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Jack London
“The Acorn-planter: A California Forest Play” is a play by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Acorn-Planter was published the year that Jack London died. It is a play designed to be mostly sung accompanied by background music. It follows a tribe of California natives who react to the first presence of white settlers. The story then follows the tribe at a later date when the white settlers return. It depicts the interaction between these cultures and embodies London's ideas on war and its effect on the human race.
May Agnes Fleming
A child of Irish immigrants, writer May Agnes Fleming was born in Canada and has lived in the United States in recent years. The exciting romance novel The Actresss Daughter contains many elements that contributed to Flemings popular recognition: strong female characters, complex plot twists and many dark intrigues. On Christmas Eve, and the main characters this time cast a spell on the weather....
George Bernard Shaw
“The Admirable Bashville” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. “The Admirable Bashville” is a short play based loosely on Shaw’s novel “Cashel Byron's Profession”. The play was written to protect American copyrights after the novel became unexpectedly successful in the United States.
Edgar Wallace
Carfew was an erratic genius, with a horror of anything that had the appearance of discipline, order, or conventional method. So it was with some luck that there was a train disaster while he was working in the newspaper office of The Megaphone. He was dispatched to the scene and came back triumphant: The Spaniard is a fake! shouted Carfew. He had forgotten all about the railway accident. Shortly thereafter, so would his editor. The Admirable Carfew is a collection of loosely linked short stories. The slowly developing fortunes of a young entrepreneur, trying his hand at various deals, from stock dealing to theatre ownership and just managing to scrap through.
The Admirable Tinker. Child of the World
Edgar Jepson
Edgar Jepson was a prolific English writer whose career spanned from the eighteen-nineties to the nineteen-thirties. He achieved fame principally for his entertaining mainstream detective and adventure stories, although he also wrote two fantasies, The Horned Shepherd and The Garden at 19. If you enjoy the works of Edgar Jepson then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. The title character of The Admirable Tinker is repeatedly described as an angel child and has a knack for attracting improbably large sums of money. Tinker plays tricks on people, and most of the time they serve some kind of practical purpose, but the favorite thing about him is how perfectly at home he is in all situations.
The Adventures of a Modest Man
Robert W. Chambers
The narrator is a widower with two daughters, living happily into a rather troubling middle age and pushing away his daughters suitors so that his daughters would live with him a little longer. A younger neighbor persuades him to buy a pig and then bets that the boredom of life has so eclipsed his intelligence that he wont be smart enough to stop someone from stealing it. If the narrator loses the bet, he will jump out of his rut by going to Paris.
The Adventures of a Suburbanite
Ellis Parker Butler
A city man moves to the suburbs with humorous results gardening, automobiling, and golfing become new avocations. The book The Adventures of a Suburbanite includes two chapters on golf: The Royal Game and Advanced Golf. The subjects of humor in this book are mostly the two neighbors opposing opinions about all aspects of domestic and rural life, the gardening, and a variety of slapstick troubles with an automobile. Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, this is suburbia... much the same today as it was in 1911. Find out!
Edgar Wallace
The hero, the discharged Army Captain Reginald Hex, was the prototype for Anthony Newland, whose adventures were related several years later in The Brigand (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1927). The first two Hex stories were revised and published as Anthony Newland stories in that collection under the titles Buried Treasure and A Contribution to Charity. The stories are adventurous and well written but definitely a product of their time and place. Edgar Wallace was a British author who is best known for creating King Kong. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays. Wallaces works have been turned into well over 100 films.