Ravell

The person who, next to the actors themselves, chanced to know most of their story, lived just below 'Top o' Town' (as the spot was called) in an old substantially-built house, distinguished among its neighbours by having an oriel window on the first floor,...

A young English lad, after rather a stormy boyhood, emigrates to Australia and gets employment as an officer in the mounted police. A few years of active work on the frontier, where he has many a brush with both natives and bush-rangers, gain him...

A Smile of Fortune comes from his mature period (1911) and features the familiar Conradian device of a young sea captain who is confronted by a puzzling ethical dilemma.Author: Ravell, Joseph ConradISBN-10: 1534916652ISBN-13: 9781534916654Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2016Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.02h...

Large Format for easy reading. From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature.Author: Ravell, Andy AdamsISBN-10: 1544869762ISBN-13: 9781544869766Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/22/2017Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.02h...

Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad's first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.Author: Ravell, Grant AllenISBN-10: 1536913162ISBN-13: 9781536913163Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2016Pages:...

The man's head and shoulders emerged above the deck, over which were scattered various tools of his trade and a few pieces of machinery. He was doing some repairs to the engines. At the sound of our footsteps he raised anxiously a grimy face...

The thrilling adventure of a half-tame, half-wild wolf pup, born of a dog father and blind wolf mother, who must survive alone in the Canadian wilderness.Author: Ravell, James Oliver CurwoodISBN-10: 1537232622ISBN-13: 9781537232621Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2016Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...

A pampered millionaire's son tumbles overboard from a luxury liner and falls into good fortune, disguised in the form of a fishing boat. The gruff and hearty crew teach the young man to be worth his salt as they fish the waters off the...

Cattle Brands is a highly entertaining collection of short stories that all revolve around the life of cowboys during the tumultuous time of the Wild West. This is an era when the untamed beauty of the land is seen far and wide throughout the...

When Dorothy recovered her senses they were still falling, but not so fast. The top of the buggy caught the air like a parachute or an umbrella filled with wind, and held them back so that they floated downward with a gentle motion that...

A novel about a doctor who develops a method of eradicating painful memories from people's brains so that they can feel good about life again. Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel set in the year...

Dracula runs ashore as a black dog. This is based on another legend Stoker would have heard about a dark hound - a story brought over by the vikings. And the black coach that later takes Jonathan Harker to Castle Dracula was taken from...

It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.Author: Ravell, Louisa May AlcottISBN-10: 153510337XISBN-13: 9781535103374Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Emma is a novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England;Author: Ravell, Jane AustenISBN-10: 1534981799ISBN-13: 9781534981799Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

Fame was just around the corner when Sinclair Lewis published Free Air in 1919, a year before Main Street. The latter novel zeroed in on the town of Gopher Prairie; the former stopped there briefly and then took the reader by automobile in search...

The circumstances under which the following pages come to be printed are somewhat curious and worthy of record. Within the last few years a certain English gentleman, whom we will call Jones, because it was not his name, chanced to be employed as the...

His Last Bow is the final book written by Arthur Conan Doyle starring the infamous Sherlock Holmes. It follows Holmes when he comes back from the dead after The Reichenbach Falls event. He decides he isn't actually retiring but this book really is the...

Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better sense, finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping...

Jacob is a young boy living in the seaside city of Scarborough with his widowed mother and two brothers. These geographical and familial roots provide the youth with his first experiences of complexity.Author: Ravell, Virginia WoolfISBN-10: 1534985980ISBN-13: 9781534985988Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2016Pages:...

Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester,...

Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the "Juvenilia," containing pieces originally written between...

CONTENTS Howe's Masquerade Edward Randolph's Portrait Lady Eleanore's Mantle Old Esther Dudley The Haunted Mind The Village Uncle The Ambitious Guest The Sister Years Snowflakes The Seven Vagabonds The White Old Maid Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure Chippings with a Chisel The Shaker Bridal Night-Sketches Endicott...

Allan, Lord Harrowby, son and heir of James Nelson Harrowby, came to Lloyds of London with a most unusual request for insurance. He knew that Lloyds took out policies on unusual risks. And what he wanted was insurance of a most unusual kind...love insurance....

Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French...

In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; muster the courage to propose to the lovely, clever Mary Lamington; and survive a brutal war. Although Mr. Standfast is a sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps.Author: Ravell, John BuchanISBN-10:...

