Original Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which brought him international fame as one of the greatest crime fiction writers. Conan Doyle wrote several...

Dracula is a unique horror masterpiece and the most famous of all vampire tales.The vampire novel that started it all, Bram Stoker's Dracula probes deeply into human identity,...

Sometime after being released from prison, Frank invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873, and becomes a millionaire again. He decides to move out of Philadelphia and...

Hard Times is Dickens' only novel not to have scenes set in London. The story is set in the fictitious Victorian Coketown and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic...

Gathered round the fire at the Maypole Inn, in the village of Chigwell, on an evening of foul weather in the year 1775, are John Willet, proprietor of the Maypole, and his three...

The story's protagonist, Grigori Tsybukin, runs the local grocery store but supplements his income by selling homebrewed vodka on the sly. Grigori's family—consisting of his...

I could see on his eyes the burning emotions in him. The more he drew closer to me the more I started to feel turned on. This was going out of control in my mind. My heart started...

Pauline was a smart woman. It didn’t really take her that long to realize that her boss wanted her. And since she was single and looking, she figured that Thomas...

Rapunzel is one of the fifty three European fairy tales featured in this volume of Grim’s tales. The tale’s best known line: ‘Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your...

The Unbearable Bassington offers an insight into peculiarities of Edwardian society. A novel of manners, an artistic symbol of a social order, and stylish satire often compared to...