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Henry James Short Stories Volume 14
Includes - A Most Extraordinary Case, Georginas Reasons, The Great Conditionand a unique and detailed biography.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his high standards drop and story retains the poise and simplicity...
Henry James Short Stories Volume 7
Includes - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, The Altar Of The Dead, The Tone Of Time, The Papersand a unique and detailed biography.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his high standards drop and story retains the poise and simplicity...
The Bankrupt
Includes a rare poetry collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 1910), the third man to ever win the Nobel Prize in Literature. However when considering the quality of his writing he is perhaps not as celebrated as he should be. Being also a Nobel Laureate in Literature, Bjornson has also been credited with many other impressive successes....
Leonarda
Includes a rare poetry collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 1910), the third man to ever win the Nobel Prize in Literature. However when considering the quality of his writing he is perhaps not as celebrated as he should be. Being also a Nobel Laureate in Literature, Bjornson has also been credited with many other impressive successes....
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk, Scotland, the eldest of the eight children. After a comprehensive education including St Andrews and Oxford he soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day. His list of works is extensive and covers everything from biographies to fairy...
A Cynic Looks At Life
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born June 24, 1842 was one of the great American short story writers though his talents extended to Journalism and as a critic. With the motto Nothing matters it can be safely assumed that no one was free from his scathing viewpoint. As a writer he was distinctive. He would...
by Alice Meynell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
In this volume we look at the works of the poet Alice Meynell. She was born Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson on September 22nd 1847. Her early years were in England, Switzerland, and France as the family moved around finally settling in Italy where she was thereafter raised mainly in Italy. Her great...
The King
Includes a rare poetry collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 1910), the third man to ever win the Nobel Prize in Literature. However when considering the quality of his writing he is perhaps not as celebrated as he should be. Being also a Nobel Laureate in Literature, Bjornson has also been credited with many other impressive successes....
The Newly-Married Couple
Includes a rare poetry collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 1910), the third man to ever win the Nobel Prize in Literature. However when considering the quality of his writing he is perhaps not as celebrated as he should be. Being also a Nobel Laureate in Literature, Bjornson has also been credited with many other impressive successes....
Across The Plains
“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Robert Louis Stevenson. In the Scottish canon to be placed alongside Burns for your poems is high praise indeed but its a rightful place for one of Scotlands finest novelists. Born in 1850 he managed to cram much into his 44 years travelling widely to France, the United States, Samoa and the South Seas....
by Honore De Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Honore De Balzac may only have lived for 51 years but his work lives on through such vital classics as Albert Savarus. Written in 1836 and part of a series of novels known as La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy) which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (18151848).
by GK Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874. Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the illustrators art and literature. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic....
Henry James Short Stories Volume 12
Includes - Sir Dominick Ferrand, Lady Barberinaand a unique and detailed biography.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his high standards drop and story retains the poise and simplicity...
Eureka - A Prose Poem
"No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th 1809 and was orphaned at an early age. Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy, West Point where he failed to become an officer. His early literary works were poetic...