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The Wedding by Anton Chekhov
The Wedding is an 1889 Russian one-act play by Anton Chekhov.
The Well in the Desert by Emily Sarah Holt
Emily Sarah Holt was an English novelist who wrote about 50 books, mainly for children. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.We have made best efforts that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print.
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament by Thomas Hardy
One of the best known Victorian English novelist Thomas Hardy’s novel ‘The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament’ was written and first serialized in the year 1892, but was published in a complete book form after his last novel was published.
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
First published in 1910, ‘The Wendigo’ is a horror short story by English author Algernon Blackwood. “A considerable number of hunting parties were out that year without finding so much as a fresh trail; for the moose were uncommonly shy, and the various Nimrods returned to the bosoms of their respective families with the best excuses the facts of their imaginations could suggest. Dr. Cathcart, among others, came back without a trophy; but he brought instead the memory of an experience which he declares was worth all the bull moose that had ever been shot. But then Cathcart, of Aberdeen, was interested in other things besides moose—amongst them the vagaries of the human mind. This particular story, however, found no mention in his book on Collective Hallucination for the simple reason (so he confided once to a fellow colleague) that he himself played too intimate a part in it to form a competent judgment of the affair as a whole…” -Preface
The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman
The first novel of Clemence Annie Housman, who was an author, illustrator and activist in the women’s suffrage movement, ‘The Were-wolf’ was an allegorical erotic fantasy. Some critics said that it achieves a high degree of guesome tension and gives the zist and feel of authentic folklore.
The Western Echo by George W. Romspert
It is the object of the author, by this volume, to place before the people a brief history of the western states and territories through which he traveled in a late long overland tour, together with a sketch of the customs and occupations of the people in all the parts described. A journey by wagon through so much territory, by so many unknown, has furnished the author with knowledge that will be of so much value to persons who think of going West, and more especially to those who intend trying their fortunes in the regions of the setting sun, that he feels himself somewhat in duty bound to reduce it to print. Many fabulous and speculative histories have been written of the same country; and, with prejudiced pens, they have been deceitful records.
The Western World by William Henry Giles Kingston
I have first described the features of the country; then its vegetation; and next the wild men and the brute creatures which inhabit it. However, I have not been bound by any strict rule in that respect, as my object has been to produce a work calculated to interest the family circle rather than one of scientific pretensions. I have endeavoured to impart, in an attractive manner, information about its physical geography, mineral riches, vegetable productions, and the appearance and customs of the human beings inhabiting it.
The Wheel of Fortune by Mahatma Gandhi
Many critics and some friends of Mahatma Gandhi have found fault with his desire to introduce simpler methods of spinning and weaving and to do away with much of the complicated machinery of Modern Civilisation. The reason why they object is that they fear such methods mean not progress towards a higher state but relapse into a primitive condition of civilisation or even of barbarism. His denunciation of the age of machinery and of the Industrial System has been criticised by many as the ravings of a visionary and of one who is merely an impracticable idealist. This is a strange criticism to come from those who give their allegiance to a form of civilisation or ‘Culture’ which has led to the unprecedented horrors of the late European War and the century-old disgraces [pg x] of the Industrial System. Is this present modern civilisation so very desirable that we should wish it to continue in perpetuity?
The Wheels of Chance by H.G. Wells
The Wheels of Chance is an early comic novel by H. G. Wells about an August 1895 cycling holiday, somewhat in the style of Three Men in a Boat. In 1922 it was adapted into a silent film The Wheels of Chance directed by Harold M. Shaw.
The Whisperer in Darkness by H. P. Lovecraft
The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931.
