The Army of Northern Virginia, still victorious after three hard years of fighting, capitalize on their victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and a young Harry Kenton, is an eyewitness to the Confederate invasion of the...
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Auteur: Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)Sommaire: - Auteur: Patterson, J. H. (John Henry)Sommaire:
The story is familiar to movie fans-the horrifying tale of the 1907 book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo has been retold by Hollywood many times, most recently in the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness-but hearing it directly from the source...
- Auteur: Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of BeaconsfieldSommaire:
Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England.
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Auteur: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)Sommaire:It wasn’t Archie’s fault really. It’s true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her–well, what else was there to...
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Auteur: Stratton-Porter, GeneSommaire:An old-fashioned novel that describes the struggles and achievements of spirited Kate, the youngest daughter of a rich Indiana farmer. Her father presents each of her brothers with a 200-acre farm and no land to Kate. When her parents...
- Auteur: Stone, LouisSommaire:
A novel based on Louis Stone's memories and on painstaking observation of life at Waterloo. It contrasts the lives of two larrikins
- Auteur: Carboni, RaffaelloSommaire:
The Eureka Stockade: The Consequence Of Some Pirates Wanting On Quarter-deck A Rebellion; Issue 3 Of Australiana Facsimile Editions reprint Raffaello Carboni Public Library of South Australia, 1855
- Auteur: Tench, WatkinSommaire:
A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay and A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson
- Auteur: LEACOCK, StephenSommaire:
A collection of short stories centering on Mariposa, a fictional Mid-West American turn-of-the-century town. This is a gentle journey through a past era, filled with quiet humour and insightful observations of the human condition.
- Auteur: Barrie, J. M.Sommaire:
Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the embarrassment of all. Crichton, his butler, particularly...
- Auteur: Shaw, George BernardSommaire:
A historical farce set in St. Petersburg, 1776, in which Shaw vividly contrasts the predatory and amoral Empress with a stuffy young English captain she has summoned to describe the events of the war in America. Originally written in...
- Auteur: Furphy, JosephSommaire:
First published in 1903, this book is an Australian classic whose stature has grown with the years, whose intricacies and strength have been the subject of endless discussions and literary essays. 'Tom Collins' (who was Joseph...
- Auteur: Atkinson, Eleanor StackhouseSommaire:
This Skye terrier dog was owned by John Gray, an unemployed gardener who became an Edinburgh policeman. When Gray died in 1858, he was buried in Greyfriars' Kirkyard. Greyfriars' Bobby made his home by his master's grave...
- Auteur: IBSEN, HenrikSommaire:
A Doll’s House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen’s plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and...
- Auteur: Arthur W. RyderSommaire:
One night the famous King Triple-victory, mighty as the king of the gods, found a monk called Patience standing under a fig tree and making a magic circle. "O King, if you wish to do me a favor, go south from here some distance all...
- Auteur: IBSEN, HenrikSommaire:
Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen’s masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884. As expressed by the protagonist, Rosmer,...
- Auteur: BUTLER, Ellis ParkerSommaire:
This American classic is a humorous turn-of-the-century story about a train agent and the definition of a guinea pig. This hilarious tale of bureaucracy run amok at the Interurban Express Company, and exponential growth of the Guinea...
- Auteur: Nennius, fl. 796Sommaire:
An early history of the Britons translated from the Latin Historia Brittonum.
- Auteur: CARLYLE, ThomasSommaire:
Harald took the sword, drew it, or was half drawing it, admiringly from the scabbard, when the English excellency broke into a scornful laugh, "Ha, ha; thou art now the feudatory of my English king; thou hast accepted the sword...
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Auteur: Luther, MartinSommaire:Early in the course of the Reformation (1520) Martin Luther penned a trilogy of foundational documents addressing the Church, the Nobility and the Christian life. This document concerning the Christian life expounds the famous paradox...
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