Fiction : Classics

Four freedom fighters who have survived torture and imprisonment at the hands of repressive regimes swear to bring vengeance on the highly placed bankers, politicians, munitions manufacturers, and corrupt officials who make the existence of such tyrannies possible. In Edgar Wallace's The Four Just Men , as one person after another, whose hands are stained with the blood of innocents, is assassinated, the police of Europe are mobilized. But no one knows who the Four Just Men are or how they perform their assassinations, often in the midst of a cordon of police protection. more...

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Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet. more...

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The finest comic, Gothic, and satiric works of the nineteenth-century writer are preceded by comments on his use of irony. more...

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"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." In this case, the hound is the obvious thing. But it is not supernatural nor devilish nor vengeful. Instead of indicating a connection with the family curse supposedly set in motion by the original founder of the estate in the middle ages, Sir Hugo Baskerville, the attachment is directly established through servants and relatives already present on the scene. The story begins with the death of Sir Charles Baskerville near a moor in Devonshire, England. A close friend and associate, Dr. Mortimer, was present for the autopsy and discovered Sir Charles died of a heart attack caused by a dreadful fright. Dr. Mortimer contacts Sherlock Holmes not for assistance in solving the matter of the death but for advice on how to handle the upcoming arrival of the only remaining heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who will be coming from the United States to oversee the distribution of the inheritance. more...

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The Iliad is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the ancient Greek language, making it the first work of European literature. The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence, possible multiple authors. The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion , or Troy, by the Greeks. The word Iliad means "pertaining to Ilion ", the city proper, as opposed to Troy , the state centered around Ilium, over which the names Ilium and Troy are often used interchangeably. [Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad under the terms of the GNU-FDL] more...

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