Premium Books
Showing 2751–2800 of 3787 results
The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla by Thomas Commerford Martin
An account of all works of eminent scientist and philosopher Nicola Tesla, ‘The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla’ is written and published by Thomas Commerford Martin.
The Investment of Trust Funds by Frank C. Mortimer
Laws have been passed in several States to regulate and restrict the investment of trust funds, including savings bank deposits, which are classed as trust funds. In many of the States, however, the selection of investments is left to the trustee, except when acting under instructions of the trustor or of a court of law.
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 14, October 3, 1840 by Various
The Irish Penny Journal’ is one of the more substantial Irish penny magazines of the nineteenth century. It is populist in its approach, covering a diverse range of material, including historical anecdotes, short stories, poems, fables and proverbs. This journal would be of interest to those researching Irish literature and folklore. (courtesy: Jstor)
The Iron Heel by Jack London
First published in the year 1908, famous writer Jack London’s dystopian novel ‘The Iron Heel’ chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. “It cannot be said that the Everhard Manuscript is an important historical document. To the historian it bristles with errors—not errors of fact, but errors of interpretation. Looking back across the seven centuries that have lapsed since Avis Everhard completed her manuscript, events, and the bearings of events, that were confused and veiled to her, are clear to us. She lacked perspective. She was too close to the events she writes about. Nay, she was merged in the events she has described.” -Preface
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau’ is an 1896 science fiction novel, by English author, H. G. Wells. The story is about Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature. Wells described the novel as “an exercise in youthful blasphemy”.
The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard
Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the story of what was, perhaps, one of the strangest of all the adventures which have befallen me in the course of a life that so far can scarcely be called tame or humdrum.
The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages by Anna Maria Cust
This little book can do no more than humbly touch the fringe of a large subject; but if it leads the reader to a further study of this beautiful craft, it will have amply fulfilled its duty.
I must express my deep obligation to the magnificent volume on ivories by M. Emile Molinier, whose masterly arrangement of a very fragmentary and scattered subject is a model of lucidity; and also to Dr. Hans Graeven, whose scholarly researches and excellent photographs are indispensable for a real study of the craft.
The Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt
This is a retelling of stories from the Jataka, the treasury of tales of Buddha’s previous animal reincarnations.
The Jataka Volume I by Robert Chalmers
This is Volume 1 of a 6 Volume set. The Jataka is a massive collection of Buddhist folklore about previous incarnations of the Buddha, both in human and animal form. Dating to at least 380 BCE.
The Jataka Volume II by W. H. D. Rouse
This is Volume II of The Jataka, a massive collection of Buddhist folklore about previous incarnations of the Buddha, both in human and animal form. Originally written in Pali, and dating to at least 380 BCE, the Jataka includes many stories which have traveled afar. Many of these can be traced cross-culturally in the folklore of many countries.
The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan
“The words were spoken by Christ, after he rose from the dead, and they are here rehearsed after an historical manner, but do contain in them a formal commission, with a special clause therein. The commission is, as you see, for the preaching of the gospel, and is very distinctly inserted in the holy record by Matthew and Mark. “Go teach all nations,” &c. “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel unto every creature.” Matt. xxviii. 19; Mark xvi. 15. Only this cause is in special mentioned by Luke, who saith, That as Christ would have the doctrine of repentance and remission of sins preached in his name among all nations, so he would have the people of Jerusalem to have the first proffer thereof. Preach it, saith Christ, in all nations, but begin at Jerusalem.” -an excerpt
The Jew and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
In studying the Russian novel it is amusing to note the childish attitude of certain English men of letters to the novel in general, their depreciation of its influence and of the public’s ‘inordinate’ love of fiction. Many men of letters to-day look on the novel as a mere story-book, as a series of light-coloured, amusing pictures for their ‘idle hours,’ and on memoirs, biographies, histories, criticism, and poetry as the age’s serious contribution to literature. Whereas the reverse is the case. The most serious and significant of all literary forms the modern world has evolved is the novel; and brought to its highest development, the novel shares with poetry to-day the honour of being the supreme instrument of the great artist’s literary skill.
The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903. The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist’s plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. It explores common fin-de-siecle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress. (courtesy: wikipedia)
The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
First published in the year 1917, the present novel ‘The Job: An American Novel’ by American novelist Sinclair Lewis is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The plot focuses on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920s and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania town to New York. Forced to work due to family illness, Una shows a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate and, while valued by her company, she struggles to achieve the same status of her male coworkers.
