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The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was...

Loudon Dodd and his friend Jim Pinkerton buy in San Francisco the Flying Scud, a wrecked ship abandoned on Midway Island. The two will experience an adventurous journey in the attempt to take hold of...

Humphrey van Weyden, a naive intellectual is saved by Wolf Larsen, strong and mysterious captain of a seal-hunting schooner. Forced to become a cabin boy on the "Ghost", Humphrey will live adventures,...

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in...

Alain Boulanger And The Saint Of Paris: France ThrillerCrime novel by Henry Rohmer Jeannot "Saint-Pierre" Janvier, the head of a charitable foundation, is the darling of millions as a popular televangelist....

An adventure novel oversea personally lived by the author, set sailed from the San Francisco Bay aboard a 45 foot boat in 1907, the Snark. He narrates the adventurous journey across the Pacific lasted...

There could be no more fitting introduction to this most amazing narrative from the pen of James Peter Munn than that article in the Morning Mercury. Munn, it is no breach of confidence to inform the...

We had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of...

Bob Houston, the youngest agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, stepped out of the Department of Justice Building and turned toward home, his heart beating faster than it had in months. It hardly...

There was a party up in Heaven the night that I was born and my mother’s Guardian Angel was playing one of those now-you-see-it-and-now-you-don’t shell games with the Court Jester while the Head-Man so...

ON the farther side of the great Pacific Ocean are the Philippine Islands. These form one of the many island groups that hang like a fringe or festoon on the skirt of the continent of Asia. Like most...

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author best known for writing The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s writings on “The Jazz Age” are the most famous on the subject. This version of Fitzgerald’s...

Hereford Cathedral bears the name of Ethelbert of East Anglia, king and martyr, round whose death, at the hands of the men of Offa of Mercia, this story of his comrade centres, and dates its foundation...

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been...

Emma had spent the last five years learning to cope with tragedy. She should have known that Doc had something up his sleeve when he'd talked her into taking a cooking job at a Colorado cattle ranch....

For your reading enjoyment, Legion of Dorks presents an anthology exploring monsters, the messes they make, and the people responsible for cleaning them up. The multifarious collection includes: An adorable...

The Arrow of Gold is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1919. The story is set in Marseilles, France, around 1870, during the so-called "Carlist War".The story is set in Marseilles, France, around...

Adrift in the City or Oliver Conrad's Plucky Fight written by Horatio Alger, Jr. who was a prolific 19th-century American writer. This book was published in 1902. And now republish in ebook format. We...

The Yellow Typhoon written by Harold MacGrath who  was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. This book was published in 1919. And now republish in ebook format. We believe...

More than four hundred years ago there lived in England a poet named Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599). He was brave and true and gentle, and he loved all that was beautiful and good. Edmund Spenser wrote...

The Pilates Method told to children and pre-adolescents to offer them the opportunity to experience how the mind and body function as an integrated whole.

In Seas and Lands, Sir Edwin Arnold gave us the impression that Japan was a real fairyland in the Far East. And he was correct. Herein you will find over 200 magical myths, legends, tales and fables of...

Balaam and His Master written by Joel Chandler Harris who was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist. This book was published in 1891. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this...

AFTER THOUGHT is an electrifying and unforgettable dystopian thriller that imagines what society could look like after America's second Civil War. In the wake of unspeakable violence, the United States...

**** PREMIUM EBOOK WITH BEAUTIFUL LAYOUT **** The "Petits Poèmes en Prose" are experiments, and they are also confessions. "Who of us," says Baudelaire in his dedicatory preface, "has not dreamed, in...

This is the first issue of, "The Journeys of the Sorcerer", a one-man magazine filled with fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories. In this issue, you'll find: Terranova – In the 16th century, Manuel...

The good ship "Nautilus" had completed the greater part of her voyage from London to her far-off destination, deep in the recesses of British America. This was York Factory, one of the chief posts of...

On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the...

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Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837– 39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold...