At seventeen years of age, he began writing for the Paducah Daily News, his hometown paper. At nineteen he became the managing editor; up to that...

This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories. One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is written as a short play...

Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of her...

Bank manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels from the bank’s vault. Gabriel Chestermarke and his nephew Joseph have...

Rome having been stormed and sacked by the Goths under Alaric their king, the worshipers of false gods, or pagans, as we commonly call them, made...

No matter how enlightened, chances are you’ve been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one of the...

In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the fallacies of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes...

In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed. Mr....

Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who is convicted of...

The Author sings the praises of Chocolate. “By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially...

In this novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices of...

This is a scripture-filled booklet for those wishing to live as a real Christian.