A guided descent through the Gothic tradition, beginning with haunted places and psychological unease, moving through vampires and uncanny doubles, and culminating in the genre's most enduring monsters. Included works: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) — The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) — The Haunted House (Charles Dickens) — The Canterville Ghost, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) — The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) — Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (M...

Une collection captivante de recits d'aventure signes par cinq maitres du genre : Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Howard Pyle, Rudyard Kipling et Jack London. Voyages en mer, iles mysterieuses, jungles indomptees et grands espaces sauvages composent cet ensemble intemporel, ideal pour les amateurs d'aventures classiques.

Robert Louis Stevenson emerges here as a writer of uncommon warmth, vitality, and moral force, moving with ease from lyrical celebration to searching reflection. These essays and poems explore memory, beauty, fame, nature, and the hidden life of the mind, while tracing a larger philosophy of joy grounded in simplicity, observation, and courage. Stevenson contrasts the cramped habits of city routine with the liberating pleasures of open air, walking, travel, and the disciplined imagination ...

This is a stunningly photographed and moving collection of stories about rescue dogs and the owners who love them, from the author and photographer of the bestselling Dogs on Doorsteps and Country Dogs on Doorsteps. Every doorstep tells a story of second chances. Celebrating the resilience of rescue dogs and the transformative power of love andbelonging, Rescue Dogs on Doorsteps features beloved adopted dogs across the country in their beautiful new foreve...

What de nes Scottish Gothic, speci cally, what separates it from traditional Gothic ction yet keeps it in that mould?The landscape, the history and the people play a part, but there is also a 'certain something', often elusive. Scottish authors are close to the source, familiar with cultural and linguistic peculiarities, and write with authenticity, but sometimes it is non-Scottish authors, looking in, who capture an essence so familiar to native Scots that is often overlooked....

In the companion volume of this series, “Men of Action, “ theattempt was made to give the essential facts of American history bysketching in broad outline the men who made that history—thediscoverers, pioneers, presidents, statesmen, soldiers, and sailors—and describing the part which each of them played.It was almost like watching a great building grow under the handsof the workmen, this one adding a stone and that one addinganother; but th...

Someone is watching. Someone is waiting. Someone wants to destroy you.Nothing matters more to Lorelai than creating the perfect Christmas. The house must look beautiful, the food must be spectacular and everything must be magical for her family.But this year, things won't go to plan.At first, Lorelai convinces herself she's imagining things. She's exhausted and determined not to let anything ruin the festive season. But when a chilling threat is del...

She was never meant to belong to him.But fate chose the one woman who could bring a powerful Lycan king to his knees.Brylee Ray has spent her life surviving in the shadows, trusting no one and refusing to become a pawn in the dangerous games of supernatural rulers. But when an ancient conflict between Lycan kingdoms, witches, and wizards erupts, she finds herself captured and taken to the fortress of the most feared ruler in the paranormal world.Arlo Stevenson is th...

A Rejected Mate Paranormal Romance of Betrayal, Power, and a Destiny She Never WantedAlondra Bauer has always known what it feels like to be unwanted. Branded an outcast and rejected by the very clans that should have protected her, she survives by relying on herself and trusting no one. But when an ancient bloodline awakens within her, Alondra discovers that her family was never weak—they were erased.As hidden enemies threaten the lycan world, Alondra is forced to uncover ...

Rosalyn Trujillo has always known her place in the Trejo Pack: at the bottom. As an omega with a gentle nature and no obvious signs of dominance, she is treated as fragile, overlooked, and unworthy of standing beside a powerful alpha.Then the impossible happens.Her fated mate is Clyde Trejo, the feared Alpha of the pack. The bond between them should change everything, but instead of claiming her, Clyde rejects Rosalyn in front of the entire pack because he believes she is t...

My Alpha Mate Poisoned MeShe was supposed to become his greatest alliance.Instead, she became the target of his greatest betrayal.Seraphina Vale has spent her entire life being valued for one thing: her rare healer bloodline. To the powerful wolf packs that seek her family’s ancient knowledge, she is not a woman with dreams and desires. She is a key to power.When she is forced into a bond with Kael Draven, the ruthless Alpha of Blackthorn, Se...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...