"A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love with the daughter. Conflict arises when other influences cause distrust in the business partnership and the daughter runs off to be with the prince."
"This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's 'Note-books.'"
"This classic tale by Lewis Carroll has delighted children for generations. Alice falls down a rabbit hole and encounters a wide variety of strange and wonderful creatures in all manner of bizarre situations. Join Alice as she journeys through Wonderland, trying to make sense of what she finds there. This version is read dramatically, with different readers voicing the different characters."
"The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold many secrets for Holmes and Watson to unravel. The detective is contemptuous of supernatural manifestations, but the reader will remain perpetually haunted by the hound from the moor."
"This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Anthony Patch, the only heir of millionaire Adam Patch, his grandfather. Anthony is young, handsome and well-educated. He marries the ravishingly beautiful Gloria, and together they plan for the day that Anthony receives his inheritance. But what will they make of themselves in the meantime as they look forward to a life of wealth and idle leisure? What is the role of purpose in a well-lived life? Fitzgerald explores these questions in a book that is at the same time humorous, sad and tragic."
"Sarrasine is a novella written by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830, and is part of his Human Comedy .
Around midnight during a ball the narrator is sitting at a window, out of sight, admiring the garden. He overhears the conversations of passers-by regarding the origins of the wealth of the mansion's owner, Monsieur de Lanty. There is also the presence of an unknown old man around the house, whom the family was oddly devoted to, and who frightened and intrigued the partygoers. When the man sits next to the narrator's guest, Beatrix Rochefide, she touches him, and the narrator rushes her out of the room. The narrator says he knows who the man is and says he will tell her his story the next evening...."
"This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes 'Love & Freindship' and 'Lesley Castle' both told through the medium of letters written by the characters. It also contains her wonderful 'History of England' and a 'Collection of Letters' and lastly a chapter containing 'Scraps'. In these offerings, we may see the beginnings of Miss Austen's literary style. We may also discern traces of characters that we encounter in her later works. G. K. Chesterton in his preface, for example, says of a passage in Love and Freindship; '... is there not the foreshadowing of another and more famous father; and do we not hear for a moment, in the rustic cottage by the Uske, the unmistakable voice of Mr. Bennet?' These works are certainly worth exploring for their own sakes and not simply as historical relics."
"The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunset, often with disastrous consequences.
Never out of print since 1902. The Introduction to this edition examines Nesbit's life and her reading, showing the change in childrens' literature from Victorian times."
"'Pere Goriot' is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, come to Paris from the provinces to make his fortune, who befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters. The story is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for money"
"This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names
The Mysterious Mansion [Honoré de Balzac]
The Tomb of Heiri [Arthur Christopher Benson]
Chickamauga [Ambrose Bierce]
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [Ambrose Bierce]
The Death of Halpin Frayser [Ambrose Bierce]
A Halloween Wraith [William Black]
The Goblin's Collection [Algernon Blackwood]
The Wood of the Dead [Algernon Blackwood]
Let Loose [Mary Cholmondeley]
The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle]
The Lift [Arthur Conan Doyle]
The Terror of Blue John Gap [Arthur Conan Doyle]
Captain Murderer [Charles Dickens]
The Trial for Murder [Charles Dickens]
Cold Ghost [Chester S. Geier]
Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
The Devil in Manuscript [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
The Adventure of the German Student [Washington Irving]
Rip Van Winkle [Washington Irving]
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes [Henry James]
The City Of Dreadful Night [Rudyard Kipling]
The Untold Sequel to the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Frances Little]
Hypnos [H.P Lovecraft]
Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft]
The Tomb [H.P Lovecraft]
Dagon [H.P Lovecraft]
The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft]
The Devil [Guy de Maupassant]
Who Knows? [Guy de Maupassant]
When I was Dead [Vincent O'Sullivan]
Doom of the House of Duryea [Earl Peirce]
The Yellow Wallpaper [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]
The Masqued Red Death [Edgar Allan Poe]
The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
Silence: A Fable [Edgar Allan Poe]
The Tell Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe]
The Room of Mirrors [Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]
The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem [Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]
The Wolves of Cernogratz [Saki]
An account of some strange disturbances in Aungier Street [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]
Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker]
The Squaw [Bram Stoker]
The Dualists [Bram Stoker]
The Valley of Spiders [H.G Wells]
The Sea Raiders [H.G Wells]
The Red Room [H.G Wells]
Jimmy Goggles the God [H.G Wells]
The Eyes [Edith Wharton]
The Wind in the Rose-Bush [Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]
The Substitute [Georgia Wood Pangborn]"
