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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 …

Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. In this celebrated work Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

Adam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capital …

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 …