The Jolly Corner by Henry James
First published in the year 1908, the present book ‘The Jolly Corner’ by legendary English novelist Henry James is a short ghost story. describes the adventures of Spencer Brydon as he prowls the now-empty New York house where he grew up. He encounters a “sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity.”
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding
First published in the year 1755, the present book ‘The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon’ is a travel narrative giving an account of Fielding’s last journey undertaken in 1754, after he was advised to go to Portugal to help alleviate the severe gout from which he suffered.
The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
The present book ‘The Journal to Stella’ is a collection of 65 letters that Jonatham Swift wrote to his friend Esther Johnson, whom he called Stella and whom he may have secretly married. This collection was first published in the year 1766.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1814)
A detailed day-to-day journal of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back, in the year 1803.
The Joyful Wisdom by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A long poetic work by the famous German philosopher, scholar, philologist, poet and cultural critic Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, ‘The Joyful Wisdom’ was first published in the year 1910. Through this work, the poet has tried to experiment with the notion of power without giving any systematic theory to it.
The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland
We are each launched in life with an elfin shipmate—set jogging upon earth beside a fairy comrade. When our ears are clear, he pipes magic music; when our feet are free he pleads with us to follow him on witching paths. We cannot often hear, we cannot often follow, but when we do, we know him for what he is; when we sail or run or fly with him, we know him for the gladdest fellow with whom life ever paired us, a companion rarely glimpsed, but glorious, for he is our own true Self. Poets and dreamers have sometimes snared him in a sonnet, but for the most part, for his waggishness and his wanderings, he demands, not the strait-jacketing of poetry, but the flexible garment of prose. It is the shifting subtleties of the essay that have ever best expressed him.
The Judgement of Valhalla by Gilbert Frankau
Gilbert Frankau was a popular British novelist, a war poet of World War I, wrote a number of verse novels, and short stories. The present volume is a collection of his selected poems, first published in 1918.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of meat packing industries
The Keepers of the King’s Peace by Edgar Wallace
To Isongo, which stands upon the tributary of that name, came a woman of the Isisi who had lost her husband through a providential tree falling upon him. I say “providential,” for it was notorious that he was an evil man, a drinker of beer and a favourite of many bad persons. Also he made magic in the forest, and was reputedly the familiar of Bashunbi the devil brother of M’shimba-M’shamba. He beat his wives, and once had set fire to his house from sheer wickedness. So that when he was borne back to the village on a grass bier and the women of his house decked themselves with green leaves and arm in arm staggered and stamped through the village street in their death dance, there was a suspicion of hilarity in their song, and a more cheery step in their dance than the occasion called for.
The Kentish Coast by Charles G. Harper
The seaboard of Kent, and indeed the south coast of England in general, is no little-known margin of our shores. It is not in the least unspotted from the world, or solitary. It lies too near London for that, and began to be exploited more than a hundred and fifty years ago, when seaside holidays were first invented. The coast of Kent, socially speaking, touches both extremes. It is at once fashionable and exclusive, and is the holiday haunt of the Cockney: a statement that is not the paradox it at first sight appears to be, for the bracing qualities of its sea-air have always attracted all classes. We all ardently desire health, whether we are of those who romp on the sands of Margate or Ramsgate and eat shrimps in the tea-gardens of Pegwell Bay, or are numbered2 among those who are guests at the lordly Lord Warden, the Granville, or the Cliftonville.
The Key to Success by Russell H. Conwell
Self-made man and renowned Baptist minister Russell Conwell helped to usher in a paradigm shift in Christian thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — and also managed to help remake the self-help genre in the process. The Key to Success is a comprehensive overview of Conwell’s philosophy, and it’s chock-full of ideas that will help you make your wildest dreams of success come true.
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The King in Yellow’ is a collection of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers. It was first published in 1895. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which mention ‘The King in Yellow’, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it.
The King James Version of the Bible by King James Bible
The King James Version (KJV), also known as the Authorized Version (AV) or the King James Bible (KJB), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.
