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The Bells, and Other Poems

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is widely famed as one of the greatest writers of all time. He is best known for his works of horror, such as "The Tell Tale Heart." However, and this is less known, Poe also wrote man..

Alaska

Jón Ólafsson

Alaska is a travel description written in Icelandic language by Jón Ólafsson, an Icelandic traveller noted for his autobiography which covers his travels in Europe and later to the Danish settlement o..

An Old Sweetheart of Mine

James Whitcomb Riley

An Old Sweetheart of Mine is a collection of love and romance poems written by James Whitcomb Riley, an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier..

Brief History of English and American Literature

Henry A. Beers

Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has writte..

Cashel Byron's Profession

George Bernard Shaw

Cashel Byron's Profession is George Bernard Shaw's fourth novel. The novel was written in 1882 and after rejection by several publishers it was published in serialized form in a socialist magazine. Th..

Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane

Roy Rockwood

Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane Or Daring Adventures Over The Great Lakes is a science fiction story wriiten by Roy Rockwood,  a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for boy's adven..

Der Schimmelreiter

Theodor Storm

Der Schimmelreiter is historical fiction work by Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm, commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German writer. He is considered to be one of the most important figures of Germ..

Fifty Famous People - A Book of Short Stories

James Baldwin

One of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume is that, although they are not biographical, they are about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama..