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"Beside the Fire" is one of the most important collections of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories and was presented by Douglas Hyde in 1910.The 15 tales reflect the roots and beliefs that originated Irish cult

"The Adventures of Ulysses" was written by in 1808 to tell the tale of Homers "Odyssey" to children. It is a wonderfully well-written and accurate account of the story of Ulysses, and modern readers will be surprised at the sentence structure that the early nineteenth century felt was suitable for children. Today it is a good introduction to the verse version for adults as well as children. Lamb re-tells the story of Ulyssess journey from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. The book uses Homers "Odyssey" as the basis for the story, but it isnt a direct translation of the Greek classic. "The Adventures of Ulysses" is filled with interesting characters including sirens, giants, warriors and enchanters. Each chapter is filled with new adventures and challenges which Ulysses must face and overcome. Lamb was able to retell the story of Ulyssess adventures in a light and entertaining way without losing any of the important details of the original story.Readers who are into Greek mythology and are also looking to read a version of Homers "Odyssey" will surely enjoy reading this book.

"Jane Eyre", novel written by Charlotte Bronte in 1847 under her pseudonym, Currier Bell, is widely considered a classic. The novel gave new truthfulness to the Victorian novel with its realistic portrayal of the inner life of a woman, noting her struggles with her natural desires and social condition.The story is about a girl named - not surprisingly - Jane Eyre, and its a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story that follows Jane from childhood through motherhood. Many elements of Janes life are similar to events in Charlotte Brontes life. Because the work features a strong-willed and intelligent woman, its often considered to be an early feminist text.

"The Sacred Fount" was written by Henry James and first published in 1901. It comes from the late period in Jamess development as a novelist, and has puzzled readers and critics ever since, because of the obscurity of its subject matter and the extremely complex manner in which the events are related.On the surface, it is the simple story of a number of people who travel to a weekend party at a country estate (Newmarch). But the narrator of events perceives hidden relations going on between some of the visitors and he tries to work out the truth of these liaisons by psychological means alone, eschewing what he calls the ignoble methods of the detective and the keyhole.

Charlotte Brontes 1852 novel "Villette" tells the story of Lucy Snowe as she travels from England to France to work at a school for girls. The psychologically penetrating novel is less well-known than "Jane Eyre", but is frequently considered Charlotte Brontes best work. In "Villette", Bronte once again tells the story from the point of view of an autobiographical narrator, Lucy Snowe. The novel follows her story, the story of a young English girl with a tragic past. At the start, Lucy is just fourteen years old and lives in the English countryside with her godmother. Lucy eventually leaves England for Villette and finds work at a boarding school for girls.She falls in love with Dr. John, a young and handsome English doctor who does not return her affections. Lucy is very hurt by this, but deeply values his friendship. Dr. John eventually marries an acquaintance of Lucys.Lucy meets another man at the school named Monsieur Paul Emanuel. M. Paul is a very good teacher, but he is somewhat controlling and critical when it comes to Lucy. However, he does begin to show her kindness and expresses interest in both her mind and her heart.M. Paul arranges for Lucy to become the headmistress of her own school before setting sail to Guadalupe to do missionary work. The two agree to marry upon his return, but...

Written in 1872 by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "Carmilla" is one of the classics of the Vampire genre. The novella is one of five tales of the supernatural that is published under the name of In a Glass Darkly. "Carmilla" is the only vampire story in the collection and it has elements of traditional Gothic fiction as well as drawing on Irish folklore too. Laura and her father live a quiet life in their remote castle in the dense forests Styria. It is a solitary existence for young Laura, who has no companionship except for her governess and the occasional visits of neighbouring gentry. Into this lonely life comes the mysterious house guest, Carmilla.Slowly Laura falls under Carmillas spell. Whilst she is both attracted and repulsed by Carmilla, she seems unable to find the energy to resist her.A spate of sudden wasting deaths afflict the peasants in the countryside around the castle and Laura herself falls ill. Will they manage to work out the cause of her illness in time or will she just be the latest victim of the vampire Carmilla?

"The Inventions of the Idiot" is a short humorous novel by the American author, editor and satirist John Kendrick Bangs first published in 1904.From the New York Times Book Review, April 23, 1904:"The familiar boarding house Idiot of Mr. John Kendrick Bangs reappears in a new volume of humorous conversations entitled, "The Inventions of the Idiot". These talks around the breakfast table of Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog, in which the utterances of the Idiot dominate those of the other boarders in length and profundity, relate to the evils of bad cooking, the possibility of a trolly line across the Atlantic to banish seasickness, the desirability of converting the Idiots intellectual gifts into a universal trust, the ineffectiveness of "university extensive", as the Idiot see it and the desirability of "social expansion", the wealth of beggers, a scheme for "progressive waffles" at the breakfast table, the need of a clearing house for poetry and other subjects of equal importance." Mr. Bangs Idiot, an amiable, quick-witted loquncious personage, has retained his individuality a long term of years, though it be severly tested by the keen public demand for veracious reports of his utterances. Few personages, even in fiction, could hold their own so well while talking so much as this cheerful Idiot. He is always clear minded and alive to the signs of the times."

