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Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912 before being released as a book in 1914. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. So popular was the c...

Rebecca is a horror story that combines fiction and horror, with death. It concerns an unnamed young woman who marries a wealthy widower, only to discover that he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, Rebecca. We never see Rebecca, as she is already dead when the story begins.Rebecca concerns an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, only to discover that he and his household are haunted by...

Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four thousand acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself.After her husband left, Karen Blixen was visited frequently by her lover, the big game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories like "Scheherazade". In Af...

With its excitement, its aliveness, its comic sympathy and originality, True Grit swoops the reader up and gallops him off into a classic American Landscape, freshly and brilliantly perceived.The action - and what action! - begins on page 1, as Mattie Ross, a fourteen year old girl from Dardanelle Arkansas, sets out in the winter of eighteen seventy something to avenge her Daddy, treacherously shot to death by a no-good drunken outlaw. Since n...

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse were delighted at the chance to move into Bramford , one of Manhattan's oldest and most celebrated apartment houses. Their friend Hutch urged them not to, he knew of too many shadows in the Bramford's past - unsavory tenants like Adrian Marcato, who had practiced witchcraft, and the monstrous Trench sisters. But Rosemary and Guy were clear-thinking and not at all superstitious. They dismissed Hutch's warnings and mov...

The idea behind this book is to provide a system for White that is unbeatable. It does not tell you how to win. It just tells you how not to lose and how to keep a draw in hand. You can win if your opponent makes a mistake.this book goes to other systems, avoiding the Ruy Lopez but relying on lines considered dull, including The Hungarian Defense, The Philidor Defense, the Latvian Gambit, The Queen Pawn's Counter Gambit, the Petroff Defense, t...

Caravans is a work of Historical Fiction. Historical Fiction is a literary form in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.Here, the story is: In 1946, Ellen Jasper, a native of Dorset, Pennsylvania, recently married to an Afghan engineer, and has not been heard from for thirteen months. The job of finding her falls to a young member of the staff of the American Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan - Mark Miller, who is the narrat...

Bill Gates told Fortune, "My Years with General Motors is probably the best book to read if you want to read only one book about business."Alfred P. Sloan was the control stockholder of General Motors Corporation. General Motors was the largest industrial company in the world. General Motors was larger than almost all of the other countries of the world.The man who helped build the world's largest industrial corporation - and created the organ...

Peter is a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. The Peter Pan stories also involve the characters Wendy Darling and her two brothers, Peter's fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the pirate Captain Hook and the Crocodile. These characters are so well known that they have entered our language. My daughter entered a l...

Mr. Popper's Penguins is a classic childrens work published in 1938. Mr. Popper is a poor man who works as a house painter living with his wife and two children (Bill and Janie) in the small town of Stillwater Minnesota. He is very interested in the explorations and discoveries taking place in the Polar Regions. He writes a fan letter to an Admiral who is trying to explore Antarctica, One day, the Popper family tunes in to a radio broadcast by...

This is a story about a spider named Charlotte and a pig named Wilbur. The pig is owned by a little girl named Fern.Fern is a farm girl. The pig was born as a runt, too small to be of use to the farm. Just as the farmer was about to kill the pig, the farmer's daughter asked for the pig to be saved. Her father gave the pig to his daughter to care for it.When Winter comes, Charlotte, the spider, dies, but before she dies she gives birth to 514 c...

BUtterfield 8 is a realist novel. It is a loosely based upon the life of socialite and flapper Starr Faithfull, whose unsolved death in 1931 became a tabloid sensation. Reviews were mixed but the novel was a best-seller. It was adapted for a 1960 movie Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. A paperback edition published at the same time sold more than one million copies.This was the first movie by Elizabeth Taylor to win an Oscar. She ...

Most people know about the Little Mermaid from the 1989 animated musical fantasy romance film by Walt Disney. And most people know about Hans Christian Andersen from the movie starring Danny Kaye.Here we are reprinting the original Little Mermaid, not the Disney production."The Little Mermaid" (Danish Den lille havfrue) is a fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The story follows the journey of a young mermaid who is...

Heroines in fiction come and go and most of them are soon forgotten. But not Harriet the Spy, 11-year-old whirlwind of precocity and single-minded purpose, who wants to be a famous writer and so to that end keeps a notebook in which she records with brutal honesty her impressions of the world around her. This is a brilliantly written, unsparingly realistic story a superb portrait of an extraordinary child.Harriet M. Welsch is one of the meatie...

Tammy is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a house boat in the swamp in the Mississippi Delta between Louisiana and Mississippi, where she runs around barefoot making friends with the animals in the swamp. A businessman flying his own airplane crash lands in the swamp and Tammy finds him unconscious in the river, so she brings him back to the houseboat where she lives with her elderly grandfather and nurses him back to health.Soon she sings this...

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was one of the notorious events of American History. They are hardly forgotten because nowadays our chief executive reminds us of them constantly, because he is always talking about "Witch Hunts". But who is to believe that witches were hung or burned alive at the stake long ago in 1692 or that these events could happen again in this modern era?

Gidget is a story about a little girl, only five feet tall and 95 pounds, who aspires to succeed in surfing, a sport only big boys play.Gidget has been made into a series of movies, including Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Gidget Goes to Rome, and several others and a TV Series with Gidget Grows Up and Gidget Gets Married. It has received Academy Award nominations, although it does not appear to have won any.In a video about the movie, it is admitted t...

This is a collection of essays and articles about Peter Cassel, who is famous for being the leader of the first group of Swedes who established the first Swedish settlement West of the Mississippi in Iowa in 1845, before Iowa became a state.I am a direct descendant of Peter Cassel. My mother, Dr. Helen Marjorie Jacobson Sloan (1910-2002), was the daughter of Wesley Jacobson (1877-1963), who was the son of Axel Jacobson who was born in 1843 in ...

This book was written during the height of the Army McCarthy Hearings, when writers were investigated by Senator Joe McCarthy and his side-kick Roy Cohen for their suspected left-wing leanings, and were often alleged to be Communists or Soviet spies. The infamous Hollywood Ten of writers were blacklisted and their movies could not be produced. Arthur Miller was one of them but he got off by agreeing to testify.Improbable as it may seem nowaday...

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children, published in 1950. It is one of the most popular children's books, especially in England. Most of the novel is set in Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures that is ruled by the evil White Witch. four English children are relocated to a large, old country house following a wartime evacuation. The youngest, Lucy, visits Narnia three times via the magic of a ...