Wilde told the stories of this group orally to his brother in Paris as topics for a magazine he was corresponding with at the time, but he did not know that it would later become one of the signs of exotic literature in the world, with its stories carrying brilliant poeticism, symbolic depth, and stylistic uniqueness.
Patti Miller's best-selling Writing True Stories is the essential book for anyone who has ever wanted to write a memoir or explore the wider territory of creative nonfiction.
Allan Pinkerton's 'Bucholz & the Detectives' is a compelling account of detective work in the 19th century, characterized by its detailed descriptions and suspenseful narrative.
Allan Pinkerton's 'The Greatest Cases of Pinkerton Detective Agency' offers a captivating glimpse into the thrilling world of crime-solving in the 19th century.
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world.
Eingeschworene Gemeinschaften, deren Mitglieder mithilfe von Gehirnwäsche gefügig gemacht werden und die gefährlichen Machenschaften ihrer Anführer*innen decken – Sekten faszinieren und gruseln gleichermaßen.
Cleveland Moffett's 'True Crime & Murder Mysteries Collection' compiles a series of gripping tales that delve into the dark world of crime and mystery.
In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed.
Gettysburg Rebels is the gripping true story of five young men who grew up in Gettysburg, moved south to Virginia in the 1850s, joined the Confederate army - and returned "e;home"e; as foreign invaders for the great battle in July 1863.
This book explicitly chronicles 40 cases of unsolved murders and disappearances over a period of more than 160 years, tracing the evolution of criminal investigation and forensic techniques.
Allan Pinkerton's 'The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives' is a gripping true crime story that follows the journey of a notorious burglar and the relentless pursuit of justice by Pinkerton's renowned detective agency.
In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world's most adapted and imitated stories.
The Duel by Joseph Conrad is Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleonic Wars.
A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Joseph Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman.
An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids, radio waves, new stars and alien life.
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, in which he writes of his theories of evolution by natural selection, is one of the most important works of scientific study ever published.
An in-the-room account of John Colt's scandalous nineteenth-century murder trial from "e;America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers"e; (Boston Review).
A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business.
CONTENIDO:- Lady Susan- Sentido y Sensibilidad- Orgullo y Prejuicio- Mansfield Park- Emma- Persuasión- La Abadía de Northanger- Los Watson- El Castillo de Lesley- Obras Juveniles
In her bestselling book, Slave Girl, Sarah Forsyth told of her terrible ordeal as a young woman sex-trafficked from England to the Red Light District of Amsterdam - and of her dramatic escape from forced prostitution.
