Ravell

A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain.Author: Ravell,...

In the topsy turvy world of The Singing Bone, Richard Austin Freeman presents us with a solution. The reader is asked to deduce how different mysteries were solved rather than whodunit. Freeman introduces five distinct tales of intrigue, romance, mutiny and murder.Author: Ravell,R. Austin...

So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era-and the story that launched H.G. Wells's successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the...

The Trimmed Lamp follows The Four Million and provides another series of short stories that take place in New York City in the early years of the 20th century and are representative of the surprise endings that popularized O. Henry's work. They also capture...

In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desire and conflicting loyalties on systematized versions of history.Author: Ravell, Thomas HardyISBN-10: 1537135260ISBN-13: 9781537135267Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

During his childhood and early manhood, Odo comes in close contact with all the major factions-the peasantry, the clergy, the liberal freethinkers, and the nobility-which have a vital stake in maintaining or subverting the antiquated power structure based on rigid class distinctions and superstitious...

The Valley of Fear begins with Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective, and Dr. Watson, his fellow lodger of 221 b Baker Street, in mid-conversation. Holmes is puzzling over an encrypted message, which he has received from Porlock, an associate of HolmesAuthor: Ravell, Arthur Conan...

Meet little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Over one hundred years since their first appearance in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship.Author: Ravell,Kenneth GrahameISBN-10: 1541017684ISBN-13: 9781541017689Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2016Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize:...

Has the age of miracle quite gone by, or is it still possible to the Voice of Faith calling aloud upon the earth to wring from the dumb heavens an audible answer to its prayer? Does the promise uttered by the Master of mankind...

Dorothy thinks she's lost forever when a tornado whirls her and her dog, Toto, into a magical world. To get home, she must find the wonderful wizard in the Emerald City of Oz. On the way she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and...

He predicts nuclear warfare years before research began and describes the chain reactions involved and the resulting radiation. He describes a weapon of enormous destructive power, used from the air that would wipe out everything for miles, and actually used the term "atomic bombs."Author:...

Tales from all over the world include The Emperor's New Clothes, The Tinder-box, How to Tell a True Princess, and The Nightingale, from Andersen, Grimm, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Germany, France, England, American Indians, and Iceland.Author: Ravell, Andrew LangISBN-10: 1535327162ISBN-13: 9781535327169Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

The Young Buglers traces the fortunes of two brothers, Tom and Peter Scudamore, who join the British army in Portugal and serve with distinction during the hard-fought battles of the Peninsula War.Author: Ravell,G. a. HentyISBN-10: 1541326660ISBN-13: 9781541326668Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/27/2016Pages: 272Format:...

This Side of Paradise chronicles the life of Amory Blaine from his childhood up through his early twenties. Born the son of a wealthy and sophisticated woman, Beatrice, Amory travels the country with his mother until he attends the fictitious St. Regis prep school...

A collection of short stories by the popular and influential Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote stories, plays, memoirs and novels which touched the imagination of the...

The fun begins in an isolated corner of Oz, in the small country of Oogaboo. There Queen Ann Soforth musters an unlikely army and sets off to conquer the rest of Oz. Meanwhile, a girl from Oklahoma named Betsy Bobbin and her companion, Hank...

Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual.Author: Ravell, Herman MelvilleISBN-10: 1536863289ISBN-13: 9781536863284Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2016Pages: 312Format:...

It is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury. Captain Macwhirr has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man, who "having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day.Author: Ravell, Joseph ConradISBN-10: 1534915885ISBN-13: 9781534915886Publisher: Createspace...

Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.Author: Ravell, James JoyceISBN-10: 1535119055ISBN-13: 9781535119054Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2016Pages: 726Format: PaperbackWeight:...

"Under the Greenwood Tree" is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, "Under the Greenwood Tree" is one of Thomas Hardy's most gentle...

Valperga (1823), the novel Mary Shelley wrote after Frankenstein, is based on the life of Castruccio Castracani (1281-1328), Prince of Lucca. A brilliant soldier and cruel tyrant, he successfully commanded Ghibelline forces in Tuscany against the Guelphs.Author: Ravell, Mary ShelleyISBN-10: 1536940070ISBN-13: 9781536940077Publisher: Createspace Independent...

At the time the story begins, Heyst is about thirty-five years old. The last vestiges of youth are gone from his face. In the fullness of his physical development, with his bald head and "long red-gold moustaches," he presents a "broad and martial appearance."Author:...

Arguably Bront 's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at...

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was born on June 22nd, 1856 at Bradenham in Norfolk, England. After his education he was pushed towards an Army career but failed the entrance exam. Next Haggard was positioned to work for the British Foreign Office but he...

There was all the ecstasy of an engagement about it, sharpened by his realization that there was no engagement. It was during those three days that, for the first time, he had asked her to marry him.Author: Ravell, F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN-10: 1539451313ISBN-13: 9781539451310Publisher: Createspace...