One day, Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug, became separated from his comrades who had accompanied him from th...

From Scott's introduction: 'The incidents on which the ensuing Novel mainly turns, are derived fr...

Long ago, a human infant was abandoned in a bewitched woodland. Taking up the boy, the nymph Neci...

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous...

'H.L. Mencken wrote of Mark Twain, 'I believe that he was the true father of our national literat...

At the age of fifty-five, former president Theodore Roosevelt took part in an expedition to the f...

A gripping tale of betrayal, blood-gorged blades and the pursuit of heart's desire, Eric Brightey...

. . . . They are nearly 18 miles from Fort Henry and they worry for their lives. Fortunately, for...

The Nabob figure is a Hungarian potentate of vast estates, who lives amidst a crowd of retainers,...

The narrator reflects with wistful, unjudgmental melancholy on his family, the experience of grow...

This is England -- but an England none have ever seen and perhaps none will ever see: for it is a...

'After I glimpsed a kind of thin, yellowish, shimmering exhalation rising from the nitrous patter...

The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans and...

Peter Rabbit of the Brier-patch is full of mischief today -- and hopes to pull a little prank on ...

Little Jim was, for the time, engine Number 36, and he was making the run between Syracuse and Ro...

Ah, leave the hills of Arcady,Thy satyrs and their wanton play,This modern world hath need of the...

Evelina and Ann Eliza are two spinster sisters living together in a one bedroom apartment. They m...

The memoir has been highly regarded by the public, military historians and literary critics. Gran...

ONE SAVVY SCOT SKIPPEREver wonder what it was like to be the Captain of a Clyde Puffer -- that is...

The hero of the sun-drenched hours, he looks godlike with his golden hair aglow in the sun as he ...

Curtis, Allan Quatermain, and Captain John Good nearly die of thirst in the desert, nearly freeze...

A splash of chloroform . . .The drunken man was staggering -- but he was quite alive, when the th...

The general introduced them in the ship's shadow, a trim lieutenant, a clean-cut major. 'You prob...

The story is set in the distant future, where humanity is at war with 'Yuks', an alien life form ...

Set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt whic...

'I've done it,' McIlvaine said quietly. 'What's that?' asked Alexander testily. 'I discovered a n...

'Paper-weights,' observed Patty, sucking an injured thumb, 'were evidently not made for driving i...

Emile Zola was an elegant writer -- more elegant than his reputation as a political firebrand mig...

A Martian Odyssey and Others is a collection of science fiction short stories by author Stanley G...

Even back before the first bits of this story hit the newsstands, the folks who published it in A...

Scott's 1824 Redgauntlet is the final novel in his series about the doomed Jacobite cause. The pr...

Tom Canty, the urchin, learns how luxury and power can become the death of a man, while his doppl...

Said to be on the bookshelf of C.S. Lewis, At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald is t...

Dorothy's adventures begin when she tries to help a stranger find the road he is seeking. On the ...

In shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or c...

When the Whigs are determined to overturn the Tory majority in the Parliament of the United Kingd...

LOST ON AN ISLANDWith their leader -- an engineer named Cyrus Smith -- they recreate the wonders ...

You know that when Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old rabbit gentleman, started out to seek his fort...

First on the scene were Larry Dermott and Tim Casey of the State Highway Patrol. They assumed the...

The series begins with the Peppers in their native state and develops with their rescue by a weal...

This collection is named for Guy Boothby's 'A Crime of the Underseas'; but there are other tales ...

From 'The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla':From steaming lowlands down by the equator, where monstrous...

Leacock (1869-1944) did have his serious side -- for he wrote learnedly of Twain and Dickens, and...

The Faith of Men is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of J...

But strange as the journey may be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at...

The Devil's Dictionary is often considered Ambrose Bierce's most famous work. Portions of it were...

The crew's strange encounter leaves them baffled, and leads them to a view an epic space battle. ...

The dead man was named 'Snow' Gregory, for he was a doper . . . and some said he might have been ...