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The Elves are the dearest and most mischievous little people in all the wide world.

They live in Elfland, and Elfland can be found in every corner of the globe. They take up their abode on wooded hillsides, beside murmuring streams, or in deep, leafy forests. In the dead of night, when all the world is still, they steal forth from their dwellings and start on their merry midnight rounds. They dance in the moonlight on soft dewy lawns under wide-spreading trees. They visit their neighbors and friends among elves, and their neighbors and friends among men.

A 1922 women’s adventure and travel novel by British-American novelist Elizabeth von Arnim. It is said to be the author’s lightest and most refreshing novel. The novel follows four dissimilar women in 1920s England who leave their rainy, grey environments to go on holiday in Italy. Mrs Arbuthnot and Mrs Wilkins, who belong to the same ladies’ club but have never spoken, become acquainted after reading a newspaper advertisement for a small medieval castle on the Mediterranean to be let furnished for April. They find some common ground in that both are struggling to make the best of unhappy marriages. The four women come together at the castle and find rejuvenation in the tranquil beauty of their surroundings, rediscovering hope and love.

The Enchiridion’ is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus.

First published in the year 1953, the present book ‘The Enormous Room’ is co-written by Horace Leonard Gold and Robert Wilson Krepps. This science fiction story was first serialized in a magazine named the Amazing stories.

This little book has been prepared in the hope of helping those who, having forgotten the lessons in grammar which they received at school, find some difficulty in learning Esperanto from the existing textbooks. It is hoped it will be found useful not only for solitary students, but also for class work.
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First published in the year 1597, renowned philosopher, social thinker and writer Francis Bacon’s present book ‘The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral’ is a compandium of his various essays that are written in wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place; and I tried to trace such a journey in a story I once wrote. It is, however, a relief to turn from that topic to another story that I never wrote.

This book brings Lincoln the man, not Lincoln the tradition, very near to us. The great events of Lincoln’s life, and impressions of his character, are given in the actual words of those who knew him – his friends, his neighbors and daily associates – rather than condensed and remolded into other forms.

This ever offers a standing invitation and an enduring fascination for those who will but raise their eyes from the fertile and arable soil in which they concentrate their most arduous labors. Too close confinement in this field may result in greater commercial yield, but the fragrance of the clover detracts not at all from the value of the hay, nor do borderland studies result otherwise than in enlargement of the boundaries of one’s storm center of work.

The present book titled ‘The Evolution of Photography’ was written by famous historian and photographer John Werge. It was first published in the year 1890. This book would interest the photography enthusiasts and those who are interested in reading the history and evolution of the technology of capturing any thing in a frame.

In the preparation of “The Exhibition Drama,” the author has endeavored to present as great a variety as in the previous volumes of this series, and to comply, as far as possible, with the requests of numerous correspondents. Thus “Enlisted for the War” was written in response to a demand for something, based on the late civil war, which should meet the requirements of various Posts of the G. A. R. The musical allegories, “The Visions of Freedom,” and “The Tournament of Idylcourt,” were prepared for the graduating-class in a Boston grammar-school, and are of the same general character as those previously issued. The Christmas entertainment, and the dramatization of Dickens’s “Christmas Carol,” have both been successfully performed at sabbath-school entertainments. These, as well as the allegories, are plentifully supplied with tableaux, easily represented, and are adapted to the wants of many occasional exhibitions.

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard’ is one of the stories in Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Gerard series. It was published in the year 1896.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar’ is the first collection of stories by Maurice Leblanc recounting the adventures of Arsène Lupin. Containing the first eight stories depicting the character, each was first published in the French magazine ‘Je sais tout’. The seventh features fictional English detective ‘Sherlock Holmes’, as does the second collection of stories, ‘Arsene Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes’.

First pub;lished in the year 1907, the present book ‘THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES of ARSÈNE LUPIN, GENTLEMAN-BURGLAR’ is written by French writer Maurice Leblanc. It is a classic crime fiction type work. This book consists many crime fictional stories.

“It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven’t done anything about it; I can’t think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I’m not the first to discover it. Maybe it’s even under control.” -an excerpt

A historical drama novel by famous writer Sir Walter Scott, ‘The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine’s Day’ was first published in the year 1828. Set in Perth, the novel is inspired by the story of the Battle of the North Inch.

