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The Castle of Otranto

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Horace Walpole


The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre whic…

Uncle Silas

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest…

Chapters 25-26

In Book of the Damned

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Charles Fort and Charles Hoy Fort


The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types o…

Ch 11-The Natural Resources of the Nation, pt 1

In Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography

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Theodore Roosevelt


In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken …

2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda

In The 9/11 Commission Report

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9/11 Commission


9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official…

03 - Destroying Our Federal System

In What Prohibition Has Done to America

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Fabian Franklin


In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

Prologue

In At the Earth's Core

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


This is the first book in the Pellucidar series. Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series…

Judges, Chapters 13-21

In Bible (WEB) Old Testament - complete

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World English Bible


The World English Bible is a modern English translation of the Bible, released directly into the public domain. (Summary by Leon Mire)

THE SECRET OF MR. BLAKE'S STUDIO

In A Strange Disappearance

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Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective f…

Chapter 12

In War and Peace, Book 05: 1806-1807

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Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…