Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Twice-Told Tales is a volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. These ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context. The volume contains «Sunday at Home», «The…
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Swallow is a story of a Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. «Our Midnight Visitor» is a wonderful collection of short stories like «Our Midnight Visitor», «The Stone of Boxman’s Drift», »…
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. Peacock’s retelling of the legend of Robin Hood is as fresh today as it was when he penned it, nearly two hundred years ago. Here are all the heroes and villains we know and love, recast by a keen Victorian…
The novel tells of the relationships of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, who live in a Midland colliery town in the years before the First World War. Ursula falls in love with Birkin (a thinly disguised portrait of Lawrence himself) and Gudrun has an intense but tragic affair with Gerald, the son of a local…
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. The Four Million is his second collection of short stories published in 1906. The title refers to the population of New York City…
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 — 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is the first part of a «Mysteries and Adventures» series, containing author’s earliest fiction stories. The narratives revolve around different themes, such as romance, crime, colonial life, politics, and even supernatural. Original RUGRAM, 2018…
The Black Arrow was first published in 1888. Being both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel, The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of Roses: the young man becomes a knight, rescues lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton….
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. «Tales of Blue Water» is a collection of short stories about the sea. Mixing adventure, romance, and humor, these tales…
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. «The Kempton-Wace Letters» is an epistolary novel written by Jack London and Anna Strunsky. It consists of philosophical thoughts on…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. «The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales» is the first volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like «The…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. «A Drama in Four Acts» is a four-act play by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, based on several…
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Written at various times, under various influences, these short stories are linked by Conrads treatment of loyalty and betrayal. Typhoon is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury. Captain…
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories includes such amazing stories as «The Snow-Image» and «The New Adam and Eve». This volume also contains the novel «Fanshawe», that was the first published work by Hawthorne, published anonymously in 1828. It was based on his experiences at…
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Water Witch is a 1830 novel by Cooper. Set in 17th century New York and the…
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like «Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde» and «Treasure Island». Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This volume includes amazing short stories like «Will o’…
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like «Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde» and «Treasure Island». Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. «The Wrecker» is an episodic adventure novel written by…
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Allan and the Ice-Gods is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels, and he finds himself…
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 — 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. «The Coming Race» is an early science fiction novel about a superior race living on the Earth. It offers a fascinating vision of a shadowy underworld populated…
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like «Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde» and «Treasure Island.» Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Unlike many other Stevenson’s novels, «Prince Otto» is a…
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Smith and the Pharaohs, the title tale of Collected Tales I concerns a budding Egyptologist…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. «The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard» is a collection of wonderful historical stories about Brigadier Gerard, an officer in the French…
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding. After the death of one — now a proprietor of a wine merchant’s company…
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. The Observations of Henry is the collection of wonderful tales told by the waiter Henry to the author, mostly about people he has known and their ways to solve romantic problems. In Novel Notes Jerome and three of his pipe party bachelor friends: Jephson, Brown, and…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This book is the first part of a «Mysteries and Adventures» series, containing author’s earliest fiction stories. The narratives revolve…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This book is the second part of a «Mysteries and Adventures» series, containing author’s earliest fiction stories. The narratives revolve…
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. «On the Makaloa Mat» is a collection of seven short stories that describes life on the beautiful Hawaiian Islands. Full…
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Fcu-Follet is a classic story of love and sea warfare from one of…
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea is a historical novel, first published in January 1824. Its…
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Red Rover presents some of the first serious depictions of characters of African lineage in American…
