Author: Zane Grey

Language: English

Published: 1909

Author: Frederick Orlin Tremaine

Language: English

Published: 1956

A great civilization's fate lay in Dick Barrow's hands as he led his courageous fellow engineers into a strange and unknown land. None of them knew what lay ahead--what dangers awaited them--or what rewards. But they did not hesitate because the first question asked them had been: "Are you a brave man?"

Language: English

Published: 1907

Author: Arlene Radasky

Language: English

Published: 2008

A first-century Druid, Lovern, and his wife, Jahna, have a deep belief in their faith and family. A difficult decision is made, and a life sacrificed. Now, an archaeologist, Aine MacRea, is piecing her life and theirs together, as she reveals buried secrets.

Author: L. Frank Baum

Language: English

Published: 1909

In which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter met on an Enchanted Road and followed it all the way to the Marvelous Land of Oz.

Author: Anonymous

Language: English

Published: 1789

It contains a diverting account of several naughty boys and girls, who, after their death (which was generally owing to their own folly) were degraded into such animals as they most resembled when alive. I cannot pretend to say who was the author; for his modesty was so great, that he has not inserted his name in the title page.

Introducing the Little Rag Brother of Raggedy Ann

Author: Johnny Gruelle

Language: English

Published: 1919

Author: Jacob Abbott

Language: English

Published: 1848

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame. Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and it has been the writer's aim to present the prominent and leading traits in their characters, and all the important events in their lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in the plain and simple language which is so obviously required in works which aim at permanent and practical usefulness.

Author: William T. Hornaday

Language: English

Published: 1913

The preservation of animal and plant life, and of the general beauty of Nature, is one of the foremost duties of the men and women of to-day. It is an imperative duty, because it must be performed at once, for otherwise it will be too late. Every possible means of preservation,--sentimental, educational and legislative,--must be employed.

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Language: English

Published: 1918

Beginning with John Carter's return to Barsoom (Mars) after a ten year hiatus -- separated from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own -- John Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, the Barsoomian heaven.

Language: English

Published: 1920

Author: Mark Twain

Language: English

Published: 1898

The Mysterious Stranger -- A Fable -- Hunting the Deceitful Turkey -- The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm.

An unfinished novella that Mark Twain worked on periodically from roughly 1890 until his death in 1910. The body of the work is a serious social commentary addressing Twain's ideas of the Moral Sense and the ''damned human race.'' Published posthumously in 1916 by Twain's biographer Albert Bigelow Paine.

Author: Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

Language: English

Published: 1936

Author: George Pearson

Language: English

Published: 1918

In order to remove all question of doubt in the mind of the reader it might perhaps be well to state here that the facts as given are the bona fide experiences of Corporal Edwards, Number 39, Number One Company, P. P. C. L. I., and as such were subjected to the closest scrutiny both by the author and others before it was deemed advisable to give the account to the public. In particular great pains were taken to do full justice to all enemy individuals who figure in the story.

Language: English

Published: 1880

Author: George Manville Fenn

Language: English

An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house.

Language: English

Published: 1892

Language: English

Published: 1882

Author: Andre Norton

Language: English

Published: 1962

Alien technology scavenged by U.S. and Russian scientists has started a race to colonize planets outside our solar system -- and the U.S. scientists are losing! In a desperate move the U.S. government decides to use a group of Apache volunteers in an experimental attempt to colonize a primitive planet, but before they can even begin their spaceship crashes on the planet Topaz...

Love Letters of a Rookie

Author: Edward Streeter

Language: English

Published: 1918

Language: English

Published: 1922

Author: Charlton Miner Lewis

Language: English

Published: 1903

The Age of Fear

Author: Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

Language: English

Published: 1904

and Other Stories

Author: John Kessel

Language: English

Published: 2008

An astonishing, long-awaited collection of stories that intersect imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor. Includes John Kessel's modern classic "Lunar Quartet" sequence about life on the moon.

Author: Oscar Wilde

Language: English

Published: 1895

Author: Herman Hesse

Language: English

Published: 1922

An allegorical novel that follows the spiritual journey of an Indian man called Siddhartha during the time of Buddha (6th century B.C.). Beginning with the main character's departure from his Brahmin home the search for enlightenment takes Siddhartha through a series of changes and realizations.

Language: English

Published: 1875

Now that the prejudices and bitter partisan feeling of the past are subsiding, it seems a fitting time to record the facts and incidents connected with the first conflict of the Rebellion. Of the eleven officers who took part in the events herein narrated, but four now survive. Before the hastening years shall have partially obliterated many circumstances from my memory, and while there is still an opportunity for conference and friendly criticism, I desire to make, from letters, memoranda, and documents in my possession, a statement which will embody my own recollections of the turbulent days of 1860 and 1861.

Language: English

Published: 1960

When you're commanding a spaceship over a mile long, and armed to the teeth, you don't exactly expect to be told to get the hell out...

Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

Language: English

Published: 1921

Author: John Galsworthy

Language: English

Part of the Forsyte Saga.