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Torn from the society of all he held dear on earth, the victim of secret enemies, and exiled from happiness, was the wretched Verezzi! All was quiet; a pitchy darkness in volved the face of things, w …

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glas …

This Excellent Collection brings together Mark Twain’s longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Science-Fiction Books. This Books created and collected in Mark Twain’s Most impo …

The heroine, Allice de Kymber. inherited, along with the traditional beliefs of her Druid ancestry, a love of astronomy. Her experiments in that science lead her to be suspected of witchcraft, and fi …

In the autumn of 1816, John Melmoth, a student in Trinity College, Dublin, quitted it to attend a dying uncle on whom his hopes for independence chiefly rested. John was the orphan son of a younger b …

Red thunder-clouds, borne on the wings of the midnight whirlwind, floated, at fits, athwart the crimson-coloured orbit of the moon; the rising fierceness of the blast sighed through the stunted shrub …

WHEN a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to as …

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific …

‚How can any one hope to transfer that to canvas?‘ asked the artist, surveying the many-coloured earth and sky and sea with despairing eyes. ‚Easily enough, ‚ replied the girl at his elbow, ‚those wh …

The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his …