Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. Includes Vaninka and The Marquise De Ganges. – Summary by Michele Eaton
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Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferable, and Waveney has to enter service, the sisters have to part for the first time. The book tells both stories in a realistic and engaging way. It gives us, the readers, insight into every aspect of the sisters’ lives from managing a household to going out with friends to (altro…)

One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe his teachings in fable and appealing legend, and his exotic soul, so near and yet so far, reminds one of a flower, whose familiar aspect is transmuted into rare perfume.
By him the sternest questions are stripped of their hostile aspects and present themselves in the alluring form of (altro…)

This epic poem is about Alfred the Great’s defense of Christian England against the pagan Viking invaders. The decisive battle is fought in sight of a white horse mark made on a hill, after which the poem is named. As the white horse mark must be continually maintained by weeding to be clearly seen, Chesterton sees it as a symbol of the continual struggle to maintain the Christian culture (altro…)

The Silver Fox Patrol is out in the Rocky Mountains, camping in the Big Timber. Many adventures await these boys, including a dunking in the river, an adventure involving a grizzly bear, and the appearance of some timber cruisers up to no good.

Herbert Carter is one of the many pseudonyms of St. George Rathborne. (Summary by Ann Boulais)
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The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as the human experience; death; immortality; and Heaven. It also includes notable excerpts from John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. – Summary by Tomas Peter
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Another fascinating book by the author of A Vanished Hand. Rhoda returns home after the death of her employer to find out that her cousin Helen, with whom she was raised, also returned home. Her husband stole 300 pounds and had to run away to Australia and leave her pregnant. Rhoda has to reconcile her shame and learn to cope with the new situation. But nothing is as it seems. More (altro…)

The Dream is Joanna Baillie’s gothic, proto-Lynchian meditation on fear, guilt, and the prophetic power of dreams. In the cloistered confines of a Swiss monastery, a small group of monks share the same prophetic dream: a forlorn specter reaches out to them with a mysterious—and potentially life-threatening—ultimatum. The dream comes every night, and yet its true import remains hazy and unknown. But when these dreams lead them to a buried corpse, (altro…)

The adventures of two young men, which may or may not have to do with the supernatural. – Summary by Nicholas Clifford
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Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 59 contains an eclectic mix of readings, ranging from a description of a Coney Island elephant colossus to meditations on mental telepathy and baseball. Philosophical essays by Leibniz, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Francis Bacon and William Blake touch on the topics of truth, prejudice, poetic genius, suicide, and preparation for a Christian life. An educator at a women’s college (altro…)

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
This taken from his DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMS translated by Constance Garnett (1861 – 1946) She was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking (altro…)

El libro es la narración por parte de David , desde su nacimiento hasta su muerte, y de aquellos que le rodearon, para bien o para mal. Inicia el día en que nació, ayudado a venir al mundo por el Dr. Chillip, cuando su padre ya había fallecido. Clara era el nombre de su madre, y el de su niñera también, aunque ésta es llamada en todo el relato por su (altro…)

Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the country town, the other a classy city girl, both set their caps for Jim. Will true love triumph? Will Jim’s dog ever get his dinner? Will Jim ever (altro…)

Clásica novela picaresca española del Siglo de Oro, del gran Don Francisco de Quevedo. En ella se narran las extravagantes andanzas y aventuras de un joven pícaro: Don Pablos. Conoceremos sus inicios en casa de sus peculiares padres, su paso por la escuela, sus peripecias como criado de un gran señor, su etapa como estudiante de Bachiller, de su viaje a la Corte, sus aprendizajes como buscón para vivir sin dar (altro…)

Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, ‘translated them from the original manuscripts’, late in his writing career. The freshness, wonder and excitement of exploring a new world permeates Eve’s thoughts as she takes great joy in her very existence and loves everything about it. To me this is obviously a posthumous love-letter to Twain’s wife Olivia Langdon Clemens, or Livy, who died in June (altro…)

“For many days the boys had been looking forward to the party to be held at Toad Brown’s house, but the evening finally arrived and a number of new games were played, although a few things happened which were not on the program.” – Summary by Alice Hale Burnett
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