Linguistics

The greatest romantic narrative novel of the early 19th century, John Halifax, Gentleman tells the story of an orphan boy....

Legendary writer Zane Grey earned legions of devoted fans with his gritty westerns. In To the Last Man, he dramatizes the events of the Pleasant Valley War of Arizona, a bloody feud that nearly wiped two families off the face of the Earth....

This audiobook will show that the fundamentals, structure, formations, grammar, and syntax are exactly the same in music and in the Egyptian alphabetical language....

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

"The Repairman" (1958) is a straight fun science fiction story of a man getting a job done. It is most typical of his later style in series like the Stainless Steel Rat....

A criminal plot, a kidnapped youth, and a sinister intelligence on an alien world....

Anyone who has experienced learning English as a second language knows the many challenges that conversational English presents....

The planet itself was tough enough - barren, desolate, forbidding; enough to stop the most adventurous and dedicated. But they had to run head-on against a mad genius who had a motto....

This book will show how the Egyptians had various modes of writings for various purposes, and how the Egyptian modes were falsely designated as "separate languages" belonging to others, and how this one original language came to be called Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and other "languages"....

"The Song of the Cardinal" by Gene Stratton-Porter is the story of a big male Cardinal bird in the Wabash Valley, Indiana. Living in a tree near the home of a farmer and his wife, the bird sings with passion and joie de vivre to attract a mate, which he finds....

Would you receive a ‘char and a wad’ with a grateful smile? If asked to take a ‘dekko’, would you be offended? Find out....

Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot....

This is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes III collection....

When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the galactic peace....

After the death of his mother, Neewa the black bear cub, is captured by Challoner, the woodsman. Neewa soon learns that the woodsman and his Husky pup, Miki, are his friends....

Young love is topmost on the mind of famed poet James Whitcomb Riley. Alone in a study indulging the memory of an old sweetheart....

A British lady seeks "the cure" among an assorted group of Germans in such tragic-comedic tales as "Germans at Meat", The Sister of the Baroness", "Frau Fischer"....

"Use a thief to catch a thief" sounds great but it sometimes has unexpected results....

In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold....

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists chronicles the tale of Frank Owen, a traveling socialist visionary making his way from town to town in the name of the socialist revolution. When spring arrives, Frank Owen decides to settle in the quiet town of Mugsborough....