E. T. A. Hoffmann 
Die Elixiere des Teufels [EPUB ebook] 

Winter in the Air comprises eighteen short stores written between 1938 and 1955. Despite the time span Sylvia Townsend Warner”s biographer, Claire Harman, considers this collection the first ”to se …

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 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 …

"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 …

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, …

"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 …

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 …

To have and to hold?Reluctant debutante Lady Clarissa Macpherson has never forgotten the forbidden kiss she shared with notorious rake, Lord Theodore Bennett, all those years ago. Even now, he’s the …

Ismailia (1874) can be considered an autobiography of Sir Samuel W. Baker as it describes the author’s expedition to Central Africa. An exceptional narrative of Sir Samuel W. Baker’s mission to stop …