Musaicum Books: 2517 books
BALL OF FAT (Boule de Suif)
From one of the greatest French writers, widely regarded as the 'Father of Short Story' writing, who had influenced Tolstoy, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov and Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
"Boule de Suif" (translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat" or "Ball of Lard") is a famous short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story and is the title story...
LULU'S LIBRARY: Complete Collection (Illustrated Edition)
30+ Tales for Children (The Skipping Shoes, Eva's Visit to Fairyland, Mermaids, A Christmas Dream, Rosy's Journey, The Three Frogs...)
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This unique collection of "LULU'S LIBRARY: Complete Collection (Illustrated Edition)” has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: German
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Der Mann, der König sein wollte ist eine 1888 veröffentlichte Erzählung des Rudyard Kipling. Die Kurzgeschichte Kiplings wurde von Abenteurern wie James Brooke inspiriert. - The Man Who Would Be King (1888) is a novella by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India who...
by Robert W. Coakley, Stetson Conn, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook edition of the American Revolution history has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book on the American Revolution consists of three parts-a brief narrative history of the war, a chronology of military events, and a bibliography....
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "These volumes try to give soberly and with what truth is possible, the experiences of both battalions of the Irish Guards from 1914 to 1918....
Enchiridion
Including The Discourses of Epictetus & Fragments
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Enchiridion or Manual of Epictetus is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus. Although the content is similar...
COLONEL JACK (Illustrated)
The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honorable Col. Jacque (Complemented with the Biography of the Author)
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Colonel Jack follows an orphaned boy from a life of poverty and crime to colonial prosperity, military and marital imbroglios, and religious conversion, driven by a problematic notion of becoming a "gentleman." Colonel Jack prominently tackles the subjects of money and crime. The novel begins...
by James Hay
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Detective Jefferson Hastings is invited at Sloanehurst, home of Arthur Sloane, rich and eccentric man deeply interested in study of crime and criminals. During his stay at Sloanehurst a young woman is found dead at the estate and Sloane's daughter wants Hastings to help solving mystery of the murder....
THE WINNING CLUE (Detective Novel Classic)
A Detective Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Enid Withers is found dead and amateur detective Lawrence Bristow takes up on a challenge to solve the mystery of her murder. But after hitting few dead ends, Bristow is joined by a professional investigator Samuel Braceway. Both have their unique ways and different theories, and believe the other...
by James Oliver Curwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This eBook edition of "KAZAN, THE WOLF DOG" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, his eyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless...
THE FOUR GOSPELS (Les Quatre Évangiles)
Fruitfulness, Labour, Truth & Justice (left unfinished)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This volume includes three books intended to illustrate the cardinal principles of human life according to Emile Zola. Originally named "Les Quatre Évangiles" was supposed to consist of 4 novels, but the last novel "Justice" was never completed: Fécondité (1899) Travail (1901)...
by William Strunk Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Elements of Style William Strunk concentrated on specific questions of usage—and the cultivation of good writing—with the recommendation "Make every word tell"; hence the 17th...
PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS - All 40 Tales in One Edition
In the Pride of His Youth, Tods' Amendment, The Other Man, Lispeth, Kidnapped, Cupid's Arrows, A Bank Fraud, Consequences, Thrown Away, Watches of the Night...
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Plain Tales from the Hills is the Kipling's first collection of short stories, the tales about India and more noticeably about the British in India. The title refers, by way of a pun on "Plain" as the reverse of "Hills", to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact...
The Princess and the Goblin & The Princess and Curdie (With Original Illustrations)
Children's Classics - Fantasy Novels from the Author of Adela Cathcart, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England's Antiphon, The Light Princess & Dealings with the Fairies
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
The Princess and the Goblin and its sequel quietly suggest in every incident ideas of courage and honor. Both the books start out as normal fairy tales, but slowly become stranger, and they contain layers of symbolism similar to that of Lewis Carroll's work. Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely...