Literary Books

Geschichte der Englischen Sprache und Literatur

Ottomar Behnsch

Geschichte der Englischen Sprache und Literatur is a German literary work by Ottomar Behnsch...

The Duel and Other Stories

Anton Chekhov

Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and compelling human portraiture. In The Duel, the wastrel and libe..

Halleck's New English Literature

Reuben Post Halleck

In this New English Literature the author endeavors to preserve the qualities that have caused his former History of English Literature to be so widely used; namely, suggestiveness, clearness, organic..

Island Nights' Entertainments

Robert Louis Stevenson

A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British keen to live free and exploit the innocent; the other the supern..

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7

Charles Herbert Sylvester

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 is a collection of Children's literature compiled by Charles Herbert Sylvester...

Another Study of Woman

Honore de Balzac

A series of tales -- told by men, of course -- about women. Though the book first appeared in 1842, Balzac later added to it as an addenfum a tale of 1831, La Grande Bretèche. That will be read later,..

Laxdæla Saga

Anonymous

Laxdæla saga, also Laxdœla saga, Laxdoela saga, Laxdaela saga or The Saga of the People of Laxárdalr, is one of the Icelanders' sagas. Written in the 13th century, it tells of people in the Breiðafjör..

Chronicles (1 of 6) - The Historie of England (4 of 8)

Raphael Holinshed

Raphael Holinshed was an English chronicler, whose work, commonly known as Holinshed's Chronicles, was one of the major sources used by William Shakespeare for a number of his plays...