Ambrose: 683 books

A story of how a straight forward order can come to haunt an officer who did not question enough.

The Raccolta (literally, "collection" in Italian) is a book that listed Roman Catholic prayers and other acts of piety, such as novenas for which specific indulgances were granted by Popes. It was translated by Father St. John who was a convert to Catholicism and was one of the first books...

Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It was whilst suffering the agonies of solitary confinement in the military prison of Wesel that I first decided to record my experiences so that readers might be able to glean some idea of the inner workings and...

Una selección de cuentos que Julio Cortázar calificó como «inolvidables» en diversas épocas de su vida. Una lista de cuentos que se abre pero no se cierra e involucra al propio Cortázar como lector junto con grandes autores de la Literatura contemporánea. Los cuentos son "El...

The book begins with Jerry Rogerson becoming interested in the U.S. Navy, obtaining an appointment to the Naval Academy. He was a Midshipman at the Academy for four years, graduates and becomes a Commisioned officer. He serves at sea in two battleships: a U.S. Navy Oil Tanker and a Heavy Cruiser,...

A true account of a soldier's life in the First World War. He spent sixteen months in four German prison camps.

It happened in 1853, cases of peddling were more widespread than now and it was much more dangerous. The peddler with his luggage traveled around the country by all manner of lonely roads and was compelled to rely upon the country people for hospitality. There was a one old man in Iowa who was suspected...

The story “The Boarded Window” is told by an author, who remembers the old myth which he heard from his grandfather. It is about the old house with boarded window. In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, lay an immense and almost unbroken forest. It was settled...

One man who was rude and hard man was buried at the local cemetery. He was sitting with his hands crossed upon his stomach on the picture at the gravestone. The reason of his death was a cruel disease. He had the invalid's apathy and did not greatly concern himself about the uncommon fate that had...

“The Spook House” is a very mystic horror story. On the road leading north from Manchester, in eastern Kentucky, to Booneville, twenty miles away, stood, in 1862, a wooden plantation house of a somewhat better quality than most of the dwellings in that region. The house was destroyed and neighbors...

William Holt who was a wealthy manufacturer of Chicago was living temporarily in a little town of central New York. He had some troubles with his wife and leaved her one year ago. The cause of their divorce was an incompatibility of their tempters. One day he left the house of his brother and went...

Orrin Brower killed his brother-in-law and was a fugitive from justice. He escaped the jail where he had been confined to await his trial. He knocked down the unarmed jailer with an iron bar, robbed a key of his jail, opened the outer door, walked out into the dark night with neither moon nor stars...

One man said to a physician that he was disturbed by hallucinations. Every night he awoke and saw in his room a big black dog. It seemed to him sinister. The doctor said that the patient looked allright, and suggested that it could be just a dream. But the man reassured the physician that the dog...