Liliom


Ferenc Molnár - 1949
    He works intermittently as a barker for a merry go round and many servant girls fall victim to his charms. Among these girls is Julie, whom he eventually marries. Learning that he is about to become a father Liliom participates in a robbery to enhance his fortunes. But he is caught and stabs himself rather than submit to arrest. He is tried in the Magistrate's court on high, but they see through him there. They know what repentance is in his heart though he is much too cocky to admit it. He is sentenced to a term of years in the purifying fires with the promise that after that sentence has been served he can go back to earth with a chance to do one good deed there. A tender and moving story told with a master's touch.

The Edge Of The Knife


H. Beam Piper - 1957
    Beam Piper.

Poems of Passion


Ella Wheeler Wilcox - 1883
    Poems such as: Love's Language; Impatience; Individuality; Friendship after Love; Reunited; What Shall We Do; Through the Valley; the Duet and much more.

The Expensive Halo: A Fable Without Moral


Josephine Tey - 1931
    Josephine Tey, who died in 1952, is best known for her crime novels.

What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War


H.G. Wells - 1916
    For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who have been touched with the spirit of science, prophesying is almost a habit of mind.

Our Mr. Wrenn


Sinclair Lewis - 1914
    Wrenn," who would be writing you directly and explaining everything most satisfactorily. At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company.

The Year When Stardust Fell


Raymond F. Jones - 1958
    Nothing too unusual ever happened there until a mysterious comet was suddenly observed by the scientists on College Hill. The copper-yellow glow of the comet seemed to have brought the whole world to a grinding halt. Here is science fiction at its thrilling best.

They Twinkled Like Jewels


Philip José Farmer - 1954
    Now and then he moved a little to quiet the protest of cramped muscles and stagnant blood, but most of the time he was as motionless as the heap of rags he resembled. Not once did he hear or see a Bohas agent, or, for that matter, anyone. The predawn darkness had hidden his panting flight from the transie jungle, his dodging across backyards while whistles shrilled and voices shouted, and his crawling on hands and knees down an alley into the high grass and bushes which fringed a hidden garden. For a while his heart had knocked so loudly that he had been sure he would not be able to hear his pursuers if they did get close. It seemed inevitable that they would track him down. A buddy had told him that a new camp had just been built at a place only three hours drive away from the town. This meant that Bohas would be thick as hornets in the neighborhood.

Thoughts Out of Season 1


Friedrich Nietzsche - 1874
    This complex work, composed of hundreds of aphorisms of varying length, explores many themes to which Nietzsche later returned and marks a significant departure from his previous thinking. Here Nietzsche breaks with his early allegiance in Arthur Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner, and establishes the overall framework of his later philosophy. In contrast to his previous disdam for science, now Nietzsche views science as key to undercutting traditional metaphysics. This he sees as a crucial step in the emergence of free spirits who will be the avant-grade of culture." This is an essential work for anyone who wishes to understand Nietsche's incisive critique of such diverse aspects of Western culture and values as the idea of good and evil, the roles of women and children in society, and the concept of power and the state.

زندگی تولستوی


Romain Rolland - 1911
    Among them, Romain Rolland, the future Nobel Prize winner. In this work he pictures the eventful life and frescoes of the man who he considered a "Titan of literature", a spiritual messenger. It shows how his life was an epic: aristocratic childhood, Crimean War, fleeing into the unknown and death in the small station of Astopovo; or how Tolstoy was a mystic and preacher, prophet, genius, and enemy of the Orthodox Church and the clergy.

Subspace Survivors


E.E. "Doc" Smith - 1960
    when there hasn't been any first survivor to be an expert! When no one has ever gotten back to explain what happened....

Humorous Ghost Stories


Dorothy Scarborough - 1921
    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390


Samuel Pegge - 2005
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Deadly Duo


Margery Allingham - 1950
    A cunning invalid who was more warped in mind than in body. And a young girl who became an innocent pawn in a deadly game of life and death. Margery Allingham's mysteries are "consistently suspenseful, consistently terrifying, consistently superb!" - New York Times

The Novel of the White Powder


Arthur Machen - 1895
    A man's behavior takes a strange turn when he begins to take a new prescription. His sister can't decide if this is for the better or for the worse...