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The verses printed in this book are quoted from Dr. Opera Stories from Wagner's translations of The Rhine-Gold,The Walkuere,Siegfried and Goetterdaemmerung, by the kind permission of the publishers, Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. An occasional sentence in several of the stories is borrowed...

Chronicles Martin Chuzzlewit's experiences as a student of architecture and a pioneer in the American West.

In Mr Standfast (1919), the third of the four novels featuring Richard Hannay, Hannay is brought out of the battlefield to perform the desperate task of tracking down and destroying a network of German spies. Set in the later years of World War I, Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from...

The Playboy of the Western World is depicted through the eyes of others, the transformation of its young hero from timid weakling to paragon of bravery. Download it now!

Raskolnikov kills two people in the belief that some people are "extraordinary" and have the right to kill others in order to improve the state of the world.

One of the most fascinating experiments in American literature resulted in The Whole Family. This unusual composite novel numbers among its twelve authors such luminaries as Henry James, William Dean Howells, and Mary E. Wilkins.  

It tells the story of Flora de Barral, the abandoned daughter of a bankrupt tycoon, and her long struggle to find happiness and dignity.

Two decades have passed since the famous swordsmen triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady in The Three Musketeers. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice.

Few of the more astute critics who have appraised the work of James Branch Cabell have failed to call attention to that extraordinary cohesion which makes his very latest novel a further flowering of the seed of his very earliest literary work. 

Karl-Ludwig Sand is written by A. Dumas Pere