Something snapped. He let the arrow fly. The night Thomas Rhymer’s young sister is stolen away by shadows and smoke, he discovers there’s more to life than the fields and forests he knows so well. If he has any hope of rescuing Alissa, he must first cross into a realm where magic is lifeblood, and where shadows dance with dragonfire. With the help of the seelie faery Thistledown, Thomas embarks on a treacherous quest, deep into the heart of war-raved Albion. But getting his sister back means pledging aid to Mab, the usurped Queen of the Old Ways, against the tyranny of the Dark Prince. Yet danger and deceit lie around every corner, and some secrets are better left untold.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad is celebrated as a forerunner of modernist fiction, whose innovative narrative style and anti-heroes had a significant influence on the course of English literature. This comprehensive eBook presents the only complete works of Joseph Conrad in digital format, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Conrad's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 19 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * All of the collaborative works with Ford Madox Ford * Includes the rare unfinished novel SUSPENSE, available in no other collection * Special chronological ordering of the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Conrad's essays - spend hours exploring the author’s critical works * The complete memoirs - explore the author’s life in detail * Special criticism section, with 11 essays by critics such as Virginia Woolf, Henry James and John Galsworthy evaluating Conrad’s contribution to literature * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with new introductions, new formatting of ALL the texts and corrections Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels and Novellas ALMAYER’S FOLLY AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS LORD JIM THE INHERITORS TYPHOON HEART OF DARKNESS ROMANCE NOSTROMO THE SECRET AGENT UNDER WESTERN EYES CHANCE VICTORY THE SHADOW-LINE THE ARROW OF GOLD THE RESCUE THE NATURE OF A CRIME THE ROVER SUSPENSE The Short Stories THE BLACK MATE THE IDIOTS THE LAGOON AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS THE RETURN KARAIN: A MEMORY YOUTH FALK AMY FOSTER TO-MORROW THE END OF THE TETHER GASPAR RUIZ THE INFORMER THE BRUTE AN ANARCHIST THE DUEL IL CONDE A SMILE OF FORTUNE THE SECRET SHARER FREYA OF THE SEVEN ISLES PRINCE ROMAN THE PLANTER OF MALATA THE PARTNER THE INN OF THE TWO WITCHES BECAUSE OF THE DOLLARS THE WARRIOR’S SOUL THE TALE The Essays NOTES ON LIFE AND LETTERS LAST ESSAYS The Memoirs THE MIRROR OF THE SEA A PERSONAL RECORD The Criticism JOSEPH CONRAD by Virginia Woolf MR. CONRAD: A CONVERSATION by Virginia Woolf Extract from ‘ENGLISH PROSE’ by Virginia Woolf Extract from ‘THE NEW NOVEL: 1914’ by Henry James TRIBUTES TO CONRAD by John Galsworthy REMINISCENCES OF CONRAD by John Galsworthy EXTRACT OF A LETTER by George Gissing JOSEPH CONRAD by John Cowper Powys TWO ARTICLES by Arnold Bennett JOSEPH CONRAD by Robert Lynd JOSEPH CONRAD. A PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE by Ford Madox Ford Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Nathaniel Hawthorne is a literary giant of American literature, whose works have gone on to inspire many other great writers. This eBook offers readers the unique opportunity of exploring the prolific writer’s work, as well as an assortment of bonus texts. (Current version: 2) * illustrated with many images relating to Hawthorne’s life and works * annotated with concise introductions to the novels and other works * ALL the novels – even rare unfinished novels – each with their own contents table * THE SCARLET LETTER and other works are beautiful illustrated * images of how the novels first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * the complete short story collections * separate CHRONOLOGICAL and ALPHABETICAL contents tables for the short stories – find that special story easily! * the children’s storybooks are fully illustrated * includes Hawthorne’s non-fiction works * EVEN includes Hawthorne’s extensive notebooks * boasts a special criticism section, with six works examining Hawthorne’s contribution to literature, including Henry James’ seminal work HAWTHORNE * BONUS biographies section, with no less than five biographical books * features biographies written by Hawthorne’s son Julian and his daughter Rose * scholarly ordering of texts in chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Hawthorne’s immense oeuvre Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels FANSHAWE THE SCARLET LETTER THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE THE MARBLE FAUN THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE SEPTIMIUS FELTON DOCTOR GRIMSHAWE’S SECRET THE ANCESTRAL FOOTSTEP The Short Story Collections TWICE-TOLD TALES GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE THE SNOW-IMAGE, AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS TANGLEWOOD TALES THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE AND OTHER PIECES THE GHOST OF DOCTOR HARRIS The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Non-Fiction BIOGRAPHICAL STORIES FOR CHILDREN THE LIFE OF FRANKLIN PIERCE OUR OLD HOME CHIEFLY ABOUT WAR MATTERS The Notebooks PASSAGES FROM THE AMERICAN NOTE-BOOKS: VOLUME I & II PASSAGES FROM THE ENGLISH NOTE-BOOKS: VOLUME I & II PASSAGES FROM THE FRENCH AND ITALIAN NOTE-BOOKS: VOLUME I & II The Criticism HAWTHORNE BY HENRY JAMES EXTRACT FROM ‘MY LITERARY PASSIONS’ BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS EXTRACT FROM ‘ESSAYS BEFORE A SONATA’ BY CHARLES IVES EXTRACT FROM ‘ADVENTURES AMONG BOOKS’ BY ANDREW LANG EXTRACT FROM ‘HOURS IN A LIBRARY’ BY LESLIE STEPHEN EXTRACT FROM ‘FOUR AMERICANS’ BY HENRY A. BEERS The Biographies THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE BY FRANK PRESTON STEARNS HAWTHORNE AND HIS CIRCLE BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE MEMORIES OF HAWTHORNE BY ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE BY GEORGE E. WOODBERRY A STUDY OF HAWTHORNE BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Die Waise Diona lebt gezwungenerma?en bei ihrem Onkel, Sir Hereward Grantley, und dessen Sohn Simon. Als Erinnerung an ihren Vater ist ihr nur der Dalmatiner Sirius geblieben, den sie innig liebt. Als er get?tet werden soll, l?uft Diona weg und findet bei dem Marquis von Irchester eine Anstellung. Doch durch eine seltsame Wette droht sie ihre neue Heimat zu verlieren. Wird es ihr gelingen, ihren Hund zu beschützen?

