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500 of the Best Cockney War Stories
by Anonymous500 of the Best Cockney War Stories narrate the lighter and humorous side of the war time memoirs of fellow soldiers. About 500 stories which are categorized under 5 main themes titled Action, Lull, Hospital, High Seas and Here and There. Most of the stories are illustrated by the artist Bert Thomas, who is remembered as the best war time artist..
Biographia Literaria
by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia Literaria is a prose work written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet and founder of the Romantic Movement in England. Among his many poetic works, notable are The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Biographia Literaria. Biographia Literaria was intended to be written by the author as a preface to his poems to justify..
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
by OvidThe Metamorphoses of Ovid is a poem in narrative style written by Publius Ovidius Naso, a Roman poet known to the English world as Ovid who has been compared the caliber of Virgil and Horace. Apart from his magnum opus The Metamorphoses, he has been attributed to many poetic works including The Heroines, The Loves, Women's Facial Cosmetics, The ..
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories
by Hamilton Wright MabieChildhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories is a story collection compiled by Hamilton Wright Mabie, an American author and Edward Everett Hale, an American historian. This collection contains the most famous fairy tales and rhymes which has been told to the young children for generations, in all part of the world. Most of the stories are translated..
Deadfalls and Snares
by A. R. HardingDeadfalls and Snares is an illustrative book on the art of trapping animals written by Arthur Robert Harding, an American outdoors-man who is remembered for his instructional series books such as Fox Trapping, Mink Trapping, Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants, Fur Farming, Wolf and Coyote Trapping and Home Manufacture of Furs and Skins. This boo..
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
by Oscar WildeThe Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five stories written by Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer and dramatist remembered for his plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance and his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. This book is collection of five stories written for children, which teac..
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis StevensonKidnapped is an adventure novel based on the real life incidents of Scottish written by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, a Scottish writer with numerous literary contributions through the forms of novels, poems and essays, notable among them are The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island and Kidnapped. After the death of his par..
King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider HaggardKing Solomon's Mines is an adventure novel set in Africa written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English Novelist whose writings set in exotic locations, among the notables are Allan Quatermain, The World's Desire and Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies. Aristocrat Sir Henry Curtis’s brother has not returned home after his voyage to an un..