Inns and Taverns of Old London

Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany
By Lord Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was a prolific writer, penning short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and publishing over sixty books, not including individual plays. The stories in his first two books, and perhaps the beginning of his third, were set within an invented world, Pegana, with its own gods, history and geography. He was initially an Associate Member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and later a full member. He received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. His works include The Gods of Pegana (1905), Time and the Gods (1906), The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908), A Dreamer’s Tales (1910), The Book of Wonder (1912), Fifty-One Tales (1915), The Last Book of Wonder (1916), Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919), The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949), and The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories (1952). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback  edition.

Ann veronica a modern love story by H. G. Wells

-This ebook Included TOC for Reader.

-This sample in this ebook ;

For a time it really seemed all-sufficient to her that she should love.

That Capes should love her seemed beyond the compass of her imagination.

Indeed, she did not want to think of him as loving her. She wanted to

think of him as her beloved person, to be near him and watch him,

to have him going about, doing this and that, saying this and that,

unconscious of her, while she too remained unconscious of herself. To

think of him as loving her would make all that different. Then he would

turn his face to her, and she would have to think of herself in his

eyes. She would become defensive--what she did would be the thing that

mattered. He would require things of her, and she would be passionately

concerned to meet his requirements. Loving was better than that. Loving

was self-forgetfulness, pure delighting in another human being. She felt

that with Capes near to her she would be content always to go on loving.

THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE  is one children's book of Francis Bret Harte  was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. And watercolour illustrations Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer.
This is a short story set in and around a mining camp in gold-rush California - a milieu that features in almost all of Bret Harte's work. Illustrated in this 1931 edition by the fabulous Kate Greenaway.

A classic of children's  book illustrator of pen-and-ink line drawings and watercolors.
There is a story-book that will be occupied for children to read at bedtime or anytime. You can have this e-book for an incredibly lower price.

Confidence is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Scribner's Monthly in 1879 and then as a book later the same year. This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernie Longueville, scientist Gordy Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angie Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements before reaching an uncomplicated, but still believable happy ending.

Written between 1839 and 1841, Celebrated Crimes is an 8-volume collection of 18 essays based upon historical facts of famous criminals and the crimes they committed. The Borgias, The Cenci, Massacres Of The South, Mary Stuart, Karl-Ludwig Sand, Urbain Grandier, Nisida, Derues, La Constantin, Joan Of Naples, The Man In The Iron Mask (essay), Martin Guerre, Ali Pacha, The Countess De Saint Geran, Murat, The Marquise De Brinvilliers, Vaninka, The Marquise De Ganges.

After a tour of duty overseas, the eccentric character Augustus Tibbetts (known as "Bones" to his associates) returns to London to embark on civilian life. In a series of loosely connected but consistently hilarious tales and vignettes, Bones inadvertently stumbles into a series of improbable but exciting adventures and too-good-to-be-true business ventures.

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney's pavilion, he saw, walking on the sea-front, a fair-haired young lady of medium height, wearing a _beret_; a white Pomeranian dog was running behind her.

      And afterwards he met her in the public gardens and in the square several times a day. She was walking alone, always wearing the same _beret_, and always with the same white dog; no one knew who she was, and every one called her simply "the lady with the dog."

      "If she is here alone without a husband or friends, it wouldn't be amiss to make her acquaintance," Gurov reflected.

      He was under forty, but he had a daughter already twelve years old, and two sons at school. He had been married young, when he was a student in his second year, and by now his wife seemed half as old again as he. She was a tall, erect woman with dark eyebrows, staid and dignified, and, as she said of herself, intellectual. She read a great deal, used phonetic spelling, called her husband, not Dmitri, but Dimitri, and he secretly considered her unintelligent, narrow, inelegant, was afraid of her, and did not like to be at home. He had begun being unfaithful to her long ago—had been unfaithful to her often, and, probably on that account, almost always spoke ill of women, and when they were talked about in his presence, used to call them "the lower race."

      It seemed to him that he had been so schooled by bitter experience that he might call them what he liked, and yet he could not get on for two days together without "the lower race." In the society of men he was bored and not himself, with them he was cold and uncommunicative; but when he was in the company of women he felt free, and knew what to say to them and how to behave; and he was at ease with them even when he was silent. In his appearance, in his character, in his whole nature, there was something attractive and elusive which allured women and disposed them in his favour; he knew that, and some force seemed to draw him, too, to them.

The publisher's special commentary chapter and the author's biography are included in this version.

The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright is one of the fiction best sellers in 1919. The story of this book is set in the Missouri Ozarks. The tale proves that occasionally a good guy needs to leave a nasty and ungrateful wife and go on to get a new one!