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  The Captain of the Wight - A...

  Frank Cowper

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  A boy in the household of the Captain of the Isle of Wight in the last years of the Wars of the Roses learns arms, seamanship and the price of loyalty to a losing side. Frank Cowper was a yachtsman and antiquary who knew the Solent and the period's shipping. The raid on the French coast and the sea-fight are done by someone who had sailed those waters in small boats. Fifty plates after Turner, Leighton and others follow coastlines, storms and castle walls from Windsor to the Aegean, the same sea-haunted world the boy learns to sail.

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  Aristocratic Education - From...

  Stephen Leacock

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  Stephen P H Butler Leacock FRSC was born on the 30th December 1869 in Swanmore, near Southampton, England, the third of eleven children. 
  The family emigrated to Canada in 1876 to live on a 100-acre farm in Sutton, Ontario.  There Leacock was home-schooled and later enrolled into the elite private school Upper Canada College in Toronto.  Academically he was very strong and enrolled at the University of Toronto to study languages and literature.  He left there after his alcoholic father abandoned the family and finances were too stretched to continue his attendance.  He now enrolled in a three-month course at Strathroy Collegiate Institute to become a qualified high school teacher and with it a regular income. 
  Leacock published humorous articles in many Canadian and US magazines but his real passion was economics and political theory.  In 1899 he enrolled for postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago and earned his PhD in 1903. 
  His marriage to Beatrix Hamilton produced a single child 15 years later.  Over time father and son developed a love-hate relationship, partially caused by his son’s diminutive stature of only four feet.  
  He accepted a post at McGill University and kept it until he retired in 1936.  His work ‘Elements of Political Science’, was adopted as a standard textbook for two decades and was also his most profitable.  He now also began public speaking and lecturing.  
  In 1910, he privately printed some articles as ‘Literary Lapses’.  It was then released by a recognised publisher, and he became a commercially successful writer.  His collections of light-hearted whimsy, parody, nonsense, and satire were now frequently published along with biographies and several award-winning volumes on Canada. 
  Politically Leacock was a difficult creature.  He opposed women’s right to vote, was a champion of Empire but advocated social welfare legislation and wealth redistribution, but he often caused friction with his racist views. 
  Leacock has been forgotten as an economist, but it’s often said that in 1911 more people had heard of him than had heard of Canada.  For the decade after 1915 Leacock was the most popular humorist in the English-speaking world. 
  Stephen Leacock died on 28th March 1944 of throat cancer in Toronto, Canada.  He was 74.

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  A Doll's House

  Henrik Ibsen

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  Ibsen's "A Doll's House," written two years after "The Pillars of Society," became a sensation and is now widely considered his most famous play. Required reading in many secondary schools and universities, the play was highly controversial upon its release due to its sharp criticism of 19th Century marriage norms. Despite following the structure of a traditional well-made play, the play breaks convention by ending with a discussion instead of an unraveling in its final act. Although Ibsen himself denied it, "A Doll's House" is often referred to as the first true feminist play.

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  A Young Hero

  Edward S. Ellis

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  A Young Hero by Edward S. Ellis is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Reuben Johnson leaned on his hoe, and, looking up at the sun, wondered whether, as in the Biblical story, it had not been stationary for several hours. He was sure it was never so long in descending to the horizon. "Wake up, Rube," sharply called his Uncle Peter, smartly hoeing another row a few pac This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  Snake and Sword - A Boy Raised...

  Percival Christopher Wren

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  A boy grows up in an Indian cantonment with an inherited terror of snakes that nobody will explain to him, and goes into the army knowing the thing is waiting. Percival Christopher Wren served in India and wrote Beau Geste afterwards; the barrack detail here is first-hand. It is a study of fear treated as an illness rather than a weakness. Fifty-eight plates of Anglo-Indian life by painters including Edwin Lord Weeks and Thomas Jones Barker, from hunts and street markets to Windsor audiences, picture the imperial world that shaped the boy.

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  The Complete Novels of Bram Stoker

  Bram Stoker

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  Discover the haunting imagination of one of the greatest masters of Gothic fiction in this remarkable collection of Bram Stoker's classic novels.
  
  Explore "The Complete Novels of Bram Stoker," a captivating anthology celebrating the literary legacy of the renowned Irish author whose unforgettable stories transformed Gothic horror and supernatural fiction. Rich in suspense, mystery, atmosphere, and psychological depth, this timeless collection invites readers into worlds where the ordinary meets the extraordinary.
  
  Whether you are encountering Bram Stoker's works for the first time or revisiting his enduring classics, this collection showcases his extraordinary storytelling across a variety of novels. Blending Gothic atmosphere, supernatural intrigue, historical settings, and compelling adventure, Stoker explores themes of courage, fear, good versus evil, faith, obsession, mystery, and the unknown. His vivid characters, immersive settings, and masterful suspense continue to captivate readers more than a century after their publication.
  
  Best known for shaping the modern vampire myth and influencing generations of horror writers, Bram Stoker remains one of the most celebrated figures in classic literature. His novels have inspired countless adaptations in film, theater, television, and popular culture, securing his place among the greatest authors of Gothic fiction.
  
  Perfect for readers who enjoy classic horror, Gothic novels, supernatural fiction, mystery, suspense, Victorian literature, Irish literature, and timeless literary classics, "The Complete Novels of Bram Stoker" is an essential addition to any digital library.
  
  Experience the imagination and suspense of a literary legend. Add "The Complete Novels of Bram Stoker" to your Kindle library today and enjoy a timeless collection of Gothic masterpieces that continue to thrill readers around the world.

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