Via Lattea, tredicesimo millennio dellepoca stellare.Gli esseri umani hanno da tempo lasciato la superficie del Pianeta Madre, la Terra, al punto che ormai quasi non la ricordano, e si sono affermati come unica forma di vita senziente delluniverso conosciuto. Indisturbati si espandono, colonizzano, si moltiplicano e lottano fra loro in un continuo susseguirsi di scaramucce prive di senso e di sostanza.Ma un giorno questo equilibrio viene spezzato dallarrivo di una terribile razza aliena, apparentemente inarrestabile, che minaccia di sovvertire totalmente lordine costituito e di cancellare col suo passaggio ben dodici millenni di sviluppo e di espansione.Gli umani li chiamano Herem, lAnatema.LIBRO PRIMO: LA GUERRA DI MABELPianeta Teodus V, Ammasso di Sol: Mabel, giovane di buona famiglia, si sta preparando a entrare in attivita assieme ai fratelli nella loro piccola impresa agricola, ma quando scopre che un nemico di origini ignote sta terrorizzando la galassia decide di arruolarsi nellesercito.Seguiranno anni di duro addestramento, durante i quali conoscera Sig, Yowa, Alanna, Bera, Mina e tanti altri giovani in cerca di gloria. Ma sara solo linizio della sua carriera militare, delle sue avventure e dei misteri che lo vedranno coinvolto, a partire dal suo primo incontro, sul pianeta Vidalo III, con i terribili invasori alieni.Richiamando alla memoria le atmosfere dei grandi classici del genere, Herem. La Guerra di Mabel e solo il primo tassello di un mosaico molto piu vasto, un viaggio attraverso le infinita dello spazio ma soprattutto un cammino alla scoperta del piu grande mistero delluniverso: lanimo umano, con le sue paure, angosce e speranze.

Originally published in 1927, "Allan and the Ice Gods" is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga that started with the famous novel "King Solomons Mines". It is the last of 14 books that Henry Rider Haggard wrote depicting the adventures of the great English hunter in the wilds of mysterious Africa. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels. Then he is mysteriously transported back to the Paleolithic era whereby he inhabits the body of a warrior in this classic journey back in time. Haggard masterfully captures the prehistoric environment in this science fiction thriller.

First published in 1889, "Allans Wife" is the third novel Henry Rider Haggards celebrated Allan Quatermain series, one of the 14 books that Haggard wrote depicting the adventures of Quatermain, great English hunter in the wilds of mysterious Africa. This book tells more stories of Quartermains time in South Africa--presenting his observations about two duelling witch doctors, his fathers death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella.

"Twilight Sleep" is Edith Whartons superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing -- these are the remarkably modern themes that animate "Twilight Sleep". The extended family of Mrs. Manford is determined to escape the pain, boredom and emptiness of life through whatever form of "twilight sleep" they can devise or procure. And though the characters and their actions may seem more in keeping with todays society, this is still a classic Wharton tale of the upper crust and its undoing -- wittily, masterfully told.

"Allan and the Holy Flower" is a 1915 novel by Henry Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. This is one of the 14 books that Haggard wrote - starting with "King Solomons Mines" - depicting the adventures of Quatermain, great English hunter in the wilds of mysterious Africa.Brother John, who has been living in Africa for many years, gives Allan Quatermain the largest orchid he has ever seen. Later, in England, he has a meeting with Mr. Somers, an orchid collector who is prepared to finance an expedition to search for the plant. Join Allan as he sets out to find this rare orchid ... and finds something more.

"The Lost Stradivarius", written by John Meade Falkner in 1895, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title in a hidden compartment in his college rooms, the protagonist, a wealthy young heir, becomes increasingly secretive as well as obsessed by a particular piece of music, which seems to have the power to call up the ghost of its previous owner. Roaming from England to Italy, the story involves family love, lordly depravity, and the tragedy of obsession.(Source: wikipedia)

"Crime de village" est un recueil de nouvelles écrit par Jules Renard et parut en 1888. Cest huit tableaux composés par petites touches de couleur vive dont la dominante est le cynisme. La trame narrative de ces nouvelles pourrait rappeler celles de Flaubert ou de Maupassant. Anticlericalisme, peinture des paysans, reglements de compte, crimes et adulteres constituent les themes principaux.

"The Bostonians" was first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886, then as a three volume novel in February 1886. This novel is generally regarded at the high point of what is called the middle period of Henry James development as a novelist. The novel came after he had re-visited America in the middle of the decade following the death of his parents. It is set in Boston and New York; and it clearly reflects some of his contemporary impressions on the nation, written as a native American. The novel as a matter of fact includes some rather touching reflections on the Civil War, which had only concluded twenty years before (and in which James had not participated). But its principal subject matter is The Woman Question that is, the conflict between traditional views of the role of women in society, and the views of suffragists and what today would be called supporters of womens liberation.It is also an extraordinary account of a lesbian relationship, what was called in Jamess day, a Boston marriage. The action plays out over the 1870s in the cities of Boston, New York and in the country around Cape Cod. Verena and Olive are activists in the womans emancipation movement and have set up house together. Basil Ransom, a Southerner (Civil War only over for 5 or 6 years) and a long-lost distant cousin of Olive, is in love with Verena. The books plot and central theme is the battle ground for Verenas soul: straight or lesbian, on the level of sexuality; modern emancipated woman or typical 19th century hausfrau on a deeper level.

