A New York Times bestseller imagines the life of Jules Verne in this "rollicking whopper of a novel [that] glides down smoothly" ( Publishers Weekly).Captain Nemo is the fictional life story of one of Jules Verne's most memorable characters from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. This alternate history covers his boyhood friendship with the dreamer, Jules Verne, adventures aboard sailing ships, battl...

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to English author Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more tha...

The true story of the US Navy operation that captured Nazi submarine U-505, its crew, technology, encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine.Two days before D-Day, the course of World War II was forever changed. The hunters of the Atlantic Ocean had become the hunted, and US antisubmarine Task Group 22.3 seized a Nazi U-boat. Led by a nine-man boarding party and Captain Daniel Gallery, "Operation Nemo" was the first seizure of an enemy warship in battle since t...

Here in one binding are both of Jules Verne's Captain Nemo novels. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea we meet the enigmatic Captain Nemo and The Nautilus. Even after many adventures and much derring-do Nemo's secrets remain his own, and at the end of the novel we are left with many mysteries concering this mysterious and tragic man. In The Mysterious Island we once again encounter Captain Nemo. The years have mellowed him some, and he reveals his surprising secrets. Two wonderful sea adventur...

Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. Nemo was originally the protagonist of the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. The full-page weekly strip depicted Nemo having fantastic dreams that were interrupted by his awakening in the final panel. The strip is considered McCay's masterpiece for its experiments with the form of the comics page, its use of color, its timing and pacing, the size and shape of its panels...

Mary Roberts Rinehartwas an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel The Door (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-but-Known" school of mystery writing, with the publication of The Circular Staircase (1908). This book con...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofSelma Lagerlöfwhich are The Treasure and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Selma Lagerlöf ranks among the most naturally gifted of modern storytellers. In 1909 became the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Novels selected for this...

In "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," Jules Verne captivates readers with an imaginative exploration of the underwater world through the eyes of Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian whaler Ned Land. The novel fuses meticulous scientific detail with adventure, employing a vivid narrative style that blends romance, fantasy, and the emerging themes of technology in the late 19th century. Verne's prescient depiction of the submarine Nautilus serves as a profound metap...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of George Orwell which are Animal Farm and Nineteen eighty-four. Eric Arthur Blair, better known by the pseudonym George Orwell, was an English writer, journalist, and political essayist. His work is marked by a perceptive and humorous intelligence, a deep awareness of social injus...

Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Classic Erotica. - Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence - Venus in Furs by Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch - Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Clela...

The Victorian era is the perfect setting for a good love story. The romantic tales of the time could besweet, dramatic orbreathtaking - there are stories for all tastes! August Nemo selected seven stories with love stories in the Victorian era: - Angela By William Schwenck Gilbert - The Parson's Daughter Oxney Colne By Anthony Trollope - Anthony Gartin's Courtship By Hubert Crackanthorpe - Right At Last By Elizabeth Gaskell - Mr. Captain and the Nymph By Wilkie Collins - A Story Of A Weddi...

Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings some of best essays of Emma Goldman, across a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, feminism, politics and many more topics. Emma Goldman was an anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Many of her most r...