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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas. Alice was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner Gertrude Stein. The book starts with Alice''s days in San Francisco, before she moved to France, then describes her moving to Paris, meeting Gertrude, and starting their life together. The book had mixed reception, both among critics and Stein''s friends, but the success of it was great. Today it is ranked it as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein''s writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce''s Ulysses and to Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time.

Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated by a desire for enough taels to be able to feed and clothe himself. This character usually comes into conflict with barbarians, bandits, and other people who are not classically educated, as well as various unscrupulous individuals who are intent on taking away his property. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah''s detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. Table of Contents: ΓÇó The Wallet of Kai Lung ΓÇó The Transmutation of Ling ΓÇó The Story of Yung Chang ΓÇó The Probation of Sen Heng ΓÇó The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung ΓÇó The Confession of Kai Lung ΓÇó The Vengeance of Tung Fel ΓÇó The Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-Tong ΓÇó The Vision of Yin, the Son of Yat Huang ΓÇó The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-Maker ΓÇó Kai Lung''s Golden Hours ΓÇó Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

Max Carrados is a blind detective who makes use of his remaining senses in such a way that his blindness is often not immediately apparent to others. Carrados enjoys the excitement of revealing his explanations of mysteries through powers of perception, which in his case are heightened in positive compensation for his visual impairment. George Orwell wrote that, together with those of Conan Doyle and R. Austin Freeman, Max Carrados stories "are the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading." Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah''s detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. Table of Contents: ΓÇó Max Carrados ΓÇó The Coin of Dionysius ΓÇó The Knight''s Cross Signal Problem ΓÇó The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage ΓÇó The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite ΓÇó The Last Exploit Of Harry the Actor ΓÇó The Tilling Shaw Mystery ΓÇó The Comedy at Fountain Cottage ΓÇó The Game Played In the Dark ΓÇó The Eyes of Max Carrados ΓÇó The Virginiola Fraud ΓÇó The Disappearance of Marie Severe ΓÇó The Secret of Dunstan''s Tower ΓÇó The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms ΓÇó The Ghost at Massingham Mansions ΓÇó The Missing Actress Sensation ΓÇó The Ingenious Mr. Spinola ΓÇó The Kingsmouth Spy Case ΓÇó The Eastern Mystery ΓÇó Max Carrados Mysteries ΓÇó The Secret of Headlam Height ΓÇó The Mystery of the Vanished Petition Crown ΓÇó The Holloway Flat Tragedy ΓÇó The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes ΓÇó The Ingenious Mind of Mr. Rigby Lacksome ΓÇó The Crime at the House in Culver Street ΓÇó The Strange Case of Cyril Bycourt ΓÇó The Missing Witness Sensation ΓÇó The Bravo of London: A Novel

The hero of the adventure trilogy is an affluent grocer Dickson McCunn, who has sold his business and taken early retirement. As soon as he ventures out to explore the world, he is swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish adventures, and forced to become a reluctant hero. He is formidable and dangerous partly because he seems unremarkable and ordinary, and friends and enemies alike are taken by surprise when he acts boldly. Content: ΓÇó Huntingtower: The story revolves around the imprisonment under false pretenses by Bolshevik agents of an exiled Russian noblewoman. The Scottish local community mobilises to uncover and thwart the conspiracy against her, and to defend the neutrality of Scotland against the Russian revolutionary struggle. A plot based on espionage and covert violence is set against the seemingly tranquil Scottish rural backdrop ΓÇó Castle Gay: The Evallonians from a fictional Central European country visit south west Scotland on a secret mission. The Nail-Biting Suspense story about the mistaken identity, kidnapping plot and threatening Communists, all centering at the castle of a rich newspaper magnate... ΓÇó The House of the Four Winds: The novel is set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s. It concerns the involvement of some Scottish visitors in the overthrow of a corrupt republic and the restoration of the monarchy... ΓÇó John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada''s Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers and it is for these that he is now best remembered.