The King of Pirates by Daniel Defoe
“The Account given of Captain Avery’s taking the Great Mogul’s Daughter, ravishing and murdering her, and all the Ladies of her Retinue, is so differently related here, and so extravagantly related before, that it cannot but be a Satisfaction to the most unconcern’d Reader, to find such a horrible Piece of Villainy as the other was suppos’d to be, not to have been committed in the World.” -Preface
The King’s Ring by Zacharias Topelius
The surgeon was born in a small town of East Bothnia, the same day as Napoleon I., August 15th, 1769. I well remember the day, as he always used to celebrate it with a little party of relatives and a dozen children; and as he was very fond of the latter, we were allowed to make as much noise as we pleased, and throw everything into absolute confusion on this anniversary.
It was the pride of the surgeon’s life that he was born on the same day as the Great Conqueror, and this coincidence was also the cause of several of his important experiences. But his pride and ambition were of a mild and good-tempered kind, and quite different from the powerful desires which can force their way through a thousand obstacles to attain an exalted position. How often does the famous one count all the victims who have bled for his glory on the battlefield, all the tears, all the human misery through which his way leads to an illusionary greatness, perhaps, doomed to last a few centuries at most?
The Kingdom of God is Within You, What is Art by Leo graf Tolstoy
The Kingdom of God is within you is the culmination of thirty years of Tolstoy’s thinking, and lays out a new organization for society based on a literal Christian interpretation.
The Kingdom of Slender Swords by Hallie Erminie Rives
From time to time she was kind enough to confide to me its progress. When the manuscript was completed I was privileged to go over it, and the hours so spent were of unbroken interest and pleasure. In the chapters of this novel the author seems always to have had such high ideals before her, and the result is that, besides being an exciting and agreeable reading, the book contains elements of serious and instructive consideration.
The Knights of the Round Table: Stories of King Arthur and the Holy Grail by William Henry Frost
First published in the year 1897, the present book ‘The Knights of the Round Table: Stories of King Arthur and the Holy Grail’ is a collection of classic tales of adventure that are based on the medieval European history. This volume is compiled by William Henry Frost.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Graf Leo Tolstoy
The present book ‘The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories’ is a compandium of many short stories and short novellas written by famous English fiction writer graf Leo Tolstoy.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information by Anonymous
It is a book written expressely for women. This book is full from cover to coverof useful and necessary information for women.
The Ladies Delight by Anonymous
A work of erotic prose, ‘The Ladies Delight’ is an 18th century work that has both poetry and prose form descriptions of women’s erotic fantasies around falac or penises.
The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness by Florence Hartley
In preparing a book of etiquette for ladies, I would lay down as the first rule, “Do unto others as you would others should do to you.” You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be impolite.
The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
Widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time.
The Lady of the Mount by Frederic S Isham
“The Lady of the Mount” by Frederic Stewart Isham. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read.
The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker
First published in the year 1909, the present novel ‘The Lady of the Shroud’ by Bram Stoker is an epistolary novel, narrated in the first person via letters and diary extracts from various characters, but mainly Rupert. The initial sections, leading up to the reading of the uncle’s will, told by other characters, suggest that Rupert is the black sheep of the family, and the conditions of having to live in the castle in the Blue Mountains for a year before he can permanently inherit the unexpectedly large million-pound estate suggest the uncle is somehow testing the heir.
The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
In the very olden time, there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly given to self-communing, and, when he and himself agreed upon anything, the thing was done. When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial; but, whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits, he was blander and more genial still, for nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places.’ -an excerpt
A much anthologized short story of the nineteenth century, ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’ was written by American writer and humorist Frank R. Stockton.
The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
First published in the year 1911, renowned British writer Bram Stoker’s novel ‘The Lair of the White Worm’ is one of his best horror fictions. The novel is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm.
The Land of Darkness by Margaret Oliphant
I found myself standing on my feet, with the tingling sensation of having come down rapidly upon the ground from a height. There was a similar feeling in my head, as of the whirling and sickening sensation of passing downward through the air, like the description Dante gives of his descent upon Geryon. My mind, curiously enough, was sufficiently disengaged to think of that, or at least to allow swift passage for the recollection through my thoughts. All the aching of wonder, doubt, and fear which I had been conscious of a little while before was gone. There was no distinct interval between the one condition and the other, nor in my fall (as I supposed it must have been) had I any consciousness of change. There was the whirling of the air, resisting my passage, yet giving way under me in giddy circles, and then the sharp shock of once more feeling under my feet something solid, which struck yet sustained. After a little while the giddiness above and the tingling below passed away, and I felt able to look about me and discern where I was. But not all at once: the things immediately about me impressed me first—then the general aspect of the new place.
