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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most well known writers of the 20th century. The City of Dreadful Night" paints a gritty, dark picture of a hot summer night within a walled city in the Orient. The narrator steps over sleeping people which mimic corpses and vividly depicts what he sees, feels, and hears in this death-like city.

Have you ever considered learning Korean, but been put off by the unusual look of the characters? Don't let yourself be scared away! Korean has been called "the most logical language there is". This Dictionary has been created for beginners who wish to learn the language. Everything needed to learn...

Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance. Burgess's novel "War the Creator" is an account of a young man he had met in Paris in July 1914, and saw again as a wounded soldier a few months later: "a boy who, in two months, became a man."

Après l'étude des insectes, ces infiniment petits de la Création divine, il n'en est peut - être pas de plus attrayante que l'étude des mots, ces infiniment petits de 1a Création humaine, aussi destructeurs les uns que les autres, les uns du sol, les autres de l'âme. Le jour où l'homme est...

A collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves.

Fans of Arthurian tales will definitely love "Amadis of Gaul", which is a notable sight among medieval chivalric romances, written by the Portuguese writer Vasco de Lobeira. "Amadis of Gaul" is the story of knight Amadis, who searches for his own identity. Being born in secret, from a forbidden love,...

Proza lui Ioan Slavici (1848-1925) contureaza o fresca a moravurilor si a comportamentului specifice locuitorilor din Ardeal, o lume in care triumfa binele si adevarul, cinstea si dreptatea, cumpatarca si iubirea de oameni, norme etice pe care omul trebuie sa le respecte.  Ioan Slavici surprinde,...

In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters provides individuals and families with information on what can and should be done to enhance survival in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Chapters cover: general guidance, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter...

Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They had a highly successful literary partnership that lasted nearly 30 year and produced several worldwide bestsellers.  The authors of the "Mutiny on the Bounty" trilogy present a...

This is a werewolf tale, by the famous author of The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers. "It is an exciting story of a diabolical pact; more than that it is an acute and merciless study of the corruption of a man's character by envy, and a colorful and...

In a new amazing version, Jack London's epic tale of a fictional Socialist uprising in the US and the rest of the world is told through the eyes of Avis Everhard, a middle-class woman who marries a prominent Socialist leader. Set in a fictional time period, the book is a fascinating portrayal of the...

The story of the three little pigs is a well-known European folk tale, with many adaptations and variations, some of them with a different number of little pigs or other animals. It is a typical coming of age story. Like many other fable and fairy tale heroes, the three little pigs leave home to seek...

An amazing book, written by the Reverend E.J. Hardy.  Oscar Wilde praised it extravagantly: "It is a complete handbook to an earthly Paradise, and its author may be regarded as the Murray of matrimony and the Baedeker of bliss." This book provides something really useful and thought-provoking, as...

"...de cuantas armadas a aquellas tierras han ido ninguna se viese en tan grandes peligros ni tuviese tan miserable y desastrado fin, no me quedó lugar para hacer más servicio de éste, que es traer a Vuestra Majestad relación de lo que en diez años que por muchas y muy extrañas tierras que anduve...