Phil Nevitt, a young American, is sent by his firm to the West Indies to get information about a rival firm of distillers whose headquarters are at Annunziata, a small island...

New Edition.The Thai cuisine is characterized by its flavors and its extraordinary variety of ingredients, which make it look like one of the most interesting and fascinating of...

In the Five Towns human nature is reported to be so hard that you can break stones on it. Yet sometimes it softens, and then we have one of our rare idylls of which we are very...

"The Cloak" is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809 – 1852) was a Russian...

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous...

Phantasmagoria is the longest poem ever written by Lewis Carroll. This is a poem about a little ghost that visits a house with the intention of haunting it. Of course, this being...

Coloring books are today recognized as an important tool, and for much more than just plain fun.In fact, coloring books for kids, teens, and adults are considered to have many...

The Fat And The Thin, also known as Le Ventre de Paris(1873) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. It is set in and around Les...

Frantic after losing her nursing home job, plus size Shelby Watson lives in a dumpy apartment in the worst part of town. To make matters worse, she's now eating non-stop.Her...

Ivan Ilyich, a high court judge, becomes seriously ill and faces a long and gruelling battle with death. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is more than a story about death, however. It...