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Gothic fiction and horror

Stories of mystery, moral change, and the supernatural.

Classic novels and adventures

Fiction, detective stories, romance, and historical adventure.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Planet Comics #1 Fiction House Barry Locke, half-back Ralph Henry Barbour The wheel of earth Helga Sandburg The mysterious Mr. Quin Agatha Christie The Swiss family Robinson Johann David Wyss Tales grotesque and curious Ryūnosuke Akutagawa The marvellous land of Snergs E. A. (Edward Augustine) Wyke-Smith The dangerous game William Le Queux Three sevens : $b A detective story Perley Poore Sheehan Boston : $b a novel Upton Sinclair Claribel : $b or, Rest at last Lucy Ellen Guernsey The black pearl Marie Lion Joan and Co. Frederick Orin Bartlett The loot of the Lazy A W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle Kate Mulhall : $b A romance of the Oregon Trail Ezra Meeker The Green Dolphin Sara Ware Bassett The weird of the wanderer : $b Being the papyrus records of some incidents in one of the previous lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe Frederick Pirie-Gordon C. H. C. (Charles Harry Clinton) Rolfe How they loved him, Vol. 2 (of 3) : $b A novel Florence Marryat The trouble at Pinelands : $b A detective story Ernest M. Poate Success Una L. Silberrad The haunting hand Walter Adolphe Roberts The woman of Andros Thornton Wilder The unknown seven : $b A detective story Herman Landon A young man's story Sarah Doudney Bushy : $b a romance founded on fact Cynthia May Westover Alden Grateful Peter's new year's gift Ruth Lamb How they loved him, Vol. 1 (of 3) : $b A novel Florence Marryat Joe Strong and his wings of steel : $b or, A young acrobat in the clouds Vance Barnum The bitter tea of General Yen Grace Zaring Stone

Philosophy, history, and culture

Short works and essays on strategy, values, art, and cultural history.

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche The Art of War Sun Tzu The Book of Tea Kakuzo Okakura Bushido: The Soul of Japan Inazo Nitobe Leviathan Thomas Hobbes Second Treatise of Government John Locke On Liberty John Stuart Mill The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 3 (of 6) Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman Main currents in American thought : $b An interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920 Vernon Louis Parrington Miniatures of French history Hilaire Belloc The bitter tea of General Yen Grace Zaring Stone Military Equipment [1917] Roebuck and Company Sears The Art of War active 6th century B.C. Sunzi Simple Sabotage Field Manual United States. Office of Strategic Services The origin and development of the moral ideas Edward Westermarck The Prophet Kahlil Gibran Common Sense Thomas Paine The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) William James As a man thinketh James Allen Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus The Poetics of Aristotle Aristotle Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy United States. Warren Commission Democracy in America — Volume 1 Alexis de Tocqueville The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6) the Elder Pliny On War Carl von Clausewitz The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy William James Ethics Benedictus de Spinoza The Genealogy of Morals: The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes King of England Henry VIII The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 George Stewart The social contract & discourses Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist: Complete Works, Volume Sixteen Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Golden Age comics

Digitized superhero and science-fiction comics from the 1940s.