Linguistics

This time Tom Swift is off to Alaska to hunt for the valley of gold....

The Tarlton conservatory is the scene of many a Shavian skirmish: parents vying with children, sibling rivalry, and the battle of the sexes....

"The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

An enterprising company has set up a mining endeavor on an asteroid to collect, process, and sell atmospheric gas products. The company, called Sword, is initially successful until....

The People That Time Forgot is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs masterfully narrated by David Stifel....

A demented scientist discovers how to create human life - not perfect but improving steadily with each attempt....

This delightful little book, published in the 1800s, gives a concise and illuminating history of our present-day alphabet....

All that stands between a plot to dissolve the Terran Republic is a drunken Strategic Services Agent named George Rockford, a recent Space Patrol Academy graduate, a second lieutenant named Dale Hunter....

A magic umbrella transports Trot, Buttonbright, and Cap'n Bill to an island in the sky inhabited by the Blues, the Pinks, and the evil Boolooroo....

Mrs. Wiggs and her five children find themselves in danger of losing their shack in the cabbage patch, as they are falling behind on the mortgage and unable to get the necessary employment that they need....

"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is a masterpiece of polished cynicism in which poison, explosive clocks, and finally murder forerun married bliss....

A charming but ineffective prince takes the road less travelled after a hunt, setting in motion events that result in him losing his wife and his kingdom of Grunewald in under a week....

This collection of 42 poems was published in 1920. In it, Lawrence explores the possibilities of free verse, of which he says in the preface: “This is the unrestful, ungraspable poetry of the sheer present, poetry whose very permanency lies in its wind-like transit.”Listen for more....

An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Jonathan Swift original by Clare West....

When we are happy, we are always good," says Lord Henry, "but when we are good, we are not always happy...."

These transcriptions of Mark Twain's off-the-cuff telling of his own history allow one to feel as if he is listening to the great storyteller one-on-one....

The internationally acclaimed author harnesses his brilliant imagination and masterful storytelling ability to create a catalog of new words inspired by stories of real people in this wondrous book reminiscent of Italo Calvino's mesmerizing Invisible Cities....

William Shakespeare... what was he like as a man?

This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," the pioneering linguist often referred to as the "Queen of Black Language"....

With old age come losses. The body ages and the elderly person is unable to partake of activities that were once normal, and the mind may not be as sharp as it once was....