Humphrey Van Weyden is thrown overboard while unsuccessfully investigating a smuggling ring. The ship's formidable captain, Wolf Larsen puts Humphrey to a series of violent tests, but nothing can prepare Van Weyden for a final confrontation with Larsen himself.

A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works... full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused...

Sir Charles Baskerville's sudden heart attack and death have the townspeople in shock and searching for the one to blame--the family dog--while Sherlock Holmes leads the investigation.

A young orphan girl can't do much in this world. Prostitutes do not have relatives, so I did not have any. Without friends, relatives, and near and dear ones, I felt like a blind human being wandering in a jungle. That day I cried a lot, tears flowing profusely from my eyes. Nicholas Mount Joy tried to console me. He hugged me tightly and patted my back. With his handkerchief he wiped tears off my eyes. I know they are going to spice it up and make...

"IT SURVIVED THE RAVAGES OF WAR. NOW IT FACED THE FURIES OF REVENGE. To Cassandra Bowsmith, the kidnapped Yankee beauty, the lavish plantation stood for everything she had loved and lost... Once, its master had saved her life, and possessed her heart. Since then, they had been forced from Riverrun, and driven apart by the man who had been her first lover, a man now bent on revenge. And now Cassandra lived for a single, compelling dream... Alone in...

Presents the text from the 1888 English edition of the 1848 treatise on the economic, political, and social conditions of the working class, which served as the platform of the Communist League.

"A Kiswahili translation of The Merchant of Venice. The Merchant of Venice is the story of Antonio and his friend Bassanio. Bassanio is in need of money so that he may woo Portia, a wealthy heiress. He asks Antonio for a loan, and Antonio agrees, even though all his money is tied up in shipping ventures. Together they go to Shylock, a moneylender, to request a long against Antonio's shipping ventures. Shylock agrees to the loan at no interest on the...

"A Kiswahili translation of Oliver Twist."--

"Mama Rachel Lynde alikuwa anaishi pale barabara kuu ya Avonlea inayoingia katika kijimsitu kilichojaa miti ya aina yake ambayo hutoa dawa, na kuna kijito kinachokatiza ambacho chanzo chake kimeanzia katika msitu ulioko karibu na kwa mzee Cuthbert. Kijito hiki kirefu kilikuwa na maajabu hapo awali kilipokuwa kikianza ndani ya msitu huo. Kilikuwa na siri nzito ya bwawa na maporomoko ya maji makali lakini madogo, wakati kinajitokeza karibu na kichaka...

Rediscover the dark magic of Barbara Hanrahan's visionary gothic novel. Nothing is as it seems in this twisted fairytale of moral ambiguity and corrupted innocence. Just as the tropical beauty of The Frangipani Gardens conceals its inherent menace, watercolor painter Doll lives a prim, respectable existence belying her wildest fantasies. But when her young niece and nephew come to stay, Doll's true self threatens to be exposed. Barbara Hanrahan was...