The Confidence-Man - Herman Melville - On April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions of his fellow passengers.
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson - Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called.
News from Nowhere is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris.
The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson.
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol - Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp.
In this issue, you will find three fundamental texts that have shaped dystopian political fiction: "e;We"e; by Yevgeny Zamyatin, "e;Nineteen Eighty-Four"e; by George Orwell and "e;Anthem"e; by Ayn Rand.
The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation - A Christmas Story - Louisa May Alcott - "e;The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story"e; by Louisa May Alcott is a classic, Christmas story.
Das Spinnennetz Joseph Roth - 1923, drei Tage vor Hitlers Putschversuch in München erschienen, zeichnet Das Spinnennetz das Porträt einer Gesellschaft von Mitläufern, die der Katastrophe entgegeneilt.
The Son of the Wolf - Jack London - "e;This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the most important books of the 20th centuryand now the 21stSince its publication more than 70 years ago, George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle - In this edition of "e;The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood"e;, Howard Pyle has provided possibly the best and most complete rendering of this classic tale of the famous yeoman-thief of Sherwood Forest.
The Nightingale and the Rose - Oscar Wilde - A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose.
The Hyborian Age Robert Ervin Howard - Of that epoch known by the Nemedian chroniclers as the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, little is known except the latter part, and that is veiled in the mists of legendry.
Klein Dorrit Charles Dickens - Diese Version ist komplett - Teil 1 und 2 - Band 1 des vielleicht schönsten Romans von Charles Dickens: Klein Dorrit lebt mit ihrer Familie im Schuldgefängnis.
Die 1,000,000 Pfundnote und andere humoristische Erzählungen und Skizzen Mark Twain - Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), besser bekannt unter seinem Pseudonym Mark Twain, war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.
Tarzan and the City of Gold - Edgar Rice Burroughs - After encountering and befriending Valthor, a warrior of the lost city of Athne (whom he rescues from a group of bandits known as shiftas), the City of Ivory and capital of the land of Thenar, Tarzan is captured by the insane yet beautiful queen Nemone of its hereditary enemy, Cathne, the City of Gold, capital of the land of Onthar.
Die Schatzkammer Edgar Wallace - John Gray Reeder, Detektiv der Staatsanwaltschaft, ermittelt in einem seltsamen Fall: der Mord an dem Polizisten Buckingham, verschwundene Goldbarren, eine hübsche Erbin und wie passt der Kleinkriminelle Larry O'Ryan in diese Geschichte?
The Curse of Eve - Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger.
Viel Lärmen um Nichts Eichendorff - In dieser Romanze um den Prinzen Romano, der mit seinem Widersacher Herrn Publikum um die Hand der schönen Gräfin Aurora buhlt, erstehen auch Gestalten wie Graf Leontin und der Dichter Faber aus der Novelle Ahnung und Gegenwart auf zu neuem Leben und spielen ihre Rollen.