Still in mourning after the death of her father, Colonel Wallace, in a battle in India, the beautiful young Vina Wallace is astonished to receive news that not only had her heroic father saved the Maharajah of Kulhapur’s life, but also that the Maharajah has died and left jewels worth a small fortune to her dead father. And now, as her father’s only child, the jewels are hers. Vina is being looked after by her uncle and aunt and her aunt has grand ideas of shining in higher Society and being invited to parties at ancestral homes and by Queen Victoria to Windsor Castle. Unknown to Vina the news of her newly acquired fortune reaches the ears of the Duke of Quarington and his penniless brother Lord Edgar, who is desperate to find a way to repay his vast debts as the Duke is refusing to bail him out yet again. Fearing Vina will fall victim to fortune-hunters, her aunt and uncle plan to offer her hand in marriage to the dissolute Lord Edgar – an admirable solution to both families’ problems. The trouble is that Vina has vowed never to marry unless for love. Worse still she overhears the cynical Lord Edgar planning to marry Vina for her money and then to resume his life of debauchery and womanising! Is there no escape for Vina from a life without love?

Für die junge Comtesse Lynetta de Marigny beginnt nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern ein entbehrungsreiches und gefahrvolles Leben. Auf der Flucht vor der Revolution lebt sie wie eine Gefangene in ihrem Schlo? bei Paris. Als der Earl of Charncliffe eines Tages dort erscheint, bietet sich Lynetta ein unerwarteter Auswegaus ihrem trostlosen Schicksal...

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The plots of Shakespeare's plays, told as stories for children.

Long poem about native Americans and their mythology. According to Wikipedia: Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCalls. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have had 50 million readers around the world."

This book includes: Gondoliers, Grand Duke, H.M.S Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, Ruddigore, The Sorcerer, Thespis, Trial by Jury, Utopia Limited, Yeomen of the Guard, and Patience. All of these plays/operettas were written 1871 to 1896. According to Wikipedia: "Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). Together, they wrote fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado are among the best known. Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds for these operas, where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion—fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong. Sullivan, six years Gilbert's junior, composed the music, contributing memorable melodies that could convey both humour and pathos. Producer Richard D'Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration. He built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works—which came to be known as the Savoy Operas—and he founded the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed and promoted their works for over a century. The Gilbert and Sullivan operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world. The collaboration introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century. The operas have also influenced political discourse, literature, film and television and have been widely parodied and pastiched by humorists."

