prince Marvel on the Enchanted Island of Yew. Fantasy fiction.
The Adventure of the Dying Detective follows one of the 58 tales of famous detective Sherlock Holmes as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fiction
The Fall of the House of Usher is a short story involving the narrator and his friend Roderick Usher in a thriller tale testing the theme of fear.
The Day's Work - Part I by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of short stories featuring mostly non-humans as main characters of each story. Featuring titles such as The Maltese Cat. Fiction
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable that was written in the novel The Brothers Karamazov and is regarded to be one of the most famous passages in modern literature. Its theme centres around freedom...
Quote, "My heart was bitter against Cousin Edie as I stood looking into her room. To think that for the sake of a newcomer she could leave us all without one kindly word, or as much as a...
Quote, "The Great Stone Face, then, was a work of Nature in her mood of majestic playfulness, formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together...
Quote, "I hired a wagon that night and commenced selling the bitters on Main Street. Fisher Hill was a low, malarial town; and a compound hypothetical pneumocardiac anti-scorbutic tonic was just...
The Green Flag is a war tale by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Inheritors is one of the two books that Joseph Conrad co-wrote with Ford Madox Ford. Quote, "It was a palatial apartment furnished in white and gold -- Louis Quinze, or something of the...
The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard follows Daniel Defoe's account of this infamous outlaw known for his crimes and even more so for his escapes from law and the death penalties...
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton is the first in the collection of detective stories in which a a priest plays the main role of a sleuth.
The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of tales. Set in the jungles of India, it tells the story of Mowgli who is brought up by a pack of wolves after being lost. The use of...
Quote, "They were standing facing one another in a grassy ring intersected by the path at the outlet of the wood. The insolent and overbearing look had passed away from the amateur's face, but a...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of children's stories by Oscar Wilde. These often very sad tales include the titles The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend and The Selfish Giant.
The Gem Collector by P. G. Wodehouse was later retitled as A Gentleman of Leisure after originally being published as a serial in Ainslee's magazine in the United States.
Quote, "You wait, and you'll see. An' don't get scared at the start. The first few rounds'll be something fierce. That's Ponta's strong point. He's a wild man, with an kinds of punches,--a...
Quote, "Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of distractions. For there was Katie Mahorner, his sweetheart, of County...
Quote, "Then the water began an attack. Until then the stream had followed the street; but the debris that encumbered it deflected the course. And when a drifting object, a beam, came within reach...
The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins is a short story about an arctic voyage inspired by Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition to discover the North West Passage.
A collection of six humorous stories which makes a parody of a detective during late Victorian London. Fiction.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London is regarded to be one of his best works. The central character in the novel is a dog named Buck, who after being abducted from a Californian judge is sold to a...
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot follows one of the 58 tales of famous detective Sherlock Holmes as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Adventure of the Red Circle follows one of the 58 tales of famous detective Sherlock Holmes as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge follows one of the 58 tales of famous detective Sherlock Holmes as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Tales Of Hearsay is a collection of stories by Joseph Conrad.
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box follows one of the 58 Sherlock Holmes detective stories as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Quote, "..who maintained that his name was Henry Price. However, for some reason or other, the natives down the river had given him the name of Makola, and it stuck to him through all his...
Tales of Terror and Mystery is a collection of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including Horror of the Heights, The Case of Lady Sannox, The Terror of Blue John Gap and The New Catacomb.
The Adventures of Gerard follows one of the 58 tales of famous detective Sherlock Holmes as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fiction
Quote, "THERE is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we...
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans follows one of the 58 tales of famous detective Sherlock Holmes as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Canterville Ghost is a popular Oscar Wilde novel about an American ambassador who after moving from America to England settles into a haunted castle. Fiction
Quote, "the demands that spirit makes upon spirit, are precisely those to which he cannot respond. When, at last, you come close to him, you find him chill and unsubstantial - a mere vapor"
Quote, "There were labour contractors by the half-hundred - fitters and riveters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subordinates to direct,...
The Black Arrow is a 15th century war story by Robert Louis Stevenson . The House of Lancaster and the House of York go into the battle for the crown of England.
The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton is a collection of poetry about one of England's forgotten heroes and saviours, King Alfred.
The Barbarism of Berlin is a critique of war by G. K. Chesterton.
Roughing It follows Mark Twain's travel account of his journey by coach through the western American states during the period 1861-1867.
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling is a children's story written initially for his own children. In the book, Dan and Una are transported back into history discovering the history of old...
Round the Red Lamp is a collection of 17 short stories, all of which centre around physicians and medical analysis.
