SIR H. RIDER HAGGARD: THE COMPLETE MAJOR WORKS - Masterpieces by H. Rider Haggard (Authoritative and Unabridged Edition)

40 works of Jules Verne
French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels (1828-1905)

This ebook presents a collection of 40 works of Jules Verne. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.

Table of Contents:
- A Drama in Mexico
- A Drama in the Air
- A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
- A Voyage in a Balloon
- A Winter Amid the Ice
- Abandoned
- All Around the Moon
- An Antarctic Mystery
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Celebrated Travels and Travellers Volume I
- Celebrated Travels and Travellers Volume II - The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
- Celebrated Travels and Travellers Volume III -  The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
- Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen
- Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
- Facing the Flag
- Five Weeks in a Balloon
- From the Earth to the Moon
- Frritt-Flacc
- Godfrey Morgan
- In Search of the Castaways or the Children of Captain Grant
- In the Year 2889
- Michael Strogoff
- Off on a Comet - a Journey through Planetary Space
- Robur the Conqueror
- The Adventures of a Special Correspondent
- The Blockade Runners
- The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras
- The Field of Ice Part II - Adventures of Captain Hatteras
- The Fur Country or Seventy Degrees North Latitude
- The Green Ray
- The Master of the World
- The Mutineers of the Bounty
- The Mysterious Island
- The Pearl of Lima
- The Survivors of the Chancellor
- The Underground City or the Black Indies
- The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras
- The Waif of the Cynthia
- Topsy-Turvy
- Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library.  (From Amazon).

THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF JOSEPH CONRAD

(Special Kobo eBook Edition)

FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATED VERSION: All Joseph Conrad's Unabridged Novels in a Single Volume!

Including Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Works with Ford Madox Ford

KOBO eBook

(COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION)

EVERY SINGLE NOVEL AND SHORT STORY BY JOSEPH CONRAD (INCLUDING WORKS CO-WRITTEN WITH FORD MADOX FORD) ESPECIALLY CREATED FOR NOOK: ILLUSTRATED IN FULL COLOR!

[Illustrated]

PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOVELS

• ALMAYER'S FOLLY: A STORY OF AN EASTERN RIVER
• AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS
• THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS
• HEART OF DARKNESS
• LORD JIM
• THE INHERITORS (JOSEPH CONRAD AND FORD MADOX FORD / HUEFFER)
• TYPHOON
• ROMANCE (JOSEPH CONRAD AND FORD)
• NOSTROMO
• THE SILVER OF THE MINE
• THE ISABELS
• THE LIGHTHOUSE
• THE SECRET AGENT
• UNDER WESTERN EYES
• CHANCE
• VICTORY
• AN ISLAND TALE
• THE SHADOW LINE
• A CONFESSION
• THE ARROW OF GOLD
• THE RESCUE
• A ROMANCE OF THE SHALLOWS
• THE NATURE OF A CRIME (JOSEPH CONRAD AND FORD)
• THE ROVER

SHORT STORIES

• THE IDIOTS
• AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS
• THE RETURN
• THE LAGOON
• YOUTH
• END OF THE TETHER
• AMY FOSTER
• FALK: A REMINISCENCE
• TO-MORROW
• THE BLACK MATE
• GASPAR RUIZ
• THE INFORMER
• THE BRUTE
• AN ANARCHIST
• THE DUEL
• IL CONDE
• A SMILE OF FORTUNE
• THE SECRET SHARER
• PRINCE ROMAN
• FREYA OF THE SEVEN ISLES
• THE PARTNER
• THE INN OF THE TWO WITCHES
• BECAUSE OF THE DOLLARS
• THE PLANTER OF MALATA
• THE WARRIOR'S SOUL
• THE TALE

EXCERPTS

"A marvellous stillness pervaded the world, and the stars, together with the serenity of their rays, seemed to shed upon the earth the assurance of everlasting security. The young moon recurved, and shining low in the west, was like a slender shaving thrown up from a bar of gold, and the Arabian Sea, smooth and cool to the eye like a sheet of ice, extended its perfect level to the perfect circle of a dark horizon."

- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

"One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard voices approaching — and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling along the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost myself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: ‘I am as harmless as a little child, but I don’t like to be dictated to. Am I the manager — or am I not? I was ordered to send him there. It’s incredible.’ ... I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head. I did not move; it did not occur to me to move: I was sleepy. ‘It IS unpleasant,’ grunted the uncle. ‘He has asked the Administration to be sent there,’ said the other, ‘with the idea of showing what he could do; and I was instructed accordingly. Look at the influence that man must have. Is it not frightful?’ They both agreed it was frightful, then made several bizarre remarks ..."

- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

ABOUT JOSEPH CONRAD

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist.

Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour.

Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors.

Films have been adapted from or inspired by Conrad's Victory, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, An Outcast of the Islands, The Rover, The Shadow Line, The Duel, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, and Almayer's Folly.

Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul.

WHY BUY BOOKS FROM THE COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION FOR KOBO EDITION?

1. All COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION Kobo eBooks are priced as low as possible in order to offer unbelievable value and hours of reading pleasure for eBook readers. All COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION eBooks bring together ALL the complete works of a classic literary author, character or series in a single, extremely low priced volume in a single download, thereby freeing up valuable space and visual clutter on your KOBO eBook device.

2. All COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION eBooks are painstakingly formatted especially for the KOBO eBook devices and come with a FULLY INTERACTIVE table of contents.

3. All COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION eBooks come with additional material including photo(s) of the author, and/or critical commentary, and/or biographical or historical background.

This is the collected works of David Herbert Lawrence, who was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. In this edition contains 9 works

1 The White Peacock, published in 1911.
2 The Trespasser, published in 1912
3 Sons and Lovers, published in 1913.
4 The Prussian Officer, published in 1914.
5 The Rainbow, published in 1915.
6 The Lost Girl, published in 1920.
7 Women in Love, published in 1920.
8 Aaron's Rod , published in 1922.
9 Lady Chatterley's Lover, published in 1928.

This eBook Contains:

1. A Princess of Mars
2. The Gods of Mars
3. The Warlord of Mars
4. Thuvia, Maid of Mars
5. The Chessmen of Mars
6. The Master Mind of Mars
7. A Fighting Man of Mars
8. Swords of Mars
9. Synthetic Men of Mars
10. Llana of Gathol
11. John Carter of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois (he later lived for many years in the suburb of Oak Park), the fourth son of businessman and Civil War veteran Major George Tyler Burroughs (1833–1913) and his wife Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs (1840–1920). His middle name is from his paternal grandmother, Mary Rice Burroughs (1802-ca. 1870).
Burroughs was educated at a number of local schools, and during the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent a half year at his brother's ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He then attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then the Michigan Military Academy. Graduating in 1895, and failing the entrance exam for the United States Military Academy (West Point), he ended up as an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. After being diagnosed with a heart problem and thus ineligible to serve, he was discharged in 1897.

Bookplate of Edgar Rice Burroughs showing Tarzan holding the planet Mars, surrounded by other characters from Burroughs's stories and symbols relating to his personal interests and career

Typsescript letter, with Tarzana Ranch letterhead, from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Ruthven Deane, explaining the design and significance of his bookplate
Some seemingly unrelated short jobs followed. Some drifting and ranch work followed in Idaho. Then, Burroughs found work at his father's firm in 1899. He married childhood sweetheart Emma Hulbert in January 1900. In 1904 he left his job and found less regular work; some in Idaho, later in Chicago.
By 1911, after seven years of low wages, he was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler and began to write fiction. By this time, Burroughs and Emma had two children, Joan (1908–1972), who would later marry Tarzan film actor James Pierce, and Hulbert (1909–1991). During this period, he had copious spare time and he began reading many pulp fiction magazines. In 1929 he recalled thinking that
...if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines.
Aiming his work at the pulps, Burroughs had his first story, "Under the Moons of Mars", serialized by Frank Munsey in the February to July 1912 issues of The All-Story —under the name "Norman Bean" as a precaution to protect his reputation.
Burroughs soon took up writing full-time and by the time the run of Under the Moons of Mars had finished he had completed two novels, including Tarzan of the Apes, which was published from October 1912 and went on to become one of his most successful series. In 1913, Burroughs and Emma had their third and last child, John Coleman Burroughs (1913–1979).
Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving Earthly adventurers transported to various planets (notably Barsoom, Burroughs's fictional name for Mars, and Amtor, his fictional name for Venus), lost islands, and into the interior of the hollow earth in his Pellucidar stories, as well as westerns and historical romances. Along with All-Story, many of his stories were published in The Argosy.
Tarzan was a cultural sensation when introduced. Burroughs was determined to capitalize on Tarzan's popularity in every way possible. He planned to exploit Tarzan through several different media including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies and merchandise. Experts in the field advised against this course of action, stating that the different media would just end up competing against each other. Burroughs went ahead, however, and proved the experts wrong — the public wanted Tarzan in whatever fashion he was offered. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon.
In either 1915 or 1919, Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California, which he named "Tarzana." The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their community, Tarzana, California was formed in 1927. Also the unincorporated community of Tarzan, Texas, was formally named in 1927 when the US Postal Service accepted the name, reputedly coming from the popularity of the first (silent) Tarzan of the Apes film, starring Elmo Lincoln, and an early "Tarzan" comic strip.
In 1923 Burroughs set up his own company, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and began printing his own books through the 1930s.
Burroughs divorced Emma in 1934 and married the former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt in 1935, the former wife of his friend, Ashton Dearholt, and Burroughs adopted the Dearholts' two children. The couple divorced in 1942.
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Burroughs was a resident of Hawaii and, despite being in his late sixties, he applied for permission to become a war correspondent. This permission was granted, and so he became one of the oldest war correspondents for the U.S. during the Second World War. After the war ended, Burroughs moved back to Encino, California, where, after many health problems, he died of a heart attack on March 19, 1950, having written almost 70 novels.
American film director Wes Anderson is Burroughs' great-grandson.
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Burroughs in 2003.

JACK LONDON GREATEST WORKS
(Definitive eBook Edition)

Masterpieces of American Fiction
by JACK LONDON

Includes WHITE FANG, THE CALL OF THE WILD, TO BUILD A FIRE, THE SEA WOLF, THE IRON HEEL, THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS

(Over 300 Works!)

PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

• THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS
• REVOLUTION, AND OTHER ESSAYS
• REVOLUTION
• THE SOMNAMBULISTS
• THE DIGNITY OF DOLLARS
• GOLIAH
• THE GOLDEN POPPY
• THE SHRINKAGE OF THE PLANET
• THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
• THE GOLD HUNTERS OF THE NORTH
• FOMA GORDYEEFF
• THESE BONES SHALL RISE AGAIN
• THE OTHER ANIMALS
• THE YELLOW PERIL
• WHAT LIFE MEANS TO ME
• THE CRUISE OF THE "SNARK"
• THE CRUISE OF THE DAZZLER
• A DAUGHTER OF THE SNOWS
• THE CALL OF THE WILD
• THE KEMPTON-WACE LETTERS
• THE SEA-WOLF
• THE GAME
• WHITE FANG
• THE IRON HEEL
• MARTIN EDEN
• BURNING DAYLIGHT
• ADVENTURE
• THE SCARLET PLAGUE
• A SON OF THE SUN
• THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
• THE MUTINY OF THE ELSINORE
• THE STAR ROVER
• THE LITTLE LADY OF THE BIG HOUSE
• JERRY OF THE ISLANDS
• MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRY
• THE SON OF THE WOLF
• THE WHITE SILENCE
• THE MEN OF FORTY MILE
• IN A FAR COUNTRY
• TO THE MAN ON THE TRAIL
• THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE
• THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL
• THE WIFE OF A KING
• AN ODYSSEY OF THE NORTH
• CHILDREN OF THE FROST
• IN THE FORESTS OF THE NORTH
• THE LAW OF LIFE
• NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS
• THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
• THE SUNLANDERS
• THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF
• KEESH, THE SON OF KEESH
• THE DEATH OF LIGOUN
• THE DEATH OF LIGOUN
• LI WAN, THE FAIR
• THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
• TALES OF THE FISH  PATROL
• LOST FACE
• TRUST
• TO BUILD A FIRE
• THAT SPOT
• FLUSH OF GOLD
• THE PASSING OF MARCUS O’BRIEN
• THE WIT OF PORPORTUK
• SOUTH SEA TALES
• THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
• THE WHALE TOOTH
• MAUKI
• "YAH! YAH! YAH!"
• THE HEATHEN
• THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
• THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN
• THE SEED OF MCCOY
• THE HOUSE OF PRIDE
• KOOLAU THE LEPER
• GOOD-BYE, JACK
• ALOHA OE
• CHUN AH CHUN
• THE SHERIFF OF KONA
• JACK LONDON BY HIMSELF
• SMOKE BELLEW
• THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
• THE ETERNITY OF FORMS
• TOLD IN THE DROOLING WARD
• THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
• THE PRODIGAL FATHER
• THE FIRST POET
• FINIS
• THE END OF THE STORY
• ZANE GREY'S NOVELS
• STORIES OF RARE CHARM BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER
• MYRTLE REED'S NOVELS
• KATHLEEN NORRIS' STORIES
• THE NOVELS OF MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
• SEWELL FORD'S STORIES
• THE NOVELS OF CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM
• B.M. BOWER'S NOVELS
• THE NOVELS OF WINSTON CHURCHILL
• JOHN FOX, JR'S. STORIES OF THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS
• BOOTH TARKINGTON'S NOVELS
• NOVELS OF FRONTIER LIFE BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
• HANDSOMELY BOUND IN CLOTH. ILLUSTRATED.
• ON THE MAKALOA MAT/ISLAND TALES
• ON THE MAKALOA MAT
• THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
• WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL
• SHIN-BONES
• THE WATER BABY
• THE TEARS OF AH KIM
• THE KANAKA SURF
• THE ROAD
• CONFESSION
• HOLDING HER DOWN
• PICTURES
• "PINCHED"
• THE PEN
• HOBOES THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT
• ROAD-KIDS AND GAY-CATS
• TWO THOUSAND STIFFS
• BULLS
• JOHN BARLEYCORN
• WHEN GOD LAUGHS,  AND OTHER STORIES
• THE APOSTATE
• A WICKED WOMAN
• JUST MEAT
• CREATED HE THEM
• SHE MET HIM AT THE DOOR.
• THE CHINAGO
• THE CHINAGO
• MAKE WESTING
• SEMPER IDEM
• A NOSE FOR THE KING
• THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
• A CURIOUS FRAGMENT
• A PIECE OF STEAK
• DUTCH COURAGE  AND OTHER STORIES
• TYPHOON OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN
• THE LOST POACHER
• THE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO
• CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN
• TO REPEL BOARDERS
• AN ADVENTURE IN THE UPPER SEA
• BALD-FACE
• IN YEDDO BAY
• WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
• BROWN WOLF
• THAT SPOT
• TRUST
• ALL GOLD CANYON
• THE STORY OF KEESH
• NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS
• YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF
• MAKE WESTING
• THE HEATHEN
• THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
• "JUST MEAT"
• A NOSE FOR THE KING
• THE HUMAN DRIFT
• SMALL-BOAT SAILING
• FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR
• NOTHING THAT EVER CAME TO ANYTHING
• THAT DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER
• A CLASSIC OF THE SEA
• A WICKED WOMAN  (CURTAIN RAISER)  BY JACK LONDON
• THE BIRTH MARK  SKETCH BY JACK LONDON WRITTEN FOR ROBERT AND JULIA FITZSIMMONS
• THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS: TALES OF THE KLONDYKE
• THE GREAT INTERROGATION
• WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER
• SIWASH
• THE MAN WITH THE GASH
• JAN, THE UNREPENTANT
• GRIT OF WOMEN
• WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
• WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
• A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA
• AT THE RAINBOW’S END
• THE SCORN OF WOMEN
• LOVE OF LIFE
• A DAY’S LODGING
• THE WHITE MAN’S WAY
• THE STORY OF KEESH
• THE UNEXPECTED
• BROWN WOLF
• THE SUN-DOG TRAIL

ABOUT JACK LONDON

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss.