A young chorister is thrilled to be chosen by Leonardo da Vinci to model for the face of Jesus in his painting of The Last Supper. But who will model for the face of Judas?Three young men, from Germany, France, and England, swear eternal fidelity to one another - and then the Great War breaks out...A small portable shrine, at the touch of a secret catch opens to reveal a sight that draws people to gaze upon it - and die!Kidnapped by a desert tribe, a bishop's daught...

Tales to be told in a graveyard. Creepy stories, ghostly lore, and eerie tales that will make you shudder. Short stories with just the right touch of the strange. So sit down on a gravestone and prepare to be frightened.The Listeners by Walter de la MareWho will answer the Traveler's knock?Dust by Edna Goit BrintnallWill Nellie finally get her well-deserved rest?The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller

Library of America gathers for the first time the entire body of work set in the imaginary central European nation of Orsinia—the enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction series written by Hugo, Nebula, and National Book Award winner Ursula K. Le Guin.In a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a body of work that testifies to her abiding faith in the power and art of words. She is perhaps best known for imagining future intergalactic ...

Cats have beguiled writers for as long as fiction has existed. Our second anthology of cat stories includes feline fantasies, science fiction, mysteries, mythology, westerns, romances, memoirs, horror, and some pieces that just defy description—27 stories, 2 poems, and a play!Included are:INTRODUCTION: ALL CATS ARE GRAY…, by Robert ReginaldTHE CATS OF ULTHAR, by H. P. LovecraftTHE CAT WITH THE TULIP FACE, by A. R. MorlanTHE STORY OF THE FAITHFUL CAT, by...

Discover the richly imagined world of Orsinia in this early historical fiction novel by the author of the Earthsea series—now featuring a chronology of Le Guin’s life and careerIn a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a body of work that testifies to her abiding faith in the power and art of words. She is perhaps best known for imagining future intergalactic worlds in brilliant books that challenge our ideas of what is natural and inevita...

Eichendorff's prose masterpiece - a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his father, and who eventually finds love with the girl of his dreams - is one of the best-known classics of German literature. Deeply imbued with the style and sentiment of German Romanticism, and philosophical and poetic in its approach to nature and existence, "Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing" is at once an exhilarating romp and an exemplary distillation of nineteenth-c...

The combination of decadence,the macabre and the demonic, with depraved female heroines made Boito's stories an immediate and popular success in fin de siecle Italy.Today Boito is seen as one of the major Italian authors of his period and the master of the novella form. Outside Italy lLuchino Visconti's film of Senso, which brilliantly captured the ambience and atmosphere of the novella, created a world-wide audience for Boito's work.

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Russian paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

Collection of 3 Classic Books: The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Racketty-Packetty House by H. Burnett.

Ivan Bunin received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing." Aristocrat to the core, Bunin somehow remained connected to the land and people and keenly felt their pulse of life. His acute observations resulted in the accurate and unforgettable characters who populated his writing.His love for punctuation and punctilious choice of words is legendary.Reading Bunin's stories is on...

We are living in a fast world. We don’t have enough time and leisure to sit through an entire movie for 3 hours or a really long book of 700 pages. We need everything to be quick, easy and instant. That is where we, 7SeriesBooks pitch in!7SeriesBooks, as name itself suggests, feeds everything in 7s. We give you the 7 Best stories of a world famous story teller, 7 best works in any genre, 7 best authors of any particular country, 7 best literary works in any particular language… be i...

This volume contains four novels and a travelogue by Emily Post, the author of the famous "Etiquette book." The four novels included are: "The Flight of a Moth," "Woven in the Tapestry,", "The Title Market," and "The Eagle's Feather." The travelogue is entitled “By Motor to the Golden Gate.”While these works were written in the early twentieth century, they are still of interest today and are very much worth reading."The Flight of a Moth" describes the descent of a woman in...