Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars, John Carter is unwillingly transported back to Earth. The Gods of Mars begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife. ...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the war's end. Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of the Apaches. While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity and lower atmospheric pressure. He soon falls in...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American C...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- A young man - 30-years old - falls into a trance in Victorian England. He awakes two-hundred-three years later and discovers that he owns half the world through the miracle of compound interest on his investments. He is known as -The Sleeper, - and is worshiped as a saviour by the masses. Graham, the Sleeper, meets the man who has been ruling the world in his name for many years - Ostrog. Turns out that Ostrog is just another power-hungry man fronting for the Sleeper while aggrandizing...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- A young man - 30-years old - falls into a trance in Vi...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American Civil War soldier, journalist, and short story writer Ambrose Bierce. Consisting of common words followed by -howlingly funny- definitions, the lexicon was written over three decades as a series of installments for magazines and newspapers. Bierce's witty definitions were imitated and plagiarized for years before he gathered them into books, first as The Cynic's Word Book in 1906 and then in a more complete...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionar...
Cuthbert, a young boy, aspiring knight, and prodigal page, begins his journey to win his spurs during the crusades and on the way grows to be a man and ultimately saves his country. Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades, first published in 1882 and written by G. A. Henty, is a historical adventure novel set during the Third Crusade. It follows the travels of Cuthbert, from his home in the great forests near Evesham, England, to the Holy City of Jerusalem, and back again. Along the way he has many fantastical adventures, such as rescuing damsels in distress, meeting Robin Hood,...
Cuthbert, a young boy, aspiring knight, and prodigal page, begins his journey to win his spurs during the crusades and on the way grows to be a m...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- This book consists of ten powerful principles of success that successful people always use. Success is determined by deliberate and planned action and this book is based on taking consistent action steps and tweaking your mind to get anything you want in life. Now, let's see what you get from the book: 1. Do you compare yourself with others? 2. How to become best in anything you do real fast? 3. Mind of steel and action that is without limit is the master key to your success. 4. Face your...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- This book consists of ten powerful principles of succe...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The main character is a young man known as Austin Gilroy. He studies physiology and knows a professor who is studying the occult. The young man is introduced to a middle-aged woman known as Miss Penclosa, who has a crippled leg and psychic powers. She is a friend of the Professor's wife. The skeptical Gilroy's fiancee, Agatha, is put into a trance to prove Miss Penclosa's powers. This succeeds and Gilroy begins to go to the Professor's house where Miss Penclosa practices her powers on him ....
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The main character is a young man known as Austin Gilr...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Dr. Watson is called to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare disease contracted while he was on a case. Watson was shocked, having heard about his friend's illness. Mrs. Hudson says that Holmes has neither eaten nor drunk anything in three days. Holmes instructs Watson not to come near him, because the illness is highly infectious. Although Watson wishes to examine Holmes himself or send for a specialist, Holmes demands that Watson wait several hours before seeking help. So, Watson...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Dr. Watson is called to tend Holmes, who is apparently...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The novel's protagonist is a young American named Robert Harcliffe; a recent college graduate, he works for his family's mercantile business in New Orleans, run by his Uncle Nelson. Nelson Harcliffe receives a letter from an old client in Brazil, Dom Miguel de Pintra, a wealthy man who has retired from business to devote himself to politics - specifically to the republican cause that struggles to replace the Brazilian Empire. Dom Miguel has written to request a secretary; Robert, eager for...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The novel's protagonist is a young American named Robe...
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Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (German: Jenseits von Gut und Bose: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft) is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, with a more critical and polemical approach. It was first published in 1886. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality....
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the F...