Civitas Media Llc: 56 books

RAMONA AND OTHER NOVELS includes three works by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), a Western writer whose concern for the fortunes of Native Americans is apparent in her writings, including her most famous novel, RAMONA. RAMONA is the heart-breaking story of a part-Indian, part-Scottish girl...

THE AWAKENING AND AT FAULT includes both novels published by Louisiana Cajun writer Kate Chopin (1851-1904).  Known for her critiques of Southern life and racism, Chopin is considered a forerunner to much 20th century feminist literature. This book is DRM free and includes an active table of contents.

BEYOND THE BAYOU AND OTHER SHORT STORIES includes seventy-two short stories by Louisiana Cajun writer Kate Chopin.  Known for her critiques of Southern life and racism, this book includes her controversial story 'Desiree's Baby,' one of the earliest tales of miscegenation set in the pre-Civil...

THE DEVIL'S CRYPT AND OTHER WEIRD FICTION includes 10 short stories by noted pulp writer E. Hoffmann Price (1898-1988).  Price produced works of weird fiction, sci-fi, adventure, westerns, fight stories, and especially oriental tales.  His work appeared regularly with that of fellow pulp...

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD is a bestselling historical novel set in colonial Jamestown, Virginia.  It follows the story of English soldier-turned-adventurer, Ralph Percy, whose young wife, Jocelyn Leigh, is a runaway from the court of the English king.  Mary Johnston (1870-1936) was a bestselling...

This dual edition includes E.F. Benson's beloved QUEEN LUCIA and its sequel, MISS MAPP.  Emmeline Lucas, known to her friends as Lucia, is the undisputed social leader of the town of Riseholme.  She is married to Phillip, writer of prose poems. Risholme is also home to an eclectic band of characters which Queen Lucia and Miss Mapp consort with on a regular basis.

THE MONKEY GOD AND OTHER STORIES includes nine 'weird fiction' tales by renowned pulp writer Seabury Quinn (1889-1969).  Despite writing hundreds of short stories between the 1920s and 1960s, Quinn was primarily a lawyer of mortuary jurisprudence, penning several books on the subject. ...

LITTLE WOMEN concerns the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War, and was based on Alcott's own experiences as a child in Concord, Massachusetts. After much demand, Alcott wrote a sequel, Good Wives, which is often published together with Little Women as if it were...

THE WORKS OF E.F. BENSON includes seven novels by English writer and novelist Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940).  While well known for his QUEEN LUCIA and MISS MAPP books, Benson also wrote romances, short stories, and supernatural tales.  Includes an active table of contents. ...

In his most famous work, NIGHTMARE ABBEY, Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) pokes fun at the Romantic movement's fascination with misanthropy, the supernatural, and transcendental philosophy through the agency of a reclusive widower, Christopher Glowry, Esquire, and his only son, Scythrop who live alone in dilapidated mansion.

WEIRD TALES Volume 8 contains 101 stories of horror, hauntings, the occult, the supernatural, the strange, and the outlandish.  May of these stories are from the pages of Weird Tales and other classic magazines which brought the work of masters like H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Robert...

THE JASON CROFT SWORD AND PLANET TRILOGY includes three works which follow the adventures of Jason Croft, a young man who masters astral projection, and sends his to another world (called Palos).  In PALOS OF THE DOG STAR PACK, Croft occupies the body of a young man, but faces seemingly insurmountable...

JASON, SON OF JASON is the third and final book of the Jason Croft Sword and Planet Trilogy.  It follows the continuing adventures of earthman Jason Croft on the planet of Palos. John Ulrich Giesy (1877-1947) was an American physician and writer.  One of the pioneers of the Sword...

THE MOUTHPIECE OF ZITU is the second book of the Jason Croft Sword and Planet Trilogy.  It follows the continuing adventures of earthman Jason Croft on the planet of Palos. John Ulrich Giesy (1877-1947) was an American physician and writer.  One of the pioneers of the Sword and Planet...