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Attrition

  [english | 1961]  

Jim Wannamaker

Summary: [Of course if Man is to survive he must be adaptable as any life form must. But thats not enough he must adapt faster than the competing forms. And on new planets that can be tricky....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 445

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

  [english | 1864]  

John Henry Newman

Summary: [Apologia Pro Vita Sua is the classic defence of the religious opinions of John Henry Newman published in 1864 in response to what he saw as an unwarranted attack on himself the Catholic priesthood and Roman Catholic doctrine by Charles Kingsley. The work quickly became a bestseller and has remained in print to this day. The work was tremendously influential in turning public opinion for Newman ...]
Genres: [non-fiction | biography autobiography | religion] Downloads: 72

After London

  [english | 1885]  

John Richard Jefferies

Summary: [The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl are memoirs of a former London call girl written by Dr. Brooke Magnanti under the pseudonym Belle de Jour. From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a frank funny and award-winning web diary. The blogs were then published into the book in which Belle elaborates on the diary entries ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | science fiction] Downloads: 215

The Amateur Poacher

  [english | 1879]  

John Richard Jefferies

Excerpts: [... it was easy to keep it bright. Those browned barrels only encourage idleness. The lock was a trifle dull at first, simply from lack of use. A small ...... would never notice me. This is their habit-and the closer you are underneath them the less chance of their perceiving you: for a pigeon ...... hind leg upon the snow. A glance at the hind feet of a rabbit will show what I mean: ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 158

The American In Paris Vol I

  [english | 1838]  

John Sanderson

Summary: [(Two volumes.) Sketches of Paris and French people : In Familiar Letters to His Friends. An account of the teacher and writers experiences and perceptions of France where he had traveled for health reasons in 1835. Noted for its astute and striking descriptions it became popular in the United States is published in London as The American in Paris (1838) and would be later translated into French ...]
Genres: [non-fiction | biography autobiography] Downloads: 204

Ashton Kirk Criminologist

  [english | 1918]  

John Mcintyre

Summary: [Who held the old-fashioned brass candlestick that struck down the Bounder--and set mystery a-throbbing in the quiet suburb of Stanwick? Bat Scanlon athletic trainer and good sport found a clue in the dark hotel office where the little Swiss sharpened his murderous knife. But it was Ashton-Kirk who discovered the pat a beautiful woman played in the drama.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 111

Ashton Kirk Investigator

  [english | 1910]  

John Mcintyre

Summary: [Those who have found their way to Ashton-Kirks door have been of many races and interests. Men of science have often been surprised to find him in touch with the latest discoveries scholars searching among strange tongues and dialects and others deep in tattered scrolls ancient tablets and forgotten books have been his frequent visitors. But among them come many who seek his help in solving ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 353

Against The Grain

  [english | 1884]  

Joris Karl Huysmans

Summary: [The Last Grain Race is a 1956 book by Eric Newby a travel writer about his time spent on the four masted steel barque Moshulus last voyage in the Australian grain trade.]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 13

Almayers Folly

  [english | 1895]  

Joseph Conrad

Excerpts: [... the little door would fly open disclosing to the outer world, through the bluish haze of tobacco smoke, a long table loaded with bottles of various ...... and long flashes of vivid lightning, followed by short periods of appalling blackness. When the storm reached the low point dividing the ...... the father, and Almayer felt he was not safe with that woman in the house. While she ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 0

An Anarchist

  [english | 1905]  

Joseph Conrad

Summary: [Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist is Alexander Berkmans account of his experience in prison in Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh from 1892 to 1906. First published in 1912 by Emma Goldmans Mother Earth press it has become a classic in autobiographical literature.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 138

An Outcast Of The Islands

  [english | 1896]  

Joseph Conrad

Excerpts: [... no need to determine my future absolutely. Then he added: You have the style, you have the temperament why not write another? I believe that as far ...... her big, slanting eyes, that seemed to him twice their natural size. The child, its dirty little face pressed to its mother's shoulder, was sleeping peacefully. ...... Verily, our only refuge is with the One, the Mighty, the ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 311

An Outpost Of Progress

  [english | 1896]  

Joseph Conrad

Excerpts: [... on all the four sides. There were three rooms in it. The one in the middle was the living-room, and had two rough tables and a few stools in it. ...... to the subtle influences of surroundings, they felt themselves very much alone, when suddenly left unassisted to face the wilderness a wilderness rendered ...... Carlier, stopping short. Why, retorted Kayerts, with indignation, I've ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 243

An Account Of Some Strange Disturbances In Aungier Street

  [english | 1853]  

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Excerpts: [... fire on a winter's evening, with a cold wind rising and wailing outside, and all snug and cosy within, it has gone off-though I say it, who should not-indifferent ...... House, I think, in 1702 and had belonged to Sir Thomas Hacket, who was Lord Mayor of Dublin in James II.'s time. How old it was then, I can't ...... to pass a night alone in it. I had never pretended to conceal ...]
Genres: [fiction | ghost | horror] Downloads: 239

An Authentic Narrative Of A Haunted House

  [english | 1862]  

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Excerpts: [... and ample relation of a series of marvellous phenoma, in nowise connected with what is technically termed spiritualism, which he has anywhere met with. ...... a railway. Winter was setting in when my removal thither was decided upon but there was nothing whatever dismal or depressing in the change. The house ...... had also their effect in steeling us against any such influence, ...]
Genres: [fiction | ghost | horror] Downloads: 44

Amaidee

  [french | 1834]  

Jules Amedee Barbey Daurevilly

Excerpts: [... - Mais souvent, apr`es ce vent mordant et froid, ce vent habituel des rivages, des terres cultiv'ees et des collines parfum'ees qui s''etendaient `a la ...... qu'en tant qu'elle 'etait tristesse car les plus grandes sont encore de nous! `A quoi r^evait-il, le Po`ete, ce soir-l`a, assis sur son granit triangulaire, ...... reconnu, ^o Altai! Je t'ai bien reconnu `a ta d'emarche, `a ...]
Genres: [fiction | poetry] Downloads: 378

An Antartic Mystery

  [english | 1899]  

Jules Verne

Summary: [A sequel to Edgar Allan Poes The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | mystery detective] Downloads: 160

Around The World In Eighty Days

  [english | 1872]  

Jules Verne

Summary: [Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow Vernes hero traverses the far reaches of the earth all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 271

Autour De La Lune

  [french | 1869]  

Jules Verne

Summary: [Suite du roman De la Terre la Lune. Michel Ardan Nicholl et Barbicane ont survcu la terrible dflagration qui les a envoys dans lespace. Malgr la frayeur cause par un astrode qui manque de les pulvriser ils ftent dignement la russite de leur dpart. Cependant les fantaisies de laventurier franais nempchent pas lesprit pratique et scientifique de ses compagnons amricains de reprendre le dessus. ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 27

The Awakening Other Short Stories

  [english | 1899]  

Kate Chopin

Summary: [The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroines desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality the delusion of ecstatic love and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 292

All That Goes Up

  [english | 1953]  

Kirby Brooks

Summary: [At fifty a man should be too old to go around flying off the handle or wandering around on the ceiling. But what could a man do when he had a son who insisted on being a genius?]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 9