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Excerpt from The Master of Warlock: A Virginia War Story The road was a winding, twisting track as it threaded its way through a stretch of old field pines. The land was nearly level at that point, and quite unobstructed, so that there was not the...

Excerpt from The Last of the Flatboats: A Story of the Mississippi and Its Interesting Family of Rivers Vevay, from which "The Last of the Flatboats" starts on its voyage down the Mississippi, is a beautiful little Indiana town on the Ohio River, about...

A Life for a LifeAuthor: Dinah Maria CraikPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 134 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517144353ISBN-13: 9781517144357

A Life for a LifeAuthor: Dinah Maria CraikPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 132 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 151714437XISBN-13: 9781517144371

A Noble LifeAuthor: Dinah Maria Mulock CraikPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517144426ISBN-13: 9781517144425

A Life for a LifeAuthor: Dinah Maria CraikPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 136 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517144450ISBN-13: 9781517144456

"So I will do my best a gude wife to be, For Auld Robin Grey is vera kind to me." "I think this will do, my dear; just listen;" and in a mysterious half whisper, good Mrs. Ferguson, wife of James Ferguson, the well-to-do silversmith and jeweler, of High...

The thirteenth century was one of rapid and terrible incidents, tumultuous politics, and in religious matters of low and degrading superstition. Transubstantiation had just been formally adopted as a dogma of the Church, accompanied as it always is by...

"Give you good-morrow, neighbour! Whither away with that great fardel (Bundle), prithee?" "Truly, Mistress, home to Staplehurst, and the fardel holdeth broadcloth for my lads' new jerkins." The speakers were two women, both on the younger side of middle...

"O pale, pale face, so sweet and meek, Oriana!" Tennyson. "Is the linen all put away, Clarice?" "Ay, Dame." "And the rosemary not forgotten?" "I have laid it in the linen, Dame." "And thy day's task of spinning is done?" "All done, Dame." "Good. Then...

The historical portion of this tale has been partially narrated in one of my previous volumes, "In All Time of our Tribulation," in which the Despenser story is begun, and its end told from another point of view. That volume left Isabelle of France at...

"Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know Him, not see His days?" From the earliest ages of the world, the needs-be of suffering has been a mystery. Down to the latest, it will be a mystery still. Truly, the more we "know...

Those to whom "Lettice Eden" is an old friend will meet with many acquaintances in these pages. The lesson is partly of the same type-the difference between that which seems, and that which is; between the gold which will stand the fire, and the...

The story of the following pages is one of the least known yet saddest episodes in English history-the first persecution of Christians by Christians in this land. When Boniface went forth from England to evangelise Germany, he was received with welcome,...

"Give you good den, Master Clere!" said a rosy-faced countrywoman with a basket on her arm, as she came into one of the largest clothier's shops in Colchester. It was an odd way of saying "Good Evening," but this was the way in which they said it in 1556...

"It is so cold, Mother!" The woman addressed languidly roused herself from the half-sheltered nook of the forest in which she and her child had taken refuge. She was leaning with her back supported by a giant oak, and the child was in her arms. The age...

"Ruggles of Red Gap," Harry Leon Wilson. Harry Leon Wilson was an American novelist and dramatist (1867-1939).Author: Harry Leon WilsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 250 pagesBinding:...

"Ma Pettengill," Harry Leon Wilson. Harry Leon Wilson was an American novelist and dramatist (1867-1939).Author: Harry Leon WilsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 230 pagesBinding:...

"Bunker Bean," Harry Leon Wilson. Harry Leon Wilson was an American novelist and dramatist (1867-1939).Author: Harry Leon WilsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 186 pagesBinding:...

"Ewing's Lady," Harry Leon Wilson. Harry Leon Wilson was an American novelist and dramatist (1867-1939).Author: Harry Leon WilsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding:...

Excerpt from The Man From Home: A Novel About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses...

"The Boss of Little Arcady," Harry Leon Wilson. Harry Leon Wilson was an American novelist and dramatist (1867-1939).Author: Harry Leon WilsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 216...

"Somewhere in Red Gap," Harry Leon Wilson. Harry Leon Wilson was an American novelist and dramatist (1867-1939).Author: Harry Leon WilsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 240...

"The Seeker," Harry Leon Wilson. Harry Leon Wilson was an American novelist and dramatist (1867-1939).Author: Harry Leon WilsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 01, 2015Number of Pages: 228 pagesBinding:...

A tough guy, an evil man, and his angel daughter make fascinating bedfellows as they attempt to save a family gold mine in this intriguing tale from Max Brand. Plot twists, suspense and mystery make this story impossible to put down.Author: Max...

With gusts of wind fanning it roughly, the flame rose fast. Harrigan made other journeys to the rotten stump and wrenched away great chunks of bark and wood. He came back and piled them on the fire. It towered high, the upper tongues twisting among the...

The raucous beginning of Brand's Western is traditional: A gunfighter is shot dead in the street. However, when spinster Elizabeth Cornish takes his baby to raise and wagers with her brother that blood will not "will out"--that Jack's son will not be a...

The west wind came over the Eagles, gathered purity from the evergreen slopes of the mountains, blew across the foothills and league wide fields, and came at length to the stallion with a touch of coolness and enchanting scents of far-off things. Just as...

The Great West prior to the century's turn abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind of glorious women whose beauty...

The Night Horseman by Max Brand. First published in 1920. At the age of six Randall Byrne could name and bound every state in the Union and give the date of its admission; at nine he was conversant with Homeric Greek and Caesar; at twelve he read...