The Iron Heel - London Jack

The Iron Heel - London Jack

The Iron Heel is a distopian utopian socialist novel, told in first person by someone that have read the manuscript finded in a oak, hidden 600 years ago that tolds the life and adventures of a socialist activist Avis Everhard and her husband Ernst Everhard executed in 1932. The Iron Heel is a story with stories within stories..

Wildfire - Grey Zane

Wildfire - Grey Zane

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his best selling book. This is one of his stories. The story revolves around Lucy Bostil, a stable owner’s daughter who one day happens upon an unconscious Lin Slone.

Thunder Mountain - Grey Zane

Thunder Mountain - Grey Zane

One of the bestselling novelists of the American West brings us a gripping tale of gold, greed, and vengeance. Three brothers find a lode of gold at Thunder Mountain. But instead of finding peace and prosperity, Jake, Kalispel, and Sam Emerson find more treachery than any normal men could hope to survive.

The Metamorphosis - Kafka Franz

The Metamorphosis - Kafka Franz

"The Metamorphosis" is a masterpice by Franz Kafka. "One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections.

A Country Doctor - Kafka Franz

A Country Doctor - Kafka Franz

"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1917 by Franz Kafka. The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom (stablehand) in a pig shed.

In the Penal Colony - Kafka Franz

In the Penal Colony - Kafka Franz

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka. The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror.

Sanditon And Other Miscellanea - Austen Jane

Sanditon And Other Miscellanea - Austen Jane

Sanditon And Other Miscellanea contains: Plan of a Novel Sanditon The Watsons Cancelled Chapter of "Persuasion" Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism.

The Secret Garden - Hodgson Burnett Frances

The Secret Garden - Hodgson Burnett Frances

The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published as a book in 1911. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children.

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - Carroll Lewis

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - Carroll Lewis

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Set six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Sur les chemins de l'Europe - Michelet Jules

Sur les chemins de l'Europe - Michelet Jules

Partie de Paris le 5 août à huit heures du matin, notre diligence a fait à Beauvais sa première halte..

Andersen’s Fairy Tales - Andersen Hans Christian

Andersen’s Fairy Tales - Andersen Hans Christian

"Andersen’s Fairy Tales" is a compilation of 12 magnificent fairy tales created by Hans Christian Andersen. Table of content: The Mermaid The Flying Trunk The Red Shoes Thumbelisa The Girl Who Trod On A Loaf The Nightingale The Garden Of Paradise The Wind's Tale The Snow Queen What The Moon Saw The Marsh King's Daughter The Travelling Companions.

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