Bøger af Taylor Anderson

The illustrated copy Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday. Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday is the 1909 novel by the famous author Frances Hodgson Burnett. The novel continues the story of Robin Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

An Illustrated copy of An Antarctic Mystery. An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane. Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south Indian Ocean, but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

True Stories from History and Biography is the 1843 novel by the author Nathaniel Hawthorne, made famous by the novel the Scarlet Letter, and other dark tales and horror stories. In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such a form and style, that the YOUNG might make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a Chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Young Lord Stranleigh is the 1908 novel by Robert Barr. The books opening line sets the tone, "It was shortly after nine o'clock in the morning that young Lord Stranleigh of Wychwood, in a most leisurely fashion, descended the front steps of his town house into the street. The young man was almost too perfectly dressed." The story follows Young Lord Stranleigh as he pursues his three passions, finance, mining, and sailing. Written with comedic wit that is unperilled, even today, it may not be appropriate at times, but it is written in such a way that puts the book clearly in the realm of timeless classics. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Academic Question; Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations is the work of the Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. The work concerns the art of teaching Romans. It was originally written in 45 BC and translated in 1875. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Girls' Book of Famous Queens is the 1887 book full of illustrations and biographies of famous queens throughout the ages. It is the companion book to the Boys' Book of Famous Rulers. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Complete Volumes I & II of The Letters of Henry James. Henry James, OM was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. He is best known for a number of novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between emigre Americans, English people, and continental Europeans - examples of such novels include The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove. His later works were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often made use of a personal style in which ambiguous or contradictory motivations and impressions were overlaid or closely juxtaposed in the discussion of a single character's psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their composition, his late works have been compared to impressionist painting. In addition to voluminous works of fiction, James published articles and books of criticism, travel, biography, autobiography, and plays. Born in the United States, James largely relocated to Europe as a young man and eventually settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.

When A Man's Single, A Tale of Literary Life is 1888 book by the famous author J. M. Barrie. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Tommy and Grizel is the 1900 follow up to Sentimental Tommy by the famous author J. M. Barrie. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Monster Men is a 1913 science fiction novel written by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs under the working title "Number Thirteen". It first appeared in print under the title of "A Man Without a Soul" in the November, 1913 issue of All-Story Magazine, and was first published in book form in hardcover by A. C. McClurg in March, 1929 under the present title. It has been reissued a number of times since by various publishers. The first paperback edition was issued by Ace Books in February 1963. Cornell University professor Arthur Maxon, who has been experimenting in the creation of artificial life, travels with his daughter Virginia to one of the remote Pamarung Islands in the East Indies to pursue his project. Their departure is noted with interest by a young man, Townsend J. Harper, Jr., who is quite taken with Virginia and determines to find out where they are going. In Singapore, Maxon commissions Dr. Carl von Horn to take them the remainder of the way to their destination in his yacht the Ithaca, and then to assist him in his experiments. On the island the group fights off a pirate attack and builds a fort.

Great Expectations is the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens. It is a coming of age story about a young orphan named pip. Set in the mid ninetieth century the story of Pip depicts scenes of love, rejection, poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death. They are some of the most well-known and remembered scenes of Dickens' writings. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Three Ghost Stories is Charles Dickens brief but successful query into the mystery and detective genre. Known for classics such as A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol, Dickens superb satirical whit lends itself well to the genre and made this a successful book. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

An Illustrated edition of The Valkyries by E. F. Benson. The Valkyries is the 1903 novel by the famous English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, E. F. Benson. The novel is a stylized version of the epics of Norse mythology. The author "fleshed out" the story from a famous opera of the time and the story stays true to the style of the Norse myth. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville was originally published in 1851. The story is told by a sailor Ismael about a captain Ahab, obsessed with revenge on a whale, Moby Dick, a white whale, that on a previous voyage had maimed Ahad by biting off his leg. The Novel was a disaster when published and didn't gain notoriety until after Melville's death during the 20th century at the time of the "Great American Novel." Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama. This is the smaller 10 point print version of the book.

Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (February 8, 1850 - August 22, 1904), was a U.S. author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is now considered by some scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald. Of maternal French and paternal Irish descent, Katherine O' Flaherty was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She married and moved with her husband to New Orleans. They later lived in the country in Cloutierville, Louisiana. From 1892 to 1895, Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults that were published in such national magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The Century Magazine, and The Youth's Companion. Her stories aroused controversy because of her subjects and her approach; they were condemned as immoral by some critics. Her major works were two short story collections: Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Her important short stories included "Désirée's Baby" (1893), a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana, "The Story of an Hour" (1894), and "The Storm"(1898)."The Storm" is a sequel to "At the Cadian Ball," which appeared in her first collection of short stories, Bayou Folk. Chopin also wrote two novels: At Fault (1890) and The Awakening (1899), which are set in New Orleans and Grand Isle, respectively. The characters in her stories are usually residents of Louisiana. Many of her works are set in Natchitoches in north central Louisiana, a region where she lived. Within a decade of her death, Chopin was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time.In 1915, Fred Lewis Pattee wrote, "some of Chopin's work is equal to the best that has been produced in France or even in America. She displayed what may be described as a native aptitude for narration amounting almost to genius." Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Country" Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War published in 1866 is his first book of poetry. It deals with the battles and aftermath of the American Civil war. Told through the personalities, the poems are a very unorthodox style creating praise and criticism. The book also contains Melville's thoughts on post-war reconstruction, this section alone being a must read. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Refugees is the 1893 historical fiction novel by the Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The two principle protagonists are Amory de Catinat and Amos Green, A Huguenot guardsman and an American respectively. The plot revolves around the marriage of King Louis XIV's marriage to Madame de Maintenon as well as the revoking of the Edict of Nantes and the eventual emigration of the Huguenots to America. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Plays of Protest is a collection of the best dramatic plays by the famous Pulitzer Prize winning author and playwright, Upton Sinclair. The collection includes: The Naturewoman The Machine The Second-Story Man Prince Hagen Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

William Blake is the illustrated edition of the 1910 work of criticism of William Blake. William Blake would have been the first to understand that the biography of anybody ought really to begin with the words, "In the beginning God created heaven and earth." If we were telling the story of Mr Jones of Kentish Town, we should need all the centuries to explain it. We cannot comprehend even the name "Jones," until we have realised that its commonness is not the commonness of vulgar but of divine things; for its very commonness is an echo of the adoration of St John the Divine. The adjective "Kentish" is rather a mystery in that geographical connection; but the word Kentish is not so mysterious as the awful and impenetrable word "town." We shall have rent up the roots of prehistoric mankind and seen the last revolutions of modern society before we really know the meaning of the word "town." So every word we use comes to us coloured from all its adventures in history, every phase of which has made at least a faint alteration. The only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning-at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way, for the sake of brevity. If Blake wrote the life of Blake it would not begin with any business about his birth or parentage.

Through the Looking-Glass is Carroll's 1871 sequel to the 1865 fantasy classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Set shortly after the original novel, the protagonist, Alice, once again enters the fantastical wonderland world. Only, this time she doesn't haphazardly fall through a rabbit's hole, but enters through climbing into a mirror into which she can see a world beyond. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James. This novel tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. Some of these people befriend Milly with honourable motives, while others are more self-interested. Kate Croy and Merton Densher are two betrothed Londoners who desperately want to marry but have very little money. Kate is constantly put upon by family troubles, and is now living with her domineering aunt, Maud Lowder. Into their world comes Milly Theale, an enormously rich young American woman who had previously met and fallen in love with Densher, although she has never revealed her feelings. Her travelling companion and confidante, Mrs. Stringham, is an old friend of Maud. Kate and Aunt Maud welcome Milly to London, and the American heiress enjoys great social success.

Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed. It is his most eloquently written and most raw satire. The story follows J. Hillis Miller and his search for the only thing he cares for. The story is summed up with the ling, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life." Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

A Christmas Carol in Prose: A Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1843 and more commonly known as just A Christmas Carol. The story is about Ebenezer Scrooge, a crabby man who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner and three more ghosts representing the past, present, and future. The tale explores Christmas traditions and commentary on society of the day but is ultimately about redemption and is a Christian allegory. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Danger! And other stories Danger! And other stories is a collection of short stories by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that were published shortly before the onset of WWI. It contains: Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius One Crowded Hour A Point of View The Fall of Lord Barrymore The Horror of the Heights Borrowed Scenes The Surgeon of Gaster Fell How It Happened The Prisoner's Defence Three of Them Odin's Library Classics Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem (Letters to brother Quintus) is a collection of letters from Roman politician and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero to his younger brother Quintus. The letters in this collection, when combined with Cicero's other letters, are considered the most reliable sources of information for the period leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic. His letters to Quintus share a similar quality to those sent to his close friend Titus Pomponius Atticus, written with a freedom and frankness not to be found in his correspondence with others. Traditionally spanning 3 books, and featuring letters from 60 or 59 to 54 BCE, this collection may have been first published by Cicero's freedman and personal secretary Marcus Tullius Tiro sometime after the deaths of both brothers in 43 BCE. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Little Dorrit is the 1857 novel by the famed author Charles Dickens. The novel is a satire like much of dickens work that focuses its attention on the shortcomings of the government and society at the time, most notably in this novel, debtor's prison. Dickens viciously attacks the practice as well as the lack of social safety net and the bureaucracy of the British Treasury. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

An illustrated edition of Flatland. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novel by the famous author Edwin A. Abbot. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens published in 1848. Originally titled Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation, the story centers on Paul Dombey, a wealthy business owner of a shipping company. His wife dies in child birth with his second child, a son, his first, a daughter, which he continually neglects. The story was hailed as one of his most underappreciated novels as it details the neglect Dombey's daughter receives, a cruel mirror of the society at the time. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Herland is the utopian novel by the predominant feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1915. It is among the classic utopian and dystopian novels of the early twentieth century. The plot involves three explorers that discover a previously uncharted land filled only with women. The society is free from war, conflict, and inequity. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great influence on modern feminism because of her view on utopian feminism and unorthodox lifestyle views. Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Crux is an important work of literature by the early feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Published in 1910 it was influential piece, especially for young women. The story centers around a young protagonist Vivian as she falls in love with an explorer that has both gonorrhea and syphilis. Her concern is not that she will catch the diseases, but that she will hurt the "national stock," if she were to marry and conceive. The novel is a "story . . . for young women to read . . . in order that they may protect themselves and their children to come." Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great influence on modern feminism because of her view on utopian feminism and unorthodox lifestyle views. Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.