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The Collected Works of Friedrich Schiller
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 8466 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller • Mary Stuart: A Tragedy • The Robbers • Wilhelm Tell • Don Carlos: A Play • Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy • The Poems of Schiller – Third period • The Thirty Years War – Complete • Wilhelm Tell • The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy • The Works of Frederick Schiller • The Death of Wallenstein • Philosophical Letters of • The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny • History of the Revolt of the Netherlands – Complete • The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy • Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx • The Piccolomini: A Play • Wallenstein's Camp: A Play • Biographical EssaysThomas De Quincey • The History of the Thirty Years' War • Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy • The Poems of Schiller – First period • The Poems of Schiller – Second period • The Poems of Schiller – Suppressed poems • Adolphe: Anecdote trouvée dans les papiers d'un inconnu (Französisch)Benjamin Constant • The Illustrated Works Of • Demetrius: A Play • The Thirty Years War • The Life and Works of Calvin Thomas • Wallenstein • Thirty Years War: Book I. Book II. Book III. Book IV. Book V. Revolt of Netherlands: Book I. Book II. Book III. Book IV. • The Robbers Fiesco Love and Intrigue • The Camp of Wallenstein Piccolomini • The Death of Wallenstein Whilhelm Tell • Don Carlos Demetrius Mary Stuart • The Maid of Orleans The Bride of Messina • PHILOSOPHY: Aesthetical Essays Philosophical Letters • NOVEL:The Ghost Seer or, The Apparitionist and The Sport of Destiny • etc.
The Collected Works of Stephen Crane
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 4096 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War • Maggie: A Girl of the Streets • The Open Boat and Other Stories • The Monster and Other Stories • War is Kind • Notes on Life & LettersJoseph Conrad • The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War • The Black Riders and Other Lines • Last Words • Men, Women, and Boats • Whilomville Stories • Wounds in the rain: War stories • The Third Violet • The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil War • The O'Ruddy: A Romance and Robert Barr • Maggie, a Girl of the Streets • Active Service • The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil War • The Blue Hotel • His New Mittens • The Open Boat • A Man and Some Others • The Bride comes to Yellow Sky • The Wise Men • The Five White Mice • Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure • Horses • Death and the Child • An Experiment in Misery • The Men in the Storm • The Dual that was not Fought • An Ominous Baby • A Great Mistake • An Eloquence of Grief • The Auction • The Pace of Youth • A Detail • THE ANGEL CHILD • LYNX-HUNTING • THE LOVER AND THE TELLTALE • «SHOWIN' OFF» • MAKING AN ORATOR • SHAME • THE CARRIAGE-LAMPS • THE KNIFE • THE STOVE • THE TRIAL, EXECUTION, AND BURIAL OF PHELPS • THE FIGHT • THE CITY URCHIN AND THE CHASTE VILLAGERS • THE PRICE OF THE HARNESS • THE LONE CHARGE OF WILLIAM B. PERKINS • THE CLAN OF NO-NAME • GOD REST YE, MERRY GENTLEMEN • THE REVENGE OF THE ADOLPHUS • THE SERGEANT'S PRIVATE MADHOUSE • VIRTUE IN WAR • MARINES SIGNALLING UNDER FIRE AT GUANTANAMO • THIS MAJESTIC LIE • WAR MEMORIES • THE SECOND GENERATION • THREE MIRACULOUS SOLDIERS • A MYSTERY OF HEROISM • AN INDIANA CAMPAIGN • A GREY SLEEVE • THE VETERAN • etc.
THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
The Collected Works of O. Henry
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 4142 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Gift of the Magi • The Four Million • Cabbages and Kings • The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million • Rolling Stones • Whirligigs • Roads of Destiny • Short Stories of Various Types • The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million • Sixes and Sevens • Heart of the West • THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES • THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF • The Gentle Grafter • etc.
The LADIES' and Gentlemen's Books of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness
Etiquette is a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class, or group.
The French word étiquette, literally signifying a tag or label, was used in a modern sense in English around 1750. From the 1500s through the early 1900s, children learned etiquette at school. Etiquette has changed and evolved over the years.
