Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings some of best essays of Aldous Huxley, across a wide range of subjects, including literature, art and many more topics. Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books — both novels and non-fiction works—as well. Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel P...

Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Ghost Stories. - 7 Best Short Stories Of Ghost, edited by August Nemo - A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee - The Uninhabited House by Charlotte RiddellA ghost sto...

Selma Lagerlöf won the Nobel Prize "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination, and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". During her acceptance speech, she remained humble and told a fantastic story of her father, as she visited him in heaven. In the story, she asks her father for help with the debt she owes and her father explains the debt is from all the people who supported her throughout her career. In 1904, the Academy had awarded her its great gold medal...

ISFPs are introverted, but once the initial barrier is overcome, they are affectionate and fun; the typical ISFP wants to live life to the fullest! In this book you will find two classic novels specially selected to please the tastes of the ISFP. These are works by renowned authors that will surely bring reflections, insights and fun to people with this kind of personality. For ISFP, we chose: - Oblomov by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov. - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.For more book...

Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings some of best essays of Michel de Montaigne, across a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, literature and many more topics. Michel de Montaigne was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography wi...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Louisa May Alcottwhich are Little Womenand Jack and Jill. Louisa May Alcottwrote under various pseudonyms and only started using her own name when she was ready to commit to writing. Her novelLittle Womengave Alcott financial independence and a lifetime writing career. Novels se...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of E. W. Hornungwhich are Dead Men Tell No Tales and The Shadow of the Rope. E. W. Hornung was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung's stories dealt with a wider range of themes than crime: he examined scientific ...

It is possible that love is the most complex of human emotions. Whether platonic, lustful, fleeting or for life, this emotion always changes the lives it touches. So it comes as no surprise that love is a major literary theme, perhaps the most important. Check out these seven short stories by consecrated authors and see what each one of them has to say about love. This book contains: - The Lady With The Little Dog by Anton Chekhov. - The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein by O. Henry. - Fede...

Welcome to the Essential Science Fiction Novels book series, where you will find a selection of endless tales about the incredible technologies of the future, time travel and its consequences, adventures in interstellar spaceships, strange post-apocalyptic worlds, dangerous alien invasions and everything else the authors dreamed of or feared for the future of humanity.For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the 5 novels by authors who created memorable stories that shaped...

Emily Pauline Johnson, also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet, author and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Not only was Johnson a poet and writer but she was a part of the New Woman movement due to the blending of her two cultures in her works and her criticisms of the Canadian government. Johnson was also a key figure in the construction of Canadian literature as an institution and has made an indelible mark on Indigenous ...

Although little known today, John Buchan's fiction was important in defining the present mystery fiction. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author for your enjoyment: - The Last Crusade - Politics and the Mayfly - The Keeper of Cademuir - The Wife of Flanders - The Watcher by the Threshold - Comedy in the Full Moon - The Herd of Standlan

Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad is one of the great modern writers of England. His novels reflect his concerns with the complex individual, and how sympathy and imagination can blur clear judgmentwhich is essential to life. The character development in Conrad's books is engaging and powerful.Critic August Nemo selected seven short stories from this author for your entertainment:The IdiotsAn Outpost of ProgressAmy FosterYouthAn AnarchistThe Secret SharerThe Return