Literature

An understanding of Shakespeare's Sonnets, renaissance alchemy, and Jungian concepts of Individuation

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, ...

Jess Croft lives with sister Bessie and old Silas, a farmer raising ostriches on the great Transvaal veldt. Jess is a reserved and aloof, with a quietness about her brought on by the misfortunes of her young childhood, ...

We proudly present the English SweekStars 2018 collection with 27 amazing stories, written by 20 stars of storytelling from all over the world. These are the finalists and winners in the categories poetry, micro-fiction and short stories.

THE WOMAN WITH NO NAME, written by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan, is built up of a collection of EIGHTEEN short stories, of which several have been nominated for awards. The seventeen stories, set mostly on the Asian culture, all carry the sense of a dark reso

Allan and his sidekick, the faithful and always amusing Hottentot Hans go on a mission for the Zulu wizard Zikali (himself featured in many of the previous Quatermain books) and endeavor to bring back some leaves from the rare Tree of Illusions.

An extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings.

The author writes, "This book, although it can be read as a separate story, is the third of the trilogy of which Marie and Child of Storm are the first two parts.

In the turbulent reign of King Henry VII, Peter Brome finds himself with a soldier's blood on his hands -- blood the Spanish ambassador's men demand be repaid.

Doctor Therne is an 1898 science fiction novel about a plague that sweeps England.

"You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar. You told my father how I spent the money." "Well, and what if I did? I had to look after myself, I suppose. ...

Excerpt: ...an awful fluke of mine killing those four birds." Edward Cossey took no notice of the friendly words or outstretched hand, but came straight on as though he intended to walk past him. The Colonel was wondering what it was best to do, ...

The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of Ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis.

The book contains a series of poems based on education from the view of a young person.

Adventurer Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko win 100 cattle to buy his true love Mameena ("Child of Storm").

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...

THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU TO READ NEW POEM WITH THEIR MEANING AND ALSO THIS WILL HELP IN DIFFERENT COMPETITIONS.

The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic Viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric Thorgrimursson (nicknamed "Brighteyes" for his most notable trait), ...