A WOMAN'S PLAN. 'My dear Mary,' said I, one morning, to my widowed sister, as she sank into an arm chair in front of my library fire, and heaved a sigh replete with exhaustion and sadness: 'What is the matter?' 'Enough for a woman, William, but of course, nothing for an old bachelor like you, who have only to pay your own bills, eat your meals without the trouble of ordering them; lounge through a clean house with no chasing after servants to sweep and wash and dust; sit in your study, hea...

Four plays by the award-winning Italian playwright and innovator Luigi PirandelloLuigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer and winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. In the first performance of Six Characters in Search of an Author**,** an enraged Rome theatre audience yelled abuse at the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello and chased him out of the theatre. Since then, the play has gained iconic status as a piece...

This Audiobook contains the following works: - The Island of Doctor Moreau [H.G. wells] - Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy] - The Call of Cthulhu [H.P Lovecraft] - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court [Mark twain] - The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [Robert Louis Stevenson] - Crime and Punishment [Fyodor Dostoyevsky] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens] - The jungle book [Rudyard Kipling] - The Border Legion [Zane Grey]

A return to the world of The Cadet Regime. The background is the same."Following years of economical turmoil and disunity, the New Government has stepped into the vacuum and established itself as the dominant political party... it was decided that the younger generation should not only suffer for the sins of their parents but must be seen to do so by the public. That was when the Cadet Service was established, mandatory for girls aged 18 and upwards who were connected to the old re...

"Prosperity" is a timeless masterpiece by Charles Fillmore, a New Thought author, initially published in 1936. Well ahead of the popularization of the Law of Attraction, Fillmore imparted teachings on prosperity through the creative power of thought. This classic work stands out for its articulate prose, accessibility, and remarkable effectiveness in conveying the principle that financial prosperity originates within the mind and spirit before materializing in the physical realm. Through r...

My e-book on Lucky Luciano looks at his criminal career which began in New York City when he was 9. His first significant setback was Thomas Dewey's prosecution for compulsive prostitution. This sent Luciano to prison for a term of thirty years, or at least it was thought so at the time. Lucky's sentence was commuted after 9 years when he was supposedly used to help the Allies win the war in Europe. Whether he helped or not is still undetermined. Thomas Dewey always faced questions about t...

Toutes les histoires vraies comportent leur part d'enseignement, bien que ce trésor puisse dans certains cas être difficile à trouver, et en quantité si insignifiante, que le fruit sec et ridé ne vaut souvent pas la peine que l'on s'est donné pour casser la coque. Je pense pourtant que mon histoire sera peut-être être utile à quelques-uns et divertissante pour d'autres ; mais le public jugera par lui-même.Dans l'Angleterre victorienne, Agnès Grey, une jeune femme de condit...

They're among us. They live down the street, in the apartment next door and oftentimes in our own homes. They are the real monsters. And they stare back at us from our own bathroom mirrors. Peel Back the Skin is a powerhouse anthology of horror from Bram Stoker Award-nominated editors Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson that strips away the human mask from the real monsters of our time -- mankind.Featuring a star-studded cast of award-winning authors from the...

ENTER DARKNESS IN THIS BRAM STOKER AWARD®-NOMINATED VOLUME OF HORROR.Just beyond the veil of perception is a darkened plane where ultimate evil resides. DARK VISIONS: A COLLECTION OF MODERN HORROR - Volume One is thirteen critically acclaimed tales of terror written by some of the most visionary authors writing genre fiction today.-- A boy comes face-to-face with evil in 'the most haunted town in America'...-- A series of gruesome murders are linked to religious fana...

Charles the Bug Workman was imprisoned for a generation for the murders of Dutch Schultz and three of his associates. The murders were among the most grisly in the annals of organized crime history. The slayings occurred in the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey in October 1935. My e-book looks at the crime and some other noteworthy assassinations carried out by Murder, Inc. in the years from 1935-1940. The head of Murder, Inc., Louis Lepke Buchalter was a fugitive at this time. His f...

« À mesure que nous avancions, mon naturel revint, et je tournai avec plaisir ma pensée vers la nouvelle vie dans laquelle j’allais entrer. Quoique l’on ne fût encore qu’au milieu de septembre, les nuages sombres et un fort vent de nord-est rendaient le temps extrêmement froid et triste. Le voyage nous paraissait long : car, ainsi que le disait Smith, les routes étaient “très lourdes,” et assurément son cheval était très lourd aussi ; il rampait aux montées et se traînait aux descentes, et...

The 100 Greatest Westerns of All Time is a monumental anthology that captures the essence of the American frontier through a dazzling array of literary styles and narratives. Spanning the days of rugged pioneers to the twilight of cowboys, this collection unveils the vast tapestry of Western literature with tales of adventure, heroism, romance, and moral conflict. With standout pieces that underscore universal themes such as survival, justice, and identity, this anthology does not just cel...