The Saki Megapack assembles no less than 140 works by H.H. Munro, who also wrote under the name «Saki.» Munro influenced such later talents as P.G. Wodehouse. Included in this volume are both of Munro's novels, THE UNBEARABLE BASINGTON and WHEN WILLIAM CAME, plus the short story collections THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS, THE TOYS OF PEACE, REGINALD, REGINALD IN RUSSIA, and BEASTS AND SUPERBEASTS. In addition, 5 rare stories are also added, «Clov ...
"The Great Gatsby" is a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story takes place in 1922, during the Roaring Twenties, a time of prosperity in the United States after World War I. The book received critical acclaim and is generally considered Fitzgerald's best work. It is also widely regarded as a «Great American Novel» and a literary classic, capturing the essence of an era. The Modern Library named it the second best Engli ...
"The Heroic Slave, a Thrilling Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty" is a short piece of fiction written by famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass. When the Rochester Ladies' Anti Slavery Society asked Douglass for a short story to go in their collection, Autographs for Freedom, Douglass responded in turn with The Heroic Slave. The novella, published in 1852 by John P. Jewett and Company, was Douglas ...
Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind. For it she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. ...
Jimgrim and a Secret Society originally appeared in the classic pulp magazine Adventure, in the August 10, 1922 issue. It is part of Mundy's series featuring James Schuyler Grimm, better known as Jimgrim, a British agent. In this volume, he resigns from the British military service to take a job (along with his friends Jeff Ramsden, Narayan Singh, and Jeremy Ross) as a freelance agent combatting criminals who threaten world peace. ...
Tender Is the Night is a novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was his fourth and final completed novel, and was first published in 1934. The title is taken from the poem «Ode to a Nightingale» by John Keats. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked «Tender Is the Night» 28th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. ...
Janette Walsh was an orphaned girl who felt lucky to end up with a caring, supportive foster family. She was working for the family cafe when Richard Pilman came into her life. They became more than friends and were soon planning a life together. As their romance blossomed, a little life was growing inside her. Before the child came, Richard was taken away to war, but promised to return. <br />The pregnancy was tough but the baby arrives, ...
Drone Society addresses political and war conflicts in the year 2035, from the fictional point of view: a society of social and economic extremes; surveillance drones that spread terror; a technological world in which Artificial Intelligence, paper-eating viruses, conspiracies and weaponry of all kinds are used by the mega-powerful China and America in the name of eternal classics of human existence ? money, hatred, power hunger, egocentrism ver ...
She had always seen the world in another way, and not just from her own point of view, she literally saw things differently…<br /><br />But Mira had a job to do.<br /><br />She was unwaveringly determined to hold her family together emotionally and financially in the face of her father’s terminal cancer.<br /><br />She had no time to commune with the spirit world, which was always whispering in her ear. There ...
