A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful “Song of Myself” and “I Sing the Body Electric” to the elegiac “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Whitman’s art fuses oratory, journalism, and song in a vivid celebration of humanity. Containing all Whitman’s known poetic work, this edition reprints the final, or “deathbed,” edition of Leaves of Grass (1891–92). Earlier versions of many poems are also given, including the 1855 “Song of Myself.”Features a completely new—and fuller—introduction discussing the development of Whitman's poetic career, his influence on later American poets, and his impact on the American cultural sensibilityIncludes chronology, updated suggestions for further reading, and extensive notes

    French author of the naturalistic school, Maupassant is generally considered to be the greatest French short story writer of his day. The Complete Short Stories contains the 300 short stories Maupassant wrote during the 1880s, including his horror fiction, which consists of some 39 stories, only a tenth of his total. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417936150.Volume I---------------------------Ball-of-Fat (Boule de Suif)The Diamond NecklaceA Piece of StringThe Story of a Farm-GirlIn the MoonlightMme. Tellier's ExcursionLoveMme. FifiMonsieur ParentUseless BeautyAn Affair of StateBabetteA Cock CrowedLilie LalaA VagabondThe MountebanksUglyThe DebtA Normandy JokeThe FatherThe ArtistFalse AlarmThat Pig of a MorinVolume II---------------------------Miss HarrietThe HoleThe InnA FamilyBellflowerIn the WoodThe Marquis de FumerolSavedThe SignalThe DevilThe Venus of BranizaThe RabbitLa MorillonneEpiphanySimon's PapaWaiter, a Bock!The Sequel to a DivorceThe ClownThe Mad WomanMademoiselleVolume III---------------------------A Bad ErrorThe PortChaliJeroboamVirtue in the BalletThe Double PinsHow He Got the Legion of HonorA CrisisGraveyard SirensGrowing OldA French Enoch ArdenJulie RomainAn Unreasonable WomanRosalie PrudentHippolyte's ClaimBenoistFecundityA Way to WealthAm I Insane?Forbidden FruitThe Charm DispelledMadame ParisseMaking a ConvertVolume IV---------------------------A Little WalkA Wife's ConfessionA Dead Woman's SecretLove's AwakeningBed No. 29MarrocaA PhilosopherA MistakeFlorentineConsiderationWoman's WilesMoonlightDoubtful HappinessHumiliationThe Wedding NightThe Noncommissioned OfficerIn the Court RoomA Peculiar CaseA Practical JokeA Strange FancyAfter DeathOn CatsRoom No. ElevenOne Phase of LoveGood ReasonsA Fair ExchangeThe Tobacco ShopA Poor GirlThe SubstituteA Passion

    The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast which roams the mist-enshrouded wilds of Dartmoor. Now The Hound seems to be stalking the young Sir Henry, new heir to the Baskerville estate. Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse? Or is Sir Henry the victim of a vile and scheming murderer? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve the mystery. In The Valley of Fear a cipher message and a horrible murder begin this dark, powerful tale in which Sherlock Holmes faces his old arch enemy, Professor Moriarty once more. The solution to the riddle lies far away from the disturbed calm of a country house in Sussex, halfway across the world in a location known as The Valley of Fear.

    Recognizing his life for what it was, he ran away from his home, but hecould not run away from all of his problems.Sixteen years later he found himself hungry of body and empty of spirit in asmall Midwestern town. He was determined to make something of himself and tonot be controlled by alcohol.Initially, he finds no help in this so-called Christian town. Eventually, heis taken in by George Udell, a local publisher and a kind-hearted man. GeorgeUdell gives the young man a job, and something more important: spiritualsupport. Through hard work and Christian morals, the man who becomes known as"that printer of Udell's" rises above his past to a new life withGod, inspiring those around him along the way.As in Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills and The Callingof Dan Matthews, both also published by Pelican, good deeds and astrong belief in God form the basis for a happy life, no matter what the past.

    A volume of five of Shakespeare's most enduring works of tragedies, offering perennial insights into human emotion as well as telling inscriptions of the particular concerns of Shakespeare's own day.

    A heartbreaking tale set in the vast wintry landscape of the North, it endures as one of the greatest adventures ever written.

    Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.

    This monumental eBook features beautiful illustrations, informative introductions.CONTENTS:The Early NovelsCLAUDE’S CONFESSIONTHE DEAD WOMAN’S WISHTHE MYSTERY OF MARSEILLETHERESE RAQUINMADELEINE FERATThe Rougon-Macquart CycleTHE FORTUNE OF THE ROUGONSTHE KILLTHE FAT AND THE THINTHE CONQUEST OF PLASSANSABBE MOURET’S TRANSGRESSIONHIS EXCELLENCY EUGENE ROUGONTHE DRAM SHOPA LOVE EPISODENANAPIPING HOTTHE LADIES’ PARADISETHE JOY OF LIFEGERMINALHIS MASTERPIECETHE EARTHTHE DREAMTHE HUMAN BEASTMONEYTHE DOWNFALLDOCTOR PASCALThe Three CitiesLOURDESROMEPARISThe Four GospelsFRUITFULNESSLABOURTRUTHThe Short StoriesSTORIES FOR NINONNEW STORIES FOR NINONPARISIAN SKETCHESTHE ATTACK ON THE MILLTHE FLOODCAPTAIN BURLETHE MILLER’S DAUGHTERTHE DEATH OF OLIVIER BECAILLENAÏS MICOULINJ’Accuse !I ACCUSE...!The CriticismÉMILE ZOLA by Henry JamesTHE ZOLA CONTROVERSY by G. K. ChestertonM. ZOLA by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-CouchAn Extract from ‘MY LITERARY PASSIONS’ by William Dean HowellsÉMILE ZOLA by William Dean HowellsZOLA by Henryk SienkiewiczBORLASE AND SON by James JoyceThe BiographyWITH ZOLA IN ENGLAND by Ernest Alfred VizetellyResourcesTHE ROUGON-MACQUART FAMILY TREEINDEX OF CHARACTERS IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART SERIESINDEX OF LOCATIONS IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART SERIES

    The book is a classic, born of something far deeper than the physical experience it records."

    On the primitive frontier of desert and mountain in the backwoods of Brazil, fifty-two hundred houses and every man, woman, and child who lived in them had been destroyed. The ten-month-long house-to-house battle, the agony of guerrilla warfare, the bitterness of "scorched earth" retreat was ended. The federal army of Brazil had defeated the religious mystic, the fanatic street preacher, the Messiah to thousands, who had led from December, 1986, to October, 1897, the strangest of all rebellions.Yet Antonio Conselheiro's personal war did not go unsung. Os Sertões—called Brazil's greatest epic—is Euclides da Cunha's searing, moving account of Conselheiro's struggle. It is a valiant cry of protest against oppression of the weak by the strong and a wise and compassionate record of a shocking totalitarian crime perpetrated against a handful of backwoodsmen in a little-known corner of the world.In this brilliant English translation by Samuel Putnam, Rebellion in the Backlands retains its force as a classic contribution to man's understanding of the human spirit and the human struggle.

    The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into English—propel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the world with his four servants, each of whom has a mysterious power over his destiny.The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal's writings is the title story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write. The "Letter" not only symbolized Hofmannsthal's own turn away from poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language which was to define the twentieth century.

    He immediately receives four white feathers—symbols of cowardice—one each from his three best friends and his fiancée. To disprove this grave dishonor, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves for the Sudan, where he anonymously comes to the aid of his three friends, saving each of their lives.Having proved his bravery, Harry returns to England, hoping to regain the love and respect of his fiancée. This suspenseful tale movingly depicts a distinctive code of honor that was deeply valued and strongly promoted by the British during the height of their imperial power.

    Parodic verses in praise of smoking.

    Will Gilmore is a young man from a small village called Scarcombe, a place whose primary industries are fishing and smuggling. Rather than pursue either career, he joins the Royal Navy as a ship's boy. His rise in the navy begins rather quickly when he distinguishes himself in a battle against the French, and he is promoted to midshipman. This promotion begins a career which includes battles with pirates, being captured and escaping from the enemy no less than three times, and participation in both the Battle of Cape St. Vincent and the Battle of Camperdown. His final adventure involves him with none other than Admiral Horatio Nelson, where his resolve and persistence pay off.

    Convinced that Grace Brissenden has become younger by drawing upon her husband, Guy, the narrator seeks to discover the source of the newfound wit of Gilbert Long, previously “a fine piece of human furniture.” His perplexing and ambiguous quest, and the varying reactions it provokes from the other guests, calls into question the imaginative inquiry central to James’s art of the novel.James described the essential idea of The Wings of the Dove as “a young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite, while also enamoured of the world.” The heroine, a wealthy young American heiress, Milly Theale (inspired by James’s beloved cousin Minny Temple), is slowly drawn into a trap set for her by the English adventuress Kate Croy and her lover, the journalist Morton Densher. The unexpected outcome of their mercenary scheme provides the resolution to a tragic story of love and betrayal, innocence and experience that has long been acknowledged as one of James’s supreme achievements as a novelist. This volume prints the New York Edition text of The Wings of the Dove, and includes the illuminating preface James wrote for that edition.

    Typhoon, a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of descriptive virtuosity and moral irony, while The Secret Sharer excels in symbolic ambiguity. Both stories vividly present Conrad's abiding preoccupation with the theme of solidarity, challenged from without by the elements and from within by human doubts and fears. Conrad's experiences as a captain of the ship Otago in 1888 provided material for both The Secret Sharer and Falk. Amy Foster, written in 1901, is bleak and stark in its depiction of human isolation and incomprehension. In a range of tones extending from the sombre to the radiant, Conrad's central preoccupations are displayed at their best, strangest, and most plangent in this selection of stories.

    Describing a world where animals find themselves after death, Beautiful Joe's Paradise chronicles the afterlife of many of the animals introduced in her earlier books. Long out of print and unavailable, this new edition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the original publication.

    Monna Vanna takes place at the end of the fifteenth century in Pisa and the camp outside the walls with the cast made up of nobles, soldiers, peasants, men and women of the city, etc.

    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

    K. Chesterton's biographical essays provide unique portraits of 12 of Europe's most defining figures. Written by one of the world's master essayists, this collection richly expresses Chesterton's thoughts on Charlotte Brontë, William Morris, Byron, Pope, St. Francis of Assisi, Rostand, Charles II, Stevenson, Thomas Carlyle, Tolstoy, Savonarola, and Sir Walter Scott. The book is a perfect companion for any literature, politics, or history course dealing with European history. It is also an excellent addition to any personal or scholarly library.

    A blackly comic novel starring Count Wladimir Noronsoff, the last of an accursed branch of a Russian aristocratic family, this is arguably the most outrageous of Jean Lorrain's works, with a richness of perversity and a quasi-imperial craziness in which the Côte d'Azur is an arena where echoes of Byzantium resound.This is a novel of fascinating moral and artistic complexity which, with its horror and sadness, humor and tragedy, is the climax of the author's career.