Literary Collections

Somewhere about the middle of this nineteenth century, a baby boy was born on the raging sea in the midst of a howling tempest. That boy was the hero of this tale. He was cradled in squalls, and nourished in squalor-a week of dirty weather having...

This tale, reader-if you read it through-will give you some insight into the condition, value, and vicissitudes of the light-vessels, or floating lighthouses, which guard the shores of this kingdom, and mark the dangerous shoals lying off some of our...

"The Crew of the Water Wagtail" from R. M. Ballantyne. Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books (1825-1894).Author: Robert Michael BallantynePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 06,...

From the earliest records of history we learn that man has ever been envious of the birds, and of all other winged creatures. He has longed and striven to fly. He has also signally failed to do so. We say "failed" advisedly, because his various attempts...

The Giant was an Eskimo of the Arctic regions. At the beginning of his career he was known among his kindred by the name of Skreekinbroot, or the howler, because he howled oftener and more furiously than any infant that had ever been born in Arctic land...

Nearly two thousand seven hundred years ago-or somewhere about eight hundred years B.C.-there dwelt a Phoenician sea-captain in one of the eastern sea-ports of Greece-known at that period, or soon after, as Hellas. This captain was solid, square,...

It was five o'clock in the afternoon. There can be no doubt whatever as to that. Old Agnes may say what she pleases-she has a habit of doing so-but I know for certain (because I looked at my watch not ten minutes before it happened) that it was exactly...

which may be described as being one of the most modest and retiring little streets in London. The neighbourhood around that street was emphatically dirty and noisy. There were powerful smells of tallow and tar in the atmosphere, suggestive of shipping...

Early on a summer morning, about the beginning of the nineteenth century, two fishermen of Forfarshire wended their way to the shore, launched their boat, and put off to sea. One of the men was tall and ill-favoured, the other, short and well-favoured...

Talk of earthquakes! not all the earthquakes that have rumbled in Ecuador or toppled over the spires and dwellings of Peru could compare, in the matter of dogged pertinacity, with that earthquake which diurnally and hourly shocked little Gertie's...

One fine autumn evening, between eight and nine hundred years ago, two large hairy creatures, bearing some resemblance to polar bears, might have been seen creeping slowly, and with much caution, toward the summit of a ridge that formed a spur to one of...

On a profoundly calm and most beautiful evening towards the end of the last century, a ship lay becalmed on the fair bosom of the Pacific Ocean. Although there was nothing piratical in the aspect of the ship-if we except her guns-a few of the men who...

Excerpt from The Red Eric: The Whaler's Last Cruise New Scenes. - A Fight prevented By a Whale. - A Storm. - Blown off the Yardarm. - Wreck of "The Red Eric"; The Sandbank. - The wrecked Crew make the best of bad circumstances; Life on the Sandbank. -...

Some time within the first quarter of the present nineteenth century, a little old lady-some people would even have called her a dear little old lady-sat one afternoon in a high-backed chair beside a cottage window, from which might be had a magnificent...

Towards the close of a bright and warm day, between fifty and sixty years ago, a solitary man might have been seen, mounted on a mule, wending his way slowly up the western slopes of the Andes. Although decidedly inelegant and unhandsome, this specimen...

A solitary horseman-a youth in early manhood-riding at a snail's pace over the great plains, or karroo, of South Africa. His chin on his breast; his hands in the pockets of an old shooting-coat; his legs in ragged trousers, and his feet in worn-out boots...

On a certain breezy morning in October-not many years ago-a wilderness of foam rioted wildly over those dangerous sands which lie off the port of Yarmouth, where the Evening Star, fishing-smack, was getting ready for sea. In one of the narrow lanes or...

Nobody ever caught John Buzzby asleep by any chance whatever. No weasel was ever half so sensitive on that point as he was. Wherever he happened to be (and in the course of his adventurous life he had been to nearly all parts of the known world) he was...

Along the buffalo paths, from one salt-lick to another, a group of pioneers took a vagrant way through the dense cane-brakes. Never a wheel had then entered the deep forests of this western wilderness; the frontiersman and the packhorse were comrades...

"The Storm Centre" from Mary Noailles Murfree. American fiction writer of novels and short stories (1850-1922).Author: Mary Noailles MurfreePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 06, 2015Number of Pages: 208...

A Singer From The SeaAuthor: Amelia Edith BarrPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 12, 2015Number of Pages: 218 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517323096ISBN-13: 9781517323097

A Song of A Single NoteAuthor: Amelia Edith BarrPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 12, 2015Number of Pages: 214 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 151732338XISBN-13: 9781517323387

Christine: A Fife Fisher GirlAuthor: Amelia Edith BarrPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 12, 2015Number of Pages: 230 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517323398ISBN-13: 9781517323394

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

Jan Vedder's WifeAuthor: Amelia Edith BarrPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 12, 2015Number of Pages: 154 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517323592ISBN-13: 9781517323592

Remember The AlamoAuthor: Amelia Edith BarrPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 12, 2015Number of Pages: 218 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517323614ISBN-13: 9781517323615

The Measure of A ManAuthor: Amelia Edith BarrPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 12, 2015Number of Pages: 188 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517323746ISBN-13: 9781517323745

The Hallam SuccessionAuthor: Amelia Edith BarrPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 12, 2015Number of Pages: 186 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517323754ISBN-13: 9781517323752

The Maid of Maiden LaneAuthor: Amelia Edith BarrPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 12, 2015Number of Pages: 194 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517323770ISBN-13: 9781517323776

Winter Evening TalesAuthor: Amelia Edith BarrPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 12, 2015Number of Pages: 166 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517323975ISBN-13: 9781517323974