A Word To The Wise: 89 books
by Charles Southwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Charles Southwell was born in London, the youngest of 33 children! The only child of his Fathers third wife Charles was a difficult but clever child. After being introduced to religion by a Christian colleague, who encouraged him to read the Sermons of Timothy Dwight, he thought seriously about it...
by Anthony Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope was born on February 9th 1863. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels and although he wrote 32 volumes of fiction our memory of him rests almost entirely on two: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and Rupert of Hentzau (1898). After...
by Anthony Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope was born on February 9th 1863. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels and although he wrote 32 volumes of fiction our memory of him rests almost entirely on two: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and Rupert of Hentzau (1898). After...
The Gentleman from Indiana
"Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Booth Tarkington was born on July 29, 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. When you look through the quality of his work it is easy to understand why. The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, Penrod, Penrod And Sam all classics....
by Rabindranath Tagore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who was a gifted Bengali Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a philosopher, social and political reformer and a popular author in all literary genres. He was instrumental in an increased freedom for the press and influenced Gandhi and the founders of modern India....
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on November 11, 1836. His family moved to New Orleans when he was a child and he only returned to Portsmouth in preparation for college. He describes this period of his life in his semi-autobiographical novel The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), in...
by Julian Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Julian Hawthorne was born on June 22, 1846 the son of the esteemed novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote numerous poems, short stories and novels amongst which is The Golden Fleece in 1892. This helped to cement his reputation. However in 1908 he made his writing and allowed his name to be used to...
by James J Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
James John Davies was born in Tredegar, Wales, before emigrating with his parents to the United States in 1881 at the age of eight. Apprenticed as a puddler's assistant in a steel mill thereby acquiring his nickname. After stints as City Clerk in Elwood, Indiana, and Recorder of Madison County, Indiana...
by Ring Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Ring Lardner was by most accounts a writer who excelled at creating situations about apple pie America and them warping them with his exceptional satirical gifts to an altogether different plane. In The Big Town he and the missus go to New York to help her sister Katie find a husband. A simple enough premise but life in the Big Apple with Lardners writing is pure genius.
Admiral Guinea
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
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 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...
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....
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...