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Balcony Stories

Grace Elizabeth King

Balcony Stories is a collection of short stories written by Grace Elizabeth King. There is much of life passed on the balcony in a country where the summer unrolls in six moon-lengths, and where ..

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 - Great Women

John Lord

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07: Great Women is part of the collection of biographies of Great Women in the history compiled by the author John Lord.When Adam and Eve were expelled from Parad..

The Belfry

May Sinclair

The Belfry is a fiction work narrating England's social life and customs of 20th century. Of course this story can't be published as it stands just yet. Not—if I'm to be decent—for another g..

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detect..

Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a mystery novel written by French author Gaston Leroux. One of the first locked-room mystery novels, it was first published serially in France in the periodical L'Ill..

Adventures of Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi

The Adventures of Pinocchio also simply known as Pinocchio, is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette..

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—commonly referred to as Leviathan—is a book written by Thomas Hobbes and published in 1651. Its name derives from ..

The Four Just Men

Edgar Wallace

The Four Just Men is a detective thriller published in 1905 by the British writer Edgar Wallace. The eponymous "Just Men" appear in several sequels.Edgar Wallace formed the idea of The Four Just Men —..