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"I would like to lead this whole nation into the way of living outdoors," wrote Ernest Seton many years ago. If the nation was in need of a dose of nature then, we can certainly benefit even more from Seton's sage advice now. Learn how to build a campfire, to recognize...
In many ways this is the most authoritative work on the thousand year reign of Christ ever to appear in English.
Set during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, this is the third and final instalment of D. K. Broster’s trilogy. The Dark Mile is the sequel to The Flight of the Heron and The Gleam in the North, completing the trilogy. The Dark Mile follows the intersecting fortunes of...
When Rachel takes a country house for the summer with her niece and nephew, she expects to fill her days with relaxing social activities. But these plans take a turn for the sinister when, on the second night, a dead body is found at the bottom of the house’s circular...
Short story, winner of the 1929 O. Henry Award. The big blonde in question is Hazel Morse, who, when we meet her, is "a model in a wholesale dress establishment", whose thoughts are largely devoted to men. Then she meets Herbie Morse, an attractive man and a heavy...
Young Dr. Kildare takes on a special case which involves a fear neurosis in the daughter of a multi-millionaire, and Kildaire uses unorthodox means to get to the bottom of it in an effort to save her life. Will he pull her through it okay?
This great treatise on cats describes the history, manners, habits of the cat and explores its relation to folklore, music, painting, law, poetry, and fiction. It has long been considered the best book ever written about the cat.
Winds of Fortune is a novel brimming with romance and adventures... a pirate captain who turns out to be a real gentleman to the damsel in distress and a lost Incan treasure make for a first-rate Regency swashbuckling pirate romance!
Another Day is atypical of Farnol's work, it's a Jazz Age romantic thriller/mystery featuring a wealthy young American believing himself guilty of murder and fleeing to England. Keith Dallas Chisholm, a young American believing that he is guilty of killing the man he...
Short, humorous pieces profiling men whom the narrator did not marry.
Sir Marmaduke, a weary man of the world, goes forth to seek his vanished youth. Of the many adventures that befall him, a mysterious murder is but one. The Quest of Youth is a story of Regency England romance and adventure which, because of its atmosphere, stirring...
Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain. But how will that turn out?
It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato.It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as...
Roper's Row is a moving story of the struggles of a semi-handicapped young man to become a successful M.D. and of the two women who are the bedrock in his life...
Raised together in the wild country of the Tonto basin, Jake and Verde grew up closer than brothers. But when they both fall in love with the same fickle woman, their friendship turns to raging hate. But with this woman frolicking with the hearts of two jealous...
Edward Edson Lee (1884-1944), who wrote under the pen name of Leo Edwards, was a popular children's author in the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote five series of books, including the Jerry Todd series which was wildly popular. The stories took place in the town which Lee...
A man is charged with murder and his life is threatened with death if he does not confess. But he causes bewilderment by choosing not to speak. What's behind it? Is he guilty?
It tells of the murder of James Martenroyde, a Yorkshire mill-owner who is about to marry for the second time. His body is found one night near his own home. Suspicion falls on his nephew and the latter's mother. Certainly there was something very strange about their...
The Setons depicts Scottish country life in the early 20th century, as young Elizabeth Seton uses her strength of character to keep the household together following her mother's death. A minor classic, The Setons remains as one of Olivia Douglas' best regarded and most...
A romance in which a disappointed lover disappears for consolation in the fields and woods of Kent. But what does he find?
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