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The south Pacific island Caspak is the setting for one of the best known science fiction adventures of all time. From behind the high and impenetrable cliffs come terrifying creatures. Dinosaurs roam...

Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to encapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form, but rarely did she publish them. This volume brings together...

This volume contains the Captain Blood novel, plus the series of short stories - Captain Blood Returns (or the Chronicles of Captain Blood) and The Fortunes of Captain Blood, plus the novels...

George Bernard Shaw was a satirical genius, ruthlessly exposing hypocrisy, and creating moral dilemmas for the reader to mull on. These are biting, witty, sometimes rude, highly intelligent plays...

Dr. Thorndyke is one of the best creations of the Golden Age of British detective fiction. He is both medical doctor and barrister and the first great exponent of forensics in fiction, with an...

The Scarlet Pimpernel appears in a play and a series of novels and short stories by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. They are set at the start of the French Revolution, Pimpernel being a master of disguise...

British explorers Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills set out in 1860 to explore the Australian outback -- they never returned, but their journals tell their story. One year later, a search...

A combined volume of the two short stories, The Feather Pillow and The Permanent Stiletto.Author: Horacio QuirogaPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication Date: Jan 26, 2011Number of Pages: 46...

These ten stories of Sam Small and other Yorkshiremen, were written by Eric Knight (of 'Lassie Come Home' fame), with pride and a touch of homesickness, while 'in exile' in America in the early 20th...

"Footsteps at the Lock" is a classic detective novel featuring Miles Bredon.Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (17 February 1888 - 24 August 1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, author, and radio...

Rafael Sabatini is a master storyteller. The Daily Telegraph described him thus: 'One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with...

The Scarlet Pimpernel appears in a play and a series of novels and short stories by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. They are set at the start of the French Revolution, Pimpernel being a master of disguise...

A collection of short stories by Arthur Machen, one of the modern masters of supernatural and horror fiction.Author: Arthur MachenPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication Date: Nov 12, 2011Number of...

Set in the mid 1850s, the story of Rachel Henning's voyage to Australia is told through the letters she writes to family and friends.Author: Rachel HenningPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication...

"The Little World" is a fascinating travel book, in which Benson describes her travels around the world, concentrating on China and the USA.Author: Stella BensonPublisher: Oxford City...

"The Man in the Queue" is the first case for Scotland Yard Inspector Grant who was to become the hero of five of Josephine Tey's mystery novels. Josephine Tey was in fact a pseudonym for the Scottish...

The French Revolution is well under way when Quentin de Morlaix, already sympathetic to these disenfranchised French aristocrats, finds that he too has his own personal reasons to pray for an end to...

Three of Keynes' classic works in a single volume.Author: John Maynard KeynesPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication Date: Mar 16, 2012Number of Pages: 228 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

"The Mechanical Properties of Wood" (fully illustrated) was written primarily for students of forestry to whom a knowledge of the technical properties of wood is essential. The mechanics involved is...

Penny Parker is the heroine of a series of mystery stories written by Mildred Wirt, who went on to write the Nancy Drew Series. However, she preferred Penny Parker to Nancy Drew, her obituary...

Rafael Sabatini was an outstanding Anglo-Italian writer of historical adventure stories and romances of the early 20th Century. This collection brings together some of the most celebrated of his many...

This collection of short stories by the unjustly neglected star of the pulp fiction era, Abraham Grace Merritt, is full of fantastical and chilling adventures, in which ancient gods stir and people...

A sequel to extremely popular, largely autobiographical "Diary of a Provincial Lady," by E. M Delafield (also known as Mrs Henry de la Pasture), about her life in England in the early 20th century...

The Scarlet Pimpernel appears in a play and a series of novels and short stories by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. They are set at the start of the French Revolution, Pimpernel being a master of disguise...

A work of historical fiction introducing "Red Sonya".Author: Robert HowardPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication Date: Jan 02, 2011Number of Pages: 54 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Famous especially for his poem, The Man from Snowy River, Andrew Barton Paterson was an Australian author from the bush who wrote especially about the Australian outback. The Shearer's Colt, one of...

"The Ship of Ishtar" is a universally hailed as a classic of the fantasy novel genre. Merritt's writings were heavily influenced by H. Rider Haggard and Gertrude Barrows Bennett (writing as Francis...

The Soil and Health, a classic of organic farming, is an essential introduction to organic gardening and farming."The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible." - Albert Howard.At...

A collection of four of Robert Howard's Historical Adventures: The Sowers of the Thunder, Gates of Empire, Lord of Samarcand, and The Lion of Tiberias.Author: Robert HowardPublisher: Oxford City...

Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe (1857 - 1949) was a Swedish-born physician and psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele, an autobiographical account of his life and work. He...