Return to the Charlie Chan Mystery Series with Earl Bigger's fantastic sophomore outing, The Chinese Parrot.After the events ofThe House Without a Key, Charlie Chan is ready for a vacation. But before he can relax in the Golden State he must follow through on a promise he made to an old friend–transporting her priceless pearl necklace to its new owner. Accompanying Bob Eden, son of the jeweler who brokered the deal, Chan will stop at nothing to ensure the necklace...

Dedicated to all who "appreciate wisteria and sunshine," The Enchanted April is Elizabeth Von Armin's dreamlike celebration of womanhood, friendship, and love.Published in 1922 to critical acclaim, The Enchanted Aprilfollows the story of four strangers: Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot, two housewives whose marriages have lost their spark; Mrs. Fisher, an elderly widow who longs for the days of her youth; and the beautiful socialite, Lady Caroline. Seeking a vacati...

First performed in 1921, Rossum's Universal Robots: A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue is an influential science fiction play that introduced the word, “robot” to the English language and the science fiction genre at large.In 1932, Helena Glory, President of the League of Humanity, heads to the island factory of Rossum’s Universal Robots to learn about the history and current condition of the robots from the General Manager, Harry Domin. Dissatisf...

“He again had the sense that all this order, balance and security in his life were really an illusion and a lie”…. “Everything seemed to be slipping from his grasp; everything was becoming increasingly unreal, even his home, his wife, his child, his profession, his very identity.”Originally published in 1926,Rhapsody: A Dream Novelis a psychological novella written by Arthur Schnitzler. Following Doctor Fridolin and his wife, Albertine,Rhapsody: A Dream Novelsees ...

“...Bambi was as though bewitched. He was completely beside himself with pleasure. He was simply wild. He leaped into the air, three, four, five times. He had to do it. He felt a terrible desire to leap and jump. He stretched his young limbs joyfully. His breath came deeply and easily. He drank in the air. The sweet smell of the meadow made him so wildly happy that he had to leap…”For the woodland creatures, life in the forest is as charming and harmonious as it is treacherous and ...

On Remembrance Day at the Bellona Club, ninety year old General Fentiman is found dead in an armchair. While certainly unpleasant in and of itself, stranger yet is the seemingly simultaneous death of his estranged sister, Lady Dormer. Just one day before the siblings’ demise, Fentiman was called to his sister’s deathbed to discuss a substantial inheritance that depended on which of the two died first. If it was the Lady, the half-million-pound fortune would be left to the brother and by vi...

First published in 1913, Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna is a classic of children's literature that has charmed readers for over a century.While Pollyana may be recently-orphaned, sent to live in a new town, and left in the care of her emotionally distant aunt, her smile never wavers. Subscribing to her father's philosophy of unyielding optimism via "the Glad game," there seems to be no obstacle that she cannot overcome and no heart she cannot melt. Bringing light and love t...

“Things themselves touch not the soul, not in the least degree; nor have they admission to the soul, nor can they turn or move the soul: but the soul turns and moves itself alone, and whatever judgments it may think proper to make, such it makes for itself the things which present themselves to it.”Composed in the later part of Aurelius' years, Meditations is a selection of personal writings posthumously collected for publication.Though now considered to be one of ...

Written by the author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables series, The Blue Castle is L. M. Montgomery's sophomore adult novel and a classic tale of romance.By society's standards, twenty-nine year old Valancy Stirling is an old maid. Ostracized by the community and infantilized by her family, Valancy feels complete powerless with her only means of escapism being the poetic nature books of her favorite author, John Foster, and her fantasies of a "Blue Castle." That...

Published to critical acclaim in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the debut novel of one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher.Taking on a friend’s challenge to “write [a] novel treating both the upper and lower classes of black Harlem equally,” The Walls of Jericho treats readers to a tale of two Harlems. One occupied by the “dickties,” well-to-do light skinned or white passing Black folk, and the other filled with “rats,” average, p...

Rediscover George S. Schuyler with a brand new collection of pulp fiction stories never before published in book form.George S. Schuyler was an African American journalist, social commentator and author with a very complicated legacy. Despite making history as the first Black American to publish a full-length work of satire and pioneering what is now known today as Afrofuturism, Schuyler's controversial political stance on race relations lead to his ostracization from the Black com...