Fiction

R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers.

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“I suppose they call contentment a jewel because it is so rare.” “Irvin S. Cobb has paused between meals, one might say, long enough to write a book telling us how a patriot can ‘do his bit and eat it, too.’ Eating, taken by and large, is not such terribly serious business. We have never consider it a subject wrapped in somber gloom and Mr. Cobb confirms our opinion….An avowedly humorous volume that contains a surprising number of truths.” -Forecast, Volume 17, January, 1919

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The great war between the Northern and Southern States of America has the special interest for English boys of having been a struggle between two sections of a people akin to us in race and language—a struggle fought out by each side with unusual intensity of conviction in the rightness of its cause, and abounding in heroic incidents.

"Not only a rousing story, replete with all the varied forms of excitement of a campaign, but, what is still more useful, an account of a territory and its inhabitants which must for a long time possess a supreme interest for Englishmen, as being the key to our Indian Empire."--Glasgow Herald.

An evil man, but strong and perfect in evil--the tale of this astonishing man and his end is an achievement even for Stewart Edward White.

First published in 1847, Wagner the Werewolf is one of the very earliest treatments of the Werewolf theme in English literature, and has lost none of its power to shock, it is one of the greatest works of George W. M. Reynolds, once the most popular author in England, and the 'Master of the Penny Dreadful'.

Gaining the roof, Achmet looked over the parapet -- and his first glance was enough to convince him that he must bid farewell to all hope.

Most of the book is taken up with a story about the plight of the British members of a small garrison, during the Indian Mutiny.

No writer can so unfailingly summons and materialize the spirit of the weird, mysterious South Africa as can Cynthia Stockley.

A story of pioneer life on the Kansas frontier, faithfully depicting the old heroic pioneer spirit. A great human story which appeals to all readers, old and young alike.

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Follow Jack Ralston and his pal "Perk"--famous air pilots--as they help Uncle Sam unravel baffling problems of the Secret Service.

It was Independence Day. The sun rose gorgeously. The air was electric and inspiring. Blossoming plants were exhaling rare fragrance.

Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.

In this tale of the Middle Ages, Rider Haggard has given us a picture in his vivid and striking way of the days when feudalism was in the land and every man held his life and love in the strength of his sword arm.

A romance of the days of Monmouth's rebellion. The action is rapid, its style is spirited, and its plot is convincing.

St. Martin's Summer (also known as The Queen's Messenger, 1909) Garnache spent a sleepless night at Grenoble, on guard throughout the greater part of it since nothing short of that would appease the fears of Valerie.

Beatrice Waverly is robbed of $5,000 and suspicion fastens upon Buck Thornton, but she soon realizes he is not guilty. Intensely exciting, here is a real story of the Great Far West.