Gobseck pdf Gobseck is an 1830 novella by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie Humaine. Gobseck first appeared in outline form in La Mode in March 1830 under the title l’Usurier (The Usurer), and then in August 1830 in…
La Maison Du Chat-Qui-Pelote pdf La Maison du chat-qui-Pelote (At the Sign of the Cat and Racket) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. It is the opening work in the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life), which comprises the first volume of Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine. First entitled Gloire et Malheur…
The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes pdf The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1893, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes’s stories, and intended to kill him off in “The Final Problem”. Reader demand stimulated him to write…
The Great Boer War pdf The Great Boer War is a non-fiction work on the Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1900 by Smith, Elder & Co. By the end of the war in 1902, the book had been published in 16 editions, constantly revised by Doyle. The Introduction describes the…
The Human Comedy: Introductions And Appendix pdf The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers…
A Kidnapped Santa Claus pdf “A Kidnapped Santa Claus” is a Christmas-themed short story written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz; it has been called “one of Baum’s most beautiful stories”[1] and constitutes an influential contribution to the mythology of Christmas. “A Kidnapped Santa Claus” was first published…
La Femme Au Collier De Velours pdf The Woman with velvet collar is a novel by Alexandre Dumas published in 1850. The first chapter of this short novel is in fact autobiographical. Dumas evokes at length Charles Nodier (1780-1844), writer and close friend with whom he was welcomed in Paris at the beginning and thanks…
Little Saint Elizabeth pdf About the Author- Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particular, Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Little Saint Elizabeth Summary She had…
The Scarlet Pimpernel By Baroness The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903. The Scarlet Pimpernel Summary The Scarlet Pimpernel is…
The Man Upstairs pdf The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1914 by Methuen & Co., London.[1] Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally Strand Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan or Collier’s Weekly in the United…
Maxim Gorky Mother pdf Mother (Russian: Мать) is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. It was first published, in English, in Appleton’s Magazine in 1906, then in Russian in 1907. Mother is considered to be the only long work of Gorky on the Russian revolutionary movement; however, of all his novels, it is possibly the least successful. Summary…
The Light That Failed pdf The Light That Failed is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the…