"Emma", the book that was written by English descent woman author Jane Austen when she was thirty-nine, is one of the most beloved novels of her. It is said that "Emma" was the favourite novel of herself too."Emma" was published in 1915 and since then it has always been appreciated and read by so many. In "Emma", Jane Austen who is regarded as the best English author after Shakespeare deals with tangled relationships take place in England of 19th century. Just like it is in her other books, she used an immersive writing style, though its progress slowly. "Emma" is quite predictable as for its ending, yet enjoyable; it is not a burden to read, rather very gripping.Young and beautiful Emma Woodhouse meddles in the love lives of her friends. After convincing her companion Harriet Smith to break off her engagement to a man Emma believes to be too common, a series of misunderstandings eventually teaches Emma that she doesnt know whats best for everyone. At the end, she finds happiness with her beloved Mr. Knightley.

Lei si chiama Gloria Capaci e fa la poliziotta, ma non si sente affatto allaltezza del suo nome, anzi, si ritiene inadeguata... e sembrano pensarla così anche il suo capo e i suoi colleghi. Ma si dov

"Dracula" is an epistolary Gothic horror novel written in 1897 by Bram Stoker, an Irish author who became famous after writing about the vampire named Count Dracula, who later on had many interpretations (theater, movie and television). Dracula was the first significant vampire in literature and has served as a template for all the vampires who have come after him.Bram Stoker visited the seaside town of Whitby in England in 1890 and found inspiration for his excellent novel "Dracula". Before writing it, Stoker met the Hungarian writer Armin Vambery, who was also a traveller and told dark stories about the Carpathians, inspiring Stoker, who then spent a few years researching on European mythological stories and folklore about vampires.The novel narrates the story of Dracula, who attempts to move from Transylvania and go to England to find some new blood and try to spread the curse of the undead. It also tells the story of the fight between Dracula and a group of men and women who had Professor Abraham Van Helsing as their leader. The text of "Dracula" is made of diary entries, telegrams, letters, journal and newspaper clippings.

Davis e un Pedagogista e Giudice onorario: vive ad Acqui Terme, le sue giornate sono dedite al lavoro, ai ragazzi che segue a scuola e alle famiglie che incontra nel tribunale minorile di Torino.Non ha molto tempo per se, ma non gli importa. Per lui la sua vita e perfetta cosi.Celeste e una veterinaria: altruista e incredibilmente pasticciona, gestisce la sua clinica insieme a una sua cara amica e, quando puo, fa volontariato nei canili e vive le sue giornate sempre in maniera unica e speciale.Melody e una dolce cagnolina fantasia: si ritrova a vagabondare per le strade, nessuno si preoccupa per lei, fino a che non scopre cosa significano veramente le parole amicizia e amore.Daniela Perelli. Nata a Genova il 6 giugno 1980, si e diplomata come Tecnico dei Servizi Ristorativi e specializzata in pasticceria. Ha lavorato per due anni a contatto con i bambini come educatrice e animatrice turistica, coltivando la passione per la danza, il canto e la lettura. Vive a Genova con il marito Alessandro, i figli Giulia e Luca e la loro cagnolina Stella. Responsabile della collana rosa "Un cuore per capello", autrice di romance contemporanei, racconti e novelle con ambientazione storica, ha pubblicato tramite il self publishing ed e autrice per la Collana Floreale, ed ex autrice Rizzoli per la collana You Feel. Redattrice della rivista "Pink magazine Italia", gestisce il suo sito "Scrivere con amore", dove pubblica articoli e consigli di lettura e la rivista amatoriale femminile "Semplicemente amiche". Da poco autrice per il settimanale Intimita.

"Sense and Sensibility" is a novel by English author Jane Austen that was published anonymously in three volumes in 1811 and that became a classic. The satirical and comic work offers a vivid depiction of 19th-century middle-class life as it follows the romantic relationships of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood."Sense and Sensibility" is about the Dashwood family of Sussex, England. They live in comfort and luxury at their home, Norland, until the death of Mr. Henry Dashwood. His wife and three daughters suddenly lose almost everything. Although Elinor and Marianne, the two eldest daughters, are opposite in every way, they find love even in the midst of adversity and loss.At the beginning of the story, we see the Dashwood family right at the loss of Mr. Henry Dashwood. He leaves behind a wife and three daughters, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret, a younger sister of 13. As English law of the day dictates, women could not inherit property, and so all that the girls have known is bequeathed to Mr. Henry Dashwoods son from his first marriage, Mr. John Dashwood. John is fairly good-natured, but easily manipulated by his narrow-minded and selfish wife. The three girls inherit a thousand pounds each, but they are dependent on John to provide for them any additional money they might need. However, Johns wife, Fanny, slowly manipulates him into giving the girls very little on which to survive. This situation is the origin of the events to come...