Author: Arnold Bennett
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Keywords: hotel, babylon, grand
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-05-20
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1421804042
ISBN-13: 9781421804040

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Jules, the celebrated head waiter of the Grand Babylon, was bending formally towards the alert, middle-aged man who had just entered the smoking-room and dropped into a basket-chair in the corner by the conservatory. It was 7.45 on a particularly sultry June night, and dinner was about to be served at the Grand Babylon. Men of all sizes, ages, and nationalities, but every one alike arrayed in faultless evening dress, were dott

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Keywords: holmes, sherlock, return
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1595404139
ISBN-13: 9781595404138

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - IT was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out in the police investigation; but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it

Authors:Agatha Christie,  1stWorld Library,
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Keywords: poirot, mysteries, hercule, styles, affair, mysterious
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1595406018
ISBN-13: 9781595406019

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist. I will therefore briefly set down the circu

Authors:Victor Hugo,  1stWorld Library,
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Keywords: volume, miserables, les
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2007-05-21
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1421846802
ISBN-13: 9781421846804

The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different aspects, of a redoubtable situation, sprang from the earth at the time of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets that history has ever beheld.

Authors:Edgar Allan Poe,  1stWorld Library,
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Keywords: tales, humorous
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1595404236
ISBN-13: 9781595404237

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - A golden cage bore the little winged wanderer, enamored, melting, indolent, to the Chaussee D’Antin, from its home in far Peru. From its queenly possessor La Bellissima, to the Duc De L’Omelette, six peers of the empire conveyed the happy bird. That night the Duc was to sup alone. In the privacy of his bureau he reclined languidly on that ottoman for which he sacrificed his loyalty in outbidding his king- the notor

Author: Zane Grey
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Keywords: trilogy, river, ohio, border, spirit
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1595405445
ISBN-13: 9781595405449

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The author does not intend to apologize for what many readers may call the "brutality" of the story; but rather to explain that its wild spirit is true to the life of the Western border as it was known only a little more than one hundred years ago. The writer is the fortunate possessor of historical material of undoubted truth and interest. It is the long-lost journal of Colonel Ebenezer Zane, one of the most prominent of the

Authors:R. L. Stevenson,  1stWorld Publishing,
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Keywords: hyde, jekyll, case, strange
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1595401164
ISBN-13: 9781595401168

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its