Sea Warfare is Kiplings collection of poems, theories, essays, and reminiscences on sea warfare.
Songs from Books is a collection of songs from novels by Rudyard Kipling.
Some Reminiscences is Conrad's autobiography. Beginning with his noble childhood in Poland to his sea voyages abroad and his literary work in England.
Press cuttings is a play written by Shaw from a collection of editorial and correspondence columns of the Daily Papers.
Pierre and Jean is a classical piece of French fictional Literature about the topic of jealousy.
Songs of Action by Arthur Conan Doyle
South Sea Tales is London's collection of eight sea tales set in the South Seas, that encompass acts of slavery, savagery, death and humour.
Symposium by Plato is a Socratic dialogue about the theme of love. The major conclusion being that true love means being the lover and not the beloved.
Successful Methods of Public Speaking is study guide to publice speaking. Citing methods and techniques made famous by the best public speakers around the tme the book was written such as Herbert...
Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian includes pieces by Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Poushkin, Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol, Lyof N. Tolstoi.
Tales and Fantasies is a collection of three short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Body-Snatcher, The Misadventures of John Nicholson and The Story of a Lie.
Quote, "Her eyes came back from their long gaze and settled on him full of an intelligence which deepened his perplexity. "You have not learned to know me yet; death is not more inexorable or time...
Regarded to by one of Plato's most challenging dialogues, Parmenides is an account of a meeting of two great philosophers, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea.
Quote, "Sunshine streamed in through the one small window, where a caged bird was blithely singing, and a few flowers blossomed in the light. But blither than the bird's song, sweeter than the...
Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe
Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins is a personal account of the twenty-eight years that Major Ramkins spent in the service.
Mercadet is a comedic play by Honore De Balzac about a financier named Mercadet, who attempts to swindle money out of investors whilst getting himself into trouble.
Lost Face by Jack London follows the story of a tribal prisoner as he awaits a beheading.
Laches is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato that deals with the topic of courage.
Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang
Meno is a Socratic dialogue wirtten by Plato about the general theme of virtue.
Love Among the Chickens follows the story of Jeremy Garnet, his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge and their adventure in setting up a chicken farm.
Lost Leaders by Andrew Lang. Non-fiction
Mademoiselle Fifi by Guy de Maupassant is a story set during the Franco-Prussian war and its themes centres around its pointlessness. Fiction
Major Barbara is a three act play by G. Bernard Shaw. Its regarded by many as Shaw's most controversial work due to his criticism of Christianity and the Salvation Army.
Quote: "In vain they searched; in vain Marie wailed and Belle declared it must be somewhere; no wreath appeared. It was duly set down in the bill, and a fine sum charged for a head-dress to match...
Notes from the Underground is a unique short novel by Feodor Dostoevsky as it is regarded to be the world's first existentialist work.
New Poems is Robert Louis Stevenson's collection of poems.
Quote, "Lady Bothwell listened to her sister without attempting to console her. Probably she might be of opinion that even the worst intelligence which could be received from Flanders might not be...
In Miss or Mrs? Wilkie Collins takes an insight into the union of man and wife and the subsequent unequal marriage laws during Victorian Britain.
John Bull's Other Island is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw in 1904 about Ireland for the opening of Abbey Theatre.
Written during Victorian times Just So Stories is Ruyard Kipling's collection of children's stories. One of these highly popular stories is How the Elephant got his Trunk.
Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 4
Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 5
Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 3
Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 2
Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 1
Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 6
Forest and Frontiers by G. A. Henty is also know by the title Adventures among the Indians. It is also claimed that it was Mr Roualeyn Gordon Cummings who wrote the back and not G. A. Henty. Fiction
This letter will divide the weighty task, and consequently make it sit lighter on the memory, be pleasanter to the reader, and make my progress the more regular: I shall therefore take in Hampton...
Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 7
Father Sergius is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy in 1873. It follows the path of Prince Stefan Kasatzky who becomes a monk after his wife's affair on the eve of their wedding with Tsar...
Farewell by Honore de Balzac
Grass of Parnassus is a collection of poetry by Andrew Lang.
Great Catherine by George Bernard Shaw
Hospital Sketches is a personal account of the time Louisa May Alcott spent in a Washington millitary hospital. The book takes an insight from her experience and observations into a soldiers life...
Is Shakespeare dead? : From my autobiography by Mark Twain takes a look at the parallels and closeness of works by Shakespeare and those of Francis Bacon.
Gaspar Ruiz by Joseph Conrad
A poem by Andrew Lang about the Greek mythological beauty known as Helen of Troy.
Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson. Short excerpt: He had the courage of a lion and the cunning of a rat; and if hes not in hell to-day, theres no such place.
Heart of Darkness is one Joseph Conrad's traditional sea tales that originally appeared in a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine. Fiction.
In Defense of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain
Falk by Joseph Conrad.
Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac.
Plato's Euthydemus is a 380 BCE dialogue.
A collection of thirteen fables by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in the Oz adventure. Originally published in 1908 the story reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Fiction.
Fanny's First Play is a 1911 play by G. Bernard Shaw.
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of a rich and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. Having been rescued by a steamship after being washed overboard, Harvey Cheyne Jr. is the...
Dear Brutus is a play by J. M. Barrie. Eight people get to spend a different life for one night while in the woods. Play.
Death At The Excelsior by P. G. Wodehouse tells the story of private investigator Elliot Oakes and his older, wiser boss Paul Snyder. Fiction.
Charmides and Other Poems is a collection of poems and sonnets by Oscar Wilde. Poetry
Dickory Cronke by Daniel Defoe.
Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven is a short story by Mark Twain. It tells the story of Captain Stormfield's long journey into heaven.
Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw, set in Roman times, about a slave who gets saved from torture by a lion. Shaw writes the play using slapstick humour, verbal...
Angling sketches retells Andrew Lang's fishing adventures in the Scotish waters. Non-fiction.
Apology is Plato's version of the speech as given by Socrates in which he defends himself against the charges of corrupting the young, non-belief in gods and creation of new deities. Drama
An Inland Voyage is regarded as the fist piece of outdoor literature. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, it is his travel account from a canoeing trip along the River Oise through France and...
American Notes by Rudyard Kipling. Written by the first ever British Nobel prize recipient for literature, Indian born Kipling details his travels to San Francisco in the lat 19th Century.
Amy Foster is a short story about a Polish immigrant who falls for an English woman while been shipwrecked on the shores of Kent, England en route to America. Yanko Goorall eventually marries this...
Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem written by Oscar Wilde following his imprisonment for homosexual behaviour. A hanging, which occurred during Wildes stay in prison, was the source of inspiration...
Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes by Andrew Lang. Poetry.
Candida is a late 19th century play by George Bernard Shaw. The play essentially asks the question of what a woman wants her husband to provide her with.
Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry is a collection of short stories
Books and Bookmen is a collection of essays by Andrew Lang.
Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of milliary songs and poems that relieve the experiences of soldiers sent to defend the British Empire. Poetry.
Black Heart and White Heart by H. Rider Haggard is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo.
Alice Sit-By-The-Fire by J. M. Barrie. Written by Scotish novelist, J. M. Barrie, Alice Sit-By-The-Fire tells the story of the Grey family sepearted due to military obligations. The grey children...
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories by Mark Twain
All He Knew A Story by John Habberton details late 19th early 20th century Californian life. Fiction
Captain Brassbound's Conversion is a play by George Bernard Shaw from the collection of Three Plays for Puritans.
A Cynic Looks at Life by Ambrose Bierce. Bierce's venerable reputation, that it was feared that his judgment on any contemporary fiction of the day could make or break a writer's career.
A Daughter of Eve.Honore de Balzac. The most amusing society, but also the most mixed, which Madame Felix de Vandenesse frequented, was that of the Comtesse de Montcornet, a charming little woman,...
A Modern Cinderella by Louisa May Alcott. To all of which remarks Nan gave her assent; though the hop-pole took the likeness of a tall figure she had seen in the porch, the sage-bed, curiously...
A Second Home by Honore de Balzac. The Rue du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of...
A Tale of Three Lions by H. Rider Haggard. In this thrilling tale of danger and adventure, young Harry joins his father, the famous Alan Quatermain, on a hunt for lions deep in Africa.
A Man of Means by P. G. Wodehouse. A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories that first appeared in the United Kingdom in 1914 and in the United States in 1916. The stories all feature...
A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain. In Mark Twain's comical satire of the art of telling tall tales in America "A Horse's Tail", there was "night so dark the cats ran against each other he wrote of "a...
Set at the fictional school of Eckleton, the story centres around the house of "Kay's", the riotous boys therein, its tactless, unpopular master Mr. Kay, and Fenn, the head boy. The story features...
A Vindication of the Press by Daniel Defoe. A Vindication of the Press does not seem to have been occasioned by a specific situation, and in it Defoe is not alone concerned with freedom of the...
