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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, friends since childhood, collaboratively published a series of Norwegian legends and folktales. In order to overcome language and dialect difficulties, the two modeled their style after the Brothers Grimm. The stories were originally published in pamphlets,...

East O’ the Sun and West O’ the Moon is a beautifully illustrated collection of Norwegian fairy stories—including the tale of that name—by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent. It is widely considered to be the best and happiest rendering of the...

King Arthur is one of the most famous names in history, despite his existence as mere legend. Despite that, his name still evokes visions of fantasy, chivalry, bravery, and more even today, and Arthur remains a pop culture fixture around the globe. Of course, Arthur, Lancelot, and all of the other...

Sunshine Zoo explores the adventures of ten year old Beverly Trail who is recruited by her uncle to help get the zoo back into shape. Being the daughter of a world famous animal conservationist, Beverly must use her courage and spirit to overcome what obstacles lay in the way of rebuilding a zoo that...

Novel first published in 1899. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction....

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of detective Sherlock Holmes, is the father of crime fiction. This intriguing short story, first published in the Strand Magazine in 1928, was based on a bizarre cricketing experience Doyle underwent as a young man. Many of the finest English sport stories, particularly...

A Duet, with an Occasion Chorus is a novel by British author Sir Author Conan Doyle. It’s a romance novel following the story of a happily married couple, but a previous lover of the husband will test their love. One of Doyle’s more stylistically ambitious novels, it seamlessly blends epistolary novel with the prose.

Compiled from the original documents of Sir William Young who headed a commission to the island after it was annexed to Britain in 1763, this history shows an independent people in their struggle against the Red Charaibs and then against the British settlers.

Well, sure enough, the end was coming fast when my father got down to the point. Six men had been cast up alive, or just breathing—a seaman and five troopers. The seaman was the only one that had breath to speak; and while they were carrying him into the town, the word went round that the ship's name...

Series of lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1916. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch(21 November 1863 12 May 1944) was a British writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 12501900...

The Betrothed is an 1825 novel, by Sir Walter Scott. It is the first part of the Tales of the Crusaders, along with The Talisman.Scott himself was pessimistic about the success of the book, and Hesketh Pearson, his biographer has written:"The Betrothed was clearly composed in a somnolent if not stertorous...

The Harvard Classics series is an incredible collection of the most important literary works, compiled by Charles Eliot (1834 1926), then president of Harvard University. Eliot stated that a liberal arts education could be supplemented by reading 15 minutes a day from classic works stored on a five...

The Waverley Novels are a long series of books by Sir Walter Scott. For nearly a century they were among the most popular and widely-read novels in all of Europe. Because he did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, they take their name from Waverley (1814), which was the first. The later books...