After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also houses an...

This book is a handbook for the home orchardist. The propagation, pruning, choice of variety, and management of dwarf fruit trees, specifically...

Oh dear! The Duchess of Datchet's diamonds, worth a quarter of a million pounds, have been stolen. Just as Mr. Paxton, a ne'er do well gambler...

In conformity with its title, this volume, save for the earlier chapters, is history rather than biography, is of the day, more than of the man....

Guido Ferranti, a young man, travels to Padua with his friend Ascanio after receiving a mysterious letter from a stranger, claiming to know the...

Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain and...

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels...

Students will attain functional proficiency in Dari utilizing the four skills, with emphasis on listening and speaking, as well as job-related...

Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literature,...

A coming of age story blended with a swashbuckling road trip through an mythical "golden age" of Spain. The titular character is excluded from the...

Murder—half-million dollar robbery—false accusation—secret passage—the underworld—a mystery woman—a masked man—a crooked lawyer—stolen jewels—a...

Frustrated with life in the tenements generally and the negative influences on his children specifically, a father decides to move his family to...