http://www.ebooks.com/Literary-CollectionsFeatured Literary Collections titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2009 Ebooks Corporation Ltd11/5/2009 2:40:04 AMhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=32746420090511.32746411/5/2009 2:40:05 AMClassic Mystery Collection - Crime, Suspense, Detective fiction (100+ works including The Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes). List of Works by Author. Honore De Balzac An Historical Mystery. John Buchan The Thirty-Nine Steps. Egerton Castle The Baron''s Quarry. Edmund Clerihew Bentley Trent''s Last Case. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The Man Who Knew Too Much. The Man Who Was Thursday. Father Brown:. The Innocence of Father Brown. The Wisdom of Father Brown. The Incredulity of Fhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=29600720090511.29600711/5/2009 2:40:05 AMFeaturing North America's foremost thriller authors, THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous, to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify. Lock the doors, draw the shades,http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=18499420090511.18499411/5/2009 2:40:05 AMIn his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today. http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=12756420090511.12756411/5/2009 2:40:05 AM A Room of One´s Own is a curious essay. Presented originally as two speeches to the Arts Society at Newham in 1928, the work is remarkable for its distinctive tone, for Woolf´s witty and deceptively casual style, and for her decision to largely eschew abstract arguments in favor of narrative, anecdote and the guidance of a strong, abiding first person narrator. She also, refreshingly, avoids doctrine and bombast, instead infusing her arguments with subtlety, curiosity and open-minded speculathttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=26060120090511.26060111/5/2009 2:40:05 AMThis is a new translation of Homer's epic about Odysseus and his encounters with both natural and divine forces on the ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. It contains an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=32738220090511.32738211/5/2009 2:40:05 AM"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," ( The Christian Science Monitor ) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=41317620090511.41317611/5/2009 2:40:05 AMThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , which Franklin himself called his Memoirs, is the unfinished record of his life written between 1771 and 1790. It has become one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies in history, and has been praised both as a historical document and a piece of literature in its own right. William Dean Howells declared that "Franklin's is one of the greatest autobiographies in literature, and towers over other autobiographies as...http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=43709520090511.43709511/5/2009 2:40:05 AMIn this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=43139320090511.43139311/5/2009 2:40:05 AMThis selection brings together thirty of Woolf's best essays across a wide range of subjects including writing and reading, the role and reputation of women writers, the art of biography, and the London scene. They are enchanting in their own right, and indispensable to an understanding of this great writer. - ;'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'. According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it shttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=43237320090511.43237311/5/2009 2:40:05 AMFollowing the Equator is an account by Mark Twain of his travels through the British Empire in 1895. He chose his route for opportunities to lecture on the English language and recoup his finances, impoverished due to a failed investment. He recounts and criticizes the racism, imperialism and missionary zeal he encountered on his travels - and all with his particular brand of wit.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=44153120090511.44153111/5/2009 2:40:05 AMRemember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? When airline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, and stewardesses catered to our every need-at least in our imaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspoken young ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardess life, jets you back to those golden days of air travel-from the captain who's as subtle as a 747 when he's on the make to the passenger who mistakes the overhead luggage rack for an upperhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=44590620090511.44590611/5/2009 2:40:05 AMConsidered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays (Essais, literally "Attempts") in 1850. Known for his skill at merging serious intellectual debate with personal anecdotes, his vast work collects together some of the most influential essays the world has ever seen, shaping the thoughts Blaise Pascal, René Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Isaac Asimov among others...http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=34058020090511.34058011/5/2009 2:40:05 AMWhen Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense they became an overnight success. First released in 1776 at the height of the American Revolution the treatise denounced British rule and is thought to have been so popular as to have influenced the path of the revolution itself. In the words of Historian Gordon S. Wood Common Sense was, "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=42562720090511.42562711/5/2009 2:40:05 AMFrom the exquisite lyric, "To Helen", to the immortal masterpieces, "Annabel Lee", "The Bells", and "The Raven", The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates the author's gift for the form.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=40928020090511.40928011/5/2009 2:40:05 AMConsidered by many to contain pioneering works of English writing, Robert Louis Stevenson's New Arabian Nights collects together his short stories that were originally published in periodicals between 1877 and 1880. Holding some of Stevenson's first works of fiction to be published, some of these stories are thought by critics to be his best.