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This carefully crafted ebook: "10 FANTASTICAL ADVENTURES: The People of the Mist, She, Allan and the Ice-gods, The World''s Desire, Eric Brighteyes, Ayesha, Wisdom''s Daughter, She and Allan, Love Eternal & Heu-Heu" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "She" is one of the classics of imaginative literature, and one of the best-selling books of all time. She was extraordinarily popular upon its release and has never been out of print. The story is a first-person narrative that follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. There they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen named Ayesha who reigns as the all-powerful "She", or "She-who-must-be-obeyed". In this work, Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World subgenre, which many later authors emulated."Ayesha, the Return of She" is a gothic-fantasy novel, a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She. "The People of the Mist" is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god."Allan and the Ice-Gods" featurs the famous character Allan Quartermain, and it is based on an idea given to Haggard by Rudyard Kipling. The story details Quartermain''s past life regression to a stone-age ancestor and the various adventures involved."She and Allan" is a novel, in which Haggard brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon''s Mines.Table of Contents:She: A History of AdventureThe World''s DesireEric BrighteyesThe People of the MistAyeshaWisdom''s DaughterHeu-HeuAllan and the Ice-godsLove EternalShe and AllanSir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE ZULU TRILOGY – Complete Allan Quatermain Series: Marie - An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain + Child of Storm + Finished" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."Marie" reveals Allan Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie''s anti-English father, and the villainous Pereira, who desires Marie. They are Voortrekkers who take part in the Great Trek whom Quatermain has to rescue. The novel describes Quatermain''s involvement in the Sixth Xhosa War of 1835 and Weenen massacre. Real life people such as Piet Retief, Thomas Halstead, and the Zulu chief Dingane appear as characters."Child of Storm" is a novel set in 1854-56 and concerns Quatermain hunting in Zululand and getting involved with Mameema, a beautiful African girl who causes great turmoil in the Zulu kingdom. The novel is the second in a trilogy by Haggard involving the collapse of the Zulu kingdom and featuring the dwarf Zikali."Finished" is a the last novel in this trilogy about the Zulu kingdom. It is set against the background of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, covering events leading up to the war, and ending with the death of Cetewayo. Quatermain is depicted as being one of the few survivors of the Battle of Isandhlwana. Like others in the series, several real-life characters appear, such as Cetewayo and Anthony Durnford.Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

This carefully crafted ebook: "SHE (Lost World Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.She - A History of Adventure is a classic of imaginative literature and one of the best-selling books of all time. "She" was extraordinarily popular upon its release and has never been out of print. The story is a first-person narrative that follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. There they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen named Ayesha who reigns as the all-powerful "She", or "She-who-must-be-obeyed". In this work, Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World subgenre, which many later authors emulated. Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

This carefully crafted ebook: "ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah''s detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood and his humorous works with Jerome K Jerome. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah''s book, The Secret of the League, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four.Table of Contents:Max CarradosThe Coin of DionysiusThe Knight''s Cross Signal ProblemThe Tragedy at Brookbend CottageThe Clever Mrs. StraithwaiteThe Last Exploit Of Harry the ActorThe Tilling Shaw MysteryThe Comedy at Fountain CottageThe Game Played In the DarkThe Wallet of Kai LungThe Transmutation of LingThe Story of Yung ChangThe Probation of Sen HengThe Experiment of the Mandarin Chan HungThe Confession of Kai LungThe Vengeance of Tung FelThe Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-TongThe Vision of Yin, the Son of Yat HuangThe Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-MakerKai Lung''s Golden Hours: A NovelOther NovelsThe Mirror of Kong HoThe Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War

