Classics

Mortal Coils (Serapis Classics)

by Aldous Huxley

Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley in 1921. The title uses a phrase from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1: ... To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's...

A DOG'S TALE

by Mark Twain

A sentimental short story praised for its moving plot and condemnation of scientific experimentation on animals, Mark Twain efficiently delivers a truly captivating piece. First appearing in Harper’s Magazine...

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley & Sbp Editors

Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc...

Guy Fawkes (Serapis Classics)

by William Ainsworth

Guy Fawkes first appeared as a serial in Bentley's Miscellany, between January and November 1840. The first of William Harrison Ainsworth's seven "Lancashire novels", the story is based on the Gunpowder Plot...

32 CALIBER

by Donald McGibeny

The story is narrated by the hero, Bupps, who is an amateur detective and professional lawyer. His sister Helen is in the throes of a painful and acrimonious divorce with her husband Jim who also happens to...

The Death of Ivan Ilych (Complete Version, Best Navigation, Active TOC) (A to Z Classics)

by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy & AtoZ Classics

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich was first published in 1886. It is a novella by Leo Tolstoy. It is...

Anna Karenina (Best Navigation, Active TOC) (A to Z Classics)

by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy & AtoZ Classics

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Widely considered one of the best novels ever written, Anna Karenina is the tragic story...

Selected Stories of Rabindranath Tagore

by Rabindranath Tagore & Sbp Editors

Tagore's treatment of caste culture, bureaucracy and poverty paint a vivid portrait of nineteenth century India and all are interwoven with Tagore's perceptive eye for detail, strong sense of humanity and deep...

THE YOUNGER SISTER Vol 1

by Jane Austen & Catherine Anne Austen Hubback

This is the first volume (of three) in the completion of Jane Austen’s series “THE WATSONS” by her niece Catherine Hubback-Watson.

Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The...

THE YOUNGER SISTER Vol 3

by Jane Austen & Catherine Anne Austen Hubback

This is the third volume (of three) in the completion of Jane Austen’s series “THE WATSONS” by her niece Catherine Hubback-Austen.

The series is a wonderful coming of age tale by Jane Austen and her niece,...

Melody

by Laura E. Richards

Melody

The Story of a Child

By

Laura E. Richards

SENSE and SENSIBILITY

by Jane Austen

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY written by Jane Austen with 41 illustrations by Hugh Thomson.

When Elinor Dashwood's father dies, her family's finances are crippled. After the Dashwoods move to a cottage in Devonshire,...

The Red Bicycle

by Fergus Hume

The Red Bicycle

By

Fergus Hume

The White Lady of Hazelwood

by Emily Sarah Holt

The White Lady of Hazelwood

A Tale of the Fourteenth Century

By

Emily Sarah Holt

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political...

Ann Veronica

by H.G. Wells

Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells.

Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule....

Animal Ghosts

by Elliott O'Donnell

Animal Ghosts is a collection of ghost stories in which the antagonists are various animals. Divided up into chapters of ghost sightings by each group of animals, you will hear of hauntings by dogs, cats, birds,...

American Fairy Tales

by L. Frank Baum

American Fairy Tales is the title of a collection of twelve fantasy stories by L. Frank Baum, published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company, the firm that issued The Wonderful Wizard of Oz the previous year. ...

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1604 and 1605, and was originally published in the First Folio in 1623.

Though originally the play was classified...

Allan Quatermain

by H. Rider Haggard

Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence.

The character Quatermain is an English-born...