Classic Literature - ebooki

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Depressed and indifferent heir of a vast coffee import fortune, Peter Van Dyke finds his life and high society engagement turn upside down when his...

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One of Thorne Smith’s most popular books and made into a film. Topper is about a respectable banker called Cosmo Topper, married to a depressingly staid...

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The Poor Man is a vividly written love-story in which socially awkward Edward pursues bright and sociable Emily, with sidelights on San Francisco and China...

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Mosquitoes centers around a colorful assortment of passengers, out on a boating excursion from New Orleans. The rich and the aspiring, social butterflies...

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The book gives, perhaps, the most vivid and coherent account in literature of the Suffragette Movement in England, written with an insight and sympathy that...

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Quirky inventor Hunter Hawk strikes gold when he invents a device that will enable him to turn living matter into stone and to reverse the process at will....

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A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost...

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Jody Luther is a 15 year-old white girl battling insanity at home and hate-filled 1970 Jackson, Mississippi leading to the Jackson State Massacre. Jody has...

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The Tower of Ivory follows Margaret Hill, a singer whose talent attracts Al Levering. He rescues her from the notorious dive in which she is performing...

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Mild-mannered investment banker, cuckold, and dipsomaniac T. Lawrence Lamb gains perspective on the human condition during a series of mysterious...

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Hugh Gaylord, spoiled young heir to more wealth than is good for him is shamed into going on a "he-man" adventure, looking to make something more of himself...

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The story naturally falls into two parts. The first deals with a wasteful young American who is induced to take charge of a trading expedition to the...

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A Son of the Sun is a mosaic novel by Jack London first published in 1912. It takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in the South Pacific and...

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"Aunt Flora" is a short story by Louis Bromfield (1896–1956), an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition, winning the...

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Orignally published in The Blue Book Magazine (Oct 1920), "Little Death" tells the story of a mink named Little Death, following his interactions with a...

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Seven-year-old Sam finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck and alone on an uninhabited coastline of Alaska. He is eventually found by native people...

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Thorne Smith's comic mystery novel, in the vein of Topper and Turnabout.

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In Witch Wood, John Buchan spins a mesmerizing tale of mysterious events in seventeenth-century rural Scotland. At the time the novel appeared, Samuel...

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The Path of the King follows the lineage of a legendary Viking prince whose ancient band of gold is passed down through generations, linking the descendants...