Publisher: Passerino
Two Florentine Balconiesis a short story by Robert Barr Robert Barr (16 September 1849 – 21 October 1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland.
Thirty-three science fiction and fantasy stories from the celebrated author of such classics as The War of the Worlds, The Times Machine, and The Invisible Man. Venture to strange worlds from the imagination of H. G. Wells with this collection of tales of science fiction and fantasy. Witness the darker side of humanity in “The Jilting of Jane” and “The Cone.” Learn what a man does when he faces fear itself in a haunted house in “The Red Room.” Travel to an Ecuadorian mountain community deprived of sight in “The Country of the Blind.” Find a curio inside an antique shop in London’s West End that allows you to see Mars in “The Crystal Egg.” Float down the Amazon on a Brazilian gunboat as a captain and his crew fight to save a village from terrifyingly evolved ants. These are just a few of the unusual journeys awaiting readers inside this compilation from one of the greatest science fiction writers in history.Show book
A petrifying collection of classic tales of the paranormal, spooky happenings, gruesome deeds and uncanny apparitions. Guaranteed to disturb your dreams and keep you awake all night. Includes: * "The Rose Garden" - M.R. James * "The Five Senses" - Edith Nesbit * "The Yellow Wallpaper" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman * "The Voice Of Death" - Traditional * "The Body Snatcher" - Robert Louis Stevenson * "The Judge's House" - Bram Stoker * "The Old Nurse's Story" - Elizabeth GaskellShow book
Just a nice, quiet, early afternoon's walk. Or it would be if a giant talking lemon wasn't coming down the road. Herdgewick's a bit of an expert. Crime-fighting, maze-cracking, bird-spotting; he's on it. Only he might want to have brushed up on his tree species this morning. Getting them wrong is not a good idea in the not-so-quiet county of Londst...Show book
Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renown musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin provides Edna with a taste of the danger that comes with living outside of social convention. Trapped between the life she is expected to live and the life she longs to lead, will Edna find happiness?Show book
Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day.
Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words.
In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.-
1 - Christmas. In Stories and in Poetry - An Introduction
2 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott
3 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
5 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson
6 - Minstrels. A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth
7 - Carol by Ben Jonson
8 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton
10 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere
11 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott
12 - No Mercy Here by Daniel Sheehan
13 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale
14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry
15 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
16 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick
17 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton
18 - Nativity by John Donne
19 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart
20 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan
21 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling
22 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan
23 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
24 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky
25 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi
26 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell
27 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell
28 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan
29 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats
30 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson
31 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick
32 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan
33 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy
34 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton
35 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe
36 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore
37 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
38 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti
39 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson
40 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
41 - Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson
42 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Siddhartha, born the son of a Brahmin, was blessed in wealth, appearance, intelligence and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of an ascetic. He wandered as a shramana and searched for Gotama the Buddha. However, this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. This popular book provides the listener with insight into the philosophy and thoughts that shape Siddhartha's path to enlightenment.Show book
