At the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land o...
King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during...
Henry Vizetelly, writing under the pseudonym J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, recalls an expedition to California he took between 1847-1848 . Originally, he planne...
Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling b...
The story follows the passengers and crew of the Golden Mary, a ship bound for California during the Gold Rush. The ship is shipwrecked on an iceberg,...
An anthology unlike any other. An investigative approach to European fables of the middle ages, and tracing their origins across time and space, even...
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him nat...
A man is speaking to a group of colliers in a small mining village. They have decided that they have had enough of the way they are treated and decide...
