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First published in 1907, this large collection includes short humorous prose and verse by such writers as Walt Whitman, James Russell Lowell, John Kendrick Bangs, Emerson Hough, Bill Nye, and Benjamin Franklin.

First published in 1907, this large collection includes short humorous prose and verse by such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Whitcomb Riley, Robert Chambers, and Carolyn Wells.

First published in 1907, this large collection includes short humorous prose and verse by such writers as James Whitcomb Riley, O. Henry, Mark Twain, John Kendrick Bangs, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Bret Harte.

Then can we say too much in praise of the men who make us laugh? God never gave a man a greater gift than the power to make others laugh, unless it is the privilege of laughing himself. We honor, revere, admire our great soldiers, statesmen, and men of letters, but we love the man who makes us laugh....

First published in 1907, this large collection includes short humorous prose and verse by such writers as Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Henry Drummond, Carolyn Wells, Owen Wister, Anne Warner, Eugene Field, and James Whitcomb Riley.

First published in 1907, this large collection includes short humorous prose and verse by such writers as John Kendrick Bangs, Bill Nye, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edward Everett Hale, and Eugene Field.

This author has attained great celebrity in his own country and in the adjacent parts of India; some information regarding his country and language may however be acceptable to the reader. Telugu is a principal language of the peninsula of India. It is ancient; and has been highly cultivated. The nation...

Eleven-year-old Sid gets some hamsters from his parents who feel that he may enjoy their company as well as a chance to learn about ‘responsibility’. Sid decides to keep a diary. Sid’s diary entries follow the observations he makes in his unsuccessful attempt to keep and raise the hamsters. One...

Nestled in the Arizona mountains are several small, unassuming towns that belie the importance of their heyday. These towns are all intrinsic to each other for one reason: mining. The nearby ranches were established to feed the miners, and in many cases, residents moved back and forth among them depending...

Set in the sleepy sea side town of Gopalpur-on-Sea on the East Coast of India, this is the story of the mock-colonial world of the Coromandel Villa Hotel, whose owner, Arjun Roy tried to escape from the urban life of Calcutta, and his girl Friday Jennifer Da Costa. The story goes back in time and place...

George Payne Rainsford James was a British writer who produced a remarkable number of historical novels and romances over the course of his thirty-year career. The sweeping epic Richelieu unfolds amidst the cultural tumult and political shifts of seventeenth-century France.

The Chouans [Honoré de Balzac] An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [Ambrose Bierce] One of Ours [Willa Cather] Ailsa Paige [Robert William Chambers] The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers] The Duel [Joseph Conrad] The Tale [Joseph Conrad] The Deerslayer [James Fenimore Cooper] The Last of the Mohicans...

"Suspense, fantasia, viagem no tempo, tudo condimentado com uma muito saudável dose de romance... a boa notícia é que isto é só o princípio." Romantic Reviews Today Christine Canady, CC, é sargento da Força Aérea e no dia do seu 25º aniversário, já depois de uns quantos copos de champanhe...

Cansada de encontros com egocêntricos, a designer de interiores Pamela Gray está quase a desistir dos homens. Quer ser tratada como uma deusa - preferencialmente por um deus. Quando exprime o seu desejo, invoca inconscientemente a deusa Ártemis, que possui alguns truques na sua manga celestial......