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The Cannibal Islands

R.M. Ballantyne

The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook.More than a hundred years ago, there lived a man who dwelt in a mud cottage in the county of York; his name was Cook. He was a poor, honest labourer—a farm servant. ..

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

A kindly thing it is to have compassion of the afflicted and albeit it well beseemeth every one, yet of those is it more particularly required who have erst had need of comfort and have found it in an..

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional ..

The Mark of Cain

Carolyn Wells

The Mark of Cain is a mystery and detective story by Carolyn Wells.Mrs. Black glanced up from the evening paper she was reading and murmured an indistinct acquiescence.It was late June, yet the c..

The Rhodesian

Gertrude Page

The velvety darkness of a southern night, with its sense of rich, luscious, breathing intensity, lay over that romantic spot in Southern Rhodesia where the grey walls of the Zimbabwe ruins, with a sub..

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Hendrik Conscience

Het was uitermate koud in de laatste dagen der maand Januari 1841. De straten der stad Antwerpen hadden haar winterkleed aangenomen en glinsterden van zuivere witheid; de sneeuw viel echter niet bij z..

Number Seventeen

Louis Tracy

The storm which had raged overnight must have cleared the skies for the following day, because Theydon never enjoyed an outing more than his trip to the famous motor track. His business there, however..

Pantheisticon

John Toland

Pantheisticon: or, the Form Of Celebrating the Socratic-Society.Divided into Three Parts.Which Contain,I. The Morals and Axioms of the Pantheists; or the Brotherhood.II. Their Deity and Philosophy.III..