Category: Classic, Novels Ebook Title: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Ebook Description: This is one of Jane Austen's most popular novels. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet and the haughty Darcy.
Category: Classic, Novels Ebook Title: Hound of the BaskervillesSir Arthur Conan Doyle Ebook Description: "Elementary, my dear Watson!" If you haven't read at least one of this famous Knighted British author's many mysteries, this is the one to start with. It is considered by some to be his best work in the Sherlock Holmes series.
Category: Classic, Novels Ebook Title: Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Ebook Description: Anne, Emily and Charlotte Bronte were English novelists and poets. As children in a Yorkshire parsonage, the sisters created an imaginary literary world. In 1846 they published a collection of their poems, and in 1847 Anne's novel Agnes Grey, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte's Jane Eyre all appeared.
Category: Classic, Novels, Adventure Ebook Title: Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Ebook Description: Written in 1826, Last of the Mohicans is an adventure set in the forests of North America during the Seven Years War (1756-1763) between England and France.
Category: Classic, Novels Ebook Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Ebook Description: Robert Louis Stephenson (1850-1894)
This story turned out to be one of his most popular works, and helped him and his wife get out of debt and, for the first time, live in comfort.
Category: Classic, Novels Ebook Title: King Solomon's Mines Sir H. Rider Haggard Ebook Description: This is probably Sir H. Rider Haggard's most famous novel. He was one of the first pseudo modern adventure writers, and his stories, are no doubt, the model for such as Raider's of the Lost Ark (i.e., the Indiana Jones series).
Category: Classic Ebook Title: Is Shakespeare Dead? Author: Mark Twain Ebook Description: Investigating whether Shakespeare really did write all those plays, Mark Twain comes to some surprising conclusions!
This ebook was compiled for this site from the autobiography of Mark Twain. In this book he goes into the FACTS as they are documented and known about regarding the life and works of Shakespeare. Not supposition,
Category: Classic Ebook Title: Othello: A Study Commentary Ebook Description: Are you studying or teaching Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet or King Lear?
Is Jane Austen's Persuasion on your exam texts list?
Is Poetry and Prose Commentary an important part of your literature studies course?
Category: Classic, History, Travel Ebook Title: Travels in Arabia Author: ohann Ludwig Burckhardt (aka John Lewis) Ebook Description: First published in 1829
One of the first narratives by a European to travel in the lands of Arabia. This edition features the original two volume text by the Swiss explorer, enhanced with hyperlinks and biographical notes, and illustrated with period prints and maps of Arabia.
Category: Adventure, Classic, Travel Ebook Title: Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Author: Samuel White Baker, Sir Ebook Description: The original evocative and amusing text, from this ripping colonial adventure. Hunting and fishing stories from 1845, plus ethnic observations, annotated with biographical notes, plus vintage photos, prints and maps of 19th Century Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Highly recommended entertainment!
Category: Classic, History, Travel Ebook Title: People of the Abyss Author: Jack London Ebook Description: In 1902 the American novelist Jack London went underground in England's capital, to provide an eye-witness narrative of the shocking squalor of the notorious East End. He found that for the poor and criminal classes, little had changed since the grim days of Queen Victoria's reign. The first edition sold out with twenty four
Category: Adventure, Classic, Travel Ebook Title: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton Ebook Description: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
by Captain Richard F. Burton
Edited by Isabel Burton
(Originally published by the notorious Leonard Smithers, friend and patron of Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde)
The original text from Volumes 1 and 2 of this fascinating travelogue by the famous and erudite
