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| A E W Mason | The Four Feathers — A E W Mason |
The Four Feathers “"Look!" she said, and Feversham suddenly felt all her weight upon his arms. Her face lost its colour and grew tired and very grey. Her eyes shut tightly and then opened again. He t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| A E W Mason | At the Villa Rose — A.E.W. Mason |
At the Villa Rose “"They came to me a little while ago in that cupboard there--Adele and the old woman Jeanne. They made me get up. They told me they were going to take me away. They brought my cloth…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | The Three Musketeers — Alexander Dumas Pere |
The Three Musketeers “Porthos…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | Ten Years Later — Alexander Dumas Pere |
Ten Years Later “Volume Two of the Vicomte de Bragelonne (was divided into four parts in the English version I have).…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | Twenty Years After — Alexander Dumas Pere |
Twenty Years After “The second volume in the Three Musketeers series.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | The Man in the Iron Mask — Alexander Dumas Pere |
The Man in the Iron Mask “The final volume of the Three Musketeers series.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | The Black Tulip — Alexander Dumas Pere |
The Black Tulip “"I tell you, Rosa, that I shall demolish this prison, stone for stone!" and the unfortunate man, whose strength was increased tenfold by his rage, began to shake the door with a gr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexander Dumas Pere |
The Count of Monte Cristo “"No, no," continued Danglars; "if we resolve on such a step, it would be much better to take, as I now do, this pen, dip it into this ink, and write with the left hand (that the wr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | Louise de la Valliere — Alexander Dumas Pere |
Louise de la Valliere “The third volume of the Vicomte de Bragelonne series, fourth volume of the Three Musketeers.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexander Dumas Pere |
The Count of Monte Cristo “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | The Three Musketeers — Alexander Dumas Pere |
The Three Musketeers “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | Ange Pitou — Alexander Dumas Pere |
Ange Pitou “Moreover, notwithstanding the terror generally inspired by the sight of monsters, she felt a desire to look at, and perhaps even to admire, this extraordinary man, who by a crime h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | Chicot the Jester — Alexander Dumas Pere |
Chicot the Jester “Then St. Luc kissed his wife's hand, and went to the king, who was already growing impatient. Jeanne, alone and trembling, hid behind the curtains of the bed. When St. Luc entered …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere | The Vicomte de Bragelonne — Alexander Dumas Pere |
The Vicomte de Bragelonne “Note: Actually, only the first part of what's published, in France, as The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Vol. II is 10 Years Later, III is de La Valliere, IV is Iron Mask. Oops.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes | The Borgias and The Cenci — Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes |
The Borgias and The Cenci “Caesar's ambition was only fed by victories: scarcely was he master of Faenza before, excited by the Mariscotti, old enemies of the Bentivoglio family, he cast his eyes upon Bologn…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes | Massacres of the South — Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes |
Massacres of the South “Some of the faithful being disturbed in their meditations, came out of the church and chastised the little Huguenots, whose parents considered themselves in consequence to have bee…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes | Mary Stuart — Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes |
Mary Stuart “A week after the events we have related, as nine o'clock in the evening had just sounded from the castle bell, and the queen and Mary Seyton were sitting at a table where they were…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes | Karl Ludwig Sand, Urbain Grandier and Nisida — Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes |
Karl Ludwig Sand, Urbain Grandier and Nisida “Urbain Granadier was not satisfied with the arrogant demonstration by which he signalised his return, which even his friends had felt to be ill advised; instead of allowing the hat…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes | Derues and La Constantin — Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes |
Derues and La Constantin “"And I am not in the habit of running useless risks, most noble cavaliers. You are, it is true, two against one; but," he added, throwing back his cloak and grasping the hilts of a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes | Marquise de Brinvilliers, Vaninka, Marquise de Ganges — Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes |
Marquise de Brinvilliers, Vaninka, Marquise de Ganges “Gregory sighed heavily, threw a last look up at the window, and seeing that everything remained the same there, he mustered up resolution enough to lie down on the fatal plank. At …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes | Ali Pacha, The Countess of Saint Geran, Murat — Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes |
Ali Pacha, The Countess of Saint Geran, Murat “A career of successful crime had established Ali's rule over a population equal to that of the two kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. But his ambition was not yet satisfied. The occupa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes | Joan of Naples, the Man in the Iron Mask, Martin Guerre — Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes |
Joan of Naples, the Man in the Iron Mask, Martin Guerre “Who was the Man in the Mask? Was he rapt away into this silent seclusion from the luxury of a court, from the intrigues of diplomacy, from the scaffold of a traitor, from the clash…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes | The Countess of Saint Geran — Alexander Dumas Pere/Celebrated Crimes |
The Countess of Saint Geran “An hour later, everybody being tired, all was perfectly still. The prisoner then rose softly, and felt about on tiptoe on the chimneypiece, on the furniture, and even in his clothe…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Anthony Hope | Rupert Of Hentzau: From The Memoirs Of Fritz Von Tarlenheim — Anthony Hope |
Rupert Of Hentzau: From The Memoirs Of Fritz Von Tarlenheim “Sequel to Prisoner of Zenda.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Anthony Hope | The Prisoner of Zenda — Anthony Hope |
The Prisoner of Zenda “Whether I had slept a minute or a year I knew not. I awoke with a start and a shiver; my face, hair and clothes dripped water, and opposite me stood old Sapt, a sneering smile on h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Anthony Hope | THE PRISONER OF ZEMBLA — O. Henry |
THE PRISONER OF ZEMBLA “About this time the Princess Ostla, who began to feel better at the sight of her lover, slipped a piece of gum into her mouth and closed her teeth upon it, and even smiled a little…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Anthony Hope | Frivolous Cupid — Anthony Hope |
Frivolous Cupid “Now, when the Judges were come, and the maiden was brought in and set over against them on the right hand, and the learned Doctor took his stand on the left, Deodonato prayed the J…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Anthony Hope | Phroso — Anthony Hope |
Phroso “It was no more than just dusk, and I saw that they were strangers to me. One was tall and broad, the other shorter and of very slight build. They came on towards us confidently eno…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Anthony Hope | THE PHILOSOPHER IN THE APPLE ORCHARD — ANTHONY HOPE |
THE PHILOSOPHER IN THE APPLE ORCHARD “"Dear me! And it's quite an interesting case! Yes, I see. The question is, Will she act most wisely in accepting the offer of the man who loves her exceedingly, but for whom she en…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | El Dorado — Baroness Orczy |
El Dorado “Pimpernel in the New World…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | The Scarlet Pimpernel — Baroness Orczy |
The Scarlet Pimpernel “During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, ha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | The Murder in Saltashe Woods — Baroness Orczy |
The Murder in Saltashe Woods “Story staring attorney Skin o' my Tooth.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | The Elusive Pimpernel — Baroness Orczy |
The Elusive Pimpernel “Robespierre had quietly waited the while. He was in no hurry: being a night-bird of very pronounced tastes, he was quite ready to sit here until the small hours of the morning watc…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel — Baroness Orczy |
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel “Molé, despite his great height, succeeded in getting through unperceived. He was of no account, and he knew his way inside the house. It was full of people: journalists, gaffers, w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | Pimpernel and Rosemary — Baroness Orczy |
Pimpernel and Rosemary “But most of that had become a thing of the past. So much of it had gone, been irretrievably lost in the cataclysm of war and alien occupation. The will to give was still there, the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | Mam'zelle Guillotine — Baroness Orczy |
Mam'zelle Guillotine “Just think on it! Three aristos who were being sent to Paris for trial were absolutely spirited away from under the very nose of the highly efficient police administration of the p…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | I Will Repay! — Baroness Orczy |
I Will Repay! “And God spoke to her at last; through the eternal vistas of boundless universe, from that heaven which had known no pity, His voice came to her now, clear, awesome, and implacable:…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | The Elusive Pimpernel — Baroness Orczy |
The Elusive Pimpernel “It was a mere flash! One of memory's swiftly effaced pictures, when she shows us for the fraction of a second indelible pictures from out our past. Chauvelin, in that same second, …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | The First Sir Percy — Baroness Orczy |
The First Sir Percy “Quite enough in truth to make a man who is dizzy with love ten thousand times more dizzy still. And Diogenes was desperately in love, more so indeed than he had ever thought himsel…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | The Laughing Cavalier — Baroness Orczy |
The Laughing Cavalier “"It is only for a few days, Nicolaes, a few days during which I swear to you that -- though absent and engaged in the greatest task that any man can undertake on this earth -- I sw…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Baroness Orczy | Mam'zelle Guillotine — Baroness Orczy |
Mam'zelle Guillotine “A few hours later I heard about the arrests. The news was all over the villages around. I was heart-broken and still more so when I realised that Madame had gone, I knew not whithe…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Oakdale Affair — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Oakdale Affair “From behind a low bush across the wide lawn a pair of eyes transferred to an alert brain these simple perceptions from which the brain deduced with Sherlockian accuracy and Rafflei…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Land That Time Forgot — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Land That Time Forgot “The inadequate boat finally arrived at a precarious landing, the natives, waist-deep in the surf, assisting. I was carried ashore, and while the evening meal was being prepared, I …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The People That Time Forgot — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The People That Time Forgot “Caprona has always been considered a more or less mythical land, though it is vouched for by an eminent navigator of the eighteenth century; but Bowen's narrative made it seem very…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Out of Time's Abyss — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Out of Time's Abyss “This is the tale of Bradley after he left Fort Dinosaur upon the west coast of the great lake that is in the center of the island.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Beasts of Tarzan — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Beasts of Tarzan “The next few days were occupied by Tarzan in completing his weapons and exploring the jungle. He strung his bow with tendons from the buck upon which he had dined his first evening…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Return of Tarzan — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Return of Tarzan “It was not until late the following afternoon that Tarzan saw anything more of the fellow passengers into the midst of whose affairs his love of fair play had thrust him. And then …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan the Untamed — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Tarzan the Untamed “Kudu, the sun, was well up in the heavens when Tarzan awoke. The ape-man stretched his giant limbs, ran his fingers through his thick hair, and swung lightly down to earth. Immedia…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Mad King — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Mad King “After a time the men tired of the sport of king-baiting, for Barney showed neither rancor nor outraged majesty at their keenest thrusts, instead, often joining in the laugh with th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Monster Men — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Monster Men “Scarcely had the Ithaca cleared the reef which lies almost across the mouth of the little harbor where she had been moored for so many months than the tempest broke upon her in all…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Mucker — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Mucker “BILLY BYRNE was a product of the streets and alleys of Chicago's great West Side. From Halsted to Robey, and from Grand Avenue to Lake Street there was scarce a bartender whom Bill…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Outlaw of Torn — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Outlaw of Torn “HERE is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it u…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Pellucidar — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Pellucidar “Our trip through the earth's crust was but a repetition of my two former journeys between the inner and the outer worlds. This time, however, I imagine that we must have maintained…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Son of Tarzan — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Son of Tarzan “As the leopard leaped for the great ape Meriem gasped in surprise and horror--not for the impending fate of the anthropoid, but at the act of the youth who but for an instant befor…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar “Moved by these vague yet all-powerful urgings the ape-man lay awake one night in the little thorn boma that protected, in a way, his party from the depredations of the great carniv…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan the Terrible — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Tarzan the Terrible “And consequent to this thought there enveloped him a blind frenzy of hatred for these creatures who dared thwart his purpose and menace the welfare of his wife. With a savage growl…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Lost Continent — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Lost Continent “It was during the morning of July 6, 2137, that we entered the mouth of the Thames--to the best of my knowledge the first Western keel to cut those historic waters for two hundred …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Warlord of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Warlord of Mars “For six long Martian months I had haunted the vicinity of the hateful Temple of the Sun, within whose slow-revolving shaft, far beneath the surface of Mars, my princess lay entombe…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Eternal Savage — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Eternal Savage “NU, THE son of Nu, his mighty muscles rolling beneath his smooth bronzed skin, moved silently through the jungle primeval. His handsome head with its shock of black hair, roughly c…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Thuvia, Maid of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Thuvia, Maid of Mars “Thuvia of Ptarth was no stranger to such places. During her wanderings in search of the River Iss, that time she had set out upon what, for countless ages, had been the last, long …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | A Princess of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
A Princess of Mars “I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So fa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Girl From Farris's — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Girl From Farris's “TWO weeks had elapsed since Mr. Farris had been held for the grand jury. He had been at liberty on bail. The girl, against whom there had been no charge, had been held, virtually a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Gods of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Gods of Mars “As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river bel…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Chessmen of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Chessmen of Mars “TARA of Helium rose from the pile of silks and soft furs upon which she had been reclining, stretched her lithe body languidly, and crossed toward the center of the room, where, ab…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Jungle Tales of Tarzan — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Jungle Tales of Tarzan “TEEKA, STRETCHED AT luxurious ease in the shade of the tropical forest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young, feminine loveliness. Or at least so thought Tar…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | At the Earth's Core — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
At the Earth's Core “I WAS BORN IN CONNECTICUT ABOUT THIRTY YEARS ago. My name is David Innes. My father was a wealthy mine owner. When I was nineteen he died. All his property was to be mine when I ha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Efficiency Expert — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Efficiency Expert “"I do not wish to humiliate you unnecessarily in the presence of my father," she said. "You have managed to deceive him into believing that you are what you claim to be. Mr. Bince …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Out of Time's Abyss — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Out of Time's Abyss “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan the Untamed — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Tarzan the Untamed “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan the Terrible — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Tarzan the Terrible “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Moon Maid — Edgar Rice Burroughs |
The Moon Maid “I shall not bore you with dry, technical descriptions of our motors and equipment. Suffice it to say that the former were of three types--those which propelled the ship through the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Allan Quatermain — H R Haggard |
Allan Quatermain “The Lad himself.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Marie — H R Haggard |
Marie “Another Haggard Fave.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | King Solomon's Mines — H R Haggard |
King Solomon's Mines “"See, my lords," she said, holding the light before her, "those who stored the treasure here fled in haste, and bethought them to guard against any who should find the secret of th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Montezuma's Daughter — H R Haggard |
Montezuma's Daughter “Cuitlahua was crowned Emperor of the Aztecs in succession to his brother Montezuma, while I lay sick with the wound given me by the sword of de Garcia, and also with that which I h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Eric Brighteyes — H R Haggard |
Eric Brighteyes “"Make place, my father," said Gudruda, "for Eric bleeds." And she loosed the kerchief from her neck and bound it about his wounded brow, and, taking the rich cloak from her body, t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Allan's Wife — H R Haggard |
Allan's Wife “For a moment I literally staggered beneath the terror of the shock. Then I roused myself from my despair. I bade the native run and alarm the people at the kraals, telling them to …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | A Tale of Three Lions — H R Haggard |
A Tale of Three Lions “"Something over a fortnight had passed since the night when I lost half-a-sovereign and found twelve hundred and fifty pounds in looking for it, and instead of that horrid hole, fo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Morning Star — H R Haggard |
Morning Star “They swore that it could not be true, for would this high lady, the anointed Pharaoh of Egypt, take her father's murderer, and her own uncle to husband? Would she not rather die in…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Maiwa's Revenge, or The War of the Little Hand — H R Haggard |
Maiwa's Revenge, or The War of the Little Hand “About four o'clock, however, Gobo woke me up, and told me that the head man of one of Wambe's kraals had arrived to see me. I ordered him to be brought up, and presently he came, a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Queen Sheba's Ring — H R Haggard |
Queen Sheba's Ring “"Listen," I said. "Our only chance is to stop where we are, for if we move we shall certainly be buried alive. Look; there is something solid to lie on," and I pointed to a ridge o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | The World's Desire — H R Haggard |
The World's Desire “A hard fight it had been and a long, and the Wanderer was weary. He took the tiller of the ship in his hand, and steered for the South and for the noonday sun, which was now at his…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | The Brethren — H R Haggard |
The Brethren “Another month had gone by, and though Godwin was still somewhat weak and suffered from a headache at times, the brethren had recovered from their wounds. On the last day of Novembe…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Benita — H R Haggard |
Benita “In this dilemma it occurred to me that the only thing I could do was to turn my shooting to practical account, and become a hunter of big game. Therefore I propose to kill elephant…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Cleopatra — H R Haggard |
Cleopatra “Thus it came to pass that on the next day I arrayed myself in a long and flowing robe, after the fashion of a magician or astrologer. I placed a cap on my head, about which were br…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | The Ivory Child — H R Haggard |
The Ivory Child “"Look here, Mr. Quatermain, you were always a bit of a sportsman, and I'll make you an offer. If I kill more birds than you do to-day, you shall promise to hold your tongue about m…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Elissa, or The Doom of Zimbabwe — H R Haggard |
Elissa, or The Doom of Zimbabwe “At length, as the two men sat thus silently, for the place and its gloom oppressed them, a sound broke upon the quiet of the night, that beginning with a low wail such as might com…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | The Yellow God — H R Haggard |
The Yellow God “It was the night of full moon and of the great feast of the return of Little Bonsa. Alan sat in his chamber waiting to be summoned to take part in this ceremony and listening the w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Moon of Israel — H R Haggard |
Moon of Israel “"Life! Blood! Strength!" echoed everyone in the great hall, falling to their knees and bending their foreheads to the ground. Even the Prince and the aged Bakenkhonsu prostrated th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | The Wizard — H R Haggard |
The Wizard “All that day we explained and all the next--or rather my friend did, for I knew very little of the language --and they listened with great interest. At last the chief of the wizard…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | When the World Shook — H R Haggard |
When the World Shook “That carved stone and the marble hand took a great hold of my imagination. What did they mean? How could they have come to the bottom of that hole, unless indeed they were part of …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Long Odds — H R Haggard |
Long Odds “"Hastily I lit another match, and perceived that the eyes belonged to an old woman, wrapped up in a greasy leather garment. Taking her by the arm, I dragged her out, for she could …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Hunter Quatermain's Story — H R Haggard |
Hunter Quatermain's Story “"Accordingly, after passing a comfortless night by the remains of my waggon, we started next morning on our long journey towards civilization. Now if I were to set to work to tell …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Finished — H R Haggard |
Finished “Waking very early, as is my habit, I peeped out of the wagon, and through the morning mist perceived Footsack in converse with a particularly villainous-looking person. I at once c…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Child of Storm — H R Haggard |
Child of Storm “Whatever else may have been false in this man's nature, one thing rang true, namely, his love or his infatuation for the girl Mameena. Throughout his life she was his guiding star-…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Black Heart and White Heart — H R Haggard |
Black Heart and White Heart “The Black One was angry, and despatched us to catch you and make an end of you. That is all. Come on now, quietly, and let us finish the matter. As the Doom Pool is near, your deat…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Red Eve — H R Haggard |
Red Eve “Peering through the stems of the undergrowth, set as it were in a little frame against the red and ominous sky, the eyes of Hugh de Cressi fell upon Sir Edmund Acour, a gallant, ev…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | The Wanderer's Necklace — H R Haggard |
The Wanderer's Necklace “On the morrow early I lay awake, for how could I sleep when Iduna rested beneath the same roof with me--Iduna, who, as her father had decreed, was to become my wife sooner than I h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Beatrice — H R Haggard |
Beatrice “A mile or more away from where Beatrice stood and saw visions, and further up the coast-line, a second group of rocks, known from their colour as the Red Rocks, or sometimes, for a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | The Virgin of the Sun — H R Haggard |
The Virgin of the Sun “I, Hubert of Hastings, write this in the land of Tavantinsuyu, far from England, where I was born, whither I shall never more return, being a wanderer as the rune upon the sword of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Love Eternal — H R Haggard |
Love Eternal “"Lady! How do you know it was a lady? Just like a woman making up a romance out of nothing. Yes, there's the delusion, which is bad. Keep his mind off it as much as possible, and t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | The Lady Of Blossholme — H R Haggard |
The Lady Of Blossholme “Christopher thought for a moment, then, remembering that with but four men and cumbered by two women it was not possible to cut his way through so great a force, and admonished by …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Smith and the Pharaohs — H R Haggard |
Smith and the Pharaohs “On his way home he called at his bookseller's and ordered "all the best works on Egyptology". When, a day or two later, they arrived in a packing-case, together with a bill for thi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Swallow — H R Haggard |
Swallow “"Have I not told you, father of Swallow," she answered, "that it was to save you from death? But a few minutes over an hour ago, fifteen perhaps, a word was spoken to me at your st…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | AYESHA: The Return of She — H R Haggard |
AYESHA: The Return of She “It was but a little while afterwards that once more we heard the baying of the death-hounds. Yes, they were heading straight for us, this time across country. Again the white horse…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Allan and the Holy Flower — H R Haggard |
Allan and the Holy Flower “Now I, the listener, thought for a moment or two. The words of this fighting savage, Mavovo, even those of them of which I had heard only the translation, garbled and beslavered by…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Pearl-Maiden — H R Haggard |
Pearl-Maiden “"I do not know; I only know this, that in that wall, as in others, a door will be found. Trouble not for the future, but leave it in the hand of Him Who shapes all futures. Suffici…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | She: A History of Adventure — H R Haggard |
She: A History of Adventure “Some consider this the best of his "small party goes off into jungle and finds" novels. A guilty pleasure.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Marie — H R Haggard |
Marie “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | The Ancient Allan — H R Haggard |
The Ancient Allan “"This, O Egyptian slayer of lions. You will be laid upon a bed in a little boat upon the river and another boat will be placed over you, for these boats are called the Twins, Egypt…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | She and Allan — H R Haggard |
She and Allan “"Yes, they had begun in my day and we will discuss them later. Still, I say--nearer to the ape than you or I, and therefore of interest, as the germ of things is always. Yet he has…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Lysbeth, A Tale Of The Dutch — H R Haggard |
Lysbeth, A Tale Of The Dutch “"Yes, Foy, that may be so, but how about his talk of the pastor? It makes me suspicious, son. You know the times we live in, and if he should go that way--remember it is in his blo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Doctor Therne — H R Haggard |
Doctor Therne “Sir Thomas Colford and I, with our little knots of agents and sub- agents, placed ourselves one on each side of the table, waiting in respectful silence while the clerk dealt out t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Jess — H R Haggard |
Jess “What is the interpretation of it? Why does the great wind stir the deep waters? It does but ripple the shallow pool as it passes, for shallowness can but ripple and throw up shadow…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Stella Fregelius — H. Rider Haggard |
Stella Fregelius “Already under that heavy sky the light which struggled through the brine-encrusted eastern window was dim and grey. Presently, however, he discovered the figure of Stella seated in…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | Smith and the Pharaohs, and other tales — Henry Rider Haggard |
Smith and the Pharaohs, and other tales “Just so, reflected Smith, had their forefathers sung when, millenniums ago, they dragged that very sarcophagus from the quarries to the Nile, and from the Nile to the tomb whence i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| H R Haggard | The People Of The Mist — H R Haggard |
The People Of The Mist “The dwarf saluted and went. "Ah!" he said to himself as he waddled down the hill where he hoped to find game, "ah! you do not fear men dead or living--overmuch; yet, Otter, it is t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Call of the Wild — Jack London |
Call of the Wild “Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, fr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | White Fang — Jack London |
White Fang “Dissed almost immediately as "The Call of the Tame." Leave it to you.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Moon-Face and Other Stories — Jack London |
Moon-Face and Other Stories “WADE ATSHELER is dead--dead by his own hand. To say that this was entirely unexpected by the small coterie which knew him, would be to say an untruth; and yet never once had we, hi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | When God Laughs and Other Stories — Jack London |
When God Laughs and Other Stories “Ah Cho did not understand French. He sat in the crowded court room, very weary and bored, listening to the unceasing, explosive French that now one official and now another uttered…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | War of the Classes — Jack London |
War of the Classes “It is quite fair to say that I became a Socialist in a fashion somewhat similar to the way in which the Teutonic pagans became Christians--it was hammered into me. Not only was I n…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Valley of the Moon — Jack London |
The Valley of the Moon “She flung wild glances, like those of an entrapped animal, up and down the big whitewashed room that panted with heat and that was thickly humid with the steam that sizzled from th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Night-Born — Jack London |
The Night-Born “The talk had led on from the Graft Prosecution and the latest signs that the town was to be run wide open, down through all the grotesque sordidness and rottenness of manhate and m…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Game — Jack London |
The Game “"You wait, and you'll see. An' don't get scared at the start. The first few rounds'll be something fierce. That's Ponta's strong point. He's a wild man, with an kinds of punches,--…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Tales of the Klondyke — Jack London |
Tales of the Klondyke “It was very cold without, but it was not over-warm within. The only article which might be designated furniture was the stove, and for this the men were frank in displaying their p…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Smoke Bellew — Jack London |
Smoke Bellew “In the beginning he was Christopher Bellew. By the time he was at college he had become Chris Bellew. Later, in the Bohemian crowd of San Francisco, he was called Kit Bellew. And i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Red One — Jack London |
The Red One “THERE are some stories that have to be true - the sort that cannot be fabricated by a ready fiction-reckoner. And by the same token there are some men with stories to tell who cann…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The People of the Abyss — Jack London |
The People of the Abyss “Nowhere in the streets of London may one escape the sight of abject poverty, while five minutes' walk from almost any point will bring one to a slum; but the region my hansom was n…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Michael, Brother of Jerry — Jack London |
Michael, Brother of Jerry “Michael possessed no trace of hysteria, though he was more temperamentally excitable and explosive than his blood-brother Jerry, while his father and mother were a sedate old coupl…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Martin Eden — Jack London |
Martin Eden “He awoke next morning from rosy scenes of dream to a steamy atmosphere that smelled of soapsuds and dirty clothes, and that was vibrant with the jar and jangle of tormented life. A…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | On the Makaloa Mat — Jack London |
On the Makaloa Mat “From over the lofty Koolau Mountains, vagrant wisps of the trade wind drifted, faintly swaying the great, unwhipped banana leaves, rustling the palms, and fluttering and setting up…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Love of Life — Jack London |
Love of Life “KEESH lived long ago on the rim of the polar sea, was head man of his village through many and prosperous years, and died full of honors with his name on the lips of men. So long a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Lost Face — Jack London |
Lost Face “Subienkow looked on, and shuddered. He was not afraid to die. He had carried his life too long in his hands, on that weary trail from Warsaw to Nulato, to shudder at mere dying. Bu…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | John Barleycorn — Jack London |
John Barleycorn “It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Adventure — Jack London |
Adventure “The bell had hardly rung, sending the labourers into the fields, when Sheldon had a visitor. He had had the couch taken out on the veranda, and he was lying on it when the canoes p…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Iron Heel — Jack London |
The Iron Heel “I shall try to write simply and to tell here how Ernest Everhard entered my life--how I first met him, how he grew until I became a part of him, and the tremendous changes he wroug…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The House of Pride — Jack London |
The House of Pride “In fact, Percival Ford was no more a woman's man than he was a man's man. A glance at him told the reason. He had a good constitution, never was on intimate terms with sickness, no…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Faith of Men — Jack London |
The Faith of Men “This being a story--and a truer one than it may appear--of a mining country, it is quite to be expected that it will be a hard-luck story. But that depends on the point of view. Ha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Burning Daylight — Jack London |
Burning Daylight “In no blaze of glory did Burning Daylight descend upon San Francisco. Not only had he been forgotten, but the Klondike along with him. The world was interested in other things, and…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Before Adam — Jack London |
Before Adam “The first morning, after my night's sleep with Lop-Ear, I learned the advantage of the narrow-mouthed caves. It was just daylight when old Saber-Tooth, the tiger, walked into the o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | A Thousand Deaths — JACK LONDON |
A Thousand Deaths “It must not be understood that this force, which I finally came to control, annihilated matter; it merely annihilated form. Nor, as I soon discovered, had it any effect on inorgani…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | THE MINIONS OF MIDAS — Jack London |
THE MINIONS OF MIDAS “The police have so far been unable to obtain the slightest clue. Barely had he finished this when the police arrived--the Inspector himself and two of his keenest sleuths. Alarm sa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | TO BUILD A FIRE — Jack London |
TO BUILD A FIRE “He plunged in among the big spruce trees. The trail was faint. A foot of snow had fallen since the last sled had passed over, and he was glad he was without a sled, travelling ligh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | DUTCH COURAGE AND OTHER STORIES — Jack London |
DUTCH COURAGE AND OTHER STORIES “"You can be sure he's down," Gus spoke up at last. "It's mighty warm on that naked rock with the sun beating down on it at this time of year. That was our plan, you know, to go up …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Road and Other Stories — Jack London |
The Road and Other Stories “Now the first blind of a fast train in a driving snowstorm is no summer picnic. The wind goes right through one, strikes the front of the car, and comes back again. At the first st…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG — Jack London |
THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG “Contains, among others, "THE UNPARALLELED INVASION," -- yes, that one.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Moon-Face and Other Stories — Jack London |
Moon-Face and Other Stories “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Acorn-Planter — Jack London |
The Acorn-Planter “SHAMAN (Stilling the excitement that is immediate on the discovery.) The word of old time that has come down to us from all the Shamans who have gone before! The Sun Man has come b…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Red One — Jack London |
The Red One “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Little Lady of the Big House — Jack London |
The Little Lady of the Big House “"No horse, no driver, no plowman, nothing but the farmer to crank the tractor and start it on its way," Dick exulted, as the uncanny mechanism turned up the brown soil and continue…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | A SON OF THE SUN — Jack London |
A SON OF THE SUN “How many millions David Grief was worth no man in the Solomons knew, for his holdings and ventures were everywhere in the great South Pacific. From Samoa to New Guinea and even to …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Jerry of the Islands — Jack London |
Jerry of the Islands “Not until Mister Haggin abruptly picked him up under one arm and stepped into the sternsheets of the waiting whaleboat, did Jerry dream that anything untoward was to happen to him.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | South Sea Tales — Jack London |
South Sea Tales “I met him first in a hurricane; and though we had gone through the hurricane on the same schooner, it was not until the schooner had gone to pieces under us that I first laid eyes …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Cruise of the Snark — Jack London |
The Cruise of the Snark “No, adventure is not dead, and in spite of the steam engine and of Thomas Cook &Son. When the announcement of the contemplated voyage of the Snark was made, young men of "roving di…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Human Drift — Jack London |
The Human Drift “A sailor is born, not made. And by "sailor" is meant, not the average efficient and hopeless creature who is found to-day in the forecastle of deepwater ships, but the man who will…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Mutiny of the Elsinore — Jack London |
The Mutiny of the Elsinore “From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier- end precisely on time. At nine o'clock th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Sea-Wolf — Jack London |
The Sea-Wolf “My reason dictated that the beating Thomas Mugridge had received was an ill thing, and yet for the life of me I could not prevent my soul joying in it. And even while I was oppress…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Son of the Wolf — Jack London |
The Son of the Wolf “Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them. He has no conception of the subtle atmosphere exhaled by the sex feminine, so long as …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | The Star Rover — Jack London |
The Star Rover “"Surely, you don't think I'm holding out because I enjoy it?" I managed to gasp, for at the moment Pie-Face Jones was forcing his foot into my back in order to cinch me tighter whi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Jack London | Tales of the Fish Patrol — Jack London |
Tales of the Fish Patrol “Of the fish patrolmen under whom we served at various times, Charley Le Grant and I were agreed, I think, that Neil Partington was the best. He was neither dishonest nor cowardly; …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Buchan | The Path of the King — John Buchan |
The Path of the King “Hmm, just read that this one's in volumes. I'll keep looking...…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Buchan | Prester John — John Buchan |
Prester John “I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Buchan | Mr. Standfast — John Buchan |
Mr. Standfast “I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Buchan | The 39 Steps — John Buchan |
The 39 Steps “He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me - things that happened in the Balkan War, how one state suddenly came out on top, why alliances were made and …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Buchan | The Power House — John Buchan |
The Power House “I was just setting out for Scotland Yard this morning when Tomlin, the valet, rang me up and said he had found a card in the waistcoat of the dress clothes that Charles had worn th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Buchan | Greenmantle — John Buchan |
Greenmantle “At all costs we had to keep Rasta safe, but I was very determined that he should not be handed over to the lady. I was going to be no party to cold-blooded murder, which I judged t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Buchan | The Moon Endureth; Tales and Fancies — John Buchan |
The Moon Endureth; Tales and Fancies “Can you wonder that, when the following noon I saw Santa Chiara sleeping in its green circlet of meadows, my thought was only of a deep draught and a cool chamber? I protest that I…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Buchan | Huntingtower — John Buchan |
Huntingtower “He was already suspect, and the sight of him back again in Dalquharter would double that suspicion. He must brazen it out, but he distrusted his powers with such tell-tale stuff in…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | St. Martin's Summer — Rafael Sabatini |
St. Martin's Summer “Life in Dauphiny.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Historical Nights' Entertainment — Rafael Sabatini |
The Historical Nights' Entertainment “Real events, rearranged.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | Bardelys the Magnificent — Rafael Sabatini |
Bardelys the Magnificent “Being an Account of the Strange Wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol; Marquis of Bardelys, and of the things that in the course of it befell him in Languedoc, in the yea…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Snare — Rafael Sabatini |
The Snare “It is established beyond doubt that Mr. Butler was drunk at the time. This rests upon the evidence of Sergeant Flanagan and the troopers who accompanied him, and it rests upon Mr. …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Lion's Skin — Rafael Sabatini |
The Lion's Skin “But under the gay exterior he affected he carried a spirit of most vile unrest. The anger which had prompted his impulse to execute, after all, the business on which he was come, a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | Scaramouche — A Romance of the French Revolution |
Scaramouche “"I desire no immunity," flashed back the young seminarist, stung by this fresh goad. After all, he was nobly born, and the traditions of his class were strong upon him - stronger f…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | Mistress Wilding — Rafael Sabatini |
Mistress Wilding “Not what some people seem to think based on the title.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Trampling of the Lilies — Rafael Sabatini |
The Trampling of the Lilies “When La Boulaye recovered consciousness he was lying on his back in the middle of the courtyard of the Chateau de Bellecour. From a great stone balcony above, a little group, of wh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Tavern Knight — Rafael Sabatini |
The Tavern Knight “It was not to be his good fortune, however, to be in the earlier work of the day. Until afternoon he was kept within the walls of Worcester, chafing to be where hard knocks were be…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Sea-Hawk — Rafael Sabatini |
The Sea-Hawk “The parson had notions of riding after Sir Oliver, and begged Master Baine to join him. But the Justice looked down his long nose and opined that no good purpose was to be served; …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Shame of Motley — Rafael Sabatini |
The Shame of Motley “"Animal," said he, "they tell me that I bear a name for harsh measures and rough ways. You shall be a witness hereafter of how deeply I am maligned. For instead of putting you to t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Strolling Saint — Rafael Sabatini |
The Strolling Saint “When I think of my mother now I do not see her as she appeared in any of the scenes that already I have set down. There is one picture of her that is burnt as with an acid upon my …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Suitors of Yvonne — Rafael Sabatini |
The Suitors of Yvonne “Andrea himself showed scant concern, however, and was luckily content with my hurriedly invented explanations; his thoughts had suddenly found occupation in another and a gentler t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | Love-at-Arms — Rafael Sabatini |
Love-at-Arms “"Your silence, sirs, tells me that in this matter your judgement runs parallel with mine. And you are wise, for in such a case there can be but one course. My cousin has uttered wo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | MONSIEUR DELAMORT — Rafael Sabatini |
MONSIEUR DELAMORT “The host conducted the pair to a room above, leaving the company in a state of mingled excitement and derision, to await the result of this odd experiment. Within the feebly lighte…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | THE KING'S MESSENGER — Rafael Sabatini |
THE KING'S MESSENGER “There was nothing in this to surprise Don Jayme. Not even upon reflection. Being a fool, he did not suspect that Porto Rico was the worst governed of any Spanish settlement in the …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Spiritualist: A Story of the Occult. — -RAFAEL SABATINI |
The Spiritualist: A Story of the Occult. “"Fools," cried the spiritualist, his voice like a rumble of distant thunder. "Crass, ignorant clods! You live out your animal lives in this corner of the world much as a rat lives …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | THE SWORD OF ISLAM — Rafael Sabatini |
THE SWORD OF ISLAM “Dragut turned aside and strode to the taffrail. He looked across the shimmering blue water to the fortifications at the harbour's mouth; with the eyes of his imagination he looked …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | THE TREASURE SHIP — Rafael Sabatini |
THE TREASURE SHIP “"She would be homing for Spain when the hurricane caught her. She's sprung her mainmast and likely suffered other damage besides, and she's beating back to San Domingo for repairs.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | THE WAR INDEMNITY — Rafael Sabatini |
THE WAR INDEMNITY “Colonel Courtney flung his napkin amid the dishes on the spread table, and rose, still incredulous. "And he's here? Here? Is he mad? Has the sun touched him? Stab me, I'll have him…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Curate and the Actress — Rafael Sabatini |
The Curate and the Actress “As he pushed the boat back, he remarked with a sweet smile, which made his scratches bleed, that it did not signify in the least. Then a bold idea entered his mind--evoked by memor…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Foster Lover — Rafael Sabatini |
The Foster Lover “Now here was more villainy than I had feared. I dragged him with me across the lawns towards the house. "I'll fathom this," said I, and when we came to the clearing in front of the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Ordeal — Rafael Sabatini |
The Ordeal “Being a stranger to all weapons, Mr. Gadsby of course, chose pistols, since these at least offered him a slender advantage of chance. But it was the slenderest, as all the word kne…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | Wirgman's Theory — Rafael Sabatini |
Wirgman's Theory “"Think of the hundreds-indeed, I might almost say thousands-of yearly undiscovered murderers. Why are their crimes not brought home to them? Because, possessed of the qualities I h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Tapestried Room — Rafael Sabatini |
The Tapestried Room “My attention, however, was anywhere but upon the game. Beyond all doubt now there was something that was subtly disturbing in the atmosphere of that room. Two or three times I look…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Wedding Gift — Rafael Sabatini |
The Wedding Gift “What if she were a spy of Bloody Jeffreys? Queer tales of his wiliness abounded in the countryside, and Vallancey had been a notorious rebel. To capture him the King's men might ad…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Blank Shot — Sabatini |
The Blank Shot “Captain Easterling smiled as he stroked his crisp black beard. It had required his own keen wits to perceive at once an opportunity to which all others had been blind during that l…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | Captain Blood — Sabatini |
Captain Blood “"There is no more to be said, gentlemen. My name is Blood-- Captain Blood, if you please, of this ship the Cinco Llagas, taken as a prize of war from Don Diego de Espinosa y Valdez…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rafael Sabatini | The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series — Sabatini |
The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series “He lied, for never had Amy Dudley been in better health. And yet he spoke the truth, for in so much as her life depended upon his will, it was as good as spent. This was, he knew, …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Lost Road and Other Stories — Richard Harding Davis |
The Lost Road and Other Stories “By Richard Harding Davis. Includes THE MEN OF ZANZIBAR.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Frame Up — Richard Harding Davis |
The Frame Up “There had been hundreds of clews. They had been furnished by the detectives of the city and county and of the private agencies, by amateurs, by news- papers, by members of the unde…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Lost House — Richard Harding Davis |
The Lost House “Outside the locked door the voices of the two men rose in fierce whispers. But Ford regarded them not at all. With the swiftness of a squirrel caught in a cage, he darted on tiptoe…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Amateur — Richard Harding Davis |
The Amateur “or three years on that most sensational of the New York dailies he had been the star man, the chief muckraker, the chief sleuth. His interest was in crime. Not in crimes committed …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Spy — Richard Harding Davis |
The Spy “My going to Valencia was entirely an accident. But the more often I stated that fact, the more satisfied was everyone at the capital that I had come on some secret mission. Even th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Make-Believe Man — Richard Harding Davis |
The Make-Believe Man “I had made up my mind that when my vacation came I would spend it seeking adventures. I have always wished for adventures, but, though I am old enough--I was twenty-five last Octob…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Notes of a War Correspondent — Richard Harding Davis |
Notes of a War Correspondent “I am going to try to describe some kits and outfits I have seen used in different parts of the world by travellers and explorers, and in different campaigns by army officers and wa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Real Soldiers of Fortune — Richard Harding Davis |
Real Soldiers of Fortune “Than Winston Spencer Churchill to-day there are few young men--and he is a very young man--who have met more varying fortunes, and none who has more frequently bent them to his own…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Soldiers of Fortune — Richard Harding Davis |
Soldiers of Fortune “The President and Madame Alvarez were King's guests on one of these moonlight excursions, and were saluted by the proper number of guns, and their native band played on the forward…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Billy and the Big Stick — Richard Harding Davis |
Billy and the Big Stick “"It's very simple," he said. "The first time my wages were shy I went to the palace and told him if he didn't come across I'd shut off the juice. I think he was so stunned at anybo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | A Charmed Life — Richard Harding Davis |
A Charmed Life “"My goodness!" she cried. "How can you frighten me so? It's not like you," she reproached him. "You are so unselfish, so noble. You are always thinking of other people. How can you…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Lion and the Unicorn — Richard Harding Davis |
The Lion and the Unicorn “"It would either mean war," Arkwright went on, "or it might mean the sending of the Red Cross army to Cuba. It went to Constantinople, five thousand miles away, to help the Armenia…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | My Buried Treasure — Richard Harding Davis |
My Buried Treasure “"Oh, that part's easy!" I assured him. "The fitting-out part you can safely leave to me." I assumed a confidence that I hoped he might believe was real. "There's always a tramp ste…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Messengers — Richard Harding Davis |
The Messengers “"What will happen to me," he announced firmly, "is that I will plain DIE! As long as I can see you, as long as I have the chance to try and make you understand that no one can poss…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Princess Aline — Richard Harding Davis |
Princess Aline “He was within two feet of the girl who had been called "Aline." She raised her head to speak, and saw Carlton staring open-eyed at her. She glanced at him for an instant, as if to …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Peace Manoeuvres — Richard Harding Davis |
Peace Manoeuvres “"War," exclaimed Lathrop morosely, "is always cruel to the innocent." He sped toward Carver Centre. In his motor car, he had travelled the road many times, and as always his goal h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | A Question of Latitude — Richard Harding Davis |
A Question of Latitude “"TEN miles," said the Coaster. "wait till you see Calabar. That's our Exhibit A. The cleanest, best administered. Everything there is model: hospitals, barracks, golf links. Last y…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Scarlet Car — Richard Harding Davis |
The Scarlet Car “"To think," he cried, "that a man who could marry--a girl, and then would ask her to wait two months. Or, two days! Two months lost out of his life, and she might die; he might los…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Consul — Richard Harding Davis |
The Consul “Like a ghost, he searched for house after house, where once he had been made welcome, only to find in its place a towering office building. "All had gone, the old familiar faces." …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Episodes In Van Bibber's Life — Richard Harding Davis |
Episodes In Van Bibber's Life “It was, as Van Bibber knew, but three minutes to eight o'clock, and have the dog he must and would. The collie sprang first to one side and then to the other, and snarled and snapp…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | A Wasted Day — Richard Harding Davis |
A Wasted Day “Mr. Thorndike suppressed an exclamation. He wanted to protest, but his clear mind showed him that there was nothing against which, with reason, he could protest. He could not compl…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Vera, The Medium — Richard Harding Davis |
Vera, The Medium “Still at white heat, the older man began abruptly: "This gentleman is from the Republic. He is going to publish a story that Mr. Hallowell has fallen under the influence of mediums…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The King's Jackal — Richard Harding Davis |
The King's Jackal “The presence in Tangier of the King of Messina and his suite, and the arrival there of the French noblemen who had volunteered for the expedition, could not escape the observation …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Her First Appearance — Richard Harding Davis |
Her First Appearance “They were crowded on both sides of the stage with the members of the company; the girls were tiptoeing, with their hands on the shoulders of the men, and making futile little leaps…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | How Hefty Burke Got Even — Richard Harding Davis |
How Hefty Burke Got Even “"You'll look like a fool standing on his head in a snow-bank if you talk impudent to me," said Hefty epigrammatically, from behind the barrier of his iron mask. What might have hap…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Ranson's Folly — Richard Harding Davis |
Ranson's Folly “In the darkness, he had been picked off for someone else. The next night, as he passed in the full light of the post-trader's windows, a shot came from among the dark shadows of th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Gallegher and Other Stories — Richard Harding Davis |
Gallegher and Other Stories “The pity of the whole situation was, that the boy was only a boy with all his man's miserable knowledge of the world, and the reason of it all was, that he had entirely too much he…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | Captain Macklin — Richard Harding Davis |
Captain Macklin “But what really made Graham, and the rest of the Copan people, and the Isthmian crowd, who now were all working together against us, so anxious to get Fiske out of Honduras, was th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | The Bar Sinister — Richard Harding Davis |
The Bar Sinister “But no sooner than Jimmy would leave me the St. Bernards would take to howling again, insulting mother and insulting me. And when I tore at my chain, they, seeing they were safe, w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Richard Harding Davis | In the Fog — Richard Harding Davis |
In the Fog “"For a flash of time I was too startled to act, but in the same flash I was convinced that the man had met his death from no accident, that he had not died through any ordinary fai…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Wrecker — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Wrecker “Certain it is at least, that when we had reached the police office, and the mates had made their deposition, and told their horrid tale of five men murdered, some with savage passi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde “By Robert Louis Stevenson (also author of The Bottle Imp).…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Tales and Fantasies “'That they were down on me,' said John. 'I'm accused of murder, by what I can make out; and I've really had a dreadful day of it, Alan, and I can't sleep on the roadside on a night…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Prince Otto — A Romance |
Prince Otto “It was past eight at night before his toil was rewarded and he issued at last out of the forest on the firm white high-road. It lay downhill before him, with a sweeping eastward tr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Merry Men — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Merry Men “'Gone!' he said; 'the things are gone, the fortune gone! We are paupers once more. Boy! what do you know of this? Speak up, sir, speak up. Do you know of it? Where are they?' He ha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Black Arrow “Below, in the bottom of a considerable valley, the short cut from Tunstall hamlet wound downwards to the ferry. It was well beaten, and the eye followed it easily from point to poi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Weir of Hermiston — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Weir of Hermiston “THE Lord Justice-Clerk was a stranger in that part of the country; but his lady wife was known there from a child, as her race had been before her. The old "riding Rutherfords of H…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Virginibus Puerisque — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Virginibus Puerisque “A young man was telling me the sweet story of his loves. "I like it well enough as long as her sisters are there," said this amorous swain; "but I don't know what to do when we're …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Dynamiter — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Dynamiter “'And now, gentlemen,' concluded Somerset, 'let us separate. I hasten to put myself in fortune's way. Hark how, in this quiet corner, London roars like the noise of battle; four mil…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Fables — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Fables “"Here is a pretty state of things!" said the traveller. "Dying for a smoke; only one match left; and that certain to miss fire! Was there ever a creature so unfortunate? And yet," …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Silverado Squatters — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Silverado Squatters “The proprietor was a brave old white-faced Swede. He had wandered this way, Heaven knows how, and taken up his acres - I forget how many years ago - all alone, bent double with sci…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Records of a Family of Engineers — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Records of a Family of Engineers “IT were hard to imagine a contrast more sharply defined than that between the lives of the men and women of this family: the one so chambered, so centred in the affections and the …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Master of Ballantrae — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Master of Ballantrae “Of the heavy sickness which declared itself next morning I can think with equanimity, as of the last unmingled trouble that befell my master; and even that was perhaps a mercy in d…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Memories and Portraits — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Memories and Portraits “ALL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept alwa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin “BUT it is now time to see Jenkin at his life's work. I have before me certain imperfect series of letters written, as he says, 'at hazard, for one does not know at the time what is…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Island Nights' Entertainments — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Island Nights' Entertainments “They say it scares a man to be alone. No such thing. What scares him in the dark or the high bush is that he can't make sure, and there might be an army at his elbow. What scares h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped — Stevenson |
