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A Pail of Air
By Fritz Leiber. 2015
The dark star passed, bringing with it eternal night and turning history into incredible myth in a single generation! In…
this story of desperation and courage a family believing themselves to be the last humans alive on Earth must fight daily against a cold uncaring universe. Fritz Leiber won multiple Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. This story shows him at the height of his prowess.Spoken For
By William Morrison. 2015
A Traveler in Time
By August Derleth. 2015
Hot Planet
By Hal Clement. 2015
A team of scientists are sent to Mercury aboard the Albireo to find out why it's developing an atmosphere. A…
series of events force the scientists out of their ship and onto the surface of Mercury, where only their courage and intelligence can keep them alive. Clement paints a tense and completely believable image of Mercury. He was simply one of the best hard science fiction writers the field ever produced.Deathworld
By Harry Harrison. 2015
Deathworld' is perhaps Harry Harrison's best known novel and is certainly the book that put him on the map. Jason…
dinAlt is a daring gambler. He uses his spotty psionic powers to give himself a slight edge in games of chance. After winning a large fortune at the tables, he flees for his life to Deathworld, the most dangerous planet ever colonized by human beings. He will soon discover that nothing is what it seems.A Quintet of Shakespeare Tragedies
By William Shakespeare. 2015
Murder, Mayhem, and Madness-- Collected here are five of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and…
King Lear. These are the plays that made Shakespeare's reputation. Murder, deceit, treachery, and madness play out on the grand stage. Stories for the ages! Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.The Skull
By Philip K. Dick. 2012
The Gun
By Philip K. Dick. 2012
Nothing moved or stirred. Everything was silent, dead. Only the gun showed signs of life ... and the trespassers had…
wrecked that for all time. The return journey to pick up the treasure would be a cinch ... they smiled.The Eyes Have It
By Philip K. Dick. 2012
It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I…
haven't done anything about it; I can't think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I'm not the first to discover it. Maybe it's even under control.Mr. Spaceship
By Philip K. Dick. 2012
The Kith of the Elf-Folk
By Lord Dunsany. 2015
The Wild Things are somewhat human in appearance, only all brown of skin and barely two feet high. Their ears…
are pointed like the squirrel's, only far larger, and they leap to prodigious heights. They live all day under deep pools in the loneliest marshes, but at night they come up and dance. Each Wild Thing has over its head a marsh-light, which moves as the Wild Thing moves; they have no souls, and cannot die, and are of the kith of the Elf-folk.In the Land of Time
By Lord Dunsany. 2015
Later the King, going abroad through his new kingdom, came on the Temple of the gods of Old. There he…
found the roof shattered and the marble columns broken and tall weeds met together in the inner shrine, and the gods of Old, bereft of worship or sacrifice, neglected and forgotten. And the King asked of his councillors who it was that had overturned this temple of the gods or caused the gods Themselves to be thus forsaken. And they answered him: "Time has done this."Ulysses
By James Joyce. 2015
Ulysses' takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, also known as Bloomsday, it sets the characters and incidents…
of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, and contrasts them with their lofty models. The book explores various areas of Dublin life, dwelling on its squalor and monotony. Nevertheless, the book is also an affectionately detailed study of the city. In Ulysses, Joyce employs stream of consciousness, parody, jokes, and virtually every other literary technique to present his characters. Many consider it the best novel of the twentieth century. It is powerfully written, a book for the ages.Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
By Hermann Hesse. 2015
Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival,…
and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own 'wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. Unlike Defoe's other penitent anti-heroes, however, she fails to triumph over these weaknesses. Roxana's fame lies not only in the heroine's 'vast variety of fortunes', but in her attempts to understand the sometimes bitter lessons of her life as a 'Fortunate Mistress'.An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By Ambrose Bierce. 2012
Short story by Ambrose Bierce, published in 1891 in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, a collection that in 1898 was…
revised, enlarged, and retitled In the Midst of Life. The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern planter as he is being hanged by Union soldiers. In the brief period between the tightening of the noose and the actual breaking of his neck, the man imagines his escape.A Room With a View
By E. M. Forster. 2012
The story of young Lucy Honeychurch, traveling through Italy and returning to England during the repressive Edwardian period. At once…
a romance as well as a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.The Prussian Officer
By D. H. Lawrence. 2012
The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire,…
in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor's wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence's lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence's final novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.The Old Curiosity Shop
By Charles Dickens. 2012
In cold and brutal London, Little Nell and her devoted grandfather struggle to get by. Her grandfather wants the best…
for Nell, but in his efforts to secure her future, he ends up squandering what little money they have, and the two find themselves penniless. They wander as beggars, encountering a diverse crew of characters, all while pursued by friends and enemies from their past. The Old Curiosity Shop was an instant success when it was published, and even Queen Victoria read and enjoyed it. A tragic and moving tale of love and dedication against great obstacles, The Old Curiousiy Shop is an enduring piece of English literature.The Holly-Tree
By Charles Dickens. 2012
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social…
campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories was eagerly anticipated by the reading public.