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  Jungle Tales of Tarzan -...

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  Twelve episodes from the years the first novel skipped: Tarzan as a boy among the apes, learning what a lie is, what a god might be, and why the she-ape he grew up beside will never be his. Burroughs went back into his own invention to fill in a childhood, and produced the strangest book of the series — closer to folklore than to adventure. The jungle here is not a stage for fights but a school with very few lessons and no mercy. Fifty-six plates of forest interiors and solitary figures by painters including Shishkin and Böcklin run through the volume, giving the jungle school its proper company of trees and quiet watchers.

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  She

  H. Rider Haggard

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  We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? A professor is entreated by a dying colleague to take custody of the colleague's five-year old son, raise him to adulthood, and at that time pass on a chest to him. The professor does so, and when the child reaches adulthood and the chest is revealed, it leads them on an adventure to Africa. There they encounter a young queen of a lost race who says she's over two thousand years old, with an equally startling claim about the young man. H. Rider Haggard invented the "lost world" genre of fiction with King Solomon's Mines , and he continued the theme, adding in a bit of romance, in She . Haggard wrote the book in six months "in a white heat," and handed the manuscript to his agent with the remark, "There is what I shall be remembered by." Haggard was right: with its setting in darkest Africa and a woman at its center described as the most beautiful in the world, She was a sensation at its release, has never been out of print, and has sold upwards of 100 million copies. H. Rider Haggard (died 1925) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, She exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  Active Service

  Stephen Crane

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  "Active Service" whisks readers away on a journey of courage, conflict, and the pursuit of love amidst the backdrop of war. Stephen Crane masterfully intertwines the tale of a young correspondent, thrust into the throes of the Greco-Turkish conflict, with his passionate quest to win the heart of the woman he loves. This novel explores themes of bravery, duty, and the complexities of human emotion, all set against a canvas of journalistic adventure and international strife. A compelling narrative that examines the vigor of youth and the trials of love.

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  Shirley

  Charlotte Brontë

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  In times of uncertainty, courage and compassion become the greatest strengths.
  
  Set against the backdrop of social and economic change in nineteenth-century England, Shirley by Charlotte Brontë is a richly layered novel that explores friendship, love, ambition, and the challenges of a rapidly changing society. Through its memorable characters and emotionally engaging narrative, Brontë weaves a story that is both deeply personal and strikingly relevant.
  
  Blending romance with historical fiction and thoughtful social commentary, Shirley examines themes of independence, resilience, class, community, and the pursuit of happiness. Charlotte Brontë's vivid prose and nuanced characterization bring the complexities of Victorian life to the page, creating a novel that is both intellectually rewarding and emotionally compelling.
  
  Celebrated for its strong female characters, engaging dialogue, and insightful exploration of human relationships, Shirley remains one of the most admired works of Victorian literature. Its timeless themes and masterful storytelling continue to resonate with readers who appreciate classic fiction with depth and heart.
  
  As one of Charlotte Brontë's most significant novels, Shirley has earned lasting recognition for its literary excellence and its thoughtful portrayal of society during a period of profound change. It continues to be studied, celebrated, and enjoyed by readers around the world.
  
  Experience a remarkable Victorian classic filled with unforgettable characters, enduring friendships, and timeless insights. Download Shirley today and discover one of Charlotte Brontë's most compelling literary achievements.

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  Since I Died - From their pens...

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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  Mary Gray Phelps was born on 31st August 1844 in Boston, Massachusetts. 
  Her mother, who wrote the Kitty Brown children’s book series, died when she was only 8.  The young girl asked to be renamed in honor of her mother. 
  Two years later her father married her mother's sister, Mary Stuart, also a writer, but she died of tuberculosis only 18 months later. A mere six months later he married for a third time to Mary Ann Johnson, and they had two sons. 
  Phelps received an upper-class education through her attendance at the Abbot Academy and Mrs. Edwards' School for Young Ladies. She had a natural gift for story-telling and at 13 she had a story published in Youth's Companion and other stories in various Sunday School publications. 
  In most of her writings she used her mother's name ‘Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ as a pseudonym, even after her marriage in 1888 to Herbert Dickinson Ward, a journalist (and later co-author with her) 17 years her junior. Such was her talent that she gained a wide audience from her first publications.  
  At age 19 she sent her Civil War story ‘A Sacrifice Consumed’ to Harper's Magazine. A generous payment was made together with a request for more works to be sent for publication.  
  During the 1860s she wrote her first books for children, the ‘Tiny’ series and followed up with the 4-volume ‘Gypsy Breynton’ series.   
  In 1868, three years after the Civil War, came ‘The Gates Ajar’, a controversial but best-selling Spiritualist work which told of an afterlife replete with home comforts and reunited families, and their pets, for eternity.  Its success led her to write two more books to complete the trilogy and she was wont to use the word ‘Gates’ in later book titles to allude to this success. She stated that she wrote ‘The Gates Ajar’ to comfort a generation of women devastated by the loss of their loved ones who found no comfort in traditional religion.  
  Phelps became a determined advocate through her lectures and other work for social reform, temperance, women's emancipation, and even clothing reform for women, and in 1874, urging them to burn their corsets. 
  Her deteriorating health was now restricting some of her activities and kept her contributions to mostly literary in nature rather than public appearances. 
  In 1876 Phelps was the first woman to present a lecture series at Boston University. Her presentations, ‘Representative Modern Fiction’, analyzed the works of George Eliot. 
  In 1877 she published ‘The Story of Avis’. The work focuses on many of the era’s early feminist issues, portraying a woman's struggle to balance her married life and domestic responsibilities with her longing to become a painter.  At no time did she attempt to hide, either in real life or her stories, her contempt of the inequities of the then class structure and gender disparities. Her work, ‘Mary Elizabeth’ depicts a homeless girl's choices between theft and begging as a means of survival. ‘One Way to Get An Education’ tells of a child laborer's desire for a better life than mill work offers and sees self-injuring as a way to a better education. Her work often depicted women succeeding in non-traditional careers such as physicians, ministers, and artists. 
  In 1884 came her well-regarded poetry collection ‘Songs of the Silent World’ 
  Along with her husband she wrote two Biblical romances in 1890 and 1891. Her autobiography, ‘Chapters from a Life’ was serialized and then published in book form in 1896.  
  Phelps continued to write short stories and novels up to her death and over her life authored 57 volumes of fiction, poetry and essays.  
  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps died 28th January 1911, in Newton Center, Massachusetts. She was 66.

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  The Premature Burial

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Premature Burial" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Its main character expresses fear about being buried alive. This fear was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public interest.
  In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being buried alive ("The true wretchedness", he says, is "to be buried while alive"). He emphasizes his fear by mentioning several people who have been buried alive. In the first case, the tragic accident was only discovered much later, when the victim's crypt was reopened. In others, victims revived and were able to draw attention to themselves in time to be freed from their ghastly prisons.

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