Lisbon was presently fixed on in its room. The air here, as it was near four degrees to the south of Aix, must be more mild and warm, and the winter shorter and less piercing. It...
Massacres Of The South
Dumas chronicles the sanguinary deeds in the south of France carried on in the name of religion. The French conflicts over Reformation drenched the country in blood much the way...
The Time Machine
The Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H. G. Wells’s successful career...
The Turn Of The Screw
Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into...
Rainbow Valley
In the continuing story of Anne Shirley, we find Anne Shirley married with six children. And we learn more about her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as...
From The Earth To The Moon; And, Round The Moon
The Gun Club, a society based in Baltimore and dedicated to the design of weapons of all kinds, come up with a plan to construct a cannon capable of shooting a projectile to the...
The Knights
"The Knights" is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War.Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.
The Tragedy Of Romeo And Julet
"Romeo and Juliet" is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding...
The Mysterious Island
"The Mysterious Island" is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874.The plot focuses on the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South...
The Poem Of Hashish
The Poem of Hashish (1821) was first published in 1850.“By graduations, external objects assume unique appearances in the endless combining and transfiguring of forms. Ideas...