Classic play. According to Wikipedia: "Thackeray is most often compared to one other great novelist of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens. During the Victorian era, he was ranked second only to Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair. In that novel he was able to satirize whole swaths of humanity while retaining a light touch. It also features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. As a result, unlike Thackeray's other novels, it remains popular with the general reading public; it is a standard fixture in university courses and has been repeatedly adapted for movies and television. In Thackeray's own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels. It is perhaps for this reason that they have not survived as well as Vanity Fair, which satirizes those values."

Classic satiric play. According to Wikipedia: "Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol ( 1809 - 1852) was a Russian writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Although his early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literature; often called the "father of modern Russian realism," he was one of the first Russian authors to criticize his country's way of life. The novels Taras Bul'ba (1835; 1842 [revised edition]), Dead Souls (1842), the play The Inspector-General (1836, 1842), and the short story The Overcoat (1842) are among his masterpieces."

Classic Shakespearean comedy, with line numbers. According to Wikipedia: "The Taming of the Shrew is an early comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked into thinking he is a nobleman by a mischievous Lord. The Lord has a play performed for Sly's amusement with a primary and sub-plot. The main plot depicts the courting of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate, and eponymous shrew. Katherina is at first an unwilling participant in the relationship but Petruchio tempers her with various psychological torments - the "taming" - until she is an obedient bride. The sub-plot features a competition between the suitors of Katherina's less intractable sister, Bianca."

The classic Russian play, in verse translation. According to Wikipedia: "Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling, mixing drama, romance, and satire, associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers."

The classic Shakespeare history play, with line numbers. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright."

The classic Shakespeare history play, with line numbers. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright."

The classic tragedy. According to Wikipedia: "Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers."

This collection includes the poetry books: Ballads of Lost Haven, Behind the Arras, Later Poems, More songs from Vagabondia, Sappho, and Songs from Vagabondia. According to Wikipedia: ""Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929) was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. In Canada Carman is classed as one of the Confederation Poets, a group which also included Charles G.D. Roberts (his cousin), Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. Of the group, Carman had the surest lyric touch and achieved the widest international recognition."

Should the truth be pursued whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.

Eleven plays in the original German: Die Aufgeregten, Egmont, Faust, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenie, Die Mitschuldigen, Die Naturliche Tochter Torquato Tasso, Satyros, Die Geschwister, and Die Laune des Verliebten. Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (* 28. August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main; ? 22. M?rz 1832 in Weimar), geadelt 1782, war ein deutscher Dichter. Er forschte und publizierte au?erdem auf verschiedenen naturwissenschaftlichen Gebieten. Ab 1776 bekleidete er am Hof von Weimar unterschiedliche politische und administrative ?mter. Goethes literarische Produktion umfasst Gedichte, Dramen, erz?hlende Werke (in Vers und Prosa), autobiografische, ?sthetische, kunst- und literaturtheoretische sowie naturwissenschaftliche Schriften. Auch sein umfangreicher Briefwechsel ist von gro?er literarischer Bedeutung. Goethe war ein Vorreiter und der wichtigste Vertreter des Sturm und Drang. Sein Roman Die Leiden des jungen Werthers machte ihn 1774 in ganz Europa berühmt. Sp?ter wandte er sich inhaltlich und formal den Idealen der Antike zu und wurde ab den 1790er Jahren, gemeinsam mit Friedrich Schiller und im Austausch mit diesem, zum wichtigsten Vertreter der Weimarer Klassik. Im Alter galt Goethe auch im Ausland als Repr?sentant des geistigen Deutschland. W?hrend die Wertsch?tzung Goethes nach seinem Tode zun?chst abnahm, wurde er im Deutschen Kaiserreich ab 1871 ?zum Kronzeugen der nationalen Identit?t der Deutschen“ und als solcher für den deutschen Nationalismus vereinnahmt. Es setzte nun eine Verehrung nicht nur des Werks, sondern auch der Pers?nlichkeit des Dichters ein, dessen Lebensführung als vorbildlich empfunden wurde. Bis heute gilt Goethe als bedeutendster deutscher Dichter, sein Werk wird zu den H?hepunkten der Weltliteratur gez?hlt."