Robert Robert: 26808 books

In this third of twelve volumes, the great nineteenth-century pundit and agnostic considers some influential careers in history and the arts, but touches on religion as well. Lectures includes “Shakespeare,” calling him the Great Genius of our World; “Robert Burns,” the story of his life as well...

This early work by Robert Barr was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. The short story "The Long Ladder", has Heinrich von Richenbach stumbling upon a glorious castle, perhaps only penetrable with the help of a special ladder. Robert...

This early work by Robert Barr was originally published in 1892 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. "An Invitation" has Lord Archbishop of Treves meeting with the The Countess of Starkenburg, a widow living in Castle Starkenburg. Robert Barr was born on 16th September...

This early work by Robert Barr was originally published in 1896 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. "Count Konrad's Courtship" follows the story of Count Konrad von Hochstaden's courtship with the Lady of Bernstein. Robert Barr was born on 16th September 1849 in...

In 1986 professional writer Robert Hutchison became a passenger on a 10,000-mile trip through fourteen countries in a Scania 111. He was sampling the life of the long-haul trucker. The truckers' world was one of long days and nights on the road away from their families, hair-raising tales of accidents...

The Call Of The Blood by Robert Hichens This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts...

"Robert Frager'ın sohbetleri Cennetin ırmakları gibi temiz, berrak ve tam da ruhun damağına layık."-Pir Zia Inayat Khan-Amerika'nın tanınmış, saygıdeğer Cerrâhî şeyhi Robert Frager'ın hayatın içinden süzülen sohbetlerinden ilham almak için Sufi olmaya gerek yok. Bu kitap, son on...

The Merry Men" is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1882 in Cornhill Magazine 45-6. The story was later published in Stevenson's collection The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. It is set on the fictional island Eilean Aros, based on the Isle of Erraid. Robert...

Essays of Travel By Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 The amateur emigrant, from the Clyde to Sandy Hook -- Cockermouth and Keswick -- An autumn effect -- A winter's walk in Carrick and Galloway -- Forest . Robert Louis Stevenson, in full Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, (born November 13, 1850, Edinburgh,...

The Silverado Squatters is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrift to Napa Valley, California, in 1880. In July 1879, Stevenson received word that his future American wife's divorce was almost complete, but that she was seriously ill. Robert...

This early work by Robert W. Chambers was originally published in 1897 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Messenger' is a short story set on the coast of Brittany where a hoard of skulls are found buried. Robert...

Robert Eustace was the pen name of Eustace Robert Barton (1854–1943), an eng doctor and author of mystery and crime fiction with a theme of scientific innovation. He also wrote as Eustace Robert Rawlings. Eustace often collaborated with other writers, producing a number of works with the author...

During a time of uncertainty over collective identity and social transformation, Quebec novels started getting sick – after 1940, the number of narratives about illness, disease, and sick characters intensified. For the last seventy years, generations of authors have turned to medically oriented stories...

The Body Snatchers is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). First published in the Pall Mall Christmas "Extra" in December 1884, its characters were based on criminals in the employ of real-life surgeon Robert Knox (1791–1862) around the time of the notorious Burke...