This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

«Trick or treat Boxed Set», by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: Ambrose Bierce ; The Death of Halpin Frayser ; One Summer Night ; The Moonlit Road ; I. Statement Of Joel Hetman, Jr.

Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses' milk to remove wrinkles. Pliny himself died while investigating the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79, and the na...

Pliny's "Natural History" for young readers: the elephant that could write, the remedies made of herbs and worse, the accounts of India and Africa, and the eruption that killed him. John S. White selected and arranged the extracts in the 1880s. Pliny believed nearly everything he was told, which makes him the best guide there is to what a Roman thought the world contained. Twenty-three plates after painters from Claude to Monet, from the Pantheon to Waterloo Bridge, extend the Roman survey...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

This is a collection of texts from the Hupa, who lived in Northern California, Humboldt County, on the Trinity River. The texts are unfiltered translations of stories related by Hupa at the start of the 20th century in an ethnographic context. They largely take place in a time before the arrival of human beings, populated by trickster gods and supernatural beings called Kīxûnai. The texts include a number of shamanistic formulas for healing, protection and good luck.

This book, which was first published in 1918, consists of literary translations of San Carlo Apache mythological tales. The myths include the creation of the earth, the birth of the culture hero and his ridding the world of monsters, and myths explaining the origins of certain ceremonies. The tales were collected from two chief San Carlos informants, namely Antonio, "a very well informed man of advanced age who dictated freely;" and Albert Evans, "a man of middle age speaking sufficient En...

A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters address an astonishing range of topics, from a deeply moving account of his uncle's death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians - 'a desperate sort of cult carried to ex...

WHAT WAS IT? THE BIG BOOK OF SPOOKY TALES gathers more than fifty occult and supernatural thrillers into a capacious history of literary unease. Ranging from antique marvels and Gothic visitations to psychological terror, detective-inflected mysteries, and fin-de-siècle decadence, the volume traces the ghost story's evolving forms. Memorable encounters with ambiguous apparitions, cursed objects, doubles, and inexplicable presences reveal how horror converts uncertainty into narrative power...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

The 'HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 200+ Mysteries, Horror Classics & Supernatural Tales' transports readers into a tapestry of eeriness, suspense, and the otherworldly, showcasing a dazzling array of narratives ranging from gothic horror to supernatural mysteries. The collection spans an impressive spectrum of literary styles, offering everything from the psychological horror of Edgar Allan Poe to the chilling atmospheric tales of M. R. James. Each story invites readers to explore the man...

This modern revisioning of Arnold Bennett's classic reimagines his timeless principles for the 21st century, blending mindfulness, digital-age productivity, and creative resilience to help readers reclaim their time and unlock their potential in an era of constant distraction.In an age where every waking moment seems besieged by notifications, emails, and endless distractions, the act of writing has become both more accessible and more elusive than ever before. The tools for creati...