Leblanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat - witty, charming, brilliant, sly ... and possibly the greatest thief in the world.
Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England.
While the title implies that this book deals only with how to get rich, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help people succeed in all lines of work and to do or be almost anything they want.
A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground.
This collection of spine-tingling short stories is sure to please fans of gothic tales from the golden age of horror writing.
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".
The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher).
The author's introduction: "The history of famous detectives, imaginary and otherwise, has frequently been written, but the history of a famous criminal—never. "This is a bold statement, but a true one all the same.
Charles Baudelaire, Golden Deer Classics. poets; Autobiographic sketches; Memorials; the Note book ; Theological essays; Letters to a young man; Classic records reviewed or deciphered; Speculations, literary and philosophic, ...
Make sure you check the other books from the Golden Deer Classics' Christmas Shelf or our '50 Classic Christmas Stories' Compilation
- A Christmas Prayer For Lonely Folks - A Christmas Prayer For The Home
Every year the ten most miserable people in town are invited to a Christmas banquet.
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland.
Contents: 1. His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin 2. The Journal of John Woolman, by John Woolman (1774 and subsequent editions) 3.
In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth, the Christmas books include The Battle of Life (1846) and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848).
Christmas by Injunction O. Henry , american writer (1862-1910) This ebook presents "Christmas by Injunction", from O. Henry . A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.
This collection contains: • Dracula by Bram Stoker • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson • The Canterville Ghost ...
The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad's later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the "shadow-line" between youth and maturity.This brief ...