Cornelius Brandt cut the seals that made Caldermarch's contracts binding. Every bank vault, every railway charter, every marriage settlement in the city carried his mark.Now he is dead on his own workshop floor, and the ward on the door — the kind that cannot be bribed, forged or mistaken — records that no one came in.The Perpetual Assurance Company sends Harriet Ledgard to establish whether it owes his estate a fortune. She is forty-two, twelve years in claims, and she has...

A Christmas Carol por Charles DickensThe Little Prince por Antoine De Saint-ExupéryThe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe por Daniel DefoeThe Secret Garden por Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Ice-Maiden and Other Tales por Hans Christian AndersenFive Children and It por Edith NesbitThe Adventures of Pinocchio por C. CollodiThe Nursery Alice por Lewis CarrollTHE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY por Beatrix Potter

This is another great little story from Ms. Nesbit's collection "Grimm Tales". A Halloween story told beautifully! It should be no spoiler to say that it is about marbel carvings that may or may not come to life on halloween.

A beautiful portrait can preserve more than a face—and some memories may not belong to the living. In The Ebony Frame, Edith Nesbit blends romance, mystery, and supernatural suspense into an atmospheric tale centered around an intriguing portrait and the secrets surrounding it. What begins with curiosity about an old artwork gradually develops into something far more mysterious. As the narrator becomes increasingly fascinated by the image and its history, ordinary explanations begin to giv...

What if the figures carved in stone were not as lifeless as they appeared? In Man-Size in Marble, Edith Nesbit creates an unsettling Gothic tale in which an apparently peaceful setting hides a disturbing supernatural mystery. A young couple begins their married life in an old country house, hoping for tranquility and happiness. But strange stories surrounding the property and its past gradually disturb their sense of security. As unexplained events begin to intrude upon their lives, the bo...

A perfectly ordinary house can hide an extraordinary secret. In The Mystery of the Semi-Detached, Edith Nesbit turns an everyday suburban setting into the scene of an unsettling supernatural mystery. A seemingly ordinary semi-detached house becomes connected with strange impressions and unexplained events, creating a growing sense that something is deeply wrong. As the mystery develops, familiar surroundings take on an eerie new character, and the line between coincidence and supernatural ...

What happens when personal desire collides with the rules of an unforgiving society? In The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton takes readers into the refined world of old New York society, where reputation, tradition, and social expectations govern nearly every aspect of life. Newland Archer is preparing for a conventional marriage when the arrival of the unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska disrupts the carefully controlled world around him. Their growing connection forces Newland to questi...

**"The Platonic Forms of the Platonic dialogues."—Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the GoogleplexFor the first time in paperback, the landmark one-volume edition of the complete writings of Plato**This classic one-volume edition of the complete writings of Plato is now available in paperback for the very first time. The editors, Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, chose the contents from the work of the best modern British and American translators....

Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, Don Quixote, chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain in this brilliant ...

Thick Air brings together a new body of work by Hungarian-born artist Eva Beresin in which she offers a radical and intimate exploration of her life. The paintings can be seen as the culmination of a decade in which Beresin's art has gained both speed and inventiveness. Her paintings of the carnivalesque are animated by a genuine interest in the intricacies of the soul. Grotesquely uneasy and playfully bold, the compositions capture her personal history as well as universal human ...

When a dream Deity begins haunting Aliona's sleep, she knows something is terribly wrong . . .Aliona has spent the last twelve years praying for the Deities to purify her heart. In a kingdom where power is drawn from emotion, she has been taught that sorrow, anger, and chaos invite corruption. Rescued from her heretic father and raised by the Light-wielding royal family, Aliona has devoted her life to their Deity and their doctrine, believing obedience is safety and doubt is a puni...

Returning to New York after twelve years abroad, the narrator unexpectedly encounters his old Harvard friend Halston Merrick at a Cumnor dinner party and is struck by the change in him: once brilliant, ambitious, and destined for public life, Merrick has instead been absorbed by the family iron business and never married. His attention is fixed on a quiet woman in gray, Mrs. Reardon, whom the narrator recognizes as Paulina Trant, a once-radiant figure now faded into conventional respectabi...