Category: Classics

By Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen)

By Crane Brinton

The various earliest books, fairly these courting again to the 1900s and ahead of, at the moment are super scarce and more and more pricey. we're republishing those vintage works in reasonable, prime quality, smooth versions, utilizing the unique textual content and paintings.

By Janice Farrar Thaddeus

Frances Burney used to be exceptionally issues a certified author, many-sided and brave. She usually depicted herself as modest and anxious, yet this was once purely a part of her personality and never an important half. She embraced inconsistencies and altered along with her instances. Her eighty-seven years begun within the reign of George II and ended 5 years after the accession of Queen Victoria. She was once witness to George III's insanity, the trial of Warren Hastings, and the carnage after Waterloo. In her deepest diaries she wrote approximately this and lots more and plenty else. She compelled at the studying public issues they have been scarcely able to settle for. although she wrote almost always comedy, the topics of her 4 novels and 8 performs are intimate violence, the depredations of the recent cash, and the frustrations bordering on torment skilled through unmarried, middle-class girls. due to her novels, acknowledged Edmund Burke, 'writing like a girl' had develop into a praise any guy will be proud to just accept.

By Nicholas Marsh (auth.)

By William Osler

Initially released in 1919. This quantity from the Cornell college Library's print collections used to be scanned on an APT BookScan and switched over to JPG 2000 layout by way of Kirtas applied sciences. All titles scanned conceal to hide and pages may well contain marks, notations and different marginalia found in the unique quantity.

By Rudyard Kipling

Fresh leatherbound classics version of The Jungle publication. 2 hundred pages.

By Vladimir Nabokov

Albinus, a decent, middle-aged guy and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his spouse for a lover part his age: Margot, who desires to turn into a film famous person herself. while Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American motion picture manufacturer, catastrophe ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of wish, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set within the movie international of Berlin within the Nineteen Thirties. From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more...

By Mack Reynolds

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

Whilst the inventor Perry fires up his burrowing prospector, it runs uncontrolled, plunging him along with his younger protege into the centre of the earth. There, rather than being destroyed by means of the molten lava they look forward to finding, they become aware of an internal global of surprising savagery and unearthly attractiveness. right here powerful dinosaurs nonetheless roam along beasts by no means visible on the earth above. And to their horror, they locate themselves all of sudden enslaved in a land the place people are governed via the reptilian and evilly clever Mahars. some of the most profound early impacts at the technology fiction and fable style, Edgar Rice Burroughs is now most famed for his Tarzan sequence, even supposing he wrote many stories that experience captured the imaginations of generations of readers, together with the Martian adventures of the Barsoom series, the Pellucidar series, of which this quantity is the 1st, and the tales of Carson on Venus.

By A. V. Durrant (auth.)