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The Mystery of the Four Fingers
A fabulously rich gold mine in Mexico is known by the picturesque and mysterious name of The Four Fingers. It originally belonged to an Azte…
Rocks and Their Origins
Do you know the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Are you interested in their geologic origin, chemical compos…
Night and Day
Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharin…
Chemical Phenomena in Life
Published in 1911 as part of the "Harper's Library of Living Thought," this volume presents an introduction to the chemistry of ce…
Einstein and the Universe
"M. Nordmann has presented Einstein’s principle in words which lift the average reader over many of the difficulties he must encounter …
History of Chemistry
A history of the advances in chemistry, in the fields of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry from the mid-nineteenth century through t…
The Devil's Pool
George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women o…
The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to …
AmerIndian
AmerIndian 2192 is a science-fiction novel that explores the intriguing possibilities of Native Americans in mankind's star flung future. Am…
Carmilla
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, originally published as a serial in the London-based literary ma…
Nonsense Novels
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian writer, teacher, and political scientist. A prolific and popular humorist, he published dozens of…
The Horla
"The Horla" (French title "Le Horla") is among the most famous short stories by the French writer Guy de Maupassant. Th…
The Isle of the Undead
"A gripping, thrilling, uncanny tale about the frightful fate that befell a yachting party on the dreadful island of living dead men.&q…
I and My Chimney
Herman Melville (1819–1891) is best known for his epic novel Moby Dick (1851), as well as the short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853) an…
The Beckoning Fair One
"The Beckoning Fair One" is the most famous, and most widely anthologized, work by British author Oliver Onions. This novella, alo…
The Christian Mythology
"Knowledge is power, but ignorance is the mother of devotion."Christianity, like all other religions, came not into the world full…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of…
Erec and Enide
Erec and Enide is a captivating medieval romance that explores the themes of love, loyalty, and the trials of chivalry. The story follows Er…
The New Life
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…
The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…