"The Wind in the Portico" - a man decks up his house with remnants of pagan temples and gods but himself starts performing horrific ancient rituals... "The Green Wildebeest" - a man is cursed when he desecrates a sacred African grove... "No-man''s-land" - a man comes face-to-face with a beast in wilderness who hunts cattle and murders people... "The Watcher by the Threshold" - An unmentionable creature piggybacks a man from his near-death experience... "Space" - A brilliant mathematician theorizes the existence of a new dimension but it is not uninhabited, something lurks there... "Tendebaunt Manus" - war affects two brothers, kills one and changes another... "Witch Wood" - ancient Scottish witchcraft practices make a comeback and must be stopped before more lives are endangered. "A Journey of Little Profit" - a shepherd is transformed into a nice person but why and how? "The Outgoing of the Tide" - jealousy and witchcraft never go well for anyone! "The Grove of Ashtaroth" - a home in African wilderness with an ancient temple in its vicinity affects its new occupant... "Basilissa" - a curious nightmare leads to a deadly countdown or is it a warning? "Fullcircle" - a haunted new-house and a doomed family ... "Magic-Walking Stick" - an old man gives Bill an enchanted walking-stick... "Skule Skerry" - an island for migratory birds attracts other unnatural creatures as well... "The Strange Adventure of Mr. Andrew Hawthorn" - after his disappearance, Hawthorne returns to narrate what happened to him... John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada''s Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies.

After the War, Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. Given nothing to go on but a few mysterious clues, Hannay, assisted by friends like Sandy Arbuthnot, must track down the dastardly villains behind the plot before it''s too late... John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada''s Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers and it is for these that he is now best remembered. "That evening, I remember, as I came up through the Mill Meadow, I was feeling peculiarly happy and contented. It was still mid-March, one of those spring days when noon is like May, and only the cold pearly haze at sunset warns a man that he is not done with winter." (The Three Hostages)

Beau Sabreur focuses on the adventures of Major Henri De Beaujolais, an officer in the French Foreign legion, known as the "Beau Sabreur", title given to him by his uncle, General de Beaujolais. When Henri and his legionary friends, Raoul de Redon and Dufour do not return in time to leave Algiers they end up in jail. The general sends Henry into the desert to learn the local customs with a mission to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty, during which he meets Mary Vanbrugh, an American journalist. A traitor, Becque attacks them... The novel provides a detailed and fairly authentic description of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion, which has led to suggestions that P. C. Wren himself served with the legion. Percival Christopher Wren (1875 - 1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. While his fictional accounts of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticized, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate, which has led to unproven suggestions that Wren himself served with the legion.

Paying Guests is one of the last novels of E.F. Benson. The story is set around the Wentworth mention, a small boarding house in Bolton Spa and its owners and lodgers, usual and recognizable Benson''s characters. They are quite unlikable, mainly upper-middle-class English people who came to the Spa to cure their body illnesses, but also to fill the time and escape boredom despite having no passions, interests and work. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, with sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories.

This carefully crafted book is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Make Way For Lucia, also known as Mapp and Lucia, is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson about Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Several of them are set in the small seaside town of Tilling, closely based on Rye, East Sussex, where Benson lived for a number of years and served as mayor. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, with sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories. Table of contents: Queen Lucia Miss Mapp Lucia in London Mapp and Lucia Lucia''s Progress or The Worshipful Lucia Trouble for Lucia The Male Impersonator Desirable Residences

Paying Guests is one of the last novels of E.F. Benson. The story is set around the Wentworth mention, a small boarding house in Bolton Spa and its owners and lodgers, usual and recognizable Benson''s characters. They are quite unlikable, mainly upper-middle-class English people who came to the Spa to cure their body illnesses, but also to fill the time and escape boredom despite having no passions, interests and work. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, with sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories.

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories. Table of contents: Spook Stories: Reconciliation The Face Spinach Bagnell Terrace A Tale of an Empty House Naboth''s Vineyard Expiation Home Sweet Home "And no Birds Sings" The Corner House Corstophine The Temple More Spook Stories: The Step The Bed by the Window James Lamp The Dance The Hanging of Alfred Wadham Pirates The Wishing-Well The Bath-Chair Monkeys Christopher Comes Back The Sanctuary Thursday Evenings The Psychical Mallards

Make Way For Lucia, also known as Mapp and Lucia, is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson about Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Several of them are set in the small seaside town of Tilling, closely based on Rye, East Sussex, where Benson lived for a number of years and served as mayor. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, with sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories. Table of contents: Queen Lucia Miss Mapp Lucia in London Mapp and Lucia Lucia''s Progress or The Worshipful Lucia Trouble for Lucia The Male Impersonator Desirable Residences

Excerpt: "The rain, slanting and silver, drove lightly across the terrace and down the grassy hollows of the park where nettles and docks and bramble bushes grew freely amongst the clumps of yellow gorse." (Late and Soon) "Late and Soon" (1943) - It is the story of Valentine Arbell, a widowed chatelaine and her two daughters living in a large country house. One of her daughters, Primrose has an affair with Valentine''s former admirer Rory, but Rory rekindles his passion for Valentine. Set against the backdrop of imminent second World War in 1942, each character has to face a difficult decision that will change their lives forever. Along with 8 other short stories this edition shows the more evolved side of the author E. M. Delafield. E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was a prolific English author who is best known for her largely autobiographical works like Zella Sees Herself, The Provincial Lady Series etc. which look at the lives of upper-middle class Englishwomen. TABLE OF CONTENTS NOVEL Late and Soon SHORT STORIES The Bond of Union Lost in Transmission Time Work Wonders The Hotel Child The Gallant Little Lady Impasse The Appeal The Philistine: A Story

Set in the Côte d''Azur, Hilary and Angie Moon have to live on their wits and her beauty. This novel is a light satirical take on the residents and guests of a Hotel on the French Riviera who have their own strength and flaws and must come to terms with their lives, age and romance over the course of a typical summer. E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was a prolific English author who is best known for her largely autobiographical works like Zella Sees Herself, Provincial Lady Series etc. which look at the lives of upper-middle class Englishwomen. Excerpt: "Maman, j''ai raté l''autobus!" The shimmering heat-haze of the afternoon seemed to quiver as the shrill, lamentable announcement of this disaster broke into the silence that lay over the deserted terrace of the Hotel." (The Gay Life)

Excerpt: "The rain, slanting and silver, drove lightly across the terrace and down the grassy hollows of the park where nettles and docks and bramble bushes grew freely amongst the clumps of yellow gorse." (Late and Soon) "Late and Soon" (1943) - It is the story of Valentine Arbell, a widowed chatelaine and her two daughters living in a large country house. One of her daughters, Primrose has an affair with Valentine''s former admirer Rory, but Rory rekindles his passion for Valentine. Set against the backdrop of imminent second World War in 1942, each character has to face a difficult decision that will change their lives forever. Along with 8 other short stories this edition shows the more evolved side of the author E. M. Delafield. E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was a prolific English author who is best known for her largely autobiographical works like Zella Sees Herself, The Provincial Lady Series etc. which look at the lives of upper-middle class Englishwomen. TABLE OF CONTENTS NOVEL Late and Soon SHORT STORIES The Bond of Union Lost in Transmission Time Work Wonders The Hotel Child The Gallant Little Lady Impasse The Appeal The Philistine: A Story

Set in the Côte d''Azur, Hilary and Angie Moon have to live on their wits and her beauty. This novel is a light satirical take on the residents and guests of a Hotel on the French Riviera who have their own strength and flaws and must come to terms with their lives, age and romance over the course of a typical summer. E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was a prolific English author who is best known for her largely autobiographical works like Zella Sees Herself, Provincial Lady Series etc. which look at the lives of upper-middle class Englishwomen. Excerpt: "Maman, j''ai raté l''autobus!" The shimmering heat-haze of the afternoon seemed to quiver as the shrill, lamentable announcement of this disaster broke into the silence that lay over the deserted terrace of the Hotel." (The Gay Life)

In a small English town of Riverpool several people were found dead in a wax museum, and a rookie journalist, Sonia Thompson, decides to solve the mystery of this notorious place. She goes to spend the night between scary wax figures and while the night slowly unfolds, the horrifying events start to occur. Frightening figures of murderers and lunatics slowly come to life. Ethel Lina White (1876-1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins, on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes, was based.

Set in early 20th century England, on the Welsh border, the novel tells the story of a serial killer who murders disabled young women in the community. His next victim apparently is Helen, a mute girl working as a maid for the wealthy, bedridden Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren urges her to leave the house, as does Dr. Parry, who knows the reason for Helen''s loss of speech and hopes to help her get her voice back. Ethel Lina White (1876-1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins, on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes, was based.

Marilla Reed grew up in wealth, having everything she wanted. After her life turned upside-down, and she lost everything, Marilla lost all hope of finding happiness in life. Just when she thought she hit rock bottom, true love happened!

Murray Van Rensselaer is a spoiled rich kid who gets away with everything. After causing a terrible car accident, Murray leaves town before the police get a chance to charge him with murder. Murray arrives in the new town where he is mistaken for Allan Murray, a young Christian leader who the town was expecting. He accepts this new identity and his new life begins...

Rodney Graeme is a war hero. When he returns home, the whole town comes to greet him. Everyone including his sweetheart Jessica, who had left him for a richer man while he was away. Jessica''s husband is now using Rodney''s feelings for his wife to his own advantage and all of a sudden Rodney finds himself caught up in an espionage plot.

Lynette has been searching for true love her entire life and when she finally finds it, she realizes that something is terribly wrong... Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories and her characters are most often young female Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story. Hill''s messages are simple in nature: good versus evil. As Hill believed that the Bible was very clear about what was good and evil in life and had firm faith God''s ability to restore everything, the same belief was also reflected in her own works. Even today Hill''s novels are widely read and appreciated for their romance and their inspiring life lessons.

Ariel Custer comes to Glenside to find a new home. Unfortunately, things were not going well for her until she met Judson Granniss. Finally, Ariel got what she had always wanted but when a woman mysteriously disappears, Ariel and Judson''s love is put on a test...

When Carol Berkley takes over the company business, she faces a great dilemma: To prove herself and do what is best for the business or listen to her heart.

When Laurel Sheridan, a school teacher, moves to the little town of Carrollton she has a tough time adjusting to the new environment. Finally she finds a friend after meeting a young soldier Phil Pilgrim whose family owns a munitions plant. Suddenly, Laurel''s life gets endangered after she overhears a plot to blow up the new munitions plant. The only person she can trust in the town is Phil and she counts on his help badly...

Evan Sherwood is faced with the biggest dilemma of his life when he is put in charge of bringing his beloved Romayne Ransom''s brother and father to justice. Now he has to choose between professional integrity and love...

Sherrill and Alan grew up together and have been friends ever since. Sherrill gets invited to visit her wealthy relatives in New York and Alan is offered to take part in an important archaeological mission in Egypt at the same time. What seems as a chance of a lifetime for both soon turns out to be the complete opposite. Sherrill and Alan realize that the only true happiness is when they are together.

McRae is a young and courageous woman who is ready to break traditional norms to claim love to the men she loves! Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories and her characters are most often young female Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story. Hill''s messages are simple in nature: good versus evil. As Hill believed that the Bible was very clear about what was good and evil in life and had firm faith God''s ability to restore everything, the same belief was also reflected in her own works. Even today Hill''s novels are widely read and appreciated for their romance and their inspiring life lessons.

Eden''s life turns upside down when her beloved father dies. She feels completely lost and broken. The only comfort in Eden''s life are the letters written by her mother when she was just a child, that her father gave to her prior to his death. Eden''s faith is being restored when she meets a handsome lawyer who comes to execute her father''s will.