Books published by publisher Dead Authors Society

NOTE: The print size of this book is 1 mm. The Blue Castle (1926) is regarded by most critics and literary historians as L. M. Montgomery's best-written work, although Montgomery is still best-known for her novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). But The Blue Castle has grown greatly in popularity since being republished in 1990. The book has also often been successfully adapted for plays and musicals.

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction," and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction. The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

The eccentric pastor and orphan-lover George Muller cared for at least 10, 000 orphans in his lifetime and after his death through his legacy of inspiring others to do the same, the number of children increased to 100,000. He prayed in millions of dollars (in today's currency the estimate is 150 million) for the orphans and never asked anyone directly for money. He never took a salary in the last 68 years of his ministry, but trusted God to put in people's hearts to send him what he needed. And neither he nor the orphans were ever hungry or lacking in any necessities.

In this masterful translation by David Wyllie which is true to the original, the Czech-German writer Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) shows us why he has had such a profound and lasting influence on literature for over a hundred years. Although much of his work was technically unfinished at the time of his death, he now stands as one of the great novelists of modern fiction. THE TRIAL is Franz Kafka's masterpiece, first published in 1925. Kafka's best-known work, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. This brilliant cautionary tale can also be read as a clever indictment of the stupidity and corruption of the legal system and government bureaucracy.

Peter B. Kyne (1880 - 1957) was an American novelist, many of whose works were adapted into screenplays, something at which he proved to be a huge success. He is credited in 110 films between 1914 and 1952. When still under 18, he lied about his age and enlisted in the U.S. Infantry, serving in the Philippines from 1898-1899. The Spanish-American War provided background for many of Kyne's later stories. During World War I, he served as a captain in the 144th field Artillery, known as the California Grizzlies. He was born and died in San Francisco, California. The Go Getter is the story of a war veteran with few prospects but making good. It's about overcoming great obstacles in the financial world to "make it" and become successful with what you want to achieve, finding the positive energy and business smarts to get where you want to be in a career. A popular inspiration to employees and employers alike since its first publication, this is Peter Kyne's most well-known and lasting work.