Edward: 7422 books

Cat lovers will delight in this charming tale from Edward Peple. A Night Out follows the travails of Omar Ben Sufi, a dignified and gentlemanly feline whose lot in life has been harsh, but who faces adversity with aplomb. Will this furry fellow land on his feet? Edward Henry Peple (August 10, 1869...

CONTENTS: - Berenice (1907): Oppenheim in a new vein--the story of the love of a novelist of high ideals for an actress. - The Double Four (1911): A novel about secret societies in New York. - The Moving Finger (1911): A mystifying story dealing with a wealthy M.P.'s experiment with a poor young man....

This original compilation presents chilling tales of terror by an unjustly neglected author. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe as well as his own vivid nightmares, Edward Lucas White (1866–1934) weaves a tapestry of weird stories populated by ghouls, monsters, a witch doctor, and creatures...

A collection of six of Edward W. Robertson's sci-fi and horror stories: In "Death Among the Grasseaters," a biologist is sent to a western backwater to track down the source of a new plague. "The Inspiration of Philocrates," a steampunk-hued work of alternative history,...

A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust,...

***Winner of the National Crime Short Story Prize*** Robert Barnard's contribution 'Sins of Scarlet' won the National Crime Short Story Prize. Featuring: Michael Jecks, Bill Kirton, Peter Lovesey, Stuart Pawson, Christine Poulson, Zoe Sharp, Frank Tallis, Yvonne Eve Walus, Carla Banks,...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at a particular theme through the eyes and minds of our most...

Edward Bond Plays:8 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding, and Early Morning. The volume comprises five new plays and two prose essays: Two Cups: introductory essay Born: the third play in the Colline Tetralogy (the first...

"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" is one of the most familiar of the "Arabian Nights" tales, and has been widely retold and performed in many media, especially for children.  In the story, Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter who discovers the secret of a thieves' den, entered with the...

Autobiography of an immigrant to America, first published in 1921.

This book was to have been written in 1914, when I foresaw some leisure to write it, for I then intended to retire from active editorship. But the war came, an entirely new set of duties commanded, and the project was laid aside.

In the Pecos Country Edward S. Ellis, american author (1840-1916) This ebook presents «In the Pecos Country», from Edward S. Ellis. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- A WARNING -03- A BRIEF CONFERENCE...

On the heels of the success of Edward Albee’s The Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Overlook brings back—in a stand-alone volume—one of Albee’s most cherished plays, a fantastic story of what it means to be alive—winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. On a deserted stretch of beach,...

America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50 years. Beginning with his debut play, The Zoo Story (1958), and on to his barrier breaking works of the 1960s, most notably The American Dream (1960),...