Word Wise: 97 books
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....
Main Street
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Harry Sinclair Lewis (7th February, 1885 10th January, 1951) was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930 "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters." Whilst an accurate description of his writing...
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in Scribners Magazine in 1915, Edith Whartons Coming Home is a short story of seven chapters that centers around the life of a French man named Jean de Réchamp during the war. The story is narrated in the first-personal pronoun and bases itself on reports about the atrocities committed...
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 JM Synge
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Riders to the Sea is a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed in Dublin in the very beginning of the twentieth century. The play portrays the simple life of rural Ireland, but also pictures the Irish peoples struggles with the furious sea which is presented...
by Katherine M Yates
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Katherine Merritte Yates was an American author who also wrote such works as Prairie Artist: Homesteading under the pseudonym E.E Stevens. In By The Roadside Marjorie and her Dream have a beautiful and enchanting adventure. Whilst her work and style is from a bygone era it has a charm that easily captures...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Perils of Certain English Prisoners is a novella published by the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens in 1857 in collaboration with his close friend, the novelist Wilkie Collins. Of the novella's three chapters, Collins wrote the second, "The Prison in the Woods." The story is set in Asia and central...
Reginald In Russsia And Other Sketches
"But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school."
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
HH Munro, better known by his pen name of Saki has scarcely been out of print since he was first published It has to be admitted that a taste for Saki is something of an addiction. And, like all addictions, once acquired, it is hard to shake off. In the years since his tragically early death in the trenches...
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...
Communist Manifesto
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
The Communist Manifesto is without doubt one of the most important political works ever. It's doctrine occcupied the thoughts and lives of many peoples across the globe during the 20th Century. Whilst its influence has waned its ideals, aspirations and thought processes still leave much to be admired.
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 Clara K Bayliss
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
The Inuit people occupy a bleak but beautiful landscape. It is a culture we think we have some undertanding of but the reality is we know little. In this enchanting book, A Treasury of Eskimo Takes, Clara K Bayliss tells us many stories of Eskimo folklore. It's a wonderful treasure of the culture.
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...