Literature

As the title suggests, Stella Fregelius: a Tale of Three Destinies is a story of the overlapping fates of 3 people in a northern coastal region of England. The story follows Morris Monk, an aspiring inventor, as he gets engaged to his first cousin, ...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. ...

عمل روائي مؤثر، عن قصة حب يمضي بصاحبه حتى الموت.

Sensual, erotic and imaginative are the tales of six men's couples who want to share their experiences. The stories are turbulent, cheerful, romantic and erotically high without taboos. At the heart of it all, however, are real feelings and true love. The

Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased loved ones, adventurer and trader Allan Quatermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch-doctor Zikali, who tells Allan to seek out a great white sorceress who rules a hidden kingdom far to ...

Thus, we proudly present the English-language edition of the SweekStars 2017 collection, containing stories from all over the world. In this bundle, you’ll find the finalists of the Mystery & Crime and Thriller & Horror categories.

Thus, we proudly present the English-language edition of the SweekStars 2017 collection, containing stories from all over the world. In this bundle, you’ll find the finalists of the Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Fanfiction categories.

In fewer than 250 words, the authors in this bundle tell a compelling story. They're united by the words and themes ‘freedom’, ‘life’, ‘time’, ‘heart’, ‘letter’ and ‘key’. Yet, each and every author tells a different story. Enjoy t

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - ...

The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines.

Nada the Lily is set at the time of Chaka, the Zulu king, around whom much of the action turns, but essentially the book is the story of Umslopogaas, and of "his love for Nada, the most beautiful of Zulu women." ...

Mr. Meeson's Will is the story of mean Mr. Meeson, the greedy and wealthy owner of a publishing house. Augusta Smithers is a young writer who enters into an unfair contract with Meeson. ...

In fewer than 250 words, the authors in this bundle told a compelling story. They're united by the words and themes ‘clock’, ‘wish’, ‘date’, ‘earth’, ‘boat’ and ‘palace’. Yet, each and every author tells a different story. Enjoy th

In fewer than 250 words, the authors in this bundle managed to tell a compelling story. They're united by the words and themes ‘game’, ‘day’, ‘door’, ‘fear’, ‘secret’ and ‘blue’. Yet, each and every author tells a different story.

Thus, we proudly present the English-language edition of the SweekStars 2017 collection, containing stories from all over the world. In this bundle, you’ll find the finalists of the Romance and Teen & Young Adult categories.

Thus, we proudly present the English-language edition of the SweekStars 2017 collection, containing stories from all over the world. In this bundle, you’ll find the overall winners and most addictive, most powerful and most original stories.

"This is the story of certain of the days that I, the scribe Ana, son of Meri, lived through, here upon this earth . . ." "I tell of Merapi -- who was named Moon of Israel! -- and of her people, the Hebrews, ...

Over a century after the debut of the intrepid hunter explorer Allan Quatermain in King Solomon's Mines, he remains one of the great heroes of literature whose adventures have been adapted for cinema and television...

Montezuma's Daughter, first published in 1893, is a novel written by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. Narrated in the first person by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, ...

The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie....

The story involves Quartermain going on a hunting expedition, then taking part in an attack on a native kraal to rescue a captured English hunter, and avenge Maiwa, an African princess whose baby has been killed.

Teenage and adult readers will be inspired by this historical novel about a Dutch woman who is caught up in the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition during the 1500s. This lively and heart-rending story by H. Rider Haggard will remind each reader of ...

The subjects and historical periods that British action-adventure writer H. Rider Haggard tackled in his vast body of work ranged considerably, but one element remains a constant thread that unites his entire oeuvre: ...

King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of ...

Excerpt: Alone and desolate, within hearing of the thunder of the waters of the North Sea, but not upon them, stand the ruins of Ramborough Abbey. Once there was a city at their feet, ...

"I do not know; I only know this, that in that wall, as in others, a door will be found. Trouble not for the future, but leave it in the hand of Him Who shapes all futures. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. So He said. ...

A young Cambridge University professor, Horace Holly, is visited by a colleague, Vincey, who reveals that he will soon die. Vincey proceeds to tell Holly a fantastical tale of his family heritage. He charges Holly with the task of raising his young son...

It was evening in Egypt, thousands of years ago, when the Prince Abi, governor of Memphis and of great territories in the Delta, made fast his ship of state to a quay beneath the outermost walls of the mighty city of Uast or Thebes, which we moderns know.

Is it a poem, prose, satire, book, bestseller, fiction,non-fiction, reality, memoir, diary, thought script ?

The theme of "Love eternal" is the enduring relation between two souls who, in various ages and incarnations, have approached each other and perhaps crept near to happiness, and for whom perfect union and consummation are now clearly foreshadowed...