Readers say: Suffer a Witch is "awesome" and "addicting."They call her "Em." Em is for Martha. Em for "Emogene Peres," the name she received in Boston less than a day after she'd been hanged in Salem Village in September 1692. In the hours after death, Em and most of those hanged as Salem Witches were transformed into immortal witches. Three hundred and twenty-two years later, they live, work, and love in modern day Boston, where Em runs a spiritual store called the Mystic Divine, ...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

Enjoy this anthology of Neo-Gothic fiction inspired by the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe.  Winner of the Paris Book Festival Award – Best anthology of the yearNominated for a Bram Stoker Award – Superior Achievement in an Anthology"Make sure your belt is done up good and tight when you read nEvermore!. It's very embarrassing to have your...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

During the Napoleonic Wars, few had such an unenviable job as the "poor bloody infantry"; fodder for cannon, unless tightly packed in ranks prey to cavalry, their only recourse was discipline and a highly inaccurate musket. As tactics evolved, the infantry would look for ways to maximize their effectiveness and minimize their own casualties. Increasingly the swift, the crafty and the most capable soldiers took to becoming skirmishers plying their trade away from the lines of death, fightin...

'The Greatest Christmas Novels, Stories, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)' presents a rich tapestry of yuletide narratives, each weaving its own unique thread into the vast fabric of Christmas literature. Spanning a spectrum of genres and styles—from the whimsical charm of children's fables to the profound depths of philosophical explorations—this collection captures the myriad ways our greatest literary figures have interpreted the essence of Christmas. The anthology includes semina...

This book contains the complete Andersen’s 168 fairy tales and stories in the chronological order of their original publication. Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, a literary genre he so mastered that he himself has become as mythical as the tales he wrote. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyrs, or "fantastic tales"...

ThisBook Center compilation contains over 500 classic fairy tales.CONTENTS:Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Aleksander ChodźkoFairy Books (Blue, Red, Yellow, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Orange) by Andrew LangFairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian AndersenIrish Fairy Tales by James StephensGrimm's Fairy Tales by Grimm BrothersThe Arabian Nights by Andrew LangSome of the famous tales included in this ebook:

HOLIDAY Ultimate Collection gathers more than four hundred Christmas novels, tales, poems, carols, and legends into a capacious archive of Anglophone and European holiday writing. Its range extends from domestic realism and moral fable to fairy tale, gothic fantasy, devotional verse, children's literature, and seasonal folklore. Canonical narratives of generosity, memory, poverty, wonder, and communal reconciliation stand beside lesser-known period pieces, while illustrations reinforce the...

The Emperor’s New Clothes remains one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved satirical tales. This beautifully illustrated edition from Pook Press’ Golden Age of Illustration Series celebrates the story’s enduring charm and wit.The story begins with a vain and self-absorbed Emperor who cares for nothing but his appearance, squandering his fortune on elaborate garments while neglecting his duties. When two cunning swindlers arrive, claiming to weave magn...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Robert Burn...

CONTENTS: Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Aleksander Chodźko Fairy Books (Blue, Red, Yellow, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Orange) by Andrew Lang Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens Grimm's Fairy Tales by Grimm Brothers The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang Some of the famous tales included in this ebook: - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp - Beauty and the Beast - The Little Mermaid - Rapunzel - Cinderella ...