Literary Books

The Rider on the White Horse

Theodor Storm

The Rider on the White Horse is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm. It is his last complete work, first published in 1888, the year of his death. The novella is Storm's best remembered and most ..

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

Various Authors

The Best of the World's Classics,  Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome written by various authors edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, and Francis W. Halsey. Written in ten volumes, this current..

The Colonel's Dream

Charles W. Chesnutt

The Colonel's Dream is a novel written by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt. Doubleday, Page, & Co. published the novel in 1905. The Colonel's Dream portrays the continuing oppressio..

The Chinese Classics

James Legge

The Chinese Classics, with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena, and copious indexes, written by James Legge  in five volumes work on Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, ..

The Astonishing History of Troy Town

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Written by Cornish novelist Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Astonishing History of Troy Town is a literary fiction work.Author's Preface:It is told of a distinguished pedagogue that one day a heat..

The Crayon Papers

Washington Irving

The Crayon Papers is a collection of prose works written by Washington Irving, an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian who is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" ..

Adventures in the Arts

Marsden Hartley

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets. The papers in this book are not intended in any way to be professional treatises. They must be viewed in the light of ..

A London Life, and Other Tales

Henry James

A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-American manners and a fascinating glimpse of late Victorian Lon..