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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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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 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:...

In a time of chaos and Viking onslaught, Alfred the untested Saxon king, must fight to save his ravished land. The tale unfurls through the eyes of a young thane, Edmond, who becomes Alfred's friend and mightiest warrior. When Danes over run the land...

The Emerald City is built all of beautiful marbles in which are set a profusion of emeralds, every one exquisitely cut and of very great size. There are other jewels used in the decorations inside the houses and palaces, such as rubies, diamonds, sapphires,...

EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) was one of the most remarkable women of her time, and her immense commercial and critical success--most notably with her novel "The Age of Innocense" (1920), which won a Pulitzer Prize. Her other novels, including "The Fruit of the Tree," remain...

The boy had bushed his wailing at once, and turned his face upward to the stranger. It was a pale, bright-eyed countenance, certainly not more than six years old, but sorrow, fear, and want, had destroyed much of its infantile expression. The Puritan, seeing...

Mr. Rider Haggard doubtless knows more of the Zulus than any other writer of our day, and he introduces here a picture of that nation under Dingaan which is both vivid and convincing. Their dealings with the heroine, her love, and the renegade European...

Set in the posh milieu that Wharton knew so intimately, The Glimpses of the Moon is a sweeping portrait of a couple caught up in the trappings of privilege -- and driven by a reckless, all-consuming ambition....Author: Ravell, Edith WhartonISBN-10: 1536996319ISBN-13: 9781536996319Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Mr. Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is...

The House by the Churchyard is perhaps his best novel in this genre. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral.Author: Ravell,...

Curwood loved the outdoors and is known for his conservation efforts. This adventurous story of a woman in peril begins "It was all new - most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely...

In The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.Author: Ravell, H. G. WellsISBN-10: 154647305XISBN-13: 9781546473053Publisher: Createspace...

The novel is a horror story about giant white worm that can transform itself into a woman. It was first published in the UK in 1911 by William Rider and Son, Limited, London.Author: Ravell, Bram StokerISBN-10: 1535198583ISBN-13: 9781535198585Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2016Pages:...

A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written. In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home...

Literature's most famous adventure story, this stirring tale of two happy-go-lucky British ne're-do-wells trying to carve out their own kingdom in the remote mountains of Afghanistan has also proved over time to be a work of penetrating and lasting political insight-amidst its raucous humor...