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In the Twelfth Century an intrigue at the court of the great Sultan Saladin brings forth the Sphinx Emerald to play its strange magic role. A miniature image of the sphinx hypnotizes its owners and inspires them to make history-changing decisions. Ninth story in the series about the Sphinx Emerald from the master story tell H. Bedford-Jones!-
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This collection dates from 1893 and includes 13 short stories written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. Many of Muddocks mystery stories feature the character Dick Donovan, a Glasgow Detective, named for one of the 18th Century Bow Street Runners. The character was so popular that later stories we
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Some Do Not..., the first volume of Ford Madox Fords highly regarded tetralogy Parades End. Set during the First World War, the novel follows the conflicted relationship between conservative English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens, his beautiful but headstrong wife, Sylvia, and fearless young suffragette Valentine Wannop. An unforgettable explorati
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Dick Donovans detective was considered a great rival to Holmes. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Tyler Tatlock, Private Detective is a thrilling collection of mystery and adventure tales (21 in all) including The Queensferry Mystery in which a series of remarkable house burglaries ta
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From the author of the Thorndyke detective stories. The stories follow the adventures of Romney Pringle, a gentleman con man, thief and master of disguiseswho is not above using his keen observation and wits to track down other criminals. These twelve tales conjure up the authentic atmosphere of Victorian London and offer a thrilling alternative to
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Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver who marries one of his patients, a wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgeralds words, un homme épuisé (a used-up man). The nove
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Taps at Reveille (1935) is a collection of 18 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1935 and dedicated to Fitzgeralds agent Harold Ober. It was the fourth and final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published in his lifetime. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including Crazy Sunday
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Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, Tales of the Jazz Age includes two of F. Scott Fitzgeralds better-known short stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgeralds own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection of ear
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A strange jewel that wrought mischief and magic as it passed from hand to hand down the ages starts its strange eventful dramatic history. Now almost in our own day the Sphinx Emerald turns up in Cairo to work its malign magic in a memorable drama. The Bride of the Sphinx is the seventeenth story of the popular series about the Sphinx Emerald.
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The Great Gatsby, Fitzgeralds third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. The story follows the enigmatic and mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby as he chases the object of his hopeless desire, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. The result is a chronicle of the drama and deceit that swirl around the lives of the wealthy, which cemented Fitz
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The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford is a modernist classic, an intricately worked novel. It tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships are strained and gradually disintegrate, with tragic consequences. The
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Welcome to the The Gold Idol book, were we present to you one of the best work of remarkable author of pulp fiction Francis Henry Frank Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-sf Pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. Despite his commercial success at the time, little is known about Atkins perso
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Austin Freeman and Dr. John James Pitcairn, a medical office at Halloway Prison, writing under the common pseudonym, Clifford Ashdown. This mystery collection is the first work of Freeman and it is a delightful bundle of adventures features the gentleman criminal Romney Pringle, an engaging crook and literary agent who lives in Furnivals Inn, cycli
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Nick Peters was a repairer of watches who fond of friendly arguments with Fin Corveth, a free-lance journalist. One day Peters is murdered, and Corveth finds himself involved in a baffling mystery in which a little brass ball plays an important part for the little brass ball conceals an emerald locket, which in turn conceals a blank square of folde
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Armed with a donkey cart filled with rum, cheese and a tavern signpost, pub owner Humphrey Hump and Captain Patrick Dalroy, a crimson-haired giant with a tendency to burst into song, take to the road in this rollicking, madcap adventure, encountering revolution, romance, and a cast of memorable characters. In this hilarious, satirical romp, G.K. Ch
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This is three novels bound as one. The wonderful Fifth Queen trilogy by Ford Madox Ford (1873 1939) is about Katharine Howard, the 5th wife of Henry VII which present Katharine Howards arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, and her death. Depicting some of the eras most notorious figures, including Thomas Cromwell,
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The first book in the triology, The Fifth Queen recounts Katharines arrival at court and the early stages of her relationship with England king Henry VIII. Growning up far from court, she is wholly unused to the corruption and intrigue that now surround her. Soon Katharine is locked in a vicious battle with Thomas Cromwell, the Lord Privy Seal, as