This carefully crafted ebook: "MAX CARRADOS - Complete Series: 20+ Mysteries & Detective Stories in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Max Carrados is a blind detective who makes use of his remaining senses in such a way that his blindness is often not immediately apparent to others. Carrados enjoys the excitement of revealing his explanations of mysteries through powers of perception, which in his case are heightened in positive compensation for his visual impairment. George Orwell wrote that, together with those of Conan Doyle and R. Austin Freeman, Max Carrados stories "are the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading."Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah''s detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.Table of Contents:Max CarradosThe Coin of DionysiusThe Knight''s Cross Signal ProblemThe Tragedy at Brookbend CottageThe Clever Mrs. StraithwaiteThe Last Exploit Of Harry the ActorThe Tilling Shaw MysteryThe Comedy at Fountain CottageThe Game Played In the DarkThe Eyes of Max CarradosThe Virginiola FraudThe Disappearance of Marie SevereThe Secret of Dunstan''s TowerThe Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of MushroomsThe Ghost at Massingham MansionsThe Missing Actress SensationThe Ingenious Mr. SpinolaThe Kingsmouth Spy CaseThe Eastern MysteryMax Carrados MysteriesThe Secret of Headlam HeightThe Mystery of the Vanished Petition CrownThe Holloway Flat TragedyThe Curious Circumstances of the Two Left ShoesThe Ingenious Mind of Mr. Rigby LacksomeThe Crime at the House in Culver StreetThe Strange Case of Cyril BycourtThe Missing Witness SensationThe Bravo of London: A Novel

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung''s Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated by a desire for enough taels to be able to feed and clothe himself. This character usually comes into conflict with barbarians, bandits, and other people who are not classically educated, as well as various unscrupulous individuals who are intent on taking away his property.Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah''s detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.Table of Contents:The Wallet of Kai LungThe Transmutation of LingThe Story of Yung ChangThe Probation of Sen HengThe Experiment of the Mandarin Chan HungThe Confession of Kai LungThe Vengeance of Tung FelThe Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-TongThe Vision of Yin, the Son of Yat HuangThe Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-MakerKai Lung''s Golden HoursKai Lung Unrolls His Mat

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE WANDERER''S NECKLACE (Historical Novel)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D., flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin''s right to a human sacrifice, travels to Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) to protect the Empress Irene Augusta from her son Constantine the Fifth and other enemies of the Eastern Roman Empire. From Byzantinum, to the pyramid tombs of Upper Egypt, Olaf becomes a traveling Christian who must reject the adulterous advances of Irene. Blinded as punishment for rejecting the Empress, Olaf''s adventures are woven within the intrigues of the Eastern Roman Empire.Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure novels and dark fantasy stories set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE ANCIENT WORLD SERIES - 10 Historical Novels in One Volume: Moon of Israel, Cleopatra, Morning Star, Queen of the Dawn, Belshazzar, The Doom of Zimbabwe, The Wanderer''s Necklace and more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."Cleopatra" - The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of Ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis (the living descendant of the pharaoh''s bloodline) is charged by the Priesthood to overthrow the supposed impostor Cleopatra, drive out the Greeks and Romans and restore Egypt to its golden era."Moon of Israel" narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana."Eric Brighteyes", an epic viking novel, describes the adventures of its principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric strives to win the hand of his beloved, Gudruda the Fair. Her father Asmund, a priest of the old Norse gods, opposes the match. Battles, intrigues, and treachery follow…"The Wanderer''s Necklace": Olaf, a Viking in the eighth century A.D., flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin''s right to a human sacrifice. Olaf''s adventures are woven within the intrigues of the Eastern Roman Empire."Pearl Maiden" is a historical novel about the Fall of JerusalemTable of Contents:Moon of IsraelQueen of the DawnThe World''s DesireElissa: The Doom of ZimbabwePearl Maiden : A Tale of the Fall of JerusalemMorning StarCleopatraThe Wanderer''s NecklaceEric BrighteyesBelshazzarSir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure novels and dark fantasy stories set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Eric Brighteyes (A Novel of Viking Age Iceland)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."Eric Brighteyes", an epic viking novel, describes the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric Thorgrimursson (nicknamed "Brighteyes" for his most notable trait), strives to win the hand of his beloved, Gudruda the Fair. Her father Asmund, a priest of the old Norse gods, opposes the match, thinking Eric a man without prospects. But deadlier by far are the intrigues of Swanhild, Gudruda''s half-sister and a sorceress who desires Eric for herself. Battles, intrigues, and treachery follow…Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure novels and dark fantasy stories set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

This carefully crafted ebook: "WHAT KATY DID NEXT (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.What Katy Did Next – is a part of the Katy Carr Adventure Series where Katy, now a 21 years old young woman, accepts her neighbor Polly Ash''s invitation to visit Europe along with Little Polly, Mrs. Ash''s daughter. The world of travel, quite different from their expectations, illicit great humor and adventure and it''s here that Katy finds her true love!Susan Coolidge, pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905), was an American children''s author who is best known for her Katy Carr Series. The fictional Carr family of this series was modeled after Woolsey''s own family and the protagonist Katy Carr was inspired by Woolsey herself; while the brothers and sisters "Little Carrs" were modeled on her four younger siblings.

This carefully crafted ebook: "MELVILLE DAVISSON POST Ultimate Collection: 40+ Mysteries, Detective Stories & Adventure Novels" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. Post''s best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Post also wrote number of stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients'' advantage. Post''s other recurring characters include Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard, the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton.Table of Contents:The Strange Schemes of Randolph MasonThe Corpus DelictiTwo Plungers of ManhattanWoodford''s PartnerThe Error of William Van BroomThe Men of the JimmyThe Sheriff of GullmoreThe Animus FurandiThe Man of Last Resort (The Clients of Randolph Mason)The Governor''s MachineMrs. Van BartonOnce in JeopardyThe GrazierThe Rule Against CarperUncle Abner, Master of MysteriesThe Doomdorf MysteryThe Wrong HandThe Angel of the LordAn Act of GodThe Treasure HunterThe House of the Dead ManA Twilight AdventureThe Age of MiraclesThe Tenth CommandmentThe Devil''s ToolsThe Hidden LawThe RiddleThe Straw ManThe Mystery of ChanceThe Concealed PathThe Edge of the ShadowThe Adopted DaughterNaboth''s VineyardThe Sleuth of St. James SquareThe Thing on the HearthThe RewardThe Lost LadyThe Cambered FootThe Man in the Green HatThe Wrong SignThe Fortune TellerThe Hole in the Mahogany PanelThe End of the RoadThe Last AdventureAmerican HorsesThe Spread RailsThe Pumpkin CoachThe Yellow FlowerSatire of the SeaThe House by the LochNovelsDwellers in the HillsThe Gilded ChairThe Mountain School-Teacher

This carefully crafted ebook: "RANDOLPH MASON, THE DEVIL''S ADVOCATE: The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason & The Man of Last Resort" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Randolph Mason is a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients'' advantage. He is depicted as an utterly amoral character who advises criminals how to commit wrongdoings without breaking the letter of the law. The best-known of these stories is "The Corpus Delicti", in which Mason''s client murders a blackmailing lover and dissolves her dismembered corpse in acid. Despite circumstantial evidence, Mason secures his client''s acquittal on the grounds that nobody has been found and there are no eyewitnesses to the woman''s death, as required by New York law at the time. Post deflected criticism of such sensational stories by affirming that he was publicly exposing weaknesses in the law that needed to be rectified.Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia.Table of Contents:The Strange Schemes of Randolph MasonThe Corpus DelictiTwo Plungers of ManhattanWoodford''s PartnerThe Error of William Van BroomThe Men of the JimmyThe Sheriff of GullmoreThe Animus FurandiThe Man of Last Resort (The Clients of Randolph Mason)The Governor''s MachineMrs. Van BartonOnce in JeopardyThe GrazierThe Rule Against Carper

This carefully crafted ebook: "UNCLE ABNER, MASTER OF MYSTERIES (18 Detective Tales in One Volume)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Uncle Abner, the mystery solving West Virginian backwoodsman, is the best-known literary creation of Melville Davisson Post. Uncle Abner solved the mysteries that confronted him in a backwoods West Virginia community, immediately prior to the American Civil War and before the infant nation had any proper police system. He had two great attributes for his self-imposed task: a profound knowledge of and love for the Bible, and a keen observation of human actions. One example of Uncle Abner''s keen deductive skills is his showing a deaf man had not written a document, because a word in it was phonetically misspelt. The first one of these tales, "The Angel of the Lord", is perhaps the very first work in the historical mystery genre.Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles many collections of detective fiction include works by him. Post''s best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner.Table of Contents:The Doomdorf MysteryThe Wrong HandThe Angel of the LordAn Act of GodThe Treasure HunterThe House of the Dead ManA Twilight AdventureThe Age of MiraclesThe Tenth CommandmentThe Devil''s ToolsThe Hidden LawThe RiddleThe Straw ManThe Mystery of ChanceThe Concealed PathThe Edge of the ShadowThe Adopted DaughterNaboth''s Vineyard

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE SLEUTH OF ST. JAMES''S SQUARE: Sir Henry Marquis Tales (Murder Mystery Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Sir Henry Marquis is the Chief of Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, who used to be in charge of the English secret service on the frontier of the Shan states, and at the time he was in Asia. Intensely interested in crime solving, Sir Henry is a linking component between the various cases, each presenting him in a new light. In some tales he''s an investigator, actively involved in the case, and in some he listens to other''s twisting accounts about some strange incident.Table of Contents:The Thing on the HearthThe RewardThe Lost LadyThe Cambered FootThe Man in the Green HatThe Wrong SignThe Fortune TellerThe Hole in the Mahogany PanelThe End of the RoadThe Last AdventureAmerican HorsesThe Spread RailsThe Pumpkin CoachThe Yellow FlowerSatire of the SeaThe House by the LochMelville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. Post''s best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Post also wrote number of stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients'' advantage. Post''s other recurring characters include Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard, the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton.

This carefully crafted ebook: "DWELLERS IN THE HILLS + THE GILDED CHAIR + THE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL-TEACHER (3 Adventure Novels in One Volume)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. He wrote novels about the life in mountains and lives of man who, like him, have spent many years of their lives among them. These novels are intertwined with philosophy, and Biblical allegories. Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles many collections of detective fiction include works by him. Post''s best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Post also wrote number of stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients'' advantage. Post''s other recurring characters include Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard, the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton. Table of Contents:Dwellers in the HillsThe Gilded ChairThe Mountain School-Teacher

This carefully crafted ebook: "MURDER MYSTERY COLLECTION - 40+ Thriller Novels & Detective Stories: Uncle Abner Mysteries, Randolph Mason Schemes & Sir Henry Marquis Cases" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. Post''s best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Post also wrote number of stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients'' advantage. Post''s other recurring characters include Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard, the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton.Table of Contents:The Strange Schemes of Randolph MasonThe Corpus DelictiTwo Plungers of ManhattanWoodford''s PartnerThe Error of William Van BroomThe Men of the JimmyThe Sheriff of GullmoreThe Animus FurandiThe Man of Last Resort (The Clients of Randolph Mason)The Governor''s MachineMrs. Van BartonOnce in JeopardyThe GrazierThe Rule Against CarperUncle Abner, Master of MysteriesThe Doomdorf MysteryThe Wrong HandThe Angel of the LordAn Act of GodThe Treasure HunterThe House of the Dead ManA Twilight AdventureThe Age of MiraclesThe Tenth CommandmentThe Devil''s ToolsThe Hidden LawThe RiddleThe Straw ManThe Mystery of ChanceThe Concealed PathThe Edge of the ShadowThe Adopted DaughterNaboth''s VineyardThe Sleuth of St. James SquareThe Thing on the HearthThe RewardThe Lost LadyThe Cambered FootThe Man in the Green HatThe Wrong SignThe Fortune TellerThe Hole in the Mahogany PanelThe End of the RoadThe Last AdventureAmerican HorsesThe Spread RailsThe Pumpkin CoachThe Yellow FlowerSatire of the SeaThe House by the Loch

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (Fantasy Fairy Tale) - Unabridged" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Wonderful Wizard of OzThe Marvelous Land of OzThe Woggle-Bug BookOzma of OzDorothy and the Wizard in OzThe Road to OzThe Emerald City of OzThe Patchwork Girl of OzLittle Wizard Stories of OzTik-Tok of OzThe Scarecrow of OzRinkitink in OzThe Lost Princess of OzThe Tin Woodman of OzThe Magic of OzGlinda of OzThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated. The Library of Congress has declared it "America''s greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale."

