The Portrait
  • By Mrs Oliphant
  • Publisher: Mrs Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works...

Office Romance
  • By Rex Pahel
  • Publisher: Rex Pahel

The story of how I meet my loving and caring wife Tracy. How we bumped into each other in the office and how we ended up together.For Mature Audiences Only (18+)

Legends And Tales
  • By Bret Harte
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

The cautious reader will detect a lack of authenticity in the following pages. I am not a cautious reader myself, yet I confess with some concern to the absence of much...

Dream World
  • By Charley Marsh
  • Publisher: Timberdoodle Press

When dream becomes reality . . .Lucid Dreaming, the brain child of a computer nerd  and his rich friend, needs a guinea pig. Someone who doesn’t mind having their brain...

In Search Of The Castaways
  • By Jules Verne
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

After finding a bottle the captain had cast into the ocean after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and...

The Secret Of Father Brown
  • By G. K. Chesterton
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Flambeau, once the most famous criminal in France and later a very private detective in England, had long retired from both professions. Some say a career of crime had left him...

The Lady Of The Shroud
  • By Bram Stoker
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate worth more than one million pounds, on condition that he live for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains on...

The Black Cat And Other Stories
  • By Edgar Allan Poe
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Our pet-loving narrator injures his black cat under heavy influence of alcohol. From that moment onward, the cat flees in terror at his master's approach but this does not...

The Cook's Wedding And Other Stories
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary, and in his...

Short Stories By Anton Chekhov: A Trivial Incident And Other Stories
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Subtle humour is one of the key elements in Chekhov's imaginative stories. But as an artist, Chekhov is more complicated. He paints life with all its nuances and shades of grey....

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