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Charles Dickens' brilliant comic adventure of a lamplighter, Tom Grig, who is called into the house of an eccentric astronomer who is searching for the philosopher's stone....

Victory is the story of a loner who believes that the best way to avoid life's pain and pitfalls is to distance himself from others....

Lady Windermere's Fan is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the morals of Victorian society, particularly marriage....

When a super-robot named Snookums discovers how to build his own superbombs, it becomes obvious that Earth is by no means the safest place for him to be....

"The Glimpses of the Moon" is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer Edith Wharton (1862-1937)...

Convinced of the worthiness of a giant, earth-boring machine, David Innes becomes a willing participant in an experiment....

The magical life of childhood is played out with vivid imagination as a group of children view themselves as the heroes and the adults in their world as "the Olympians"....

Pericles, prince of Tyre, sets out to woo a princess and sails headlong into harrowing adventure. Pursued by an evil king, Pericles is blown from port to exotic port....

Have you always wanted to learn how to speak the Jordanian Arabic dialect but simply didn’t have the time? Well if so, then look no further. You can have one of the most advanced and revolutionary methods ever designed for quickly becoming conversational in a language....

The universe is at peace, but it is a very sensitive balance. Will the temptation of absolute power drive the universe once again into war....

In Avoiding the Worst, Tobias Baumann lays out the concept of risks of future suffering (s-risks). With a focus on s-risks that are both realistic and avoidable, he argues that we have strong reasons to consider their reduction a top priority....

After two hellish years on the rim of the Arctic, Philip Weyman stumbles back toward civilization, half-starved and half-crazy.

Happy Ending is an SF story about the far future when the last solar system wide dictator has been finally defeated and what will he do? What will he do?....

Travel with young Teddy and the Counterpane Fairy on such adventures as "The Princess of the Golden Castle", "The Owls and the Gambolsome Elf", "Starline and Silverling"....

This is the story of the Space Platform, the first orbiting space station that will serve as launching pad for man’s journey to other planets and the stars....

A party of friends exchange ghost stories on Christmas Eve; but everything may not be quite as it seems....

It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate's every slip....

From the instance of its first publication, in 1766, Oliver Goldsmith's novel of Christian piety and endurance has stood the test of time....

In "Crystal Crypt", taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the war between Mars and Terra is about to erupt and Earth has only merchants and salesmen to fight....

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"....