This carefully crafted ebook: "THREE LIVES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Three Lives tells the story of three common women, living in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore. The three stories are independent of each other, but share much more than a same town. The First Story, "The Good Anna" tells the tale of life and death of a housekeeper Anna, and her difficulties with unreliable under servants and "stray dogs and cats". Although her job is hard and often quite dull, Anna remains happy with here green parrot that brings colors to her life."Melanctha" focuses upon the distinctions and blending of race, sex, gender, and female health. The main character Melanctha, daughter of a black father and mixed-race mother in segregated Bridgepoint, goes throughout the life on a quest for knowledge and power, as she is dissatisfied with her role in the world."The Gentle Lena" follows the life of Lena, a German girl brought to Bridgepoint by a cousin. Lena begins her life in America as a servant girl, but is eventually married to Herman Kreder, the son of German immigrants. Both Herman and Lena are marked by extraordinary passivity, and the marriage is essentially made in deference to the desires of their elders.Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein''s writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce''s Ulysses and to Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Tender Buttons – Objects, Food, Rooms" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein''s "hermetic" works. It consists of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms", which are further consisting of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane. Stein''s experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar. Its first poem, "A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass", is arguably the most famous, and is often cited as one of the quintessential works of Cubist literature. Rather than using conventional syntax, Stein experiments with alternative grammar to emphasize the role of rhythm and sound in an object''s "moment of consciousness".Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein''s writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce''s Ulysses and to Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time.

This carefully crafted ebook: "GEOGRAPHY & PLAYS" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Geography and Plays is a generous collection of poems, stories and plays and they present Gertrude Stein''s stream-of-consciousness writings. These rhythmical essays or word portraits are often considered as literature''s answer to Cubism.Table of Contents:Susie AsadoAdaMiss Furr and Miss SkeeneA CollectionFranceAmericansItaliansA Sweet TailThe History of BelmonteIn the GrassEnglandMallorcan StoriesScenesThe King or SomethingPublishers, the Portrait Gallery, and the Manuscripts of the British MuseumRocheBraquePortrait of Prince B. D.Mrs. WhiteheadPortrait of Constance FletcherA Poem about WalbergJohnny GreyA Portrait of F. B.Sacred EmilyIIIIIIIIIIOne (Van Vechten)One (Harry Phelan Gibb)A Curtain RaiserLadies VoicesWhat HappenedWhite WinesDo Let Us Go AwayFor the Country EntirelyTurkey Bones and Eating and We Liked ItEvery AfternoonCaptain Walter ArnoldPlease Do Not SufferHe Said ItCounting Her DressesI Like It to Be a PlayNot SightlyBonne AnneeMexicoA Family of Perhaps ThreeAdvertisementsPink Melon JoyIf You Had Three HusbandsWork AgainTourty or TourtebattreNextLand of NationsAccents in AlsaceThe Psychology of Nations or What Are You Looking AtGertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein''s writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce''s Ulysses and to Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas. Alice was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner Gertrude Stein. The book starts with Alice''s days in San Francisco, before she moved to France, then describes her moving to Paris, meeting Gertrude, and starting their life together. The book had mixed reception, both among critics and Stein''s friends, but the success of it was great. Today it is ranked it as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein''s writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce''s Ulysses and to Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Making of Americans is a modernist novel that traces the genealogy, history, and psychological development of members of the fictional Hersland and Dehning families. Being ostensibly a history of three generations of and everyone they knew or knew them, the novel is a philosophical and poetic meditation on identity, on what it means to be human living an everyday, mundane life.Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein''s writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce''s Ulysses and to Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time.

