James Huneker 
Painted Veils [EPUB ebook] 

"On Picket Duty, and Other Tales" by using Louisa May Alcott is a captivating series of short testimonies that showcases the writer’s versatility and storytelling prowess. The anthology com …

The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy includes the novel The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story begins in Paris in April 1794, when Theresia Cabarrus is betrothed to Citizen Tallien …

"Whitefoot the Wood Mouse" is a delightful children’s book written by Thornton W. Burgess, an acclaimed author renowned for his stories featuring anthropomorphic animal characters. This sto …

"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a novella written by Charles Dickens. The Peerybingle family and their lovely home, where a joyful cricket dwells on the hearth, are the focus of this heartwa …

Perhaps the inspiration for the show the Amazing Race, Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is the story of the eccentric Englishman Phileas Fogg and his trusty French valet Passepartout, who, …

"The Fortunes of Philippa: A School Story" by Angela Brazil is a captivating children’s literature work that invites readers into the vibrant world of a British boarding school. As a distin …

Falling In With Fortune is a fictional novel written by Horatio Alger Jr. It is a complete story in itself, but it is the second of the two book volumes, the first is known as "Out For Business. …

The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes is the fifth volume of the Rover Boys Series for readers of all ages and is a stand-alone novel. The brother’s Dick, Tom, and Sam of the rowdy Rover Boys continue th …

Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre – the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky – and Germany »s greatest poet of the last c …

The Boy Knight: A Tale of the Crusades is the story of a young man who endures numerous hardships in warfare throughout the thrilling Crusades. Cuthbert, the protagonist of the tale, is a young Engli …