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Saint Joan is a 1923 play written by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw depicting the life of Joan of Arc and first published in 1923.

In Greek mythology, Helen, better known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen was described as having the face that launched a thousand...

Tarzan the Untamed was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and first published in 1920. Edgar Rice Burroughs' legendary Tarzan stories continue with two of his greatest! In Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan defends his jungle home from invaders during World War I and then must protect an Englishman and a German...

A Christmas Sermon was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1900. Valedictory eloquence is rare, and death-bed sayings have not often hit the mark of the occasion. Charles Second, wit and sceptic, a man whose life had been one long lesson in human incredulity, an easy-going comrade,...

A Descent into the Maelström was written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1841. Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is noted as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old - "You suppose me a very old...

She and Allan is a classic romance novel written by H. Rider Haggard and first published in 1921. A supernatural fantasy thriller featuring a magic token, telepathy, powers of the occult, and a people lost to time in the depths of ancient Africa.

Betty's Bright Idea was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and first published in 1875. And this holy time, so hallowed and so gracious, was settling down over the great roaring, rattling, seething lifeworld of New York in the good year 1875. Who does not feel its oncoming in the shops and streets, in...

A Chistmas Garland is a collection of 17 classic short stories written by Max Berrbohm and first published in 1912. Parodies with a Christmas theme of some of the most renowned authors of the period including Kipling, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells and Conrad.

St. Ives is a romantic adventure written by Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1897. The tale revolves around the exploits of Captain Jacques St. Ives who is captured by the British and thrown in jail. While there, he meets the droll Miss Gilchrist and her lovely niece, Flora, who takes an...

Just so Stories was written by Rudyard Kipling and was first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.

Mathilda is a romance classic written by Mary Shelley and first published in 1819. This shocking tale of father-daughter incest, by the author of Frankenstein, was suppressed for over a century. Mathilda's adoration of her beloved father veers into tragedy in this High Romantic tale of forbidden passion.

Juvenilia Volume I was written by Jane Austen and first published in 1790. Perhaps as early as 1787, Jane Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the...

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

Martin Eden is a classic novel written by Jack London and first publised in 1909. A semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the authors most mature work. Personifying Londons own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin...