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Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There v1.0
Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, from 1871, is a children's novel that is often put in the genre literary nonsense.
The Best American Humorous Short Stories v1.0
The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846 v1.0
When Robert Browning first met the ailing Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 it must have seemed to him like something from a gothic novel.
The Sign of the Four v1.0
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second novel starring the great detective Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four weaves together a complex plot involving stolen treasure, a secret pact between guards and prisoners, and the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
The Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World v1.0
Inspiring countless business, political and military leaders (Napoleon, Mao Zedong and General MacArthur among them), The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu from the 6th century BC.
The School for Husbands: LEcole des maris v1.0
The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy.
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm v1.0
The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse.
Nicholas Nickleby: A Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family v1.0
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.
The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education v1.0
Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion.
The Thirty-Nine Steps v1.0
British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth v1.0
In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that my life from this point onward has been so public.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens v1.0
J M Barrie's most famous character, Peter Pan, originated in a whimsical story from his book The Little White Bird.
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas v1.0
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories.
The History of Mr. Polly v1.0
H. G. Wells' comic 1910 novel, The History of Mr. Polly, stars Alfred Polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local draper's shops.
Love and Mr. Lewisham v1.0
One of H. G. Wells' first ventures outside of the science fiction realm, the novel Love and Mr. Lewisham was published in the year 1900.
The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga v1.0
Student! Your life is your own. You have only yourself to thank for what you are, have been and will be.
Anne of the Island v1.0
In the third book in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, Anne of the Island, our protagonist leaves her teaching work in Avonlea in order to study for her B.A. at Redmond College.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man v1.0
James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of the life of a young American man in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time v1.0
Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven.
The Ghost Pirates v1.0
According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils.