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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
Dodd Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include a series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and the novel Brewster's Millions, which was adapted into a play and several films."
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Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Peter: A Novel Of Which He Is Not The Hero is a novel published in 1908 by Francis Hopkinson Smith, which was the sixth best selling book in the United States in 1908, and ninth best-selling book of 1909. It sold in excess of 100,000 copies.
The book is set in New York City, but the New York of a few decades prior to 1908 when the book was released. Peter Grayson is an aging banker of the old school; an upstanding and cultured gentleman, and not...
Author
Publisher
Cambria Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Anarchy in a Cold War is a novel by Kurtis Sunday set in the West Berlin alternative-squatter-Punk scene during the latter part of the Cold War. The city, a focal point in the conflict between East and West, was a capitalist enclave smack in the middle of Communist East Germany. It was entirely surrounded by the Berlin Wall, complete with razor wire and machine gun posts. There is much that is familiar and much that is not. The Cold War is raging...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
La suite de «La reine Margot». Située entre le 9 février 1578 et le 19 août 1579, l'action s'ouvre sur le mariage de Saint-Luc, ex-amant de la reine Margot et favori d'Henri III, rappelé de Pologne pour succéder à Charles IX. Chicot, personnage central de la trilogie, déjoue avec maestria les conspirations contre le roi qui se succèdent. Sur ce fond d'intrigues, se déroule l'histoire des amours de Diane de Méridor, dame de Montsoreau,...
Author
Publisher
MICHEL LÉVY FRÈRES, LIBRAIRES ÉDITEURS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Septembre 1798. Suite à son retour d'Aboukir où il a vaincu Bonaparte, lord Nelson, accompagné de la flotte britannique, est reçu en triomphateur par la cour de Naples. L'ambassadeur français Garat fait irruption dans cette manifestation d'hostilité anti-française et promet la guerre au Royaume de Naples. Trop vite cependant: le soir même, Salvato Palmieri, agent envoyé de Rome par le général Championnet, et qui devait l'informer de la...
7) Le Bossu
Author
Publisher
LEIPZIG, ALPHONSE DÜRR, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Un grand classique du roman de cape et d'épée. Vous connaissez tous l'histoire de Lagardère, par les multiples films qui ont été faits. Pourquoi ne pas lire l'original ?...
Author
Publisher
Calmann-Lévy
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Anatole France, pour l'état civil François Anatole Thibault1, né le 16 avril 1844 à Paris et mort le 12 octobre 1924 à Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (Indre-et-Loire), est un écrivain français. Il est considéré comme l’un des plus grands de l'époque de la Troisième République, dont il a également été un des plus importants critiques littéraires.
Il devient une des consciences les plus significatives de son temps en s’engageant en faveur...
11) 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
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Zululand is a wild region of mountain ranges, deep valleys and gorges, roaring torrents, rapidly flowing rivers, plains covered with mimosa bushes, meadows where cattle pasture and grow fat, and level plateaux extending for many miles across it, several hundred feet above the level of the ocean; while scattered here and there, in some parts pretty thickly, are to be seen the kraals or villages and the mealy grounds of the natives. Wild as is the country,...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Just below the brow of the hill one of the traces broke (it was in the horse-and-wagon days of a dozen years or so ago), and, if our driver had not been a prompt man our adventure might have come to grief when it was scarcely begun. As it was, we climbed on foot to the top, and waited while he went into a poor old wreck of a house to borrow a string for repairs.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Roberta Marsden, or Lil Missus, as the negroes called her, for the opening of my story dates back several years before the Civil War began, lived on a country place in Kentucky. She was a beautiful child, and despite a few foibles that all flesh is heir to, such a really lovable one that she was fairly worshiped by mother, aunt and uncle, and every one of the negroes, from old Caleb, the testy and ancient coachman, to the veriest pickaninny, who thought...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In May, 1624, the Dutch packet New Netherlands sailed up the Hudson River to the head of navigation, bringing a company of eighteen families under the leadership of Adrian Joris. The immigrants landed at a little trading post called Beaverwick kept by one Tice Oesterhout, a pioneer hunter, married to a Mohawk Squaw.
18) Starvecrow Farm
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
British author Stanley J. Weyman rose to literary fame with a series of swashbuckling adventure tales. Over time, Weyman bridled against the constraints of that genre and began to explore other settings. The novel Starvecrow Farm is one of a series of domestic dramas that Weyman penned in a mid-career change of direction. Fans of novels about English country life will love this finely wrought rural romance.
Author
Publisher
Richard Bentley
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Confessions of a Thug" is an English novel written by Philip Meadows Taylor in 1839 based on the Thuggee cult in British India. It was a best-seller in 19th-century Britain, becoming the British Empire's most sensational ethnographic fiction in the first half of the 19th century; its avid readers included Queen Victoria. It was one of the best-selling crime novels of the 19th century, and was the most influential novel about India prior to Rudyard...
Author
Publisher
Hilliard, Gray, and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The scenes and characters of this little tale are wholly fictitious. It will be found that the tragic interest that belongs to the history of the year 1692 has been very much softened in the following pages.
The object of the author has not been to write a tale of witchcraft, but to show how circumstances may unfold the inward strength of a timid woman, so that she may at last be willing to die rather than yield to the delusion that would have preserved...
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