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More thrilling adventures from the master story tell H. Bedford-Jones! This series about the Sphinx Emerald constitutes, as has been said, a veritable Outline of History or perhaps Highlights of History would be more accurate. For this reason the greatest event in all history could not be left out. Here, then, we see the Holy Family during the exi
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The Devil-Tree of El Dorado concerns the discovery of the legendary city of Manoa in British Guiana, high atop Mt. Roraima, at that date an incredibly remote part of the world. Most desirable, all the expected thrills of an Atlantean thriller plus some: flying damsels; immortals; a satisfying variety of monsters including the frightful shape, with
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The Deaves Affair by Hulbert Footner. A millionnaire family is attacked by a blackmailer. They will be ruined if he always succeeds. A young struggling artist in New York City Evan is engaged to protect the old man from the crowd and from their blunders. But he had to play the role of a detective to help this family to discover the romantically inc
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The Coming Race (1870) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is an early science fiction novel. It offers a fascinating vision of a shadowy underworld populated by strange and beautiful creatures who closely resemble the angels described in Christian lore. These beings, known as Vril-ya, live underground, but are intending to leave their subterranean existence a
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The Clue of the Dead Hand novela features detective Peter Brodie and has a Scottish setting. It tells of a murder and a simultaneous mysterious disappearance at Corbie Hall, a strange, weird sort of place... that has an eeriness about it... calculated to make one shudder. As much a rationalized ghost story as a detective story, it also involves mal
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Dick Donovan was a pseudonym used by (Mr) Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock (1842-1934). Muddock was also a journalist and wrote many other books. His series characters included not only Dick Donovan, the Glasgow Detective, but also Russian Secret Service agent Michael Danevitch, Vincent Trill of the Detective Service, private detective Tyler Tatlock
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F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, first published in 1922, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage of would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As they await the inheritance of his grandfathers fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of al
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Written in the style of a diary, it tells the story of woman living in 1930s Russia who finds herself toiling on a collective farm, battling with public transport, and generally struggling with life in Soviet Russia. Although the style and humor are slightly different than the others in the series, it manages to be on itself a thoroughly interestin
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No one could have been more surprised than our Provincial Lady to receive an invitation from her American agent to travel transatlantic and embark upon a programme of lectures and signings. What follows after she sets foot on American soil is a series of whirlwind tours about the continent, and also including a trip to Canada. This is book 3 in the
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A sequel to extremely popular, largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, by E. M. Delafield (also known as Mrs Henry de la Pasture), about her life in England in the early 20th century. Provincial Lady lives in a country house with her husband, two children, the childrens French governess, Cook and a few assorted helpers. A delightful se
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A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Entertainingly artless and insensitive; by turns lazy and scheming, Hobby keeps his head just above water as the decades leave silent film be
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The final series about the strange and mysterious gem The Passing of the Sphinx Emerald constitutes a veritable Outline of History or perhaps Highlights of History would be more accurate. For this reason the greatest event in all history could not be left out. Here, then, we see in Santa Fe, the story of this malign and magic jewel, which began in
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Suppose you were a young and very rich New Yorker, and you suddenly lost all your money. Suppose you met a taxi-driver and for reasons good to both you agreed to exchange identities. Suppose, having started up Fifth Avenue in the old taxi at one a.m., you were about to admit your first fare when you discovered a dead body already occupying the car.
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Written as Frank Aubrey, The Mystery of an Artists Model is a weird mystery with rationalized supernaturalism. Little is known about Aubrey/Atkins. He was involved in a scandal at the turn of the century and sentenced to nine months imprisonment for obtaining money by deception. After leaving prison he dropped the name Frank Aubrey and in his earl
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The book, written in the 19 c. by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. It is about a married gentleman, first accused of murder of his lover and later acquitted due to brilliant investigation by police in spite of alleged h
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During a period of illness, Latimer first discovers he is able to read other peoples minds and see visions of the future. Rather than being a gift, this strange phenomenon increasingly becomes a curse. But the one thing that keeps him going is his love for Bertha. But everything changes when Latimer finally does gain sporadic insight into Berthas m
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Meet another great pulp extravaganza, 3 in the amazing cycle of tales from Henry Bedford-Jones published in the mid-1940s. That strange bewitching jewel, the Sphinx Emerald, plays another part in world drama when a Mata Hari betrays the Egyptians, and Artaxerxes of Persia storms up the Nile to take over the ancient kingdom of the Pharaohs.
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The strange Sphinx Emerald which Richard had brought home to England from the Crusades was the property of Edward III in this year 1349 a year of triumph because of victory; of terror because of pestilence. And when a beautiful woman coveted the jewel, its tragic power came again to life. This series about the Sphinx Emerald constitutes, as has be
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Written in the cycle of tales by H. Bedford-Jones, The Justice of Amru tells how fanatic followers of Mohammed stormed out of Arabia in the seventh century to slaughter the Greek troops of the Great Eastern Empire and conquer Egypt... and again the strange Sphinx Emerald came to the scene to play its part in the unrolling historic drama.
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The Huntress written by Hulbert Footner who was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser River. He also wrote a series of northwest adventures during the period 1911 through 1920. Pu
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Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a prolific Victorian novelist, member of Parliament, and Secretary of State for the colonies, wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction. The protagonist of this book thinks that all stories related to ghosts, could be explained with a reasonabl
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Imagine a single artifact that has been involved with every era and event from ancient Egypt to post-WWII.Thats the Sphinx Emerald. A strange jewel that wrought mischief and magic as it passed from hand to hand down the ages starts its strange eventful dramatic history here in Ancient Egypt... and crosses the paths of both simple folk and famous me
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The Temple of Fire, or The Mysterious Island (1905), the authors seventh novel out of an eventual 14. It is an absorbing lost-world adventure, characterized by vividly imaginative. Francis Henry Atkins British speculative fiction writer, working mainly under two pseudonyms (Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash) in sequence, was extremely successful and inf
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A well-travelled journalist James Edward Preston Muddock though he was better known as Joyce Emerson Preston Muddock, wrote prolifically in a number of genres. The vast majority of his output were sensational detective stories in which Dick Donovan was the main character. In the lost world novel The Sunless City (1905), Josiah Flintabbatey Flonati
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Welcome to the important and meaningful adventure novel of Francis Henry Atkins which is The Sunken Island: or the Pirates of Atlantis, appeared in 1904. Frank Atkins (1847-1927), who has written under several names, including Frank Aubrey and here as Fenton Ash. He was a British writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younge
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A multimillionaire Silas Gyde was killed by an anarchists bomb and Jack Norman found himself Silas Gydes sole heir and the richest man in New York. The inheritance included a warning from his benefactor about an elaborate protection scheme promising to protect the wealthy from anarchists, in which Gyde had declined to enroll. Jack enlists a out-of-
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These Sphinx Emerald stories are a veritable Outline of History. The Son of Julius Caesar is the fifth one from the master story tell H. Bedford-Jones! Many of his works were historical fiction/adventures, about knights, pirates, buccaneers, vikings, musketeers, revolutionaries, legionnaires, soldiers, sailors, and assorted adventurers. Here the tr
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A strange and mysterious gem named the Sphinx Emerald leaves its trail through history: a witness to many historic events and crosses the paths of both simple folk and famous men and, for good or bad, exerts its powerful influence... Catherine de Medici coveted the Sphinx Emerald. And when the King gave it as a reward to his physician, Doctor Nôtre
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Chestertons last novel is a reflection of his first novel. Michael Herne, the librarian at Seawood Abbey, is asked to play the part of a medieval king. He not only takes his role seriously by thoroughly researching the Middle Ages, when the play is concluded, he refuses to take off the costume... Set in the early 20th Century, this is the intriguin
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This is the fourth and last of autobiographical novel series by English author E. M. Delafield (1890-1943). It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman in the 1930s. The story of a volunteer in a womans underground canteen service in England during the World War 2 who must cope with gas masks, evacuated relative
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There are peaceful people and there are passionate people, and once in a while you encounter someone who is beyond passionate, and probably murderous. Such people often make very clever predators, changing name and lifestyle like chameleons. How many will you meet in this story? How many spies? Will the detective or the clever people prevail? Read
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James Edward Preston Muddock also known as Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock and Dick Donovan (1843-1934) was a prolific British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Most of Muddocks stories featured his continuing character Dick Donovan, the Glasgow Detec
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A woman goes on a secret errand into the far Northwest. Before it is accomplished the usual characters come into the story Indians, mounted police, and the villain. Written by Hulbert Footner who was an Edmonton journalist and travelled the northwest before it was settled. Published in 1921, it is a fascinating eye-witness view of the times and at
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Zanoni, first published in 1842, was inspired by a dream. This piece of literature describes a fascinating story of love and occult aspiration. The main character is Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian who has lived since the Chaldean civilisation. He falls in love with a young opera singer, Viola Pisani but to Zanoni, falling in love means losing his
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Wanted! A Detectives Strange Adventures, by James Edward Muddock (Dick Donovan), is a collection of 22 short stories. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1889 and 1922 he published nearly 300 detective and mystery stories. Donovan investigates crime in all its forms, recovering priceless jewels,
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Lucia is now rich, happily married, and Mayor of Tilling but the village gossip is in full swing and Lucias arch-rival Miss Elizabeth Mapp is out for revenge. Their epic collisions rock their small society and provide the narrative engines for Bensons gloriously farcical masterpieces. Will Lucia fall at the final hurdle? Delightfully witty and sha
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Richard Longsworth is the main character. The book begins to find him young, carefree and autonomous. He is the master of his own destiny and owes nothing to anyone. Soon he meets Maria Kurkuas, the heroine.
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This is a short novel about Elfrida, a young girl who gets her art education before being forced to realize that her talents may lie elsewhere instead. She runs away to Europe hoping to find a career in journalism. She read in many magazines.
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This is historical fiction. The author retells the classic struggle of Xerxes invasion of Greece leading to Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea. Seen through the eyes of a fictional Athenian, it interweaves fictional love and honor restored with historical characters.
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This is a charming and highly readable novel written in the middle of the 19th century. This novel also combines the adventure and twists of a novel with a moderately upper-class protagonist. Frank sees work life as a problem, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed in medicine, portraiture, caricature, and even forgery. Disillusioned with life, he
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For a person unaccustomed to the imposing religious ceremonies of the Catholic Church, it was a delightful sight to observe all the pomp and splendor displayed at this high celebration. The papal choir now and then sang the melodic masses characteristic of worship, and hundreds of centers spread all-consuming spirits around.
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The regiment, as usual, lacked officers, and John had to hold daytime parades three times a week. This story is about a poor guy who tried to do everything to get out of poverty. This story keeps everyone to the end.
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This novel is dedicated to the generation of builders of the first railway in the West. This subtle powerful novel and very touching. Beautifully written in sharp, stingy language that enhances the meaning of the simplest gesture and the slightest statement.
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Although it is a work of fiction and the story, dialogue and structure are perfect, the historical facts and perspective are very reliable as the author was a university professor specializing in this period. You will see how the pagan religions of that time influenced men and women. This book will appeal to fans of historical novels about the Roma
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Robert W. Chambers is known for his science fiction, thrillers. He wrote a classic romance novel. When Mrs. Greensleeve first saw her child, she knew that he was different from other children.
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The action is completely framed as a fantasy. In this story, the atmosphere of the imprisonment of a madman (and possible recovery) and a villain, the story of his keeper, is completed.
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The hero of the novel, Armadel, decides how to deceive fate, become loved and fall in love for life. The mysteries of life are the mysteries of love, which are presented to us by the main characters of the novel, and it is up to the readers to decide which characters to side with. A cry of passion or the silent restraint of love this is how the he
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The action of the story takes place in the summer capital of the British Raj, is a narrative. The author questions the concepts of taste, distinction and pretension in a colonial context. The book keeps you in suspense until the very end.
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The book shows the journey from the American Dream to the American Tragedy. And this path is shown through the life of an ordinary young man, Clyde Griffiths. Clyde, a young man from a poor large family of street preachers, not alien to vanity, pride, but deprived of education, ends up in Lycurgus, where he receives a position in a factory of wealt
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Mamie Vick from Chicago, USA travels alone to London to do some sightseeing, with the full approval of her family. Mamie does all the typical American tourist stuff; she visits Madame Tussauds, London Zoo, Epsom Derby, boat races in Oxford. The protagonist is full of little unexpected insights and surprises.
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Bartley Alexander is a civil engineer and world famous bridge builder. He is going through a midlife crisis. While married to Winifred, Bartley rekindles a relationship with Hilda Burgoyne from London. This connection torments the moral principles of Bartley.
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This book is one of the most popular novels by Robert William Chambers and has been translated into several other languages around the world. No history of the 3rd Zouave or 8th Lancers has ever been written except in this narrative; and historians and veterans alike would look in vain for any record of these two regimentsregiments that could have
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When Night Falls is a complex novel. Six fascinating stories, full of mystery and tension, are collected by the author into a single picture, worthy of taking its place among the most exquisite works of classic English literature. The stories consist of formal introductions to each story, including character sketches of the alleged narrators, a fic
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This novel is for lovers of romance novels. The author describes how a man meets a woman and their relationship develops. This romance will put you in a good mood as the love line will place you in pleasant memories.
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This story begins with the termination of the protagonists engagement to his daughter-in-law. narrator with a fiancee who does not approve of the change. The protagonist decides to travel to Europe, to Italy and France. Travel provides an opportunity for witty observation of people and places, and by the end, romance has re-entered the storytellers
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A young aristocrat falls in love with a shopkeepers daughter and is forced to hide his marriage to her from his relatives because of the existing class inequality. The hero of the novel is subjected to countless trials, which lead some of the characters to a tragic end.
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The loving heart of the protagonist of the novel, Iris, remains faithful to the master of her destiny. The conflict with the father does not prevent the lovers from connecting, but how does this story end?
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Cardigan Novels is a conditional cycle that combines historical novels by Robert Chambers that tell about the period of the American Revolutionary War. The novels do not have a connected plot, but the same fictional and historical characters appear in the course of each: Sir William Johnson, Walter Butler, Jack Mount, etc.
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The novel tells about the life of a French missionary in the southwestern United States. In the center of the novel are two Frenchmen, Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Veillant, who left Europe and devoted their entire adult lives to creating a new Catholic parish in Santa Fe after the Mexican War.
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The novel clearly includes a huge amount of historical research. And then there is the geography associated with it Charles always stops in the middle of his flight to admire this or that beautiful prospect. The author also gives us the latest news about what happened to all these places. The author uses Boscobel as a guide to follow Charles steps
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Another romantic family adventure thriller by Robert W. Chambers about a young man who comes to an island with a gun he owns to hunt waterfowl. He meets the man who runs the club and falls in love. Everything is going well until he meets his daughters father.
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Guy Fawkes, a prominent figure in the history of England, was one of the leaders in the Gunpowder Plot, whose goal was to overthrow King James I, the Protestant king of England. The plan failed, and Fox and his accomplices were executed in front of the public.
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Hide and Seek is a story about love, betrayal, hardship and forgiveness. Mr. Valentine Blyth is an artist. While working in the countryside, painting portraits of babies and sometimes portraits of horses, he meets a deaf-mute girl named Mary.
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Mrs. Galileo is engaged in various studies and spends much more than she can afford. Suddenly, Mrs. Galileo receives custody of her niece Carmina, in her plans to never let the guardianship out of her hands. The doctors secret experiments in vivisection lead to the fact that a young girl becomes infected with a terrible virus.
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This book is about an actress and her growing up in a country full of secrets and strange people. Duff Lindsay faces a strange situation when he falls in love with Laura Filbert.
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This is a very hilarious story by Wilkie Collins. This book reads like sensational journalism from the 1800s or an old radio show. The characters are fun and cute, and the story moves quickly and leaves you with a smile on your face.
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The novel is set in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Due to the imperfection of the marriage legislation of England, Ireland and Scotland and the presence of conflicting articles in it, a woman becomes a victim of her scoundrel husband, and then her daughter falls into the same situation many years later. But fate, although cruel, is fair wi
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Lucy Gayheart is well known in her small Nebraska town for her great looks, energy and piano playing. Everyone assumes that she will marry the son of banker Harry Gordon, including Harry, but at 18 she goes to Chicago to study piano and ends up making money accompanying the famous international vocalist when he spends time in Chicago. Her life, oth
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Lorraine is a story about a young woman and her country. Lorraine comes of age during the dramatic war years in France. Its growth, conflicts and possible renewal are reflected in the countrys struggle for its independence against Germany.
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These are Victorian melodramas set in England with a strong focus on the class system, but in the end thats what makes the stories so special. There are several common themes of Wilkie Collins, including the general theme of the return of a character presumed dead. Great for readers of Victorian fiction.
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The heroine of the novel, Mina, the only daughter of Madame de Fontaine, is in love with Fritz. But Fritzs father is opposed to his sons marriage and believes that Mina and her mother encroached on the familys wealth. Suddenly, the grooms father, Mr. Koehler, falls ill, and Madame de Fontaine gives the sick man a miraculous medicine. She cures him
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This is the story of an innocent beautiful young woman from the poorest family, who throughout her life is associated with men of high social status. How her family members react to such a connection became the basis of the plot. The novel takes place over several decades.
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Set in the eighteenth century, the novel is a retelling of the story of real-life criminal turned tragic anti-hero Jack Sheppard. The sensational melodrama tells about the life of the eponymous anti-hero.
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This fantasy novel would make a wonderful addition to any bookshelf and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of seminal works. A fantastic satire about the Art Nouveau poet and his eight daughters, who grew up in the countryside and in nature.
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The main character landed in New York that very morning. At that moment, he was standing in the bar of the Astor Hotel, sober enough not to tell the bartenders everything he knew, and drunk enough to talk too much in a place where the enemy is always listening.
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The protagonist narrator serves as a common thread for stories that also feature humor. A young scientist travels the world in the footsteps of mysterious animals. This is an ironic and fantastic adventure of a self-confident biologist.
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This is a typical English Victorian novel. The action takes place in a womens closed boarding house, the main characters are girls, one of them will turn out to be of aristocratic origin, the other will have a passionate affair with an unrecognized artist.. in a word, everything we expect from Victorian novels is passion, moralizing, trials, censur
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The story of a boy who grew up in a wealthy farming family, not avoiding hardships and always ready to lend a helping hand. The story of a love that didnt happen, but rather happened, between the main character or Antonia, turns out to be more than growing up, more than just about the history of one country. This is a story about a change of mind.
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One of the best classic novels in world literature. Jean Valjean, Cosette, Gavrosh the names of the heroes of the novel have long become common nouns, the number of its readers for a century and a half since the publication of the book has not been reduced, the novel does not lose popularity. A kaleidoscope of people from all walks of life in Fr
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In Calling Dr. Kildare, Dr. Kildare has left his family home to work in a metropolitan hospital with the brilliant Dr. Gillespie who is slowly dying. Kildare has been chosen to work under the irascible Doctor and receive his vast knowledge. On his first case, young Dr. Kildare defies his chief-of -staff, and faces danger and scandal... It is the se
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Another great Western by Max Brand aka Frederick Faust, Clung is one his most memorable and intriguing characters. As a Western author, Brand did not shrink from controversial topics such as race relations in the Old West. There is a mystery about the birth of Clung, who is raised by an old Chinese man in a small Arizona town, but none about his sk
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One of Max Brands worth reading as an alternative to his western stories. Michael Clovelly might not have been the greatest swordsman ever to come to London town during the reign of the Merry Monarch, Charles the Second, but if a better man ever wielded a blade, he had not yet stepped forth to claim the distinction. Seeking gold with which to eleva
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Lucky Bill has the reputation of a natural battler, but he is not a cold-blooded killer. Then Bill finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he is accused of a crime he did not commit, and plenty of greenhorns and gringos set their sights on collecting the price on his head. Hes wanted by every tin star in the West and by every greedy gunslin
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A power more than human, a will to absolute evil such was he. All who had tried to save her from him perished... Must her true love also die? Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior Westerns like his Destry
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If you enjoy a fast moving western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, youll like Happy Jack (1936) by Max Brand. One bullet was all it took to change Jack Anderson from a carefree boy into a hunted man. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists and turns. The journe
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Bad News for Bad Men is an excellent classic story by the incomparable Max Brand (Frederick Faust). Great read with Maxs leading off to unexpected places with characters you come to know personally. Max leads the reader to characters bigger than life, they come to life as people we wish we knew personally. People who deal with life by taking an act
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After 8 years in prison for murder, Jimmy Geary returns to his town Yellow Creek, and his past, and an ambush. Jimmy was very happy to see town again. But there are three men who arent happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short... Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Max Brands remarkable gif
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No matter what name Frederick Schiller Faust was writing under, its sure to be a tightly written action packed book and Outlaws Code is no exception. Lawrence Grey is called El Diablo the devil though hes fair-haired and has a boyish grin. But no jail can hold him, and some swear that he is the fastest gun alive. Yet everyone has Grey pegged as a
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First published in 1932, Lucky Larribee is another great read by Max Brand. Alfred Larribee likes drinking, not working. He likes gambling, too. Maybe thats what drives him to risk his easy-going life for Sky Blue, the horse of a lifetime. When he first goes after this wild and magnificent animal, he knows about the back shooters. But no one tells
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This great book by Max Brand tells the story of honest, hard working Phil Slader, the son of a notorious murdering outlaw, who had sworn not to follow the footsteps of his father, a feared and hated gunman. Phil was adopted by the man who put a bullet in his fathers heart. Watched and expected every day to explode into the lawless ways of his fathe
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After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene returns home, only to find his father alone and dying. Old John Keenes sole legacy to his son is a Bible, so with his fathers passing, Tom renounces his selfish, worthless past and sets out to preach to others that the greate
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This collection includes three short novels from one of the top three Western novelists of all time Max Brand (Frederick Faust). The stories here are character studies of outlaws, the lives they lead and the lies and myths that spring up about them. The title novel, Peter Blue, is an excellent character study. Blue, wounded in a gunfight, has lost
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One of many recommended westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand. In this short story told in the first person, Leon Porfilo, an outlaw of poor beginnings and lowly ancestry, goes up against Jef
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Larramees Ranch is another great and entertaining Max Brand novel! This is quite a change of pace for Max Brand. His hero Tom Holden is a bookish young man with a bad leg, no money, and no experience with firearms. When he sets out to make his fortune, he has no real prospects but through a series of bluffs he outwits a killer, faces down a town bu
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Max Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior westerns like his Destry Rides Again, but Brand also wrote the Dr. Kildare series and numerous detective stories as well. Never before published in book form, this 1937 police procedural by veteran Brand introduces New York police detectives Campbell and ORourke. The pair investigate the app
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Another great tale by Frederick Schiller Faust who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand! The Kid was a lawmans worst nightmare. A fearsome gun-for-hire, he was a legend written in blood and carved in the tombstones of the men he killed. But this time he was facing an old enemy
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The name Max Brand is synonymous with great adventure and quality. Good men gone bad fill the pages of this Western trio, with stories of outlaws, horse thieves and a rowdy ranch hand who turns to stage robbery. This book contains three short novelettes: The Nighthawk Trail, Vamps Bandit and the title story, Rifle Pass. In Rifle Pass, ageing Sherif
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Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel Six Golden Angels. Max Brands action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world. Brand penned over 200 full-length Westerns in his career, including Destry Rides Again and Montana Rides Again. But in
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Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust) is one of the greatest early Western writers who has been labeled one of the top three Western novelists of all time and Speedys Bargain is one of 9 Speedy stories that have seen print in various collections. Speedys Bargain features Speedy, Brands atypical western man of action who carries no gun and relies on
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Another Sleeper story, featuring Sleeper, a gunslinger turned horse-thief, from the collection More Tales of the Wild West. Six action-packed stories of the Old West, filled with unforgettable characters, includes A Lucky Dog, in which mans best friend helps a would-be killer and thief find salvation, along with A First Blooding, Inverness, (aka Sl
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A collection of three short exciting stories by Max Brand aka Federick Faust. Brand has been labeled one of the top three Western novelists of all time so western fans will be in for a treat. It includes The Flaming Rider, Outlaw Buster and Sun and Sand. Three western stories about men who appear to be lacking the intelligence and skills to survive
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They called him Speedy because he could outsmart bankers, outfox barkeeps, and outwit bounty hunters faster than any man alive. He arrived on an iron horse. The day he rode into Durfee, he was more than ready to use his skills to make a killing. To Speedy, Durfee didnt look any different from a hundred other towns hed seen before. There were fat ba
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One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. Also, he wrote somewhere around 12 or 13 historical swashbucklers not including the seven Tizzo stories. Faust spent time in Italy every year and soaked
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