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Vanina Vanini

Stendhal

A passionate story of romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of Italian liberation from the Austrian Empire

Redburn - His First Voyage

Herman Melville

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Body-Snatcher (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Author of the timeless Treasure Island (1883), Robert Louis Stevenson is a hugely popular author, and one of the most translated in the world. First published in Pall Mall magazine in December of 1884, The Body-Snatcher is based on characters in the employ of Robert Knox, around the time of the famo...

The Werewolf (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Clemence Housman

Clemence Housman was an author and suffragist best-known for her 1896 novella The Were-Wolf, praised by H. P. Lovecraft for attain[ing] a high degree of gruesome tension and achiev[ing] to some extent the atmosphere of authentic folklore. Many of the horror stories of monsters and ghouls, particular...

A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee

John Esten Cooke

This classic book contains the biography of General Robert E. Lee, the famous military officer best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely sc...

Akbar, Emperor of India

Richard Von Garbe

Originally published in 1909, this early work is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. A picture of life and customs from the sixteenth century, centred around Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor of the Mughal dynasty in India, one of the most powerful empires of the...

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class was first published in 1899. Its author, Thorstein Veblen, was the son of Norwegian American immigrants. He grew up to become a prominent economist and sociologist, producing many books and articles, and is often remembered for his use evolutionary theory to develop a...

Schalken the Painter (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century, and he is now seen as central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. His work is credited with turning the Gothics focus from the external sources of horror to the inward effects of terror, thus help...

William Wilson (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Edgar Allan Poe

This antiquarian volume contains Edgar Allen Poe’s 1839 short story, "William Wilson". Inspired by his time spent living in the suburbs of London, Poe’s uncanny story tells the tale of William Wilson and his doppelgänger. The two boys look and move similarly, and when one...

Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance

Charles Squire

PREFACE: This book is what its authors believes to be the only attempt yet made to put the English reader into possession, in clear, compact, and what it is hoped may prove agreeable, form, of the mythical, legendary, and poetic traditions of the early inhabitants of our islands who have left us wri...

The Perfumed Garden Of The Cheikh Nefzaoui - A Manual Of Arabian Erotology

Anon

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - With Other Short Stories by Robert

Robert Louis Stevenson

Author of the timeless Treasure Island (1883), Robert Louis Stevenson is a hugely popular author, and one of the most translated in the world. First published in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of his best-known tales, and probably the most famous dual personality story ever...