The innocence of father brown (large print edition)

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Originally published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown is the first of five official collections of short stories focused on the crime-solving Roman Catholic. He is an endearing character often compared to another famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.Father Brown is a dev...

Black no more (large print edition)

Babes in toyland

Thus spoke zarathustra

Descending from mountaintops, the priest Zarathustra announces “God is dead” to the people. Though met with immediate scorn and mockery, he continues on, spending the rest of his days describing the means by which God’s successor—the “Superman”—can be found within. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Fried...

Florante and laura

In the Kingdom of Albania, the noble and brave Duke Florante is tied to a tree. Close to death and losing hope, he begins to recount the events that have led to his current predicament: the death of his father, the suffering of his people, and perhaps even, the loss of the woman he loved.

Pictures of the floating world

<p><b>Published seven years after her debut collection <i>A Dome of Many-Coloured Glasses</i>, <i>Pictures of the Floating World</i> (1919), is another dazzling volume of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Amy Lowell.</b><p> Divided into t...

Gloriana

Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900 (1890) is a novel by Lady Florence Dixie. A member of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, Dixie believed in the emancipation of women through radical cultural and political change. Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900, a feminist utopian novel, i...

Clouds of witness

Jacob's room (large print edition)

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Virginia Woolf’s third novel, Jacob’s Room (1922), is a penetrating look at one man’s life from childhood until his untimely death in the first World War. On the surface, this could be considered an anti-war novel, yet it is a wildly inventive experimental work that dispels ...

Coyote stories

“We who lived the days of tribal life before our destruction began remember with gratefulness our storytellers and the delight and joy and richness which they imparted to our lives. We never tired of their tales, though told countless times. They will, forsooth, never grow old, for they have with...

The walls of jericho

Published to critical acclaim in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the debut novel of one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher.Taking on a friend’s challenge to “write [a] novel treating both the upper and lower classes of black Harlem equally,” The Walls of Jericho ...

These old shades

On a previously uneventful night in Paris, Justin Alastai–the infamous and dastardly Duke of Avon–is delivered a stroke of serendipity in the form of a disheveled denarian. Taking in the lost soul as a page, the Duke is given the opportunity for revenge against the Comte de Saint-Vire and inadver...

The path on the rainbow

<p><b>“The practical necessity of being preserved and handed on by word of mouth only, must be constantly borne in mind in considering the development of Indian verse forms. It operated to keep poetry tied to its twin-born melody, which assisted in memory, and was constantly at work m...

The faerie queene

“The general end, therefore, of all [The Faerie Queene], is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline: which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read.” Haile...

The magic pawnshop

“A Small Supply of Magic on Hand For Regular Customers,” is what the gold-lettering on the pawnshop’s placard reads. Both excited by this advertisement and in desperate need of a miracle cure for her uncle, nine-year-old Prinda Bassett proceeds in—unknowingly setting herself up for a fantasticall...

Spring in new hampshire and other poems

Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published toward the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems is the first of McKay’s collections to appear in the United States. As a committed leftist, McKay—who grew up in...

Cogewea, the half blood

Within the beautiful and outspoken Cogewea, there is sometimes unrest. A living dichotomy, the half-blood girl is caught between the world of her father, a European rancher; and that of her mother, a proud full-blooded Okanagan. When a battle for her affections sees suitors on conflicting ends of...

The enchanted april

The inferno

Hailed as one of the greatest works of literature ever written, The Divine Comedy is a highly influential poem that has dazzled readers for over five centuries, with its’ first book, The Inferno, being one of the most recognizable pieces of fiction ever published. Revisit Dante’s journey through ...

One brown girl and 1/4

One Brown Girl and ¼ (1909) is a novel by Thomas MacDermot. Published under his pseudonym Tom Redcam by the All Jamaica Library, One Brown Girl and ¼ is a tragic story of race and class set in Jamaica. Understated and ironic, the novel critiques the social conditions of Jamaica under British colo...

Bianca, or, the young spanish maiden

Bianca, or, The Young Spanish Maiden (1878) is a novel by Toru Dutt. Published the year after her death at the age of 21, Bianca, or, The Young Spanish Maiden is a heartfelt work of romance by a pioneering figure in Indian history and Bengali literature. “A funeral procession was winding slowly u...

Pollyanna

The dead woman in love

Hawaiian legends

“Mr. Rice's theory as to the origin of these legends is based on the fact that in the old days, before the discovery of the islands by Captain Cook, there were bards and storytellers, either itinerant or attached to the courts of the chiefs…these bards or storytellers sometimes used historical in...

The dead

It’s Christmastime in Dublin. The snow is falling. And an annual Christmas party is underway. Gabriel Conroy frets over his impending speech while Gretta, his wife, wanders the affair lost in thought. The festivities are lively, the long-awaited speech is well-received; but as the Conroys are set...

The story of philosophy

Praised for helping to popularize philosophy to the general reader, The Story of Philosophy is a groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Will Durant that chronicles the ideas of over a dozen great thinkers, examines the environments that made them, and context...

Tales from shakespeare

The beast of bradhurst avenue and other stories

The adventures of sherlock holmes (large print edition)

LARGE PRINT EDITION. This edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains twelve short stories that introduce the reader to the iconic detective and his sidekick, Dr. Watson. Sherlock Holmes is a mysterious person. Extremely observant, highly intelligent, and yet emotionally unstable, Hol...

The unpleasantness at the bellona club

Letters from a stoic

My dear Reader, within this book are one hundred and twenty-four letters on the subject of morals written from the philosopher Seneca to his friend, Lucilius Junior. Masterfully crafted, this insightful collection is a fantastic introduction to the school of Stoicism that covers everything from s...

Rhapsody

The well of loneliness

Stephen Gordon has always been different. Firstly, she was born a girl against her parent’s wishes. Secondly, she is raised to be boyish, much to her mother’s disdain. Third—but most important—is that Stephen loves women, and it is a very isolating life to lead. Revisit one of Britian’s most famo...