A slothful, unsavoury, nasty reversal of the laws of human mature, said the Traveller; "and for the sake of GOD'S working world and its wholesomeness, both...

A HERO OF OUR TIME TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN OF M. Y. LERMONTOV By J. H. WISDOM & MARR MURRAY FOREWORD THIS novel, known as one of the masterpieces of...

A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy 'A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.' PREFACE The...

CHAPTER I - SOLDIER BOY - PRIVATELY TO HIMSELF I am Buffalo Bill's horse. I have spent my life under his saddle - with him in it,...

DANIEL DEFOE A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation...

Notwithstanding my being, as I have mentioned, quite ready for a voyage, still I had some doubts of this voyage. Of course I knew, without being...

THE HUMAN DRIFT by Jack London Contents: The Human Drift Small-Boat Sailing Four Horses and a Sailor Nothing that Ever Came to Anything That Dead Men Rise up Never A Classic of the Sea ...

Calm, stoic captain Mac Whirr has just been given command of a new steamship, the Nan-Shan. He and his crew are transporting Asian workers across the...

This is the fourth and final volume of the first annotated edition of Dickens's journalism; previous volumes of this edition have attracted outstanding critical praise. This...

This volume includes "A Smile of Fortune," "The Secret Sharer," and "Freya of the Seven Isles": "One day -- and that day was many years ago...