Search PDFBooksWorld

PDF Books in All Subjects


The Metamorphoses of Ovid

The Metamorphoses of Ovid

by Ovid

The 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

Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Childhood'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

Deadfalls and Snares

by A. R. Harding

Deadfalls 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

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

by Oscar Wilde

The 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

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped 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

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

King 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..

The Monkey's Paw

The Monkey's Paw

by W. W. Jacobs

The Monkey's Paw is a short story with horrifying end written by William Wymark Jacobs, an English novelist, well remembered for this horror story, though most of his stories are humorous, notable among them are Deep Waters, Ship's Company, At Sunwich Port and A Master of Craft. The family of Whites Mr. & Mrs. White and their son Herbert wer..

Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray, an English writer remembered for his satirical works portraying panoramic English society. His notable literary contributions include A Shabby Genteel Story, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Book of Snobs and his magnum opus Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair narrates the story of over ambitious ..