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  Les Miserables Volume 5

  Victor Hugo

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  In "Les Misérables Volume 5" by Victor Hugo, the epic tale concludes with Jean Valjean’s final acts of sacrifice and redemption. As Marius recovers from the rebellion’s aftermath, secrets about Valjean’s past emerge, testing relationships and loyalties. Themes of love, grace, and justice reach their culmination, juxtaposed against societal struggles and personal reconciliation. Hugo delves deeply into mortality, faith, and the enduring power of compassion, blending intimate human drama with broader philosophical reflections. With emotional resonance and vivid storytelling, this volume delivers a poignant meditation on life’s meaning, leaving readers with a lasting message of hope, forgiveness, and humanity’s capacity for good.

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  The Sphinx

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Sphinx is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of New York City for two weeks during a cholera epidemic that occurred during the summer of 1832. One day during this visit, the man is reading a book near the window revealing a scenic view of the Hudson River. His attention is focused upon the cholera epidemic nevertheless, and when he glances up from th pages of his novel, the man sees a ghastly sight in the distant hills--there an enormous creature larger than any oceangoing ship is climbing down!

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  HorrorBabble's Subterranean...

  Robert Bloch, Edmond Hamilton,...

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  A collection of horror stories set in shadowy caverns, crypts, and other undesirable hollows. 
  Contents: 
  Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson (Weird Tales, June-July 1939) 
  The story of dreadful creatures burrowing up into the New York subway. 
  The Creeper in the Crypt by Robert Bloch (Weird Tales, July 1937) 
  An unusual case of kidnapping in witch-haunted Arkham. 
  The Secret in the Tomb by Robert Bloch (Weird Tales, May 1935) 
  A man answers an inexplicable summons from beyond the grave. 
  Murder in the Grave by Edmond Hamilton (Weird Tales, February 1935) 
  A night of terror ten feet below the surface of the ground. 
  The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller (Weird Tales, March 1932) 
  The tale of a terrified little boy, and his fear of what might be lurking in the basement. 
  It Walks by Night by Henry Kuttner (Weird Tales, December 1936) 
  A ghastly horror that stalked through the crypts beneath an old graveyard. 
  The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner (Weird Tales, March 1936) 
  A cemetery caretaker must exterminate a colony of monstrous rats. 
  The People of the Pit by Abraham Merritt (All-Story Weekly, January 1918) 
  An individual descended much too deeply into the heart of the Earth. 
  The Epiphany of Death by Clark Ashton Smith (The Fantasy Fan, July 1934) 
  A shocking revelation in the catacombs of Ptolemides. 
  The Seed from the Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales, October 1933) 
  In the Venezuelan jungle, a diabolical plant lived on human life.

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  Complete Works of H P Lovecraft...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It begins in 1917 with "The Tomb" and ends in 1935 with his last original work "The Haunter of the Dark." The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written.

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  Mother and Daughter

  D H Lawrence

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  'Mother and Daughter' can be read as one of Lawrence's diatribes against women. Two women do their best to get along without men but in the end, as Lawrence always proposed, a woman cannot be fulfilled without a dominant man, however unsuitable he may be.

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  A Dream of Wild Bees - From...

  Olive Schreiner

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  The bookshelves of World literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From their countries and continents their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Olive Schreiner.

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