L'Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the...

This is a novel written by Robert W. Chambers in 1894, published the year before his seminal short story collection The King In Yellow. The story deals with life in the Quartier...

Katie loves Mack even though he's very small "down there." She only has one stipulation when they get married: if she ever meets her favorite actor, she can have a...

A powerful, impressive, and enduring tale of ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The...

A London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. Little does he know that his...

Once upon a time there were three Bears, who lived together in a house of their own, in a wood. One of them was a Little Wee Bear, and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and the other...

Set in France and Louisiana, this new edition from Egoist Press follows the story of Chevalier des Grieux, the protagonist and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from a...

Amory is working as a social secretary for a well-to-do family. While trying to keep her employer’s preacher nephew from having his heart broken by houseguests, she has...

"A Baby Tramp" is a short story by Ambrose Bierce.Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914) was an American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer. 

Author Scot McKnight asks the question, what is the church supposed to be? The church is God’s world-changing experiment of bringing unlikes and differents to the table to...