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During wee hours of morn, a panicked family tries to escape from home where violent flood waters engulf the entire subdivision. While struggling for their lives, the realization of how much they mea……続きを見る

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains nineteen short stories by several popular American writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Br……続きを見る

SIR HUGH OCKRAM smiled as he sat by the open window of his study, in the late August afternoon. A curiously yellow cloud obscured the low sun, and the clear summer light turned lurid, as if it had b……続きを見る

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquarie……続きを見る

JOSEPH ADDISON How shall I bring to your mind the time and distance that separate us from the Age of Fable? Think of what seemed to you the longest week of your life. Think of fifty-two of these in ……続きを見る

EROI La seguente lettera del compianto nostro concittadino Carlo Cattaneo ci venne gentilmente favorita dal dottor Agostino Bertani, che egli tolse da un copioso e interessante epistolario dell'illu……続きを見る

EXISTENCE, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Co……続きを見る

After nineteen years on the mainland, Shona and Niall McLachlan come home to Rhanna with their pretty daughter, Ellie. In the years that have passed, the island has changed, but although tourists ab……続きを見る

Orlando Furioso, ou Roland furieux est un poème épique de quarante six chants, écrit par Ludovico Ariosto, dit en français l'Arioste, datant du début du XVIe si&e……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

The second volume of the American Eloquence is devoted exclusively to the Slavery controversy. The new material of the revised edition includes Rufus King and William Pinkney on the Missouri Questio……続きを見る

Broken hearts. Broken promises. Deadly consequences. In glitzy Lake Tahoe, couples break up every day. But few are as successful as Lindy and Mike Markov, who built a $200-million business together-……続きを見る

Compiled in 4 volumes, "The Best 195 Classics Ever Written" brings together exceptional works by distinguished authors including renowned names like Charles Dickens, Henry James, Jane Austen and Wil……続きを見る

Set during the Civil War, a troubled young woman struggles with her conscience after the death of her unfaithful husband. As dreams of a new life seem hopeful, she ventures across the western plains……続きを見る

Ever since he got kicked in the head as a young boy, John can’t shake the urge to kick people. His compulsion remains in check for most of his life until one evening when he encounters a particularl……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 - April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels… ear by year Crawford published a number of successful novels. He a……続きを見る

For Clarice, football is a religion and game day is like going to church. She even dons a VR suit plugged into her team’s quarterback to enhance her sacred experience. For her husband Grant, footbal……続きを見る

Tor.com is proud that six of our original offerings from 2010 were included among this year's Locus recommendations, and in commemoration of that, here are all six of those stories. Includes work fr……続きを見る

DAME YOLANDE was unhappy because Lord Raoul de Trentanaye, her son, was showing symptoms of the old restlessness of the young. She held his tutor in conference in the hedged gardens of the chateau. ……続きを見る

THE HERMETIC MUSEUM RESTORED AND ENLARGED was published in Latin at Frankfort, in the year 1678, and, as its title implies, it was an enlarged form of an anterior work which, appearing in 1625, is m……続きを見る

When the British government needs to make an enemy disappear, Jay is the man they call on. He doesn't ask questions, because he doesn't want to know the answers. Jay is a contract killer and for him……続きを見る

NEBUCHADNEZZAR By Clarence Cook (645-561 B.C.) Nebuchadnezzar. With the death of Sardanapalus, the great monarch of Assyria, and the taking of Nineveh, the capital city, by the Medes, the kingdom of……続きを見る

Claypot Dreamstance has a beef with the universe. Once a well-liked artist with a charmed existence, Claypot’s life cracks wide open when his young daughter dies in a drowning accident. Crippled by ……続きを見る

Noah, collector of animals, trying to save the world. Darwin, collector of animals, trying to understand the world. What happens when these two titans of bygone days meet and talk shop? A tale of hi……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

An “indispensable” (Chicago Tribune) collection of more than sixty previously unpublished works from Jack Kerouac, ranging from stories and poems to plays and excerpts of novels “Fascinating . . . p……続きを見る

Respecting the next example, Mr. Edward Walford, m.a., wrote to the Times as follows: Close to the south-western corner of the parishchurchyard of Hampstead there has long stood a square tomb, with ……続きを見る

Every kid in town flies over Grayson castle when they turn 11. It is the town’s rite of passage and now it is Alex’s turn. He isn’t sure he has the courage to accept the dare, but knows if he declin……続きを見る

Lance, one of the eccentrics in town, swishes his long net through trees, hoping to snag the souls of dead people. His fellow citizens think he’s a little slow, but they live and let live and so doe……続きを見る

How much real comfort every one might enjoy if he would be contented with the lot in which heaven has cast him, and how much trouble would be avoided if people would only "let well alone." A moderat……続きを見る