Robert C Worstell: 119 books
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
About this book: The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country...
Sun Tzu's Art of War
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
About this book: The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly known to be the definitive work on military...
Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
About this book:
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). Complete in 1844, it is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from...
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
About this book:
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England....
Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles
A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
About this book:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of World War I, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920.
Styles was Christie's first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot,...
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
About this book:
Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel, respectively. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of...
H. G. Wells' The Time Machine
A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
About this book:
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and later adapted into two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in...