Humanities and Arts eBooks
The Arabian nights
Humanities and Arts, by Andrew Lang, ed.Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are fairy tales of the East. The people of Asia, Arabia, and Persia told them in their own way, not for children, but for grown-up people.
The battle for life
Humanities and Arts, by Charles Dickens.Two sisters, Grace and Marion, live happily in an English village with two servants Clemency Newcome and Ben Britain, and their good-natured widower father Dr Jeddler. Dr Jeddlar is a man whose philosophy is to treat life as a farce. Marion, the younger, is bethrothed to Albert Heathfield, Jeddlar's ward who is leaving the village to complete his studies. He entrusts Marion to Grace's care and...
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
Humanities and Arts, by Alexander JessupHighlighting some of the best American short stories ever written by some of our greatest humorists.
The Blonde Lady
Humanities and Arts, by Maurice LeblancMaurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc (11 November 1864 - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.
The Blue Castle
Humanities and Arts, by Lucy Maud MontgomeryThe Blue Castle is a 1926 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for her novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). The story takes place in the early 1920s in the fictional town of Deerwood, located in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada. Deerwood is based on Bala, Ontario, which Montgomery visited in 1922. Maps of the two towns show similarities. This novel is considered one of...
The brothers Karamazov
Humanities and Arts, by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its...
The Castle
Humanities and Arts, by Franz KafkaIn The Castle, Kafka goes beyond the absurd world he describes in The Trial and tries to find an explanation or some form of hope. The Castle tells the story of a character named K., who arrives in a town because he has been appointed the Land Surveyor to the castle in the town. However, K. finds that he is unable to communicate with the castle, and the villagers refuse to believe that he has...
The Chouans
Humanities and Arts, by Honoré de BalzacLes Chouans is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie militaire section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in the French region of Brittany, the novel combines military history with a love story between the aristocratic Marie de Verneuil and the Chouan royalist Alphonse de Montauran. It takes place during...
The Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fantasies
Humanities and Arts, by Mrs. JamesonThis collection of notes accumulated insensibly from day to day. The volumes on Shakspeare’s Women, on Sacred and Legendary Art, and various other productions, sprung from seed thus lightly and casually sown, which, I hardly know how, grew up and expanded into a regular, readable form, witha beginning, a middle, and an end.
The Complete Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Humanities and Arts, by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCollection of the classic American poetry
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