The world of Pooh is the Thousand Acre Wood of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga, Christopher Robin, and more. He is a whimsical philosopher, staunch friend, plump, and fond of honey. He calls himself a Bear of Very Little Brain, but is wise and loving. Delicate paintings loved by centuries of children.

    The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.

    Will Valancy Stirling ever escape her strict family and find true love?Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolation in the "forbidden" books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle--a place where all her dreams come true and she can be who she truly wants to be. After getting shocking news from the doctor, she rebels against her family and discovers a surprising new world, full of love and adventures far beyond her most secret dreams.

    Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?... It is masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written..."

    Traven's politically charged novels about life among the downtrodden, which have sold more than thirty million copies in thirty-six languages. Next to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it is his most celebrated work

    Thus he is simultaneously without a self--``no one''--and the theater for myriad selves--``one hundred thousand.'' In a crazed search for an identity independent of others' preconceptions, Moscarda careens from one disaster to the next and finds his freedom even as he is declared insane.It is Pirandello's genius that a discussion of the fundamental human inability to communicate, of our essential solitariness, and of the inescapable restriction of our free will elicits such thoroughly sustained and earthy laughter.

    Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend's aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov's uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction -- his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.

    The story of Sabyasachi, the charismatic leader of the military organisation, Pather Dabi, and the powerful women around him - their inter-relationship, agony and ecstasy stirred anti-British sentiments at a time India was languishing under the British rule.

    Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

    Published individually in magazines throughout 1923 and 1924 and collected into a book in 1931, they deal primarily with a group of Jewish thugs that live in the Moldavanka, a ghetto of Odessa.

    The psychologically complex and morally ambiguous tales of love and adultery, dream and reality, desire and death in Night Games prove Schnitzler to be fully the equal of his great contemporaries Kafka, Rilke, and Musil, and justify Freud's praise of his knowledge of depth psychology. The collection includes powerful early works such as "The Dead Are Silent" and "Geronimo and His Brother" as well as late masterpieces such as "Night Games" and "Dream Story." Schnitzler creates memorable characters and makes original and masterful use of inner monologue, "stream of consciousness," and unrealiable narrator-techniques that he was among the first, if not the first, to use-to explore the complexities of their inner lives, even as he delineates their social world with elegance and wit. The results are comic, tragic, powerful, and psychologically compelling tales of love, sex, and death, that often surprise. They are as fresh and as relevant to us today, a century later, as when they were first written."

    Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks and peasants, and among them the bespectacled, Jewish writer/intellectual, observing it all and trying to establish his role in the new Russia.Drawn from the acclaimed, award-winning Complete Works of Isaac Babel, this volume includes all of the Red Cavalry cycle; Babel's 1920 diary, from which the material for the fiction was drawn; and his preliminary sketches for the stories—the whole constituting a fascinating picture of a great writer turning life into art.

    Taverner runs a nursing home -- but it is not by any means a conventional one. It is a hospital for all manner of unorthodox mental disturbances, ranging from psychic attack and disruptions in group minds to vampirism. These are cases that conventional psychology cannot cure. Only the secret knowledge of Taverner, based on esoteric training, is enough to unravel the solutions.Each story in this collection is a complete case, as gripping and as entertaining as the stories of Sherlock Holmes. They take you into the inner worlds of the human mind -- a world full of strange twists and unexpected happenings!Dion Fortune was a leading teacher on esoteric topics.

    Here, Lady Jane and the attractive, friendly Nicole rapidly make a niche for themselves until we feel it is indeed Kirkmeikle that is their "proper place."

    

    Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.

    A few bad deals have turned the world against him. His greatest adversary is his father, who thinks Ben good for nothing. Determined to show what he is made of and what he can do, Ben pursues a herd of wild horses. The herd leads him directly into danger: cattle thieves with connections in high places. Distrusted by the woman he loves, menaced by killers, and hounded by slander, Ben finds his day of reckoning at the edge of Forlorn River. What he does next will make him an outcast or a hero. First published in 1927, Forlorn River sets in motion the events and characters that extend into Nevada, also available as a Bison Book. This Authorized Edition carries a new foreword by Zane Grey’s son, Loren Grey.

    P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact. "The Outsider" is one of Lovecraft's most commonly reprinted works and is also one of the most popular stories ever to be published in Weird Tales.

    Confused and afraid, Murray flees, determined to erase his past with a fresh start. When, miles from his home, Murray is mistakenly assumed to be the new young banker arriving in town, not even he believes that assuming a new identity could be this easy. But as the kindness and faith of those around him begins to convict his heart, will Murray admit his lie and face whatever consequences await him back home?

    Maugham, English novelist, short-story writer, and playwright is best remembered for his novel Of Human Bondage. The Casuarina Tree contains six stories by Maugham including: Before the Party; P. and O.; The Outstation; The Force of Circumstance; The Yellow Streak; and The Letter.

    The Charwoman's Shadow is a beautiful tale of a sorcerer's apprentice who discovers his master's nefarious usage of stolen shadows, and vows to save the charwoman from her slavery.

    A nice middle-class Berliner, age 19, falls in love with a 14 year old street hustler.

    Mary's years of control - both as a mother and a teacher - count for nothing against the impact this slovenly young woman has upon Ralph's affections. Humiliated and rebuffed, Mary constructs a barrier of indignation against this marriage. And when the pleasure of self-righteous disapproval fades, devises a means of regaining her supremacy... First published in 1926, Her Son's Wife incisively explores the destructive potential of a mother's love for her son. A story of possession and the misuse of emotional power, it is a memorable work with an acid edge.

    R. Eddison’s classic saga novel now in paperback—includes for the first time Eddison’s remarkable letter of introduction and his unabridged closing note Styrbiorn the Strong tells the grand tale of Styrbiorn Olafsson, heir to the Swedish throne and known both for his impressive size and strength and his unruly, quarrelsome nature. Denied his birthright and exiled from Sweden, Styrbiorn becomes the leader of the Jomsvikings and sets out to reclaim the Swedish throne in the epic Battle of Fýrisvellir. A rediscovered classic, Styrbiorn the Strong is a tale reminiscent of the Old Norse sagas, a historical novel from one of the twentieth century’s most influential masters of fantasy.

    "If, lured by the opening prospect of ben and corrie, you venture wheel on the old military road that run tortuously from the highlands of the Dee to the great rift of Glen Mhor, you will ultimately come, under the favor of Providence, into a very welter of hills - brown and gently rolling - at the top-end of the Province of Moray, and discover the Loch Ruighi shining in its hollow." (from the Foreword)

    Set in a future world devastated by the development of capitalism, King Goshawk concerns the eponymous tyrant’s attempt to buy all of the wildflowers and songbirds in Ireland, and the attempt by a Dublin philosopher as well as a number of mythical heroes of Irish tradition to stop him.

    The story opens with an outbreak of hostilities between the Jackson Whites (an inbred race of mountain folk) led by the giant, Tully Bemis, terror of the hills, and the peaceful folk of the valley.A treasure chest which dates back to the Revolutionary times is thought to be hidden somewhere in the hills. Tully Bemis long has searched for it in vain, and when he becomes suspicious that young Bruce Harden, a valley farmer, and his geologist friend are on the track of the lost treasure he takes desperate action.The real hero of the story, however, is Mars who at the command of his master performs one of the most amazing feats that ever a collie has been called upon to do.

    He cannot do other than write beautifully." - Humbert Wolfe"The book abounds in glowing experiences of a world of colour and sensation, minutely imagined. . . . The description of dawn at Kew Gardens is so lovely that the reader will be tempted to endanger his respectability by emulating Judy and climbing the wall." - Times Literary Supplement"Among the few highly important and significant novelists of the day." - The Observer"There is poetry beneath Mr. Fraser's fantastic humour as there is a cunning grace in his prose." - The Times"The erotic awakening of a young woman . . . Judy, a student at Kew Gardens . . . is engaged to a personable young man who does not have the ability to arouse her, though she likes him, and she is disturbed by the utilitarian, materialistic life-philosophy of her businessman brother. She becomes more and more sensitive to the hidden life of the plants at Kew, and comes to see them as personalities, with the giant orchid in the role of passionate lover. . . . Told with delicate imagery and fine perceptions, a minor rococoism of art deco literature." - E.F. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (1983)

    Written in the curious vernacular of the 16th century and included in this charmingly illustrated volume are The Church of Haeckendover, The Little Stone Boy, The Man in White, Sir Halewyn in the Wood, The Song of the Head, Smetse Caught by the Two Branches, In Smetse's Garden, The Devil-King and the Sack. CHARLES THEODORE HENRI DE COSTER (1827-1879) a Belgian writer born of an official of the papal Nuntius in Munich, studied law and literature in Brussels, and eventually taught literature there as well. By 1855, he was established as a leading journalist and freelance writer, and his popular narrations enjoyed large success throughout Belgium. Curiously, De Coster became famous only after his death in 1879."

    

    The Story of Tomoda and Matsunaga (first published in Japanese in 1926, later in Italian, then in English in 2018 in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories) is a Tanizaki novella which explores the dichotomy between aspects of Eastern culture (specifically Japanese) and Western culture (specifically European) through the use and eyes of a doppelgänger, a Jekyll and Hyde sort who vacillates in his desires and attitudes toward provincial, traditional Asia and a dissolute, gluttonous Europe.

    G. Wells* The History of Mr. Polly • (1910) • novel* Bealby: a Holiday • (1915) • novel

     Even so, the two children, along with their friend Victor, succeed in creating a childhood idyll for themselves at their family home on the banks of the Thames. Under the benign watch of their guardian – the brilliantly intellectual but undeniably distant Thomas Garth – the children grow up in total freedom. Then war breaks out. Any plans they had for the future are shattered in an instant. Beset by danger, forced to face the death of friends and the radical change to the world they once knew, they must fight – at first to survive, and then to build themselves a new future. Victor and Bron enlist and struggle with the pressures of trench warfare. Molly begins work as a nurse and is shocked by the horribly wounded men brought into her hospital. Will they manage to make it through the war alive? Or will they crumble under the strain of what they have witnessed? ‘Rough Justice’ is a moving and intelligent novel about the First World War. 'One of the great works of fiction to come out of World War One' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of 'The Lunar Code'. Charles Edward Montague, (1 January 1867 – 28 May 1928), was an English journalist and novelist. In 1914, Montague was 47, but in order to enlist, he dyed his white hair black to enable him to fool the Army into accepting him. He began as a grenadier-sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

    

    

    The first book of quiet country sketches by David Grayson, Adventures in Contentment, appeared in 1907. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the last two volumes of his authoritative biography of Woodrow Wilson. This volume brings together four of the Grayson works together between one set of covers including Adventures in Contentment, Adventures in Friendship, The Friendly Road and Great Possessions.Adventures in Contentment (c) 1906, 1907 by The Phillips Publishing Co. (c) 1907 by Doubleday, Page & Co.Adventures in Friendship (c) 1908, 1909, 1910 by The Phillips Publishing Co. (c) 1910 by Doubleday, Page & Co.The Friendly Road (c) 1912, 1913 by The Phillips Publishing Co.(c) 1913 by Doubleday, Page & Co.Great Possessions (c) 1916, 1917 by The Phillips Publishing Co. (c) 1913 by Doubleday, Page & Co.Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty

    Imaginative and intelligent, Alberta is a misfit trapped in a stiflingly provincial town in the far north of Norway whose only affinity is for her extrovert brother Jacob.

    It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. Table of Contents List of Works by Genre and TitleList of Works in Alphabetical Order List of Works in Chronological OrderRobert Louis Stevenson BiographyNovels :: Short story collections :: Short stories :: Travel writing :: Non-Fiction :: Poetry :: Plays NovelsThe Black Arrow David Balfour / Catriona, sequel to KidnappedThe Ebb-TideKidnappedMaster of Ballantrae Prince Otto, a Romance St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeTreasure Island The Wrecker The Wrong Box Weir of Hermiston Short story collectionsIsland Nights' Entertainments (3 stories) Merry Men (6 stories)New Arabian Nights (6 stories) The Dynamiter (14 stories)Short storiesThe Body-SnatcherA Christmas SermonFablesThe Misadventures of John NicholsonThe Story of A LieThe Waif Woman Travel writingAcross the Plains Essays of Travel An Inland Voyage The Silverado Squatters Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Non-FictionEdinburgh Picturesque Notes Essays In The Art of WritingOther EssaysFamiliar Studies of Men and Books Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa In the South Seas Lay Morals and Other PapersMemoir of Fleeming Jenkin Memories and Portraits Records of a Family of Engineers Vailima Letters Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersPoetryBalladsA Child's Garden of VersesMoral EmblemsNew Poems Vailima Prayers Songs of TravelUnderwoods Plays by W. E. Henley and R. L. StevensonAdmiral GuineaBeau AustinDeacon BrodieRobert Macaire

    He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have an undertone of intrigue. He also wrote under the name of Anthony Partridge. The book begins: Israel, first Baron Honerton, famous in commercial circles as chairman of the directors of Fernham and Company, Ltd., the great wholesale chemists, Lord of the Manor of Honerton Chase, in Norfolk, sat at the head of the long black oak table in the banqueting hall of the ancient and historic mansion which he had bought as the auctioneer described it, lock, stock and barrel, two years ago. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

    

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    A humorous novel from the 1920s entirety made up of overheard conversations between floors of a New York tenement, all written in pidgin Yiddish.