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The latest wide spread virus infection in the northern hemisphere called the Coronavirus or COVID-19, is spreading panic across several continents as of the writing of this book on March 4, 2020. Author Marlys J. Waters has spent a majority of her 74 years studying healthy living and eating habits. Much of the contents of this book were summarized from medical or scientific studies on improving the natural immunity of the human body. Sources, ...

The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work is generally considered to have drawn upon and be base...

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST" IS A SHORT STORY BY OSCAR WILDE. IT WAS THE FIRST OF WILDE'S STORIES TO BE PUBLISHED, APPEARING IN TWO PARTS IN THE COURT AND SOCIETY REVIEW, 23 FEBRUARY AND 2 MARCH 1887.ABOUT THE STORYThe story is about an American family who move to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. It has been adapted for the stage and screen several times.SynopsisTh...

The Castle of OtrantoHorace WalpoleThe Castle Of Otranto tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above. This inexplicable event is particularly ominous in light of an ancient prophecy, "that the castle and lordship of Otranto should...

The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade"). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.A collection of related short stories by British author G. K. Chesterton. Each story is centered on a per...

The Gadfly is a novel by Irish writer Ethel Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June, Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings.[1] The story centres on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love, Gemma, simul...

A Garland For Girls1887 Being Boston girls, of course they got up a club for mental improvement, and, as they were all descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, they called it the Mayflower Club. A very good name, and the six young girls who were members of it made a very pretty posy when they met together, once a week, to sew, and read well-chosen books. At the first meeting of the season, after being separated all summer, there was a good deal of ...

Divine Choir, volume 3, marvelous continuation of Divine Choir volume 1 & 2. Various poets from all over the world. Action in Heaven and on Earth, very entertaining, on all subjects of life and afterlife.

Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation. He has run off to the sea with another man's wife and quickly grown tired of her, but two obstacles block his route to escape: he is broke, and he faces the absolute enmity of Von Koren, an arrogant zoologist and former friend who can no longer tolerate Laevsky's irresponsibility. Soon Laevsky confronts Von Koren, accusing him of meddling in his affairs, but Von Koren maneuvers...

Editorial ReviewsAmazon.com ReviewFirst published in 1915, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier begins, famously and ominously, "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." The book then proceeds to confute this pronouncement at every turn, exposing a world less sad than pathetic, and more shot through with hypocrisy and deceit than its incredulous narrator, John Dowell, cares to imagine. Somewhat forgotten as a classic, The Good Soldier has b...

Le Médecin malgré lui est une pièce de théâtre de Molière en trois actes de respectivement 5, 5 et 11 scènes en prose représentée pour la première fois le 6 août 1666 au Théâtre du Palais-Royal, où elle obtint un grand succès. Reprenant des motifs issus de la comédie italienne déjà utilisés dans Le Médecin volant et L'Amour médecin, Molière y ajoute des éléments tirés de la tradition de la farce française et de celle des fabliaux du Moyen Âge....

A Critic in Pall MallBy Oscar WildeAs one enters Rome from the Via Ostiensis by the Porta San Paolo, the first object that meets the eye is a marble pyramid which stands close at hand on the left. There are many Egyptian obelisks in Rome-tall, snakelike spires of red sandstone, mottled with strange writings, which remind us of the pillars of flame which led the children of Israel through the desert away from the land of the Pharaohs, but more ...

Hope (A Devotional Book), is a book about how as Christians we always have reasons to have hope. In Jesus, we should put our hope.

real life 1988 murder of my aunt. I was her story told and remembered. Includes pictures, story, details, and more. I hope you enjoy this book. I took me many years to write this and gather all the information. Gone but never forgotten

The Book of Tea, one of the great English tea classics, is a long essay about the connection between teaism, Taoism, and the aesthetics of Japanese culture. It was written by Okakura Kakuz

an ancient military treatise by Sun Tzu on warfare, statesmanship thinking and tactical methods, business tactics, countertactics, negotiation, dialogue, cooperation plans, approach strategies, diplomacy, and diplomatic manoeuvresThe Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician, and it was believed to have been compiled during the late Spring and Autumn perio...

Division O-O is unmanageable. The students run the class and the teachers are exhausted! Upon the arrival of Ms. Chievus, things start to change...for the better or worse? Ms. Chievus in the Classroom is a fun book about self-regulation, playfulness and mutual respect.

Piero della Francesca and the Baptism of the New World reveals that heliocentrism, the modern day planetary system and the existence of the American continent is referred to in Piero's work. As a new age was dawning for humankind, these revolutionary ideas were suspected before their official discoveries and were kept secret due to them confuting the dogma and beliefs of the Church and the powerful. Indeed, as late ast the 17th century, Galile...

A Century in the North Peace recounts the life and times of an ordinary but remarkable woman, Anne Callison. Together with her husband John Callison, she lived a 20th century of incredible change in the North Peace River District of British Columbia, Canada. Her tale?from immigration, remote farming, traplines, and trading to the coming of the Alaska Highway and running motels, volunteering and giving back to the community?is told against the ...

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