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town...

'Was this what it all meant - utter, intact separateness, obscured by heat of living?' D. H. Lawrence's short stories portray complex, flawed interior lives, showing individuals facing momentous emotional events.Author: Ravell, David Herbert LawrenceISBN-10: 1539651886ISBN-13: 9781539651888Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2016Pages: 26Format:...

A charming volume of old English Christmas traditions written by famed American author Washington Irving and illustrated by renowned British illustrator Randolph Caldecott. This book has been restored and reprinted from the 1886 edition.Author: Ravell, Irving WashingtonISBN-10: 1539456080ISBN-13: 9781539456087Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

As the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two...

Pandora begins, "The process of inquiry had already begun for him, in spite of his having as yet spoken to none of his fellow-passengers; the case being that Vogelstein inquired not only with his tongue, but with his eyes--that is with his spectacles--with his...

Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy.Author: Ravell, Jane AustenISBN-10: 1534979824ISBN-13: 9781534979826Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange memories.Author: Ravell, John BuchanISBN-10: 1537329898ISBN-13: 9781537329895Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2016Pages: 196Format:...

The story starts with arrival of a handsome and young eligible bachelor Charles Bingley in neighbourhood of the family of Bennett's comprising five sisters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty & Lydia and their parents. Mr. Bennett is an intelligent and witty but indolent man who...

The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines.Author: Ravell, H. Rider HaggardISBN-10: 172235237XISBN-13: 9781722352370Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, "Rappaccini's Daughter" is an inspired tale of creation and control. Giovanni Guasconti, a student at the University of Padua, is enchanted to discover a nearby garden of the most exquisite beauty.Author: Ravell, Nathaniel HawthorneISBN-10: 1539909085ISBN-13: 9781539909088Publisher: Createspace...

When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate. It came to little, being no more than that I should miss love and fortune in the sunlight...

Sanctuary, is drawing to a close, young Kate Orme has just confirmed her fear that her fiance, Denis Peyton, has told her a devestating, and all too convenient, lie.Author: Ravell, Edith WhartonISBN-10: 153514436XISBN-13: 9781535144360Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2016Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.02h...

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, the companion volume to PoeAuthor: Ravell, Edgar Allan PoeISBN-10: 1537024906ISBN-13: 9781537024905Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2016Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and...

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall.Author: Ravell, Thomas HardyISBN-10: 153710926XISBN-13: 9781537109268Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2016Pages: 430Format:...

As young Newland Archer, lawyer and man about town, gazes up at his soon-to-be fiancé, May Welland, in the Mingott-family opera box, he is disconcerted by the arrival of May's cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, who has left her profligate but wealthy Polish husband.Author:...

This tale of Huckleberry Finn and his adventures on the Mississippi River is a well-loved piece of American literature. Considered a classic, this book's story is one of friendship, loyalty, and difficult choices.Author: Ravell, Mark TwainISBN-10: 1534979239ISBN-13: 9781534979239Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2016Pages:...

The Beautiful and the Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, his relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and his alcoholism. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all...

The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book relates the misadventures of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a perceived anti-Catholic bias. As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne...

In the decade after the Civil War, a cynical southern lawyer gets sucked into a role-confused, quasi-love triangle with his liberal Bostonian cousin and a rising star in the burgeoning women's rights movement.Author: Ravell, Henry JamesISBN-10: 1534930108ISBN-13: 9781534930100Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2016Pages:...

"Bunner Sisters," written in 1892 but not published until 1916 in Xingu and Other Stories, takes place in a shabby neighborhood in New York City. The two Bunner sisters, Ann Eliza the elder, and Evelina the younger, keep a small shop selling artificial flowers...

Call of the Wild is a modern-day story incorporating elements of Jack London's classic short novel. Christopher Lloyd stars as a recently widowed man living in Montana who takes his young granddaughter Ryann (Ariel Gade) in for several weeks while her parents are out...

The Country Beyond by James Oliver Curwood is love story set in the back woods of Northern Canada during the early 1900s. It is a tale of romance and adventure in the wild, rugged Canadian wilderness. Once again, James Oliver Curwood spins a tale...

The title creature is a sort of barometer of life at the home of John Peerybingle and his much younger wife Dot. When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow.Author: Ravell, Charles DickensISBN-10: 153535805XISBN-13: 9781535358057Publisher:...