This carefully crafted ebook: "PICASSO" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.As the butch doyenne of the Parisian Salons, Gertrude Stein captures the heart of Picasso in that context and gives insights on how Picasso worked as an artist and why Cubism came about in the way that it did. Also, this portrait of Picasso contains pretty clear description of Cubism and reveals a lot about relationship between Picasso and Stein without revealing a lot of actual events in either of their lives.Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein''s writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce''s Ulysses and to Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE SECRET OF THE LEAGUE (Political Dystopia)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.A secret organization of upper class dissenters, called The League, is not happy with their weak government and wants to overthrow it. In a clever plan they bring about a civil war in Britain by manipulating the coal strike with foreign help and plant a fascist regime in its place. What comes about is a total breakdown giving an accurate prediction of the rise of Fascism, as George Orwell famously noted. Superficially the novel (also alternately known as What Might Have Been) seems like it is promoting the cause of The League but it is in fact a bleary take on what might end up happening if such a thing comes to pass when the government is overtaken by the conservatives. Who becomes a hero and who becomes a villain is only a matter of seizing absolute power! In fact Orwell credited this novel as his inspiration behind his own successful dystopian classic 1984.Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) was an English author and a recluse who wrote the famous Kai Lung and Max Carrados series. Interestingly Bramah''s humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.

Frank Spargo, a young London journalist in search for a big story, stumbles upon a crime scene in Middle Temple Lane. A porter has found the body of an elderly man on the steps leading to one of the chambers in the Middle Temple. There is nothing at all on the man that can help identifying him, but a piece of paper with an address of a certain lawyer. Spargo senses this could be his big story and gets involved in the mystery.Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1933) was an English author and journalist, one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age. After his journalist career Fletcher first started writing poems, then historical fiction, and finally moved on to write detective mysteries he is best known for.

An old seafaring stranger with a heavy, locked op chest turns up from nowhere seeking lodgings with Hugh Moneylaws and his mother in Berwick-upon-Tweed, a rural English town bordering Scotland. One night he sends Hugh, a young solicitor''s clerk, to meet a man instead of him, as he is too ill, but when Hugh arrives at the destination, he finds a man murdered. Hugh''s law firm gets involved to resolve the mystery.Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1933) was an English author and journalist, one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age. After his journalist career Fletcher first started writing poems, then historical fiction, and finally moved on to write detective mysteries.

Paradise is a piece of land near a thirteenth-century Cathedral in England and a quiet small town nearby is a hotbed of local gossip. Mark Ransford is a local doctor and a guardian of Mary and Dick Bewery. His assistant Pemberton Bryce is in love with Mary, but Dr. Ransford doesn''t approve it. One day, after a visit to the doctor''s house, a certain man finds death as he falls from the Cathedral. Bryce is convinced that Dr. Ransford is involved in the death and starts an investigation.Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1933) was an English author and journalist, one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age. After his journalist career Fletcher first started writing poems, then historical fiction, and finally moved on to write detective mysteries.

This collection presents you with the biographies of fifty-eight individuals, some of them famous names, some forgotten men of the past, but all crucial in the accomplishment of a single object, the independence of the United State:Thomas JeffersonJohn HancockBenjamin FranklinRoger ShermanEdward RutledgeThomas M''KeanPhilip LivingstonGeorge WytheAbraham ClarkFrancis LewisRichard StocktonSamuel AdamsDr. Benjamin RushOliver WolcottGeorge ReadThomas HeywardRobert MorrisJohn WitherspoonThomas Lynch, Jr.Matthew ThorntonWilliam FloydWilliam WhippleFrancis Hopkinson, Esq.Josiah BartlettArthur MiddletonJames WilsonCharles Carroll, of CarrolltonWilliam WilliamsSamuel HuntingtonGeorge WaltonGeorge ClymerCarter BraxtonJohn MortonRichard Henry LeeStephen HopkinsRobert Treat PaineGeorge TaylorFrancis Lightfoot LeeThomas StoneLewis MorrisJohn HartButton GwinnettWilliam ElleryLyman HallJohn PennElbridge GerryWilliam PacaGeorge RossBenjamin HarrisonCæsar RodneySamuel ChaseWilliam HooperThomas NelsonJames SmithJoseph HewesJohn AdamsGeorge WashingtonPatrick HenryDeclaration of IndependenceWashington''s Farewell AddressA Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North AmericaArticles of ConfederationConstitution of the United StatesThe Declaration of Independence as originally written by Thomas Jefferson