Kidnapped “Being Memoirs Of The Adventures Of David Balfour In The Year 1751, How He Was Kidnapped And Cast Away; His Sufferings In A Desert Isle; His Journey In The Wild Highlands; His Acqua…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | An Inland Voyage — Robert Louis Stevenson |
An Inland Voyage “THE rain took off near Laeken. But the sun was already down; the air was chill; and we had scarcely a dry stitch between the pair of us. Nay, now we found ourselves near the end of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne “For some thoughts, which sure would be the most beautiful, vanish before we can rightly scan their features; as though a god, travelling by our green highways, should but ope the d…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Essays of Travel — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Essays of Travel “We have come here for the river. And no sooner have we all bathed than we board the two shallops and push off gaily, and go gliding under the trees and gathering a great treasure o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Art of Writing — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Art of Writing “THERE is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Across The Plains — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Across The Plains “THE Bay of Monterey has been compared by no less a person than General Sherman to a bent fishing-hook; and the comparison, if less important than the march through Georgia, still s…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Reporter Who Made Himself King — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Reporter Who Made Himself King “"There is one thing I want to say to you before you turn in," said Stedman. "Before you suggest all these improvements on Ollypybus, you must remember that he has ruled absolutely …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Pavilion on the Links — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Pavilion on the Links “The recollection of that afternoon will always be graven on my mind. Northmour and I were persuaded that an attack was imminent; and if it had been in our power to alter in any way…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Father Damien — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Father Damien “I imagine you to be one of those persons who talk with cheerfulness of that place which oxen and wain-ropes could not drag you to behold. You, who do not even know its situation on…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Markheim — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Markheim “Suddenly, from the street outside, a very jovial gentleman began to beat with a staff on the shop door, accompanying his blows with shouts and railleries in which the dealer was co…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Edingburgh Picturesque Notes — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Edingburgh Picturesque Notes “Greyfriars is continually overrun by cats. I have seen one afternoon, as many as thirteen of them seated on the grass beside old Milne, the Master Builder, all sleek and fat, and c…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Yellow Paint — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Yellow Paint “"Dear me," said the physician. "This is very serious. Off with your clothes at once." And as soon as the young man had stripped, he examined him from head to foot. "No," he cried w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Beach of Falesa — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Beach of Falesa “But the thing that troubled me was nearer hand. Some dozen young men and children made a piece of a half-circle, flanking my house: the river divided them, some were on the near si…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | In the South Seas — Stevenson |
In the South Seas “The glow continued and increased, the business, from the main part, ceased before it had begun. Twice in the day there was a certain stir of shepherding along the seaward hills. At…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Lay Morals — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Lay Morals “It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilisation--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. Its pregnant symbolism has taken…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Sea Fogs — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Sea Fogs “I suppose it was nearly seven when I once more mounted the platform to look abroad. The fog ocean had swelled up enormously since last I saw it; and a few hundred feet below me, in…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Songs of Travel — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Songs of Travel “THE infinite shining heavens/ Rose and I saw in the night/ Uncountable angel stars/ Showering sorrow and light./…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Art of Writing and Other Essays — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Art of Writing and Other Essays “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Lay Morals — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Lay Morals “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | An Inland Voyage — Robert Louis Stevenson |
An Inland Voyage “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Ballads — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Ballads “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Silverado Squatters — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Silverado Squatters “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Dynamiter — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Dynamiter “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow — Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Black Arrow “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island — Stevenson |
Treasure Island “IT was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his affairs. It was a bit…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Ebb-Tide — Stevenson |
The Ebb-Tide “'Emma, I have scratched out the beginning to my father, for I think I can write more easily to you. This is my last farewell to all, the last you will ever hear or see of an unwort…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Catriona — Stevenson |
Catriona “THE 25th day of August, 1751, about two in the afternoon, I, David Balfour, came forth of the British Linen Company, a porter attending me with a bag of money, and some of the chie…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Day's Work — Rudyard Kipling |
The Day's Work “Short fiction by the well-travelled author. Includes a story called .007 (no relation).…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Man Who Would Be King And Other Stories — Rudyard Kipling |
The Man Who Would Be King And Other Stories “Also includes "The Phanton Rickshaw."…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Kim — Rudyard Kipling |
Kim “He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling |
The Jungle Book “All that is told here happened some time before Mowgli was turned out of the Seeonee wolfpack. It was in the days when Baloo was teaching him the Law of the Jungle. The big, seriou…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Stalky &Co. — Rudyard Kipling |
Stalky &Co. “In the infinitely petty confederacies of the Common-room, King and Macrea, fellow house-masters, had borne it in upon him that by games, and games alone, was salvation wrought. Boy…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Bridge-Builders — Rudyard Kipling |
The Bridge-Builders “There were labour contractors by the half-hundred - fitters and riveters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subordinates to …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Second Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling |
The Second Jungle Book “"For this reason," the Lone Wolf answered: "when that yellow chief's hide was hung up on the rock, I went back along our trail to the village, stepping in my tracks, turning aside,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | American Notes — Rudyard Kipling |
American Notes “This place is the first American city I have encountered. It holds rather more than a million of people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta. Having seen it…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Just So Stories — Rudyard Kipling |
Just So Stories “'Fiddle!' said the Leopard. 'I remember them perfectly on the High Veldt, especially their marrow-bones. Giraffe is about seventeen feet high, of a 'sclusively fulvous golden-yello…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Light That Failed — Rudyard Kipling |
The Light That Failed “Torpenhow was sprawling in a long chair with a small fox-terrier asleep on his chest, while Dick was preparing a canvas. A dais, a background, and a lay-figure were the only fixed …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Puck of Pook's Hill — Rudyard Kipling |
Puck of Pook's Hill “'Nay. My venture was South. Farther South than any man has fared, Hugh and I went down with Witta and his heathen.' He jerked the tall sword forward, and leaned on it with both han…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Plain Tales from the Hills — Rudyard Kipling |
Plain Tales from the Hills “No man will ever know the exact truth of this story; though women may sometimes whisper it to one another after a dance, when they are putting up their hair for the night and compa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Rewards and Fairies — Rudyard Kipling |
Rewards and Fairies “Now you can understand their indignation when, one blowy July afternoon, as they were going up for a potato-roast, they saw somebody moving among the trees. They hurled themselves …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Under the Deodars — Rudyard Kipling |
Under the Deodars “Next morning they smoked the after breakfast pipe in the veranda, still regarding each other curiously, Pagett, in a light grey frock-coat and garments much too thin for the time o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Sending of Dana Da — Rudyard Kipling |
The Sending of Dana Da “Now a Sending is a horrible arrangement, first invented, they say, in Iceland. It is a thing sent by a wizard, and may take any form, but most generally wanders about the land in t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | IN THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO — Rudyard Kipling |
IN THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO “I felt the hair lift at the back of my head, and my heart thump like a thermantidote paddle. Luckily, the seal-cutter betrayed himself by his most impressive trick and made me calm…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | HIS WEDDED WIFE — Rudyard Kipling |
HIS WEDDED WIFE “If he HAD been trapped, he was to be excused; for the woman from nowhere, in the dusty shoes, and gray travelling dress, was very lovely, with black hair and great eyes full of tea…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Mark of the Beast — Rudyard Kipling |
The Mark of the Beast “The dawn was beginning to break when the leper spoke. His mewings had not been satisfactory up to that point. The beast had fainted from exhaustion and the house was very still. We…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Man Who Was — Rudyard Kipling |
The Man Who Was “Dirkovitch was a Russian-a Russian of the Russians, as he said-who appeared to get his bread by serving the czar as an officer in a Cossack regiment, and corresponding for a Russia…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Amir's Homily — Rudyard Kipling |
The Amir's Homily “But when twilight was falling, and the order of the Court was a little relaxed, there came before the king, in custody, a trembling haggard wretch, sore with much buffeting, but of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Her Majesty's Servants — Rudyard Kipling |
Her Majesty's Servants “IT had been raining heavily for one whole month--raining on a camp of thirty thousand men, thousands of camels, elephants, horses, bullocks,, and mules, all gathered together at a …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Without Benefit of Clergy — Rudyard Kipling |
Without Benefit of Clergy “'It only needed thy presence to make me all well,' said Ameera. 'My king, thou hast been very long away. What gifts hast thou for me? Ah, ah! It is I that bring gifts this time. Lo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Beyond The Pale — Rudyard Kipling |
Beyond The Pale “The pinch of bhusa enlightened Trejago. He saw--this kind of letter leaves much to instinctive knowledge--that the bhusa referred to the big heap of cattle-food over which he had f…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Kim — Rudyard Kipling |
Kim “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People — Rudyard Kipling |
Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People “'I would have thrown myself in also, but that she was not dead and called to me from the bottom of the well, and I was afraid and ran. And one came out of the crops saying that I h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Actions and Reactions — Kipling |
Actions and Reactions “"Our planet's over-lighted if anything," says Captain Purnall at the wheel, as Cardiff-Bristol slides under. "I remember the old days of common white verticals that 'ud show two or…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous — Rudyard Kipling |
Captains Courageous “It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his band on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky. Th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | Om — The Secret of Ahbor Valley |
Om “"The Lama is gone!" Dawa Tsering announced dramatically. "If I had had my knife I would have slain the impudent devil who gave me the news! Tripe out of the belly of a pig is his c…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | King — of the Khyber Rifles |
King “Fear or no fear, Khyber-mouth is haunted after dark by the men whose blood-feuds are too reeking raw to let them dare go home and for whom the British hangman very likely waits a m…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | The Soul of a Regiment — Talbot Mundy |
The Soul of a Regiment “But suddenly the band stopped playing, as suddenly as though the music were a concrete thing and had been severed with an ax. The Sirdar turned his head suddenly and gazed at one c…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | HIRA SINGH: WHEN INDIA CAME TO FIGHT IN FLANDERS — Talbot Mundy |
HIRA SINGH: WHEN INDIA CAME TO FIGHT IN FLANDERS “I said no more because I knew he was right. If he should shoot Gooja Singh the troopers would ascribe it to nothing else than fear. A British officer might do it and they would say…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | Rung Ho! — Talbot Mundy |
Rung Ho! “"Aie! Did you hear him reprimand me? By the beard of God's prophet, that is a man of men! So was his father! Now I will tell Alwa and the others that I bring a man to them! By the …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | The Ivory Trail — Talbot Mundy |
The Ivory Trail “"Oh, my God, no!" the Baganda answered, trembling. "Hand me over to the bwana collector! He will put me in jail. I am not afraid of British jail! It will not be for long! The Engli…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | The Eye of Zeitoon — Talbot Mundy |
The Eye of Zeitoon “The gut of the pass rose toward Zeitoon at a sharp incline--a ramp of slippery wet clay, half a mile long, reaching across from buttress to buttress of the impregnable hills. It wa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | For The Salt He Had Eaten — Talbot Mundy |
For The Salt He Had Eaten “"This--she was to give a sign. She was not to slay. She had leave only to take the jewels. Her orders were either to wait until she knew by questioning that the section would not r…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | MACHASSAN AH — Talbot Mundy |
MACHASSAN AH “It was not until they had debouched (as Crothers termed it) to their half-right front and had taken to a narrow one-man track that ran below the wall that any over attention was pa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | Hookum Hai — Talbot Mundy |
Hookum Hai “"Maybe it's true," he muttered, "and maybe it's all lies; there's no knowing. Maybe India's going to run blood, as these fakirs seem to think, and maybe it isn't. There'll be more …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | Guns of the Gods — Talbot Mundy |
Guns of the Gods “Yasmini left them, and walked alone to the very edge of the pond, where she stood still for several minutes, apparently gazing at her own reflection in the moonlit water--or perhap…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | King — of the Khyber Rifles |
King “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Talbot Mundy | Winds of the World — Talbot Mundy |
Winds of the World “It is ever a mystery to them how she knows all that is going on in Delhi, and in India, and in the greater outer world, although they themselves bring her information that no gover…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Coral Island |
The Coral Island “WHAT a joyful thing it is to awaken, on a fresh glorious morning, and find the rising sun staring into your face with dazzling brilliancy! - to see the birds twittering in the bush…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | VENDETTA: A STORY OF ONE FORGOTTEN — Marie Corelli |
VENDETTA: A STORY OF ONE FORGOTTEN “They struck against a hard opposing substance above me. Quick as lightning then the truth flashed upon my mind! I had been buried--buried alive; this wooden prison that inclosed me…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Wakulla: A STORY OF ADVENTURE IN FLORIDA — Kirk Munroe |
Wakulla: A STORY OF ADVENTURE IN FLORIDA “Cliff Claven's favorite state, by his favorite author.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Sea-Witch — Maturin Murray |
The Sea-Witch “ABOUT a fortnight subsequent to the period of the last chapter, Mrs. Huntington and her daughter, with a single attendant found themselves embarked on board the Bengal, a large, we…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | An African Millionaire — Grant Allen |
An African Millionaire “Like many other wealthy men, my respected connection is troubled more or less, in the background of his consciousness, by a pervading dread that he will die a beggar. To guard agai…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Black Caesar's Clan — Albert Payson Terhune |
Black Caesar's Clan “In his jiu-jutsu instructions Brice had learned a rule which he had carried into good effect in other walks of life. Namely to seem to play one's opponent's game and to be fooled b…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Zone Policeman 88 — Harry A. Franck |
Zone Policeman 88 “I wormed my way through the fawning, neck-craning, many-shaded mob of political henchmen and obsequious petitioners into the sacred hushed precincts of Panama police headquarters. …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Doctor Syn: A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh — Russell Thorndyke |
Doctor Syn: A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh “"Now," said the sexton, "I blows out the candles and you shall see." Jerry opened his eyes as the sexton blew out the lights. "Bring the mirror!" called the sexton to the other roo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Duke's Prize — Maturin Murray |
The Duke's Prize “The thought of the bare possibility of the connection as sanctioned by the duke, so embittered his feelings as to render him disagreeable to all about him. His conscious pride and …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Heart's Secret — Maturin Murray |
The Heart's Secret “"It is dangerous business, but it shall be done," said the other, drawing a dagger from his bosom and feeling its point carefully. "But I must have another day, as to-night it may …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Unspeakable Perk — Samuel Hopkins Adams |
The Unspeakable Perk “The Unspeakable Perk strode down his path, broke into a trot, and held to it until he reached his house. But Miss Polly, departing in her own direction, stopped dead after ten minu…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Winds of Chance — Rex Beach |
The Winds of Chance “Dawson City burst into view of the party without warning, and no El Dorado could have looked more promising. Hounding a bend of the river, they beheld a city of logs and canvas spr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Rainbow's End — Rex Beach |
Rainbow's End “"I'll do it," readily agreed the other. "I'll stake you to my last one. But keep it clean! Have a care for the cuffs--a little inadvertency with the soup may ruin my prospects for …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Spoilers — Rex Beach |
The Spoilers “He rapidly rehearsed his signals in a jargon which to a layman would have been unintelligible, illustrating them by certain almost imperceptible shiftings of the fingers or changes…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Vandrad the Viking — J. Storer Clouston |
Vandrad the Viking “"Nay, Ketill, I am not jesting; in truth I am in little humour for that. If seventy brave men cannot clear a hall of two hundred drinkers, what virtue lies in stout hearts and shar…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Graustark — George Barr McCutcheon |
Graustark “"Not in the least," he gasped, the breath knocked out of his body. Just the same, he was very much alarmed. It was as dark as pitch outside and in, and he could not help wondering …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Aladdin O'Brien — Gouverneur Morris |
Aladdin O'Brien “"Look out for the lantern," she called, and threw the hay down to him. She brought, in all, seven large bundles and was starting for the eighth, when, by a special act of Providenc…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Mark of Zorro — Johnston McCulley |
The Mark of Zorro “First serialized as The Curse of The Capistrano in 1919--the one that started it all.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Diary of a Soldier of Fortune — Stanley Portal Hyatt |
Diary of a Soldier of Fortune “The risk of accident was considerable. A gun might go off by mistake, a wounded buck might charge, the cattle might trample you, or a fall on one of the smooth boulders might resul…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Castle Craneycrow — George Barr McCutcheon |
Castle Craneycrow “Blood was streaming down his arm and he was beginning to feel an excruciating pain. Pedestrians were few, and they made no effort to obstruct the flight of the fugitive. Instead, t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Ne'er-Do-Well — Rex Beach |
The Ne'er-Do-Well “They rushed him with the ferocity of mad dogs, and he knocked them spinning, one after another. A whistle blew shrilly, other uniforms came running, more whistles piped, and almost…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | All in a Night — H.M. Tomlinson |
All in a Night “The track continued up. But was it a track, or a natural feature? There was not much light in the forest, and strange motionless shapes were posed about in the quiet. Sometimes, lo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Derelict — H. M. Tomlinson |
The Derelict “It looked like a big log out there ahead, over the starboard bow. It was not easy to make out. The light was failing. We overhauled it rapidly, and it began to shape as a ship's bo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Cappy Ricks — Peter B. Kyne |
Cappy Ricks “"How dare you contradict me?" the Old Man growled. "I tell you, you don't know what you are yet, barring the fact that you're an American, and the only one, with the exception of m…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Valley of the Giants — Peter B. Kyne |
The Valley of the Giants “She blushed ever so slightly. "I suppose Bryce Cardigan is vindicating himself," she murmured as she withdrew the card from the envelope. As she had surmised, it was Bryce Cardigan…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | In Secret — Robert W. Chambers |
In Secret “"I know you escaped from the Holzminden prison-camp in Germany; that you were inhumanly treated there by the Boche; that you entered the United States Intelligence Service; and tha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Fool Errant — Maurice Hewlett |
The Fool Errant “I never credited her with more than charity towards myself; and if I gloried in the fact that I was privileged to love so wondrous a being, the thought humiliated me at the same ti…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Great Impersonation — E. Phillips Oppenheim |
The Great Impersonation “"Von Ragastein," he said, "my decree of banishment against you was a just one. The morals of my people are as sacred to me as my oath to win for them a mightier empire. You first o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Green Fancy — George Barr McCutcheon |
Green Fancy “Barnes held up his hand for silence. "Listen," he said in a low voice, "I will tell you who they were looking for." As briefly as possible he recounted his experience with the stra…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Son of a Hero — James Oliver Curwood |
Son of a Hero “Returning, his head and shoulders just out of the cabin, Falkner was in time to see Svenson burst like a maniac from the group of men fighting like shadows in the mist at the forwa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Her Weight in Gold — George Barr McCutcheon |
Her Weight in Gold “It began to occur to her that Captain Studdiford was somehow the superior of any man she had ever seen. She felt a joy that he had fought a duel, although the thought that he had k…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | In Kedar's Tents — Henry Seton Merriman |
In Kedar's Tents “'He arrived in Ronda under singularly unfortunate circumstances, and I was compelled to have his travelling companion shot. Then occurred that affair of the letter, which he gave t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Charlemont — W. Gilmore Simms |
Charlemont “Full title: CHARLEMONT; OR, THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE A TALE OF KENTUCKY.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Viola Gwyn — George Barr McCutcheon |
Viola Gwyn “She was his mother's friend and she had slain her with the viper's tooth. From the day that his questioning intelligence seized upon the truth that had been so carefully withheld f…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Valley of Vision — Henry Van Dyke |
The Valley of Vision “In single file they crept through the prepared opening in the barbed-wire entanglement, and so out into No Man's Land, where they took up their spike-team formation. Phipps-Herrick…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | MINIONS OF THE MOON — F. W. ROBINSON |
MINIONS OF THE MOON “"Thieves, cutthroats, and murderers--eight of us--knights of the road, gentlemen of the highway, and not to be trifled with when half starved and hard driven," cried the hoarse man…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Stories by English Authors: The Sea |
Stories by English Authors: The Sea “"Not now, sir; not with six men while I have fifteen. You have no right to search the hold of a respectable merchantman and disturb her cargo. Do you take me for a slaver, or what?…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Heart of Rome — Francis Marion Crawford |
The Heart of Rome “There was room to pass this danger, however, and they had since laid a couple of stout boards over it, weighted with stones to keep them in place. Beyond, the passage rose till it …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Perils of Pauline — Charles Goddard |
The Perils of Pauline “With a piece of the blanket rope he tied her wrists together, and placed her arms about his shoulders, grasping a rope that sagged away to the wrecked balloon on the road far below…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Out of the Primitive — Robert Ames Bennet |
Out of the Primitive “"Then--But I can't leave you here in this hell-hole! You've no right to ask me to do that, Tom. If I could bring my guns ashore and stay with you--But she'll never be more in need …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Great Stone of Sardis — Frank R. Stockton |
The Great Stone of Sardis “Now succeeded a period of intense excitement, such as was perhaps never before known in an assembly of scientific people. One by one, each person was led by Clewe inside the screen…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Princess Maritza — Percy Brebner |
Princess Maritza “"There are stirring times at hand," she went on; "times in which men may strive and win. His majesty, the King, is fettered, politically bound, by conflicting interests, watched, c…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Net — Rex Beach |
The Net “Every crash was the signal for a shout from the multitude, and when the door finally gave way a triumphant roar arose. The armed men swarmed into the opening and disappeared one by…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Splendid Spur — Arthur T. Quiller Couch |
The Splendid Spur “"Then go I must," cried I: and hereupon I broke out with all the trouble that was on my mind, and the instant need to save these gallant gentlemen of Cornwall, ere two armies shoul…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Red Fleece — Will Levington Comfort |
Red Fleece “He couldn't keep off the reality long. In every direction the murderous army--no song, no laugh, no human nature, no love, no work, but death. He was imprisoned. And somewhere near…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Via Crucis — F. Marion Crawford |
Via Crucis “Meanwhile the council was held in the King's tent of state, within which three hundred nobles sat at ease after the King himself had taken his place on the throne, with the Queen o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The World of Ice — R.M. Ballantyne |
The World of Ice “"It's an ill wind that blows no good," cried one of the crew, towards whose foot the ball rolled, as he quietly kicked it into the center of the mass of men. Grim and Mivins turned…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Man on the Box — Harold MacGrath |
The Man on the Box “The distance between the two horses began slowly to lessen, and Warburton understood, in a nebulous way, what the girl had meant when she said that Dick could outrun Pirate. If Pir…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Michel and Angle — Gilbert Parker |
Michel and Angle “These were days when the soldier of fortune mounted to high places. He needed but to carry the banner of bravery, and a busy sword, and his way to power was not hindered by poor es…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | John Enderby — Gilbert Parker |
John Enderby “The King had entered quietly as the lady-in-waiting read this passage to the Queen, and, attracted by her voice, continued to listen, signifying to the Queen, by a gesture, that sh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | There Is Sorrow On The Sea — Gilbert Parker |
There Is Sorrow On The Sea “"I know it all, though you did not tell me, Cousin Dick. You had no purpose in going, save to see the end of a wretched quarrel and a smuggler's ill scheme. You carried a musket fo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Annette, The Metis Spy — Joseph Edmund Collins |
Annette, The Metis Spy “"She shall be mine!" he hissed, "when your corpse lies mouldering in a dishonoured, traitor's grave." The young man was chained to a heavy table, but with a sudden wrench, he freed…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher — William Henry Withrow |
Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher “The next morning, the British were within a mile and a half of Baltimore, but they found fifteen thousand men, with a large train of artillery, in possession of the heights command…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Belted Seas — Arthur Colton |
The Belted Seas “But there came to me in Tampico a man named Flannagan, who said he was manager of "The Flannagan and Imperial Itinerant Exhibition," a company composed of three Japanese performers…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | GAUT GURLEY; OR, THE TRAPPERS OF UMBAGOG. — D. P. THOMPSON |
GAUT GURLEY; OR, THE TRAPPERS OF UMBAGOG. “Having risen to his feet, raised his hunting-cap, and bowed his adieu to the still lingering maiden on shore, Claud now joined his companion at the oars; when they rapidly passed r…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | In Direst Peril — David Christie Murray |
In Direst Peril “I could see the baroness now. She was sitting with both hands on the keys, and as the cheering died away they rose and fell again with a loud and brilliant crash. Everybody turned …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Hanley Castle — W.S. Symonds |
Hanley Castle “Being an unusually wet season, we passed the first night in pouring rain, a thick fog rising in the morning, shrouding alike besiegers and besieged. When the fog cleared, those who…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Shadow of the Sword |
The Shadow of the Sword “Midday came, and still he was upon the water. By this time he had reached a great patch of glassy calm, covered with black masses of guillemots and shearwaters, over which the grea…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Purple Land — W. H. Hudson |
The Purple Land “I could not endure the brute's insults, and sprang up from my seat. I happened to have a large knife in my hand, for we were just preparing to make an assault on the roasted ribs o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Boscobel or, the Royal Oak — W.H. Ainsworth |
Boscobel or, the Royal Oak “The occupants of the oak breathed again after the departure of Colonel James and his troopers, and though they had been greatly alarmed at the time, they soon recovered their spiri…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Yeoman Adventurer — George W. Gough |
The Yeoman Adventurer “I had been commissioned by the Prince to do three things: first, to deliver a dispatch to my Lord George Murray, wherever I should find him, which would probably be at Ashbourne, t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Jim Davis — John Masefield |
Jim Davis “I could think of nothing except the words: "I am a murderer." A wild wish came to me to run to the cliffs by Black Pool to see whether the bodies lay on the grass in the place wher…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Cappy Ricks Retires — Peter B. Kyne |
Cappy Ricks Retires “Throughout the long, lazy days that the Narcissus rolled into the South, Captain Michael J. Murphy's alert brain was busy every spare moment, striving to discover, in the incompreh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Springhaven — R. D. Blackmore |
Springhaven “"That is very good," answered the First Consul, smiling with the sense of his own power; "and at an hour's notice, with fifty chosen men landed from the London Trader--ah, I love t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Fighting Chance — Robert W. Chambers |
The Fighting Chance “"That settles it," said the doctor grimly, "that clinches it! That locks you to the wheel! That pledges you. The squabble is on, now. It's your honour that's engaged now, not your …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Blindfolded — Earle Ashley Walcott |
Blindfolded “To the south the cross-street stretched to Market with an unbroken array of lights, and as my unwary watchers had disappeared in the darkness, I hastened down the incline with so l…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Hereward, The Last of the English — Charles Kingsley |
Hereward, The Last of the English “But their mishaps were not over yet. They were hardly out of Stronsay Frith when they saw the witch-whale again, following them up, rolling and spouting and breaching in most uncan…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Rise of Iskander — Benjamin Disraeli |
The Rise of Iskander “At length he was on the centre of the centre arch, an eminent position, which allowed him for a moment to keep them at bay, and gave him breathing time. Suddenly he made a desperat…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Away in the Wilderness — R.M. Ballantyne |
Away in the Wilderness “Full title: Away in the Wilderness; Red Indians and Fur Traders of N.America…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Hunting the Lions — R.M. Ballantyne |
Hunting the Lions “It has happened often that the poor animal's legs do their duty so badly that he falls and exposes his rider to be trodden into a mummy; or losing his presence of mind, the rider m…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Over the Rocky Mountains — R.M. Ballantyne |
Over the Rocky Mountains “Full title: Over the Rocky Mountains; Wandering Will in the Land of the Red Skins…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Iron Horse — R.M. Ballantyne |
The Iron Horse “"How the madman who assaulted me this evening found me out I know not. I was not aware until this day that he had been tracking me, but, judging from what he said, and from what I …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Rivers of Ice — R.M. Ballantyne |
Rivers of Ice “They crouched beside a piece of ice, and the chamois advanced, until its pretty form became recognisable by the naked eye. Its motions, however, were irregular. It was evidently ti…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Settler and the Savage — R.M. Ballantyne |
The Settler and the Savage “Ruyter quietly told the savage that he would then have to take the consequences, and urged, in addition, that it was folly to suppose the Kafirs were in a condition to make war on …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Eagle Cliff — R.M. Ballantyne |
The Eagle Cliff “It suddenly bellowed in that low thunderous tone which is so awfully suggestive of conscious power. MacRummle stopped short. He was naturally a brave man, nevertheless his heart ga…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Hot Swamp — R.M. Ballantyne |
The Hot Swamp “Although they travelled almost night and day, it took them the better part of two weeks to reach the river, on the banks of which King Hudibras' chief town was built. They arrived …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Hunted and Harried — R.M. Ballantyne |
Hunted and Harried “The executioner was about to obey when a noise was heard at the door of the Council Chamber, and a cavalier, booted and spurred and splashed with mud, as if he had ridden fast and …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Twice Bought — R.M. Ballantyne |
Twice Bought “How long Tolly Trevor remained in a state of horrified surprise no one can tell, for he was incapable of observation at the time, besides being alone. On returning to consciousness…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Battlefield Treasure — F. Bayford Harrison |
The Battlefield Treasure “Soon after this Jack began to listen for suspicious noises. Nothing did he hear but children's voices in the distance ringing shrill, and the rumble of an occasional cart, and the …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |