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Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
“Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle….It is improbable that anyone else will ever bring his combination of interest and talent to the depiction of these old-time Pirates, any more than there could be a second Remington to paint the now extinct Indians and gun-fighters of the Great...
Author
Publisher
Longmans, Green & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Micah Clarke is an historical adventure novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1889 and set during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 in England. The book is a bildungsroman whose protagonist, Micah Clarke, begins as a boy seeking adventure in a rather romantic and naive way, falls under the influence of an older and vastly experienced, world-weary soldier of fortune, and becomes a grown up after numerous experiences, some of them very...
Author
Publisher
GEO. GOTTSBERGER PECK
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome is a tale of a young and restless Roman lad, who seeks his fortune in brutal circumstances of ancient Rome, near the end of the 1st century. Quintus lives with his mother and sisters in Baiae, small town in the bay of Naples, while his father is a priest to the temple of Jupiter in Rome. He is betrothed to his beloved Cornelia who is sent to Tibur on a decision by her uncle. The very next day after Quintus...
Author
Publisher
GEO. GOTTSBERGER PECK
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome is a tale of a young and restless Roman lad, who seeks his fortune in brutal circumstances of ancient Rome, near the end of the 1st century. Quintus lives with his mother and sisters in Baiae, small town in the bay of Naples, while his father is a priest to the temple of Jupiter in Rome. He is betrothed to his beloved Cornelia who is sent to Tibur on a decision by her uncle. The very next day after Quintus...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This is a Project Gutenberg edition released in 2020.
From the original:
SOME persons spend their surplus on works of art; some spend it on Italian gardens and pergolas; there are those who sink it in golf, and I have heard of those who expended it on charity.None of these forms of getting away with money appealed to Araminta and myself. As soon as it was ascertained that the automobile was practicable and would not cost a king's ransom, I determined...
Author
Publisher
William Blackwood and Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Dariel: a romance of Surrey is a novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1897. It is an adventure story set initially in Surrey before the action moves to the Caucasian mountains. The story is narrated by George Cranleigh, a farmer who falls in love with Dariel, the daughter of a Caucasian prince. Dariel was the last of Blackmore's novels, published just over two years before his death. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"It had been a great day for the children at Hope Center the closing day of school, the last of the term, the last of the week. The larger boys and girls had spent the morning decorating the "big" room, which was to be the assembly-room. At the Center they were still quite primitive. There were many old or rather elderly people very much opposed to "putting on airs." Boys and girls went to school together, but they wouldn't have called it co-education....
52) Woman and Puppet
Author
Publisher
Greening & Co., Limited
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In Spain the Carnival does not finish, as in France, at eight o’clock on the morning of Ash Wednesday. Over the wonderful gaiety of Seville the memory that “dust we are,” etc., spreads its odour of sepulture for four days only, and the first Sunday of Lent all the Carnival reawakens.
Author
Publisher
The Copp Clark Company Ltd.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'These narrow, cramped streets torture me! I must get out of this place or I shall go mad. The country, with its rolling fields and great stretches of calm sky helps a little, but nothing except the ocean will satisfy my spirit. Five years have gone now, and I am still penned up in this miserable hole, with no power to go abroad, save for a cruise up the Channel, or a run south along the coast. If matters do not change, I think I shall quietly weigh...
Author
Publisher
The MacMillan Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
I was born in London on the eighteenth of June, 1815. The battle of Waterloo was being fought as I entered this world. Thousands were giving up their lives at the moment that life was being bestowed upon me. My father was in that great battle. Would he ever return? My mother was but eighteen years of age. Anxiety for his safety, the exhaustion of giving me life prostrated her delicate constitution. She died as I was being born.
Author
Publisher
Cupples & Leon Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'I do wish you'd wear a sunbonnet, Betty,' said Mrs. Arnold, glancing up from her ironing board as Betty Gordon came into the kitchen. 'You're getting old enough now to think a little about your complexion.'
Betty's brown eyes laughed over the rim of the glass of water she had drawn at the sink.
'I can't stand a sunbonnet,' she declared vehemently, returning the glass to the nickel holder under the shelf. 'I know just how a horse feels with blinders...
Author
Publisher
Whitman Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
King Arthur, who held sway in Camelot with his Knights of the Round Table, was supposedly a king of Britain hundreds of years ago. Most of the stories about him are probably not historically true, but there was perhaps a real king named Arthur, or with a name very much like Arthur, who ruled somewhere in the island of Britain about the sixth century. This book, originally published in 1918, is a fictional story set in his royal court.
Author
Publisher
Bradbury, Evans, and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
To have entered, more fully than I have done, into the events and fighting prior to the Retreat from Cabul, would have proved unsuitable for the purpose of my story, and for these events I must refer the reader to history or the newspapers of the time.
An officer of the Queen's 44th Regiment escaped death in the Khyber Pass in the mode narrated in its place, by wrapping the regimental colour round him; and strange and varied as the adventures of...
Author
Publisher
Bradbury, Evans, and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
To have entered, more fully than I have done, into the events and fighting prior to the Retreat from Cabul, would have proved unsuitable for the purpose of my story, and for these events I must refer the reader to history or the newspapers of the time.
An officer of the Queen's 44th Regiment escaped death in the Khyber Pass in the mode narrated in its place, by wrapping the regimental colour round him; and strange and varied as the adventures of...
Author
Publisher
T.C. & E.C. Jack LTD.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, in a country not far from Fairyland, there lived a king and queen and their daughter, whose name was Una.
Una was one of the most beautiful princesses that ever were seen, and she was as good as she was beautiful.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
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It was drawing towards the close of the last day of the year. A few hours more, and 1836 would be no more. It was a cold day. There was no snow on the ground, but it was frozen into stiff ridges, making it uncomfortable to walk upon. The sun had been out all day, but there was little heat or comfort in its bright, but frosty beams. The winter is a hard season for the poor. It multiplies their necessities, while, in general, it limits their...
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