The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The series of stories, all set in the wonderful land of Oz, full of strange characters of all kinds, is a fantastic and ever famous gift by American children’s storyteller L. Frank Baum. Since 1900, these delightful fairy tales have stimulated the imagination of millions of young readers.
These are stories which are genuine fantasy—creative, funny, tender, exciting and surprising. Filled with the rarest and most absurd creatures, each of the 14 volumes which now comprise the series, has been eagerly sought out by generation after generation until today they are known to all except the very young or those who were never young at all.
The Land of the Veda by William Butler
IN my youth I read those amazing descriptions of Oriental magnificence recorded by Sir Thomas Roe—England’s first Embassador to India—and others, describing the power and glory of “The Great Mogul” in such glowing terms that they seemed more like the romance of the “Arabian Nights” than the real facts, which they were, of the daily life witnessed in that splendid Court. Europe then heard for the first time of “The Taj,” “The Peacock Throne,” “The Dewanee Khass,” “The Weighing of the Emperor,” when on each birthday his person was placed in golden scales, and twelve times his weight of gold and silver, perfumes and other valuables, were distributed to the populace; but the statements seemed so distant from probability that they were regarded by many as extravagances which might well rank with the asserted facts of “Lalla Rookh;” so that the Embassador, who was three years a resident, and the Poet, who had never been there at all, with their authorities, seemed alike to have drawn upon their imagination for their facts, transcending, as their descriptions did, the ability and the taste of European Courts.
The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The first in the famous fantasy series writer Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Caspak trilogy, ‘The Land That Time Forgot’ was first published in Blue Book Magazine in 1918. Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, Burroughs’s story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent. Burroughs adds his own twist by postulating a unique biological system for his lost world, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system is only hinted at in The Land That Time Forgot; presented as a mystery whose explication is gradually worked out over the course of the next two novels, it forms a thematic element serving to unite three otherwise rather loosely linked stories.
The Last Look: A Tale of the Spanish Inquisition by William Henry Giles Kingston
The beauty of Seville is proverbial. “Who has not seen Seville, has not seen a wonder of loveliness,” say the Spaniards. They are proud indeed of Seville, as they are of everything else belonging to them, and of themselves especially, often with less reason. We must carry the reader back about three hundred years, to a beautiful mansion not far from the banks of the famed Guadalquiver. In the interior were two courts, open to the sky. Round the inner court were marble pillars richly carved and gilt, supporting two storeys of galleries; and in the centre a fountain threw up, as high as the topmost walls, a bright jet of water, which fell back in sparkling spray into an oval tank below, full of many-coloured fish. In the court, at a sufficient distance from the fountain to avoid its spray, which, falling around, increased the delicious coolness of the air, sat a group of ladies employed in working tapestry, the colours they used being of those bright dyes which the East alone could at that time supply. The only person who was moving was a young girl, who was frolicking round the court with a little dog, enticed to follow her by a coloured ball, which she kept jerking, now to one side, now to the other, laughing as she did so at the animal’s surprise, in all the joyousness of innocent youth. She had scarcely yet reached that age when a girl has become conscious of her charms and her power over the sterner sex. The ladies were conversing earnestly together, thinking, it was evident, very little of their work, when a servant appearing announced the approach of Don Gonzales Munebrega, Bishop of Tarragona. For the peculiar virtues he possessed in the eye of the supreme head of his Church, he was afterwards made Archbishop of the same see. Uneasy glances were exchanged among the ladies; but they had scarcely time to speak before a dignified-looking ecclesiastic entered the court, followed by two inferior priests.
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
First published in the year 1826, the present post-apocalyptic science fiction novel ‘The Last Man’ was written by the famous Romantic Era author Mary Shelley. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s. It is notable in part for its semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley’s circle, particularly Shelley’s late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.
The Last Million by Ian Hay
I write this welcome to you American soldiers and sailors because I know America personally and therefore I know what the word “welcome” means. And I see right away from the start that it is going to be a difficult proposition for us over here to compete with America in that particular industry. However, we mean to try, and we hope to succeed. Anyway, we shall not fail from lack of good-will.
Having bid you welcome to our shores, I am next going to ask you to remember just one thing.
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago by Arthur Conan Doyle
A collection of twelve historical short stories by the world famous British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories in ‘The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago’ revolves around the chapter of the fall of the Roman Empire.
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper — not in English Common Knowledge
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practised native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.