This is meant to be the best collection attainable of that delight of all children, and of many grown people who retain the child-heart still—the old-fashioned, time-honored classic Fairy-tale. It has been compiled from all sources—far-off and familiar; when familiar, the stories have been traced with care to their original form, which, if foreign, has been retranslated, condensed, and in any other needful way made suitable for modern British children. Perrault, Madame d’Aulnois, and Grimm have thus been laid under contribution. Where it was not possible to get at the original of a tale, its various versions have been collated, compared, and combined; and in some instances, when this proved still unsatisfactory, the whole story has been written afresh. The few English fairy tales extant, such as Jack the Gian Killer, Tom Thumb, etc., whose authorship is lost in obscurity, but whose charming Saxon simplicity of style, and intense realism of narration, make for them an ever-green immortality—these have been left intact, for no later touch would improve them. All modern stories have been excluded.

First published in the year 1984, famous writer H. C. Andersen’s book ‘Andersen’s Fairy Tales’ is a collection of fairy tales and magical stories.

The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. 

This book will be an inspiration to fathers, mothers, and children, the married and unmarried, because God’s ideal of family life is held up. It is suggestive rather than exhaustive. It is plain on delicate points of the subject. The author, by nature and grace, by the home from which he came, by knowing how to rule well his own house, by his experience and success as a public teacher, is fitted to Speak on this too much neglected subject, and deserves a large hearing. The added words by the father of the author, the promoter of these lectures to the students Of the Seminary, are from a man Of prayer, piety, symmetry, and experience.

I HAVE often been surprised, that among the many descriptions which ingenious writers have given of places and people comparatively insignificant, no complete and systematic account has yet been written of the Fashionable World. It is true, that our poets and caricaturists have honoured this people with a great share of their notice, and many particulars, not a little edifying, have been made known, through the medium of their admirable publications. It is also true, that our prose-writers have occasionally cast a very pertinent glance over this fairy ground. Some of these latter have even gone so far, as to write absolute treatises upon certain parts of the Fashionable character. Mrs. More, for example, has delineated the religion, and Lord Chesterfield the morals, of this singular people with the greatest exactness and precision. Nor would it be just to overlook the very acceptable labours of those writers who, in their Court-calendars and Court-almanacks, bring us acquainted, from time to time, with the modes of dress which prevail in the Fashionable World, and the names of its most distinguished inhabitants. But after all that has been done, towards exhibiting the manners, and unfolding the character, of this splendid community, much remains to be done: for though certain details have been well enough handled, yet I repeat, that a complete and systematic account of the Fashionable World, is still a desideratum in Cosmography.

A book written by American writer, journalist and educator Arthur Mee in early 20th century, ‘The Fiddlers’ questions people’s consciousness on many major issues that were of concern in America at that point of time. These are short and long notes and articles written by the author on each of those issues and, asked the general public to awaken their morality and stop fiddling for basic necessities.

The present compendium by WH Maxwell records the history of the field intoxication of the British richmen and people of repute during 19th century in London.

It was a bold project of Hatteras to push his way to the North Pole, and gain for his country the honour and glory of its discovery. But he had done all that lay in human power now, and, after having struggled for nine months against currents and tempests, shattering icebergs and breaking through almost insurmountable barriers, amid the cold of an unprecedented winter, after having outdistanced all his predecessors and accomplished half his task, he suddenly saw all his hopes blasted.

First published in the year 1896, the present short novella ‘The Figure in the Carpet’ by American writer Henry James is told in the first person. The narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention within all the author’s works.

First published in the year 1912, the present fictional novel ‘The Financier’ by Theodore Dreiser is the first volume of the Trilogy of Desire, which includes ‘The Titan’ (1914) and ‘The Stoic’ (1947). Set in Philadelphia, the novel is about Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money passing by an auction sale, he successfully bids for seven cases of Castile soap, which he sells to a grocer the same day with a profit of over 70 percent.

The Firm of Girdlestone’ is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in 1890.

Many and many a time mothers have come to the author with the piteous plaint: “O Aunt Fanny! we are perfectly worn out with your ‘Nightcaps,’ ‘Mittens,’ and ‘Socks;’ we have read them to our little children, who have not yet conquered the compound mysteries of the alphabet, until we know them by heart; do, do write some books in words of one syllable, which they can read for themselves.”

Famous writer H. G. Wells’ romantic science fictional novel ‘The First Men in the Moon’ was first published in the year 1901. It tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call “Selenites”.

Should the education of a prince take place in the court or in the tavern? Is Prince Henry wasting his time with Falstaff and his Eastcheap cronies? and can King Henry IV keep the throne when he has lost the support of the barons who put him there? It is an excellent resource for the classroom, amateur stage, actors, drama coaches, etc. All of the lines in this play are Shakespeare’s original lines. The entire play runs about 45 minutes on the stage.