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A wide spectrum of themes and emotions are dealt with in this anthology of Benet's prose, which includes romance, adventure, narratives, and pure fiction.
The Cartwright Gardens Murder is another one of those stories of crime which made Mr. Fletcher one of the most popular writers of the Golden Era of detective crime fiction. There is a great deal of character study in it, as well as a baffling plot, and, at the end, a...
At the height of his popularity, Lloyd C. Douglas was receiving an average of one hundred letters a week from fans. One of those fans, a department store clerk in Ohio named Hazel McCann, wrote to Douglas asking what he thought had happened to Christ's garments after...
Self Condemned tells the story of Professor Renarding who finds himself reduced to a position at a second-rate university in Canada after his resignation as an academic in London. He and his wife suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien...
A brilliant analysis of the music of the twenties and thirties, also discusses the music of composers like Stravinsky, Satie, Gershwin, and considers the contributions of jazz and other pop music of the time with classical music.
Tommy Hambledon, a British secret agent, investigates a case that includes stolen jewels, secret airplane plans, gangsters, and international assassins!
In a country hotel Maxwell Cheyne sits down to lunch with the pleasant stranger he has just met. Then, as the meal ends, he sinks into a drugged sleep and, on waking, learns that his house has been burgled (though nothing is missing)... This is only the first of his...
Charles Webster Leadbeater is regarded as one of the most important of the twentieth century’s writers on Theosophy. A competent seer and teacher, the series of lectures which comprise Volumes I and II were given to students in the early 1900s, during evening ‘talks’ at...
The Silver Curlew is one of Eleanor Farjeon's finest works, an intriguing re-telling of the classic story Rumpelstiltskin. Mother Codling lives with her children in a small, Norfolk windmill. One day, the Codlngs receive a surprise visit from the king of Norwich, who...
The Silly Season,The Marching Morons, andThe Mindworn are just three of the acknowledged science fiction classics included in this masterful collection of nineteen tales all displaying the author's very best work! A must-have for all lovers of excellent old-style...
This is the story of Sam Small, a man from Yorkshire who wakes up one morning and decides that he can fly on his own two hands. So he does.This is for all those who know that dogs talk, Sundays can be repeated seven days in a row so that Monday never comes, and other...
The Proper Place is delightful reading and is Miss O. Douglas at her best.The story deals with the Rutherfurd family, who have to leave their beautiful country house and all their friends on Tweedside and settle in the littler Fife sea town of Kirkmeikle. Here, Lady...
Good value in an excellent selection of Riley favorites. Great introduction to his work, with the raggedy man and little Orphant Annie and the hired girl all properly introduced, the Riley gallery of poems here is set - a generous lot.
A fast-paced thriller written near the end of Queen Victoria’s reign when Great Britain ruled a worldwide empire, it subtly reveals the political awareness and personal views of a young Churchill, decades before he would become one of the most important figures of the...
In The Deer Stalker Zane Grey readers will find all they have come to expect from their favorite Western author - swift action, magnificent descriptions of the desert and canyon country, plus the valiant effort of a ranger’s struggle to save the doomed herd of deer on...
William Bligh (1754-1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator eventually rising in rank to Vice Admiral. During his command of the "Bounty" in 1789, a notorious mutiny occurred.William Bligh and eighteen of his loyal seamen were...
Dimnet's classic on the art of thinking provides the most useful tips and advice on how to improve one's mind, improve concentration and thinking better, and even answers some timeless and all-important questions such as "how do I be myself" and "how do I find myself."...
Delightful descriptions and characterizations enliven this tale of an old-time gardener in an English countryside garden and his love of plants. With tender mentoring and the luck of winning a prize at the flower show, young Herbert becomes what he had dreamed of. This...
Here we see an older Laura still growing up in Lark Rise, but branching out into the wider world and visiting her urbanite cousins in the small country town of Candleford, and contrasting her country life with theirs.
A collection of major Bible stories of the Old Testament, delightfully re-told in modern English, from the Garden of Eden to David and Goliath! Although geared towards the young, this book is a delight for all ages...
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