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The Virgin had appeared to two children on a hill. By another coincidence, this Saturday was the eve of the Festival of Our Lady of Seven Dolours. And she appeared as Our Lady of Tears in that desert...

Scion of a wealthy family, the effete Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones has been transformed . . . no thanks to the proper training and education due Boston's finest -- but due to sheer, desperate necessity:...

Scion of a wealthy family, the effete Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones has been transformed . . . no thanks to the proper training and education due Boston's finest -- but due to sheer, desperate necessity:...

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world and to show in a vision something of the face of...

The beautiful light-haired, blue-eyed Sylvia Bailey -- married at 19, and already a widow at 25 -- is enjoying life on her own in Paris. She even carries with her a symbol of the freedom she feels: a...

JILTED FOR A DEGENERATE LORD!Harry Clavering loved Julia Brabazon.After a brilliant career at Oxford, Harry's future was bright. But then, the selfish Julia met the degenerate Lord Ongar and fell in...

THE CHOICEAfter a brilliant career at Oxford, Harry Clavering lost his beloved Julia Brabazon to the dissolute Lord Ongar. Now Lady Ongar is a widow and attempts to rekindle her old romance.However,...

"The Cloud Dream of the Nine" is a revelation of what the Oriental thinks and feels not only about things of the earth but about the hidden things of the Universe. It helps us towards a...

From Ashes of the Beacon: An Historical Monograph Written in 4930The ancient Americans were a composite people; their blood was a blend of all the strains known in their time. Their government, while...

Volume II of Ambrose Bierce's twelve-volume collected works, this volume contains tales of Soldiers, including: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "A Horseman in the Sky," "Chickamauga," "A Son of...

The tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand in 1833-1835 is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel La Confession d'un Enfant du Si?cle (The Confession of a Child of the...

CROWNED BY THE FRENCH ACADEMYThe tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand in 1833-1835 is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel La Confession d'un Enfant du Si?cle...

A running theme in Piper's work is that history repeats itself; past events will have direct and clear analogues in the future.When the book was published, he had been writing and selling science...

A running theme in Piper's work is that history repeats itself; past events will have direct and clear analogues in the future.When the book was published, he had been writing and selling science...

ESCAPE FROM CH?TEAU D'IF Edmond Dantes was a young sailor who, in 1815, returned to Marseille with great expectations. After all, had he not just been named captain of the Pharaon? After all, was he...

THE RETURN OF DANTES His world had been turned upside down. In 1815 Edmond Dantes, a young sailor, returned to Marseilles with great expectations. But Dantes' shipmate Danglars wanted his new...

Edmond Dantes was a young sailor who, in 1815, came home to Marseilles with great expectations. But Dantes's enemies had him imprisoned in the dungeons of Ch?teau D'If. In prison, Dantes met and...

Edmond Dantes was a young sailor who, in 1815, returned to Marseilles with great expectations. But Dantes's enemies had him imprisoned in the dungeons of Ch?teau D'If. Doomed to rot in prison, Dantes...

THE FINAL REVENGE Is the Count of Monte Cristo's revenge sweet? With great expectations, the young sailor Edmond Dantes returned to Marseilles France in 1815. But Dantes' enemies had him imprisoned...

Leiber sets the tale in a future when "missiles are on the prowl," and most people live underground. George Gusterson is a writer with crazy ideas -- one being, he still lives on the surface. For...

Two of the reformers who led the effort to stop the carnage in Africa were Edmund Dene Morel and Roger Casement, upon whom Conan Doyle based the characters of Edward Malone and Lord John Roxton in...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many more novels, stories and works of nonfiction than the immortal tales of Sherlock Holmes. His interests, also, were broad-ranging. Conan Doyle became outraged upon...

THE WORLD GONE PSYCHOHarry Collins is an ad-executive in a future Chicago on an Earth whose population has exploded beyond imagining. Crazed by the pressures of overcrowding, he seeks escape with a...

The last spaceship to leave Mars headed for Earth is stopped and searched by Martian soldiers, who are looking for three saboteurs who destroyed a Martian city. "Attention, Inner-Flight ship!...

From "The Crystal Egg" There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near Seven Dials over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of "C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in...

A small child and a cuckoo for a cuckoo clock become unlikely friends, when at night the clock transports her to magical places. "Stopped!" says Miss Tabitha, throwing up her hands. "Impossible!" "I...

"The cuckoo clock has stopped!" exclaims little Griselda. "Stopped!" says Miss Tabitha, throwing up her hands. "Impossible!" "I mean cuckoo has stopped," the girl says. "The clock is going on, but...

DEATH OF A POSEURHe was a poet, was Mr. Thorton Lyne. Oh so elegant and charming! Mr. Lyne owned the estimable shoppe, Lyne's Emporium, and he presided over his dominion and employee's like a dandy...

Saxo Grammaticus was a Danish historian, theologian and author, thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, foremost advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark. He lived from 1150...

Saxo Grammaticus was a Danish historian, theologian and author, thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, foremost advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark. He lived from 1150...