Fiction

This short novel by Agnes Strickland builds on the tradition of "Robinson Crusoe" and "The Swiss Family Robinson."

Preface -- Dutch courage -- Typhoon off the coast of Japan -- The lost poacher -- The banks of the Sacramento -- Chris Farrington: Able seaman -- To Repel Boarders -- An Adventure in the upper sea -- Bald-face -- In Yeddo bay -- Whose business is to live.

A daring Western and romance set in the wilderness. Gripping tale, not to be missed.

Though most of Jack London's novels and short stories fall firmly into the action-adventure category, the prolific author occasionally ventured into other genres, as well.

A haunting and sentimental tale of Nello, a young boy who aspires to be a painter, and his beloved dog Patrasche - both of whom endure poverty, hunger, cruelty and rejection right up to the tragic, bittersweet end.

Book Excerpt: ...came back with the negro."Gorra mighty!" said the latter, in a hurried, husky whisper, "where am de cussed niggers? Heigh, Miss Rosa?""Keep quiet," she replied, "or you will be heard.""Dat's just what I wants to be, and I calkilates I'll be felt too, if dar are any of 'em 'bout.

An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events.

"A cleverly conceived and neatly developed story into which Stockton has injected a goodly portion of his peculiarly fantastic genius. ... It has not a dull page."--Boston Advertiser.

Dismantling the dirigible-ship Monarch & the submarine Porpoise, our crew constructs from the combined parts the Flying Mermaid which is both airship & submarine.

Book Excerpt:...ot so sure about that," said Noel good-naturedly. "But here we are almost back to camp, and you'll have a chance to try it out in a little while."

From the forest deeps came brutal killers, and Tharn, the Cro-Magnon, vowed that vengeance would be his...

A classic pirate tale of the Spanish Main, featuring the female pirate, Captain Jo, this continuation of "Black Bartelmy's Treasure" picks up the plot three years later.

Harry Collingwood was the son of a Royal Navy officer, and he put his father's experience to good use in crafting popular sea stories. Many of them are still widely read today.

This pulp adventure features Athelstan King, hero of King of the Khyber Rifles

A young English boy travels to Colorado in order to join his prospector uncle in search of gold.

An exciting, rather melodramatic romance of the French revolution. A peasant revolutionist who is trying to lure the heroine and her father back to France, and an unwelcome suitor, engage the cunning of the Scarlet Pimpernel in restoring the kidnapped bride to her husband through hairbreadth escapes and thrilling adventures.

No pomp, no pleasant amenities; the place seemed to jut into the sea, defying man's oldest and most bitter enemy, its gable ends and one crenellated bastion or turret betraying its sinister relation to its age, its whole aspect arrogant and unfriendly, essential of war. Caught suddenly by the vision that swept the fretted curve of the coast, it seemed blackly to perpetuate the spirit of the land, its silence, its solitude and terrors.

A mystery on the Swiss border during the War.

Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author’s own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience.

Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin for murder, defies the will of prison officials who try to break his spirit with "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to tortuously compress the whole body. To survive, Standing discovers how to enter a trance state in which he walks among the stars and experiences past lives.