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The Missing Ship - The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley

William Giles Kingston

The Missing Ship: The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley is a sea story written by an English writer of boys' adventure novels. Excerpts from the book:“No sign of a breeze yet, Owen?” asked Captain Tracy,..

The Mayor of Troy

Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Mayor of Troy is a fiction novel written by Arthur Quiller-Couch, a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monu..

The Betrothed

Alessandro Manzoni

The Betrothed is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel in the Italian language. ..

Bouvard and Pécuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1

Gustave Flaubert

As there were thirty-three degrees of heat the Boulevard Bourdon was absolutely deserted. Farther down, the Canal St. Martin, confined by two locks, showed in a straight line its water black as ink. I..

The Fire Within

Patricia Wentworth

Dora Amy Elles (15 October 1877[1] – 28 January 1961[2]), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer...

Förvillelser

Hjalmar Söderberg

Förvillelser is a Swedish fiction novel written by Hjalmar Söderberg. He was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offe..

Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X

Victor Appleton

A great classic for the home or classroom, an interesting old-fashioned reference book.Tom Swift Jr. and his associates at Swift Enterprises wait breathlessly for what may well be the most important s..

Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure

Edward L. Wheeler

This western, published around 1899, is a dime novel that has it all: roguish gun men, hostile Indians, chivalrous gentlemen to protect the hapless females, and - in Calamity Jane - even a female who ..