It is 1750 and Daniel, the 10-year-old foundling living with Dick Bates is worried. Dick is the owner of the Peacock Alehouse in White Cross Street, Islington.

Whether the evolution of the human mind from the animal was by insensible gradations.

The Boy Who Said No is first and foremost a story of people and their travails.

First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.

The Book of Tea discusses the impact of Teaism on all aspects of Japanese culture and life.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig is horror writer William Hope Hodgson's 1907 novel.

Rick Brant is the boy who with his pal Scotty lives on an island called Spindrift and takes part in so many thrilling adventures and baffling mysteries involving science and electronics.

Rick Brant Science-Adventure Series. You can share his adventures in our handy Android ebook apps.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories.

There are some people that it is extremely unwise to cross ... and the fireworks start when two such people cross each other!

This is a classic science fiction adventure novel by Everett B. Cole.

The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers.

Ewan Chisholm, despised drunk albeit gifted Egyptologist, is ordered by his curator.

The Beggar's Opera is the only ballad opera that is still popularly performed today.

Richard Marsh's best-selling supernatural thriller The Beetle.

This book takes Beauty as already existing and enjoyed, and seeks to analyze and account.

The Return of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' third novel in the series starring the man raised by apes. First serialized in 1914 in All-Story Cavalier magazine, it was published as a novel in 1916.

When is a story about a basketball player not even about basketball?

Must religion and morals go together? Can one be taught without the other?

The Awakening (1899) appears in this collection of short stories.

Charles Darwin is the English naturalist whose work laid the foundation for evolutionary biology and theory.