Intentions
  • By Oscar Wilde
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

What makes art wonderful is that it is absolutely indifferent to fact. Art invents, imagines, dreams, and keeps between herself and reality the impenetrable barrier of beautiful...

Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
  • By Mary White Rowlandson
  • Publisher: David De Angelis

The sovereignty and goodness of GOD, together with the faithfulness of his promises displayed, being a narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,...

Just So Stories
  • By Rudyard Kipling
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, and accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's 'How Fear...

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
  • By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Wilhelm goes through deep self-realisation and decides to escape his empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theatre, Wilhelm commits himself to the...

Ariadne
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Travelling from Odessa and Sevastopol, the narrator on board the steamboat meets a man called Ivan Shamokhin, who tells him a story of his love for a woman named Ariadna...

Emma
  • By Jane Austen
  • Publisher: David De Angelis

Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than...

A Man From The North
  • By Arnold Bennett
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Richard Larch is a young man with talent and ambition. He moves to London to make his way in life. He takes a clerk's position in a law office and in his spare time makes attempts...

The Plumed Serpent
  • By D. H. Lawrence
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

It was the Sunday after Easter, and the last bull-fight of the season in Mexico City. Four special bulls had been brought over from Spain for the occasion, since Spanish bulls are...

The Winter's Tale
  • By William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: David De Angelis

The Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespeare’s very late plays, is filled with improbabilities. Before the conclusion, one character comments that what we are about to see,...

The Survivors Of The Chancellor
  • By Jules Verne
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

The final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers in the form of a diary.

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