Simeon Lee has demanded that all four of his sons—one faithful, one prodigal, one impecunious, one sensitive—and their wives visit the family home for Christmas. But the cantankerous patriarch has anything but a heartwarming family holiday in mind. He bedevils each of his sons with barbed insults, while at the same time lavishing attent...more

Stricken with arthritis, Miss Jane Marple has packed herself off, at the insistence of her nephew, for some rest and relaxation at a resort in the Caribbean. The sea is sublime and the weather is fine in this quiet paradise so far away from bustling St. Mary Mead. But suddenly the calm is interrupted by the death of Major Palgrave, one of her fello...more

"Califia writes from the place where Doors frontman Jim Morrison wrote from-a strange, erotic new wild, wild West."-Chicago Free PressBikers, hustlers, cops, leathermen, bears, and even a vampire are just a few of the hard men you'll meet in this mind-blowing collection of searing, balls-to-the-wall, bad-to-the-bone erotic writing by the legendary ...more

ANOTHER story of the world famous Jeeves. When the happiness of Bertie Wooster's pal two pals, in fact was at stake and the situation called for action, Bertie could not sit idly by. Bertie's best-laid schemes, like those of mice and men, went "aft a-gley," and it was as well that Jeeves was ever at hand, not only to pour oil on the troubled waters...more

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the henhouses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side...more

Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the...more