"The Christmas Goblins" is a Christmas novella by Charles Dickens.Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. A deliciously satirical attack on a money-mad society, Vanity Fair, which first appeared in 1847, is an immensely moral novel, and an...

Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore or A Visit from St. Nicholas, On the night of Christmas Eve, a family is settling down to sleep when the father is disturbed by...

The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood. The Wendigo is a short novel that describes the terror of irrational forces and sensations of abssolutely wild nature, represented in the near...

Sir Quixote of the Moors by John Buchan. In the mid-sixteenth century, Jean de Rohaine, a middle-aged French nobleman, journeys to Scotland in search of adventure and a new...

Adventure by Jack London. Adventure is a novel by Jack London released in 1911 by The Macmillan Company. The novel explores the themes of domination of one people over the others,...

The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie. The Man in the Brown Suit is Agatha Christie at her best, as a young woman makes a dangerous decision to investigate a shocking...

The Lifted Veil by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory...

The American Claimant by Mark Twain. The American Claimant is not one of Mark Twain’s better known books such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in...

"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law." The crisp voice of the child pushed the door open and ran into the smoke-brake room."Oh, miss, I came earlier than the young...