There was once a king called Benin. He was good and all the world loved him; he was just and the wicked feared him. His wife, the Queen Doucette, was also good, and much beloved....
Confessions Of An English Opium
Thomas Penson De Quincey (15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).[ Many scholars suggest...
Mental Efficiency And Other Hints
No one is a worse guide to success than your typical successful man. He seldom understands the reasons of his own success; and when he is asked by a popular magazine to give his...
Gulliver's Travels
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is Jonathan Swift's best known...
Cosmophobia
Who is watching the stars, every second of every day, so we can better understand the universe?This short story was awarded the 2nd place in the Science Fiction category, in the...
Study Guide ... Dracula : Notes
Study Guide… is a collection of notes that introduce students – and not only students – to poems, novels or plays written in English. They facilitate learning...
Naughty On Vacation
It was just the thing that Alice needed in her life at that moment. As soon as her boss approved, Alice was too excited to stay at work for another minute. All her life, she had...
A Journey From This World To The Next
. “A Journey from this World to the Next “(1743) is a powerful yet playful narrative, in which Fielding anatomizes contemporary follies with his customary vigour....
A Stable For Nightmares
About thirty years ago I was selected by two rich old maids to visit a property in that part of Lancashire which lies near the famous forest of Pendle, with which Mr....
An Antarctic Mystery
An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, 'The Sphinx of the Ice Fields’), is an 1897 adventure novel by Jules Verne and is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's...
