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Virginia Woolf wrote that she was jealous of Mansfield's story-telling skills, and probably the only person of whom the former was in jealous awe of. So who was Katherine Mansfield? Presented here is a fine collection of Mansfield's non-fictional works, the ones that got saved through her friend's and husband's (J. M. Murry's) efforts, to give an insight into the mind of the renowned modernist short stories writer. Content: Biography The Life of Katherine Mansfield by...
| Автор | Katherine Mansfield |
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Black Oxen is novel about an aging woman who miraculously becomes young again after glandular therapy. It was later adapted into the well known movie. The title of the story comes from William Butler Yeats's play «The Countess Cathleen». Fans of Oscar Wilde's «A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man» will find this an intriguing read as well!Excerpt:"In spite of its smooth white...
| Автор | Gertrude Atherton |
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. «The Big Time» is Hugo Award winning short science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber. The storyline features members of one of two factions, both capable of time travel, engaged in a long-term conflict called «The Change War». The two opposing groups are nicknamed the Spiders and the Snakes after their respective sponsors. The true forms or identities of the Spiders and the Snakes, how those...
| Автор | Fritz Leiber |
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Phantom is actually Richard Curtis Van Loan, a world-famous detective, whose true identity is only known by one man—Frank Havens. "The bright, dazzlingly clear Arizona sky gave no hint of the ominous. Outside the two-story frame building housing the temporary national radio network concentrated at Rock Canyon Dam, a midday sun gleamed brazenly down upon the several thousand...
| Автор | Robert Wallace |
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Dr. Dick Livingston has joined his uncle David in his general practice in small East Coast village. Dick is a quiet man with a mysterious past. Apparently, he can only remember the last ten years of his life. During his practice Dick falls in love with Elizabeth Wheeler, a young lady who sings in a church choir. One evening he takes her to a play where main actress' manager is...
| Автор | Mary Roberts Rinehart |
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. It is the middle of the 20th century and the Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses come back to Earth to stop all the chaos the human kind has got into. With all their powers working perfectly, the Gods change the World overnight, banning all the wars, resolving crisis and making humans serve them once again. In the new order of things, history professor William Forrester is chosen to become a...
| Автор | Randall Garrett |
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices: Novels:Black MagicJulia RoseingraveThe Crime of Laura SarelleThe Spectral BrideThe Man with the ScalesMoss RoseSo Evil My LoveShort Stories:The Last Bouquet—Some Twilight Tales:The Last BouquetMadam SpitfireThe Fair Hair of AmbrosineThe Hidden ApeElsie's Lonely AfternoonThe Lady ClodaghThe Sign-Painter and the Crystal FishesRaw...
| Автор | Bowen Marjorie |
"On the Wallaby Through Victoria" by Elinor Mordaunt. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...
| Автор | Elinor Mordaunt |
"The Sheriff of Badger: A Tale of the Southwest Borderland" by George Pattullo. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
| Автор | George Pattullo |
"Mozart" by Thomas Tapper. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a...
| Автор | Thomas Tapper |
"Two Dyaloges (c. 1549)" by Desiderius Erasmus. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...
| Автор | Erasmus Desiderius |
