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By: Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles (1848-1929) | |
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Fifty-Two Stories For Girls |
By: Alfred Henry Lewis (1857-1914) | |
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Wolfville Nights | |
Wolfville Days | |
Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories | |
Wolfville | |
The President A novel |
By: Alfred J. Church (1829-1912) | |
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The Iliad for Boys and Girls
Echoing Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, Church offers a simplified rendering of the classic siege of Troy, as he retells the story which is regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces of Western literature. The Iliad for Boys and Girls is written in an easy to follow style that is certain to provide clarity to the otherwise perplexing tale presented in Homer’s original. Furthermore, the tale explores various themes including the destructive nature of pride, grueling revenge, honor, and the capricious interference of the Ancient Greek gods in temporal affairs... |
By: Alfred John Church (1829-1912) | |
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The Story of the Odyssey | |
Stories From Livy | |
Stories from Virgil
Alfred J. Church created 26 stories from the original Greek version of Virgil's Aeneid. He included well-known ones, such as "The Horse of Wood" and "The Love and Death of Dido," as well as many others perhaps less well-known, such as "King Evander" and "The Funeral Games of Anchises." |
By: Alfred Lawson (1869-1954) | |
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Born Again
"I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said evils, and - as you will have gathered - a very silly plot." - oddbooks.co.ukAlfred Lawson was a veritable Renaissance man: a professional baseball player, a luminary in the field of aviation, an outspoken advocate of vegetarianism and economic reform, and the founder of a pseudo-scientific crackpot philosophy called Lawsonomy... |
By: Alfred Ollivant (1874-1927) | |
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Bob, Son of Battle | |
Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs |
By: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) | |
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Is Mars Habitable?
In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built by intelligent beings. Wallace did months of research, consulted various experts, and produced his own scientific analysis of the Martian climate and atmospheric conditions. Among other things Wallace pointed out that spectroscopic analysis had shown no signs of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere, that Lowell’s analysis of Mars’ climate was seriously flawed and badly overestimated the surface temperature, and that low atmospheric pressure would make liquid water, let alone a planet girding irrigation system, impossible. |
By: Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) | |
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The Willows
A tale of horror in which a pleasant sojourn down the Danube tumbles terrifyingly awry as the veil between this world and an unfathomably weird dimension is inadvertently pierced by an innocent pair of vacationers, “The Willows”, arguably Algernon Blackwood’s seminal contribution to supernatural literature, has had a lasting influence on the field. No less a personage than H. P. Lovecraft describing it as “…the greatest weird tale ever written.” A reading will reveal a clear influence to one familiar with Lovecraft’s work... | |
The Camp of the Dog
A party of campers on a deserted Baltic island is terrorized by a huge wolf… or is it? | |
Jimbo
A supernatural fantasy about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy named Jimbo–who can fly! It’s really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by adults and teenagers alike. Be warned, however: The death of a beloved character and a creepy old house haunted by the wraith-like spirits of children makes some of this story far too scary for younger kids or indeed anyone of a sensitive disposition. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was born in south London and wrote many tales of the supernatural. | |
The Wendigo
Another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo of legend. Robert Aickman regarded this as "one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field". | |
The Man Whom the Trees Loved
The story of a man’s deep connection with nature and his wife’s fear of it. | |
The Centaur | |
Four Weird Tales
Four stories: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand. Tales by one the greatest practitioners of supernatural literature. Reincarnation, the Occult, and mystery. | |
John Silence
Six stories about Dr. John Silence if you want the shivers to run up your back, this is the right place to be | |
Bright Messenger
Julian LeVallon, born and raised alone in the Jura Mountains, is referred to psychiatrist Dr. Edward Fillery for care in London. But is LeVallon merely a schizophrenic with a secondary personality, "N.H." (non-human), or is he really an Elemental Being, a "bright messenger" who brings, perhaps, a new age of human evolution? And if so, is the human race ready for a major step forward? | |
Day And Night Stories
Fifteen short stories by Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (1869 – 1951), an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's…" |
By: Algis Budrys (1931-2008) | |
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Citadel |
By: Alice Ames Winter (1865-1944) | |
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Jewel Weed |
By: Alice B. Emerson | |
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Betty Gordon at Boarding School The Treasure of Indian Chasm | |
Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace | |
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill
Brave, adventurous and loyal, recently-orphaned Ruth Fielding is sent to live with her estranged Uncle Jabez at the Red Mill in Cheslow, New York. A new town means making new friends, and the teenage Ruth quickly befriends the children of a wealthy merchant. But as the relationship between her and her uncle becomes strained and she attempts to become friends with a very disagreeable girl, will Ruth's cheery disposition be enough to get her through?This is the first of the Ruth Fielding series, with follows Ruth and her friends from adolescence into early adulthood. | |
Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund | |
Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier | |
Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods |