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"The Stoneground Ghost Tales" is a collection of eerie ghost stories set in the English parish of Stoneground. E. G. Swain masterfully crafts tales that blend the supernatural with the everyday, creating an atmosphere of suspense and unease. Each story offers a unique...
"Mr Weston's Good Wine" first published in 1927 by T. F. Powys (died 1953) is the unusual tale of the struggle between the forces of good and evil in a small Dorset village. Its action is limited to one winter's evening when time stands still and the bitter-sweet gift...
"Sick Heart River" is the fifth book in the Edward Leithen series. This is Buchan's last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchan's own efforts to come to terms with his looming demise. "Sick Heart River" finds Leithen now in his late fifties facing...
The Book of Small is a collection of thirty-six word sketches in which Emily Carr relates anecdotes about her life as a young girl in the frontier town of Victoria. She notes: “There were a great many things that I only half understood, such as saloons and the Royal...
This is a story of two middle-class families living in adjoining houses in a West-of-England town. In one house lives a priggish individual, his seemingly submissive wife and their three daughters who share in a varied degree the characteristics of their parents—a...
Here is the journal which ultimately proved the motive force for The Magnificent Obsession, the journal as it was set down by Doctor Hudson himself. One feels that he must have been a real person (or that at any rate, in his fictional being he represented the...
Hannah Mole is a middle-aged housekeeper/companion who starts at a new household, headed by Reverend Corder. All the occupants of the house, each of whom have their own quirks and goals are affected by Hannah's presence in good and not so good ways. Book was the winner...
Canadian artist Emily Carr tells her life story growing up in British Columbia; attending art schools in London, San Francisco and Paris; and her work back in B.C., Canada.
In this delightful book of poems, Rose Fyleman scattered her thoughts into the world like so much dandelion fuzz. And here they have landed, over a century later, in your lap. Lucky, lucky you. I trust the faithful fairies will point from their world to things that are...
Nan has written her brothers and sisters that they are invited (and must come) home for Christmas. They had not all been home together for years. No spouses or children . Just the five siblings. They really didn't want to go, it did not sound like fun. The story of a...
Will James' cowboy autobiography Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little...
Harry Houdini (1874–1926), whose real name was Erik Weisz, was one of the most famous magicians and escapologists of all time. He was highly sceptical of the many claims made concerning psychic and paranormal phenomena, which were very popular in the late nineteenth and...
First published in this English translation in 1927, “Giants in the Earth” is the Norwegian novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rolvaag which relates the struggles of a group of Norwegian immigrants to the Great Plains of America in the 1870s. A Norwegian...
First Published in a single volume in 1883, the stories collected in Little Novels of Sicily are drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood, reported at the time to be the poorest place in Europe. Verga's style is swift, sure, and implacable; he plunges into...
Edward Bernays, famed as The Father of Public Relations, pioneered the technique of working to change attitudes rather than just selling products. In this 1923 classic, he describes how public opinion is created and shaped, including the use of surveys and endorsements...
A collection of 21 short stories, originally written between 1929 and 1948: The Lost Limerick; The Missing Link; Odds and Ends; The Glasgow Smasher; The Crafty Jerko-Slovaks; Pardon the French; One Good Tern; The Ladies of Catsmeat Yard; The Rolling Stone; The Pearl of...
A story of two sisters and their trials and tribulations in love and life. This is a fascinating work and it eventually became a Hollywood movie starring Bette Davies.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American spiritual oratory. African-American scholars have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other...
My Life, the classic autobiography first published just after Duncan's death in 1927, is a frank and engrossing life account of this remarkable visionary and feminist who took on the world, re-invented dance, and led the way for future great American modernist dancers...
There may be a grandson of the Sultan living. If so, Hambledon must find him. So begins Tommy Hambledon's craziest adventure...
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