Product Description: The collection of poems presents beautiful ballads, a couple of which are based on actual folk tales of Scotland, while others were conjectured by the poet himself. The stories are harmoniously narrated and compiled. The last one touches the tender love of children towards their parents...read more

Product Description: The collection of poems presents beautiful ballads, a couple of which are based on actual folk tales of Scotland, while others were conjectured by the poet himself. The stories are harmoniously narrated and compiled. The last one touches the tender love of children towards their parents...read more

Product Description: Ori, my brother in the island mode, In every tongue and meaning much my friend, This story of your country and your clan, In your loved house, your too much honoured guest, I made in English. Take it, being done; And let me sign it with the name you gave.

Product Description: A different work by Stevenson that presents the charms and beauties of domestic life, race-relations and transgressions from customs for love. This work discusses all that is brilliant and despicable in humanity. As a commentary on the prejudice prevailing in the society, the work is as valid today as it was at the time of its publishing...read more

Product Description: A different work by Stevenson that presents the charms and beauties of domestic life, race-relations and transgressions from customs for love. This work discusses all that is brilliant and despicable in humanity. As a commentary on the prejudice prevailing in the society, the work is as valid today as it was at the time of its publishing...read more

Product Description: A different work by Stevenson that presents the charms and beauties of domestic life, race-relations and transgressions from customs for love. This work discusses all that is brilliant and despicable in humanity. As a commentary on the prejudice prevailing in the society, the work is as valid today as it was at the time of its publishing...read more

Product Description: Have you read the 50 best short stories of all time? In 1914, a critical moment in literature, The New York Times asked the most highly regarded authors of the day to name the best short story in the English language. Many of their responses have maintained consistent fame through time...read more

Product Description: The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws in Tunstall Forest organized by Ellis Duckworth, whose weapon and calling card is a black arrow, cause Dick to suspect that his guardian Sir Daniel Brackley and his retainers are responsible for his father's murder...read more

Product Description: On a certain afternoon, in the late springtime, the bell upon Tunstall Moat House was heard ringing at an unaccustomed hour. Far and near, in the forest and in the fields along the river, people began to desert their labours and hurry towards the sound; and in Tunstall hamlet a group of poor countryfolk stood wondering at the summons...read more

Product Description: A Historical Saga of Revenge and Love In fifteenth-century England, when his father's murderer is revealed to be his guardian, seventeen-year-old Richard Shelton joins the fellowship of the Black Arrow in avenging the death, rescuing the woman he loves, and participating in the struggle between the Yorks and Lancasters in the War of the Roses...read more

Product Description: This English literature collection presents two classic Robert Louis Stevenson short stories.

Product Description: "The Body Snatcher, The Suicide Club, and Other Tales" is a thrilling collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's lesser known novellas and short stories. In this volume you will find the following captivating tales: The Suicide Club, The Rajah's Diamond, The Pavilion On The Links, A Lodging For The Night, The Sire De Malétroit's Door, Providence And The Guitar, The Merry Men, Will O' The Mill, Markheim, Thrawn Janet, Olalla, The Treasure Of Franchard, The Beach Of Falesá, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices, The Misadventures Of John Nicholson, The Body-Snatcher, and The Story Of A Lie...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: This is a fine town, with a fine harbour, and rich people uncountable; and in particular, there is one hill which is covered with palaces. Upon this hill Keawe was one day taking a walk with his pocket full of money, viewing the great houses upon either hand with pleasure...read more

Product Description: Una novela plena de acción, humorismo y refinada ironía. El lector se enfrenta a una serie de equívocos y de situaciones insólitas que lo conducen hasta el inesperado desenlace, dejándose llevar por la maestría de la narración, la fuerza imaginativa del autor y su sutil humorismo...read more

Product Description: To equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye...read more

Product Description: Catriona, A Sequel To Kidnapped Being Memoirs Of The Further Adventures Of David Balfour At Home And Abroad - By Robert Louis Stevenson

Product Description: Catriona By Robert Louis Stevenson Catriona (also known as David Balfour) is a novel written in 1893 by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped. It tells the further story of the central character David Balfour...read more

Product Description: The 25th day of August, 1751, about two in the afternoon, I, David Balfour, came forth of the British Linen Company, a porter attending me with a bag of money, and some of the chief of these merchants bowing me from their doors. Two days before, and even so late as yestermorning, I was like a beggar-man by the wayside, clad in rags, brought down to my last shillings, my companion a condemned traitor, a price set on my own head for a crime with the news of which the country rang...read more