Books For The Letter G. Page 4 Of 35

Greville Fane

  [english | 1892]  

Henry James

Summary: [Greville Fane by Henry James. Henry James O.M. April 15 1843 1843-04-15 - February 28 1916 son of theologian Henry James Sr. brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James was an American-born British author. He is one of the key figures of 19th century literary realism the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 304

The Golden Bowl

  [english | 1904]  

Henry James

Summary: [James as a characteristic American by M. Moore.--Armor against time by L. Leighton.--The ambiguity of Henry James by E. Wilson.--Drama in The golden bowl by F. Fergusson.--Two unpublished letters by H. James.--The school of experience in the early novels by S. Spender.--James and the almighty dollar by N. Arvin.--The critical prefaces by R. P. Blackmur.--A note by his photographer by A. B]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 433

The Ghost Kings

  [english | 1908]  

Henry Rider Haggard

Excerpts: [... of Pondo-land-to little Rachel Dove staring at it with sad eyes, seemed an illimitable sheet of stagnant oil. Yet there was no sun, for a grey haze ...... it, every word. Would you like to hear it? Her mother nodded, and, the baby-clothes being at last packed away, shut the lid of-the box with a sigh, ...... a shell? Is there any great gulf fixed between a Chaka and a Napoleon? At ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | ghost] Downloads: 153

Gaudissart Ii

  [french | 1844]  

Honore De Balzac

Excerpts: [... L'??clat de magasins aussi riches que les salons de la noblesse avant 1789, la splendeur des caf??s qui souvent efface, et tr??s-facilement, celle ...... th????tres tous les soirs, des panoramas renaissants, de continuelles expositions de chefs-d?????uvre, des mondes de douleurs et des univers de ...... l??vres, l?????il ?? la pratique, le ch??le ?? la main, il ??clipse le grand ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 376

Glanz Und Elend Der Kurtisanen

  [german | 1909]  

Honore De Balzac

Excerpts: [... des Weges in ihre Locher schiessen. Nur Rastignac entfernte sich nicht weiter, als er musste, damit es nicht aussah, als flohe er vor den funkelnden ...... beim Arm und presste ihm ihre Nagel ins Fleisch, wie es eine Katze getan hatte, die sich festhalt, um nicht in einen Abgrund zu fallen, dessen ...... des Almosenpflegeramts von Frankreich und mit Hilfe des Erzbischofs von Paris. ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 149

Gobseck

  [french | 1830]  

Honore De Balzac

Summary: [1. La peau de chagrin. Louis Lambert.--2. Le livre mystique: Se?raphita. Les proscrits. Lenfant maudit. Je?sus-Christ en Flandre. Adieu. Lauberge rouge. Le re?quisitionnaire.-- 12. Be?atrix. Les secrets de la Princesse de Cadignan.--13. Un prince de la Bohe?me. Les come?diens sans le savoir. Un homme daffaires. Peirre Grassou. Lillustre Gaudissart. Guadissart II. Facino Cane. Sarrasin]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 314

The Girl With The Golden Eyes

  [english | 1833]  

Honore De Balzac

Excerpts: [... hold out their hands for an alms, for lawful wages, or the five francs that are granted to every kind of Parisian prostitution, in short, for all the ...... to the entresol: or climb down from the attic and remain on the fourth floor in fine, penetrate into the world which has possessions: the same result! ...... however lofty they were? These men of affairs, par excellence, ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 184

The Green Meadow

  [english | 1927]  

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Summary: [The Green Meadow is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson written in 1918/19 and published in the spring 1927 issue of The Vagrant. In 1913 near the seaside village of Potowonket Maine a meteorite crashes into the sea. A fishing vessel hauls in the meteor and scientists and experts examine it. Within the meteor is a small notebook written in Greek. The notebook recalls the tale ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 406

The Guardians

  [english | 1955]  

Irving Cox

Summary: [Guardians of Liberty is a three volume set of books published in 1943 by Bishop Alma Bridwell White author of over 35 books and founder of the Pillar of Fire Church. Guardians of Liberty is primarily devoted to summarizing Whites vehement anti-Catholicism under the guise of patriotism. White also defends her historical support of and association with the Ku Klux Klan while significantly but not ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 216

Golf In The Year Or What We Are Coming To

  [english | 1892]  

J Mccullough

Summary: [Written by a mysterious 19th-century Scottish golfer named J. (or Jay) McCullough using the pseudonym J.A.C.K. it also predicted the advent of golf carts golf professionals and international golf competitions.The book chronicles the tale of one Alexander J. Gibson who falls into a deep sleep in 1892. He awakens 108 years later into a world where among other wonders women dress like men and hold ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 417

The Game

  [english | 1905]  

Jack London

Summary: [Americas National Game is a book by Albert Spalding published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball. Much of the story is told first-hand since Spalding had been involved in the game first as a player and later an administrator since the 1850s. In addition to his personal recollections he had access to the records of Henry Chadwick the games first statistician and archivist....]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 184

The God Of His Fathers Other Stories

  [english | 1901]  

Jack London

Summary: [Tales from Northland.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 301

Grimms Fairy Tales

  [english | 1812]  

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm

Summary: [Childrens and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmrchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms Fairy Tales (German: Grimms Mrchen).]
Genres: [fiction | fairy tales folk tales mythology | juvenile] Downloads: 32

Gone Fishing

  [english | 1961]  

James Henry Schmitz

Summary: [There is no predictable correlation between intelligence and ethics nor is ruthlessness necessarily an evil thing. And there is nothing like enforced uninterrupted contemplation to learn to distinguish one from another....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 263

George Loves Gistla

  [english | 1954]  

James Mckimmey

Summary: [Why dont you find yourself some nice little American girl his father had often repeated. But George was on Venus... and he loved pale green skin... and globular heads and most of all George loved Gistla.]
Genres: [fiction | romance | science fiction] Downloads: 233

The Grizzly King

  [english | 1918]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [As in human life there are tragedy and humour and pathos in the life of the wild there are facts of tremendous interest real happenings and real lives to be written about and very small necessity for one to draw on imagination. (This book was the inspiration for French director Jean-Jacques Annauds 1988 film The Bear.)]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 470

Glossaire Du Patois Rochelais

  [french | 1861]  

Jean Henri Burgaud Des Marets

Summary: [Vous trouverez dans ce dictionnaire non seulement un glossaire du patois rochelais mais galement une liste de termes usits et de locutions vicieuses ou expressions naturelles.]
Genres: [non-fiction | reference | dictionaries] Downloads: 194

Greenmantle

  [english | 1916]  

John Buchan

Summary: [A classic espionage and adventure novel set during The Great War featuring the reckless Richard Hannay. Tasked with unraveling a mysterious message Hannay travels through Germany and the Middle East searching for the elusive religious leader Greenmantle. Sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps and precursor to Mr. Standfast.]
Genres: [fiction | thrillers] Downloads: 8

The Gap In The Curtain

  [english | 1932]  

John Buchan

Summary: [A Curtain of Green was the first collection of short stories written by Eudora Welty. In these stories Welty looks at the state of Mississippi through the eyes of its inhabitants the common people both black and white and presents a realistic view of the racial relations that existed at the time. Welty though looks past race not overtly focusing on the subject and sees Mississippi as an often ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 241

The Grove Of Ashtaroth

  [english | 1910]  

John Buchan

Excerpts: [... who are born Colonial at heart, and I don't see why I shouldn't arrange my life as I please. Besides, for ten years I have been falling in love with ...... stuccoed overgrown Dutch farm. I might as well be at Roehampton as in the Cape.' He got up and walked to the far side of the fire, where a lane ran ...... the Saxon mother from the Midlands had done little to dilute the strong ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 238