A Visit to Three Fronts by Arthur Conan Doyle. A Visit to Three Fronts is a short essay on Arthur Conan Doyles wartime experiences. He was axious to take part in the war effort and was assigned to...
A Young Girls Diary, Literature
On the Decay of the Art of Lying, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Persuasion, Jane Austen, Literature
Opera Stories from Wagner, Florence Akin, Fiction
Paradise Lost, John Milton, Fiction
The Best American Humorous Short Stories, Humorous Short Stories
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, Fiction
Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Non-fiction
Great Britian and her Queen, Annie E. Keeling, History
The Professor, Charlotte Bronte, Fiction
The Devils Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, Fiction
Dream Psychology, Sigmund Frend, Psychology
Little Journeys to the homes of the Great, Elbert Hubbard, Classic
Seven English Cities, W. D. Howells, Literature
Ulyssys, James Joyce
The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations Complete, Bible Illustartions
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens, Literatures
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells, Fiction
Write it Right, Ambrose Bierce, a little blacklist of literary faults
Their Mariposa Legend, Charlotte Herr, a Romance of Santa Catalina
Prufrock and other Obervation, T. S. Eliot, Literature
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen, Literature
Around the World in 80 days, the classic novel by Jules Verne
This is the famous play by William Shakespeare, concerning the fate of two young star-crossed lovers
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe
A Prefect's Uncle, P. G. Wodehouse, Drama
Ali Pacha Celebrated Crimes, Alexandre Dumas, Pere, Drama
The Survivors of the Chancellor, Jules Verne, Literature
The Man Who Knew Too Much, G.K. Chesterton, Fiction
The Mad King, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction
The Man Who Would Be King, Rudyard Kipling, Fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, Adventure Fiction
Alfred Tennyson, Andrew Lang, Poetry
American Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Fantasy Fiction
Adventures Among Book, Andrew Lang, Art
Glinda Of Oz, L. Frank Baum, Drama
In the Wrong Paradise, Andrew Lang, Philosophy
The Little Nugget, P.G. Wodehouse, Drama
Talks on Talking, Grenville Kleiser, Language Arts
Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fantasy Fiction
The Master of the World, Jules Verne, Fiction
THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, A Collection of Holmes Adventures, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction
Diana's Dreams, Joan Hanger, Biography
Soldiers Three, Rudyard Kipling, Fiction
A Ward of the Golden Gate, Bret Harte, Fiction
The Seven Poor Travellers, Charles Dickens, Fiction
The Stories of the Three Burglars, Frank Richard Stockton, Fiction
The Blue Fairy Book, Andrew Lang, Fiction
Childhood, Leo Tolstoy, Literature
The White Company, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Literature
The Holly Tree, Charles Dickens, Literature
Those Extraordinary Twins, Mark Twain, Literature
Uncle Bernac, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Literature
The First Men in the Moon, H. G. Wells, Literature
Sylvie and Bruno, Lewis Carroll, Literature
A House to Let, Charles Dickens, Literature
What Is Man and Other Essays, Mark Twain, Literature
The True Story of My Life, Hans Christian Andersen, literature
Prue and I, George William Curtis, Literature
The Country of the Blind And Other Stories, H. G. Wells, Short Stories
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Short story
The Doings of Raffles Haw, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Literature
The Captain of the Polestar, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction
A Childs History of England, Charles Dickens, History
Rodney Stone, Arthur Conan Doyle, Literature
Oxford, Andrew Lang, Literature
Love and Freindship, Jane Austen, Literature
Hard Times, Charles Dickens, Literature
Searchlights on Health, B.G. Jefferies, J.L. Nichols, Health
The Battle of Life, Charles Dickens, Literature
The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer, Peoms and Tales
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen, Literature
Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte, Literature
God the Invisible King, Herbert George Wells, Religious
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelly, Fiction
Five Weeks in a Balloon, Jules Verne, Adventure Fiction
Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story, H.G. Wells, Literature
Mark Twain's Speeches, Mark Twain, Speeches
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie, Fantasy Fiction
Lineage Life and Labors of Jos Rizal Philippin, Austin Craig, biography
Aunt Jane's Nieces, Edith Van Dyne, Literature
The World War and What was Behind It, Benezet, Louis P., History
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Sigmund Freud, Science
Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzache, Literature
Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll, Fiction
The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction
The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli, Philosophy
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde, Play
Custom and Myth, Andrew Lang, short stories
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, Literature
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie, Literature
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon v9, Constant, History
Emma, Jane Austen, Literature
Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie, Literature
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc, Fiction
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Literature
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