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Cover of A Few Crusted Characters
by Thomas Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019

It is a Saturday afternoon of blue and yellow autumn time, and the scene is the High Street of a well-known market-town. A large carrier's van stands in the quadrangular fore-court of the White Hart Inn, upon the sides of its spacious tilt being painted, in weather-beaten letters: 'Burthen, Carrier...
Cover of The Fiddler of the Reels
by Thomas Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019

"The Fiddler of the Reels" is a short story by British writer Thomas Hardy. It was first published in Scribner's Magazine, volume 13 issue 4, April 1893. It was included in Life's Little Ironies, a collection of Thomas Hardy's short stories first published in 1894. Hardy was the eldest of the four...
Cover of The Reverberator
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2019

The Reverberator is a short novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Macmillan's Magazine in 1888 and then as a book later the same year. Henry James, (born April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 28, 1916, London, England), American novelist and, as a naturalized English...
Cover of Greville Fane
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2019

One of the motifs that appears again and again in Henry James' work is the often-fraught relationship between the artist and the audience. Henry James, (born April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 28, 1916, London, England), American novelist and, as a naturalized English citizen...
Cover of A London Life
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2019

A London Life is a novella by Henry James, first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1888. The plot revolves around a crumbling marriage and its impact on many other people, especially Laura Wing, the sister of the soon-to-be-divorced wife. Henry James, (born April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.—died...
Cover of The Madonna of the Future
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2019

An after-dinner conversation, the focal point of this short story, manages to monopolize the reader's attention from the very beginning. An American artist is longing to create his masterpiece. Henry James, (born April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 28, 1916, London, England),...
Cover of Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology
by Mary H. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2019

The people who lived long ago, in the far-off lands of the north, watched the wonderful things that happened out of doors every day, just as we do; but they did not know about the one loving God, who is the Father of all, who made them and the world, and rules it by his wise laws; so they thought...
Cover of Humorous Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2019

EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is — or, alas, was — the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss. Yet as it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat out-of-the-way situation, there are perhaps very few of my readers who have ever paid...
Cover of The Rise of Iskander
by Benjamin Disraeli
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019

The Rise of Iskander is the seventh novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of Great Britain. Benjamin Disraeli, in full Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden, byname Dizzy, (born December 21, 1804, London, England—died April 19,...
Cover of The History of the Devil
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019

The Political History of the Devil is a 1726 book by Daniel Defoe. General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history. He spends some time discussing John Milton's Paradise Lost and explaining why he considers it inaccurate. While those are all...
Cover of Symbolic Logic
by Lewis Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2019

Over 350 ingenious problems involve classical logic: logic is expressed in terms of symbols; syllogisms and the sorites are diagrammed; logic becomes a game played with 2 diagrams and a set of counters. Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (born January 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire,...
Cover of Ajax
by Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2019

Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias, is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BCE. Ajax may be the earliest of Sophocles' seven tragedies to have survived, though it is probable that he had been composing plays for a quarter of a century already when it was first staged. Sophocles was the younger contemporary...
Cover of Legends of Norseland
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2019

As Odin looked down from his home in Asgard and saw the people he had made from the ash and the elm trees, he sighed to himself and said, “These are my children. It is I who created them. They are innocent and pure and sweet.” “But, alas, how little they know of life. By and by there will come...
Cover of Electra
by Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2019

Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Sophocles was the younger contemporary of Aeschylus and the...
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