Deadtree Publishing: 166 books
by William Ernest Henley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William Ernest Henley was born in Gloucester on 23 August 1849, the eldest of six children. Between 1861 and 1867, Henley was a pupil at the Crypt Grammar School. It was also from this time that William suffered from tuberculosis of the bone that resulted in the amputation of his left leg below the knee...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William Ernest Henley is most noted for his poetry of which he wrote several volumes with the outstanding contribution being the poem ‘Invictus’. His life was overshadowed by a great deal of ill health and although he died at the young age of 53 he contributed much to Victorian literature. His partner...
The Great War
The British Campaign in France and Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in...
The City Of Dreadful Night
“Life a dream in Death's eternal sleep.”
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
James Thomson was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland on November 23rd 1834. He was raised in Holloway, London in the Royal Caledonian Asylum an orphanage after his father was incapacitated by a stroke. He was educated at the Caledonian Asylum and then the Royal Military Academy before serving in Ireland....
The Great War
The British Campaign in France and Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in...
The Great War
The British Campaign in France and Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in...
The Great War
The British Campaign in France and Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in...
The Great War
The British Campaign in France and Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in...
An Essay Upon Projects
"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born circa 1659, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy ... and a writer of short stories. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused...
by Lucy Fitch Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Lucy Fitch Perkins was forty-eight when she was approached by a publisher friend who, impressed by her talents as both an illustrator and writer, which he knew through correspondence, urged her to write. He was so earnest that she thought of an idea for a children’s book the next morning, and she immediately...
The Vital Message, An Essay
“I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and his poems, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts...