Fiction

This etext was produced from A Martian Odyssey and Others.

The Lives and Adventures of Sundry Notorious Pirates.

This is an able and powerful novel, with good characterization, a picture of life in Argentine but the greater part of the scene, Paris and the field of the war.

An inspiring story of Richard the Fearless (943-996) who became Duke of Normandy at the age of 8.

Penny wants to write a story about a strange tattoo she sees on a sailor, but neither her father's nor her school's newspaper agree to the idea.

The title story is a short story by Jack London, on the subject of extreme antipathy. The unnamed protagonist of the story has an irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, the moon-face man. He hates really everything about him: his face, his laugh, his entire life, and when he finds out that Claverhouse engages in illegal fishing with dynamite, he works out a scheme to kill him while making it look like an accident...

A story of love and adventure on a ranch in California.

"Morally, the book is everything that could be desired, setting before the boys a bright and bracing ideal of the English gentleman."--Christian Leader.

The room was strange as the man himself who dwelt there. It seemed in a way the outward expression of his inner personality.

A story of modern Montana, giving a wholly different phase of life among the ranches--in the lonesome land.

Whispering Smith is just a plain story. It is a book of incident instead of introspection. When you read it you don't give a hang about soul struggles.

This etext was produced from True: The Man's Magazine, December 1950. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

Rick and Scotty travel to the Himalayas again, this time to stop nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands.

This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers.

Rich men, poor men, beggarmen, thieves impelled by the lure of chance had gathered at the mushroom city of Comanche.

Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 – February 18, 1942) was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist. The public knows him best for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies.

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ; also known by the pseudonym "Litwos"; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916) was a Polish journalist, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and philanthropist.

First published in 1910, this new Raging Bull Edition contains the original text as well as background articles including: - Frank V Webster – A Stratemeyer Pseudonym - Frank V Webster – A Bibliography - Pulp Fiction – Cheap Magazines, Gripping Stories

A passage from the book... We had come home from school much earlier than usual, on account of illness having broken out there; but as none of the boys were dangerously ill, and those in the infirmary were very comfortable, we were not excessively unhappy William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880), was a writer of tales for boys.

Every one who has a taste for good stories will feel the force of these. Every one who knows the South Seas, and many who do not, will feel that they have the unmistakable stamp of truth.