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Max Brand
Raw frontier action is epitomized in Lee Porfilo. With a penchant for settling his problems with his fists, a penniless fighter constantly in trouble, he finds himself framed for murder by wealthy and powerful ranchers. Now he has an enemy for life. In a desperate bid to prove his innocence, flees into the wilderness, with the law and bounty hunters in hot pursuit. An interesting story written in the older style of language usage that youll find in other Max Brand western novels. Entertaining and holds your interest throughout the read. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. This charming collection of sketches from Victorian literary master brings together a number of pieces that were originally published in various popular periodicals of the era. The Mudfog Papers describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog. It also describes the delusions of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble, his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrious scientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research. Written at the same time as Oliver Twist indeed the serialized version of the novel referred to Mudfog as the protagonists home town The Mudfog Papers lampoons all manner of journalistic and scientific writing of the time and showcases the young Dickens at his satirical best.
Max Brand
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. This is one of his Western fiction. Raised on the tough streets of Old New York, Gregg could beat a man to death with his fists and use a pistol like an artist. Armed with these talents, he headed west to make his fortune, never realizing that herding mustangs was what hed end up doing. He didnt know a lot about horses, but he knew anyone who stood in his way was as good as buzzard bait.
Jack London
The main character tells about his stay on the ship Elsinore, in which from the very beginning there are not the most rainbow events. With each chapter of the event more and more go beyond the framework of the rational and the main character is aware of this. Traveling by ship is a long coexistence of many people in a limited space, where they have nowhere to go from each other, and they are forced to constantly contact. Latent antipathy there develops into a demonstrative hostility, and discontent and bitterness into fierce hatred. All these feelings vividly expose the wild essence of man, hidden under the tinge of civilization.
Jules Verne
A storm, an eruption of a volcano, pirate attacks, a mysterious captain Nemo and, of course, a story of survival on a piece of land in the ocean are interwoven into the adventurous plot of the novel The Mysterious Island offered to the reader: resourceful heroes thrown by a hurricane onto a desert island themselves make sugar and melt steel. They make bricks, wool, sulfuric and nitric acid, nitroglycerin and dynamite, design a telegraph and a spinning machine. One of Jules Vernes most fascinating novels, The Mysterious Island, is an exciting adventure story of islanders.
Zane Grey
Readers with a taste for classic Westerns will appreciate this storys spirited, well-drawn characters and its evocative descriptions of the frontiers natural beauty. Hell-Bent Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. The plot centers around this young woman, an orphan named Columbine, who is entrapped by her allegiances into considering marriage to the drunkard son of her adopted father. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty and affection for the old man, who raised her as his own child, and her blossoming love for a young ranch hand, Wilson Moore. Columbines dilemma seems impossible to resolve until tragedy, fate, and the mysterious rider intervene.
The Mystery of an Artists Model
Fenton Ash
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 early 60s, following a three-year hiatus began writing as Fenton Ash.
Robert W. Chambers
This is an excellent collection of horror stories that remind of the dark side of nature and what it hides. The author can impress his readers not only with prose, but also with the atmosphere. This is a story about the murder of a butterfly collector and the haunting spirit of a renegade priest.
Talbot Mundy
The mystery of the tomb of Khufu is a story about Jeff Ramsden written by Talbot Mundy. In this fascinating story, Ramsden travels a lot and encounters his old friend, the beautiful Joan Angela Leich. Soon they go to the desert, try to unravel the mystery of the place of the tomb of Khufu and help the old Chinese mathematician, which is blocked by the usual shoemaker from the villains, trying to steal the treasure for himself. Much more modern and anti-imperial in the world than his predecessors Mandy wrote to a soul an interesting novel with a lot of adventures and acute sensations.
Rex Beach
Father often asked Kirk Anthony to do a real job. But Anthony, despite almost idolizing his strong, successful father, just cant stop having a good time with his fathers money. He goes to fancy dinners, drives the latest cars, and treats his friends to sumptuous meals. Then a man steps in trying to get away from the law. At dinner, he persuades one of Anthonys drunken friends to play a terrible joke on him.
Rex Beach
American Norvin Blake travels to the island of Sicily to attend the wedding of his good friend, Count Martel Savigno. However, the mafia appears in the story, which leads to tragic events on the night before the wedding. The main character has to find out who ordered the killer.
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling wrote the story of the New Army or Kitcheners Army about the new battalions created for the Great War. Kipling wrote several stories about the war and describes the routine in which recruits, officers, and other ranks passed before they were sent to battle fronts. Fans of Kiplings writings will love this brief treatise on citizen soldiers in England.
The Nigger of the Narcissus. A Tale of the Sea
Joseph Conrad
The Nigger of the Narcissus was written in 1896 and is loosely based on Conrads own experiences as a sailor; in 1884, Conrad made a voyage on the real Narcissus from Bombay to Dunkirk as a Second Mate, and some of the events described in his novella may be based on adversities Conrad and his fellow-sailers had to contend with. And yet, Conrads third novel is much more than just an accout of adventures at sea partly based on fact and experience. In The Nigger of the Narcissus, Conrad powerfully expresses his emotional leanings towards a seafaring life but he also unfolds a rather pessimistic worldview, maybe an even more pessimistic one than in many of his later works. An absolutely engrossing tale that takes place on board of the Narcissus, a ship bound for England. It explores the microcosm on board of this ship and examines human nature and power relations as more and more strain is put on the crew.
Jack London
Romance and adventure, the majestic nature and extreme conditions, strong and independent heroes Jack Londons stories are extremely popular, more than a hundred adaptations of works are known. In a small work, Born in the Night, the author shows how the benefits of civilization are inferior to the forest and to a huge concept called Freedom. A woman who stumbles upon abandoned bags of gold does not become a noble lady with a wardrobe, but leads a small tribe.
Max Brand
For all his untamed ways, Whistling Dan Barry has won the love of Kate Cumberland, who struggles to lure him from the call of the wind and the night in the desert country. But Dans mysterious personality leads him into one difficult situation after another, for the path he takes with his wild companions - the stallion Satan and the wolf dog Black Bart - is strewn with desperate enemies and fierce encounters. "The Night Horseman" is part of a trilogy about a mysterious gunslinger who appears to be a Casper Milquetoaste but, in concert with a powerful wolf-dog, and a murderous stallion; is able to overpower seemingly any opposing force.
The Nine Unknown The Red Flame of Erinpura
Talbot Mundy
This is the first story in which Chulunder Gon takes a leading position, and previously acted only in the company of other Mundi heroes. The story is about a corrupt Indian ruler who is looking for hidden wealth on his land and has formed a background for the curtains of the gods of Manda. The buried treasures are in fact oil deposits. The inspirational author had his own interest in oil in Mexico and the presence of oil in Assam, one of the Indian provinces, which Talbot visited in his youth. Mundi describes the acquisition of wealth in the context of an adventure, about which he simultaneously wrote and tried to live in it.
The Oak Openings. Or, The Bee-Hunter
James Fenimore Cooper
In this book you will find a description of the life and way of life of the indigenous inhabitants of the country Indians and white settlers; numerous hunting scenes. The novel will not leave indifferent either those who appreciate the sharp, constantly in suspense plot, or those who are interested in the conditions under which the development of the American continent was carried out at the beginning of the last century.
The Old London Merchant. A Sketch
William Harrison Ainsworth
At that festival time, when the days are the shortest and the nights the longest, and when, therefore, it is the invariable practice of all intelligent men to turn night into day; when the ratio of business and pleasure is clearly in favor of the latter; when a magnificent carnival is held in London, and everything testifies to the predominance and influence of good humor.
Max Brand
Young Larry Lynmouth had been the most fabulous outlaw of them all. Now he was determined to go straight. But going straight wasnt that easy-not with ugly leeches like Jay Cress around, who couldnt believe any man was fool enough to be honest. Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel The Outlaw. Packed with enough action, twists and turns to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity. This classics appeal extends far beyond the core audience for Westerns give it to a yet-to-be-won-over friend or loved one, and soon theyll be clamoring for more.
B.M. Bower
B. M. Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns. Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, reflected an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters, the occasional appearance of eastern types for the sake of contrast, a sense of western geography as simultaneously harsh and grand, and a good deal of factual attention to such matters as cattle branding and bronc busting. The Parowan Bonanza is one of her stories. This short but engaging novel contains all of the elements that made B. M. Bowers books a mainstay of the genre of classic Westerns.
The Passing of the Sphinx Emerald
Henry Bedford-Jones
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 Ancient Egypt, comes to its strange conclusion.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 behind. F. Scott Fitzgeralds collection of 17 humorous short stories paints a comic portrait of a man unwilling to accept his fate as a thing of the past.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
This is a novel about how the British colonizers of late Victoria in Calcutta fall in love with the wrong people. Hilda Howe is a travel-loving actress clearly on her way to the top of her profession before she meets Stephen Arnold, a Catholic priest.
John Buchan
We wonder that so great a man as Abraham Lincoln should spring from humble people but who knows what his more distant ancestry might have been? In a series of dramatic chapters, Mr. Buchan tells what he imagines to have been the ancestry of Lincoln. The Path Of The King is a series of short vignettes, loosely connected, starting in Scotland before the Normans arrived and involving the people who where in conflict with their Scandinavian cousins. It ends in America with the aftermath of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In the journey from the start to the end we visit various historical events and figures, such as France and Joan of Arc. This collection of fourteen short stories shows John Buchans talent for heroic adventures. Hightown under Sunfell is set in the time of the Vikings, whilst The End of the Road surrounds the period of Abraham Lincoln. Other tales cover periods in between. If you ever read one book by John Buchan this should be it, a true masterpiece of historical fiction.