A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel. It traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his inner struggle with the oppression of...

The author of the famous Alice books also wrote many poems notably in the humorous and nonsense genres. "The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits)" published in 1876 and...

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is noted mainly for his novels Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped, and for his verse, including A Child's Garden of Verses....

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic “Lucia”novels. In his own day it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works....

The Screaming Skull is one of F. Marion Crawford's Uncanny Tales which was first published - posthumously - in London in 1911 and was issued two weeks later in America as...

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. This...

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. One of...

M.R. James (1862-1936) was provost of King's College, Cambridge and Eton College. He was a highly regarded scholar and academic in his time but today is remembered for his ghost...

The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful of exquisite literary miniatures. In this third...

This powerful and ultimately uplifting book not only honors the heroes of 9/11, it also offers common ground to those in search of meaning and purpose in a world that was changed...