Bay Books: 428 books

* Book : Ayesha * Biography * Bibliography In the book's prologue, the book's anonymous "Editor" receives a parcel. Opening it, he finds a letter from Horace Holly, with an enclosed manuscript containing a second memoir about She. There is also a second letter, from Holly's doctor,...

* Book : Colonel Quaritch, V.C. * Biography * Bibliography Excerpt: ...an awful fluke of mine killing those four birds." Edward Cossey took no notice of the friendly words or outstretched hand, but came straight on as though he intended to walk past him. The Colonel was wondering what...

* Book : Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time .1) * Biography * Bibliography In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its...

* Book : Cleopatra * Biography * Bibliography The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of Ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis (the living descendant of the pharaoh's bloodline) is charged...

* Book : The Tracer of Lost Persons * Biography * Bibliography He was thirty-three, agreeable to look at, equipped with as much culture and intelligence as is tolerated east of Fifth Avenue and west of Madison. He had a couple of elaborate rooms at the Lenox Club, a larger income than seemed...

* Book : Between Friends * Biography * Bibliography He was making a full length study in clay now. All day long she sat there enthroned, her eyes partly closed, the head lifted a trifle and fallen back, and her lovely hands resting on her heart--and sometimes she strove to imagine something...

* Book : A Matter of Interest * Biography * Bibliography This book is one of the most popular novels of Robert William Chambers, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. Excrept: Much as I dislike it, I am obliged to include this story in a volume devoted...

Mémoires d'Outre-tombe (Tome III) François-René de Chateaubriand Mémoires d'outre-tombe est une autobiographie de François-René de Chateaubriand, dont la rédaction commence en 1809, sous le titre Mémoires de ma vie, et s'achève en 1841.

Mémoires d'Outre-tombe (Tome IV) François-René de Chateaubriand Mémoires d'outre-tombe est une autobiographie de François-René de Chateaubriand, dont la rédaction commence en 1809, sous le titre Mémoires de ma vie, et s'achève en 1841.

* Book : Ceci n'est pas un conte * Biographie * Bibliographie " Lorsqu’on fait un conte, c’est à quelqu’un qui l’écoute ; et pour peu que le conte dure, il est rare que le conteur ne soit pas interrompu quelquefois par son auditeur. Voilà pourquoi j’ai introduit dans le récit...

* Book : The Common Law * Biography * Bibliography Artist Louis "Kelly" Neville is already famous, but finds greatness easier to talk about than achieve. Chance conversation with the model for his new project leads him to put his theories about creativity, society, and love to the...

* Book : The King in Yellow * Biography * Bibliography The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in...

* Book : The Messenger * Biography * Bibliography "Look " said Le Bihan shrilly. I looked. The pile below was a heap of skulls. After a moment I clambered down the gravel sides of the pit and walked over to the men of Bannalec. They saluted me gravely, leaning on their picks and shovels, and wiping their swearing faces with sunburned hands.

* Book : Apology * Biography (The) Apology (of Socrates) is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man "who corrupted the young, did not believe in the gods, and created new deities". "Apology" here has its earlier...