Twelve Years a Slave
In his home town of Saratoga, New York, Solomon Northup, a free negro who was a skilled carpenter and violinist, was approached by two circus promoters. They offered him a brief, high-paying job as a musician with their traveling circus. Without informing his wife, who was away at work in a nearby town, he traveled with the strangers to downstate New York and Washington, D.C. Soon after arriving in the capital, he awoke to find himself drugged, bound, and in the cell of a slave pen. When Northup asserted his rights as a free man, he was beaten and warned never again to mention his free life in New York.
Transported by ship to New Orleans, Northup and other enslaved blacks contracted smallpox and one died. In transit, Northup implored a sympathetic sailor to send a letter to his family. The letter arrived safely, but, lacking knowledge of his final destination, Northup's family was unable to effect his rescue.
Northup's first owner was William Prince Ford, who ran a lumber mill on a bayou of the Red River. Northup subsequently had several other owners, less humane than Ford, during his twelve-year bondage. At times, his carpentry and other skills contributed to his being treated relatively well; but he also suffered extreme cruelty. On two occasions, he was attacked by a white man he was leased to, John Tibeats, and defended himself, for which he suffered severe reprisals. After about two years of enslavement, he was sold to Edwin Epps, a notoriously cruel cotton planter. Epps held Northup enslaved for 10 years, during which time he assigned the New Yorker to various roles from cotton picker, to hauler to driver, which required Northup to oversee the work of fellow slaves and punish them for undesirable behavior. While on Epps' plantation, Northup became friends with a slave girl named Patsey, who Northup writes about briefly in the book.
After being beaten for claiming his free status in the slave pen in Washington, D.C., Northup in the ensuing 12 years did not reveal his true history again to a single person, slave or owner. Finally he confided his story to Samuel Bass, a white carpenter and abolitionist from Canada. Bass, at great risk to himself, sent letters to Northup’s wife and friends in Saratoga. A white shopkeeper, Parker, sought the assistance of Henry B. Northup, a white attorney and politician whose family had held and freed Solomon Northup's father and with whom Solomon had a longtime friendship. Henry contacted New York state officials. As the state had passed a law in 1840 to provide financial resources for the rescue of citizens kidnapped into slavery, the Governor appointed Henry Northup as an agent to travel to Louisiana and work with law enforcement to free Solomon. Once in Louisiana, Henry Northup hired local Avoyelles Parish attorney, John P. Waddill, to assist in securing Solomon Northup's freedom.[9] After a variety of bureaucratic measures and searches were undertaken, the attorney succeeded in locating Solomon and freeing him from the plantation. Northup later filed charges against the men who sold him into slavery but was unsuccessful. He returned to New York and reunited with his family there.
Northup concludes his narrative with the following statement:
My narrative is at an end. I have no comments to make upon the subject of Slavery. Those who read this book may form their own opinions of the «peculiar institution.» What it may be in other States, I do not profess to know; what it is in the region of Red River, is truly and faithfully delineated in these pages. This is no fiction, no exaggeration. If I have failed in anything, it has been in presenting to the reader too prominently the bright side of the picture. I doubt not hundreds have been as unfortunate as myself; that hundreds of free citizens have been kidnapped and sold into slavery, and are at this moment wearing out their lives on plantations in Texas and Louisiana. But I forbear. Chastened and subdued in spirit by the sufferings I have borne, and thankful to that good Being through whose mercy I have been restored to happiness and liberty, I hope henceforward to lead an upright though lowly life, and rest at last in the church yard where my father sleeps.
—Solomon Northup[10]
Tarzan: The Adventures and the Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 9655 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • A Princess of Mars • Tarzan of the Apes • The Gods of Mars • Warlord of Mars • Thuvia, Maid of Mars • The Chessmen of Mars • The Return of Tarzan • At the Earth's Core • Jungle Tales of Tarzan • The People That Time Forgot • The Land That Time Forgot • The Son of Tarzan • The Lost Continent • The Beasts of Tarzan • Out of Time's Abyss • Tarzan the Untamed • Pellucidar • Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar • Tarzan the Terrible • The Gods of Mars • The Monster Men • The Outlaw of Torn • The Mad King • The Mucker • At the Earth's Core • The Efficiency Expert • The Oakdale Affair •.etc.