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By: A. E. Coppard (1878-1957)

Book cover Black Dog and Other Stories

Coppard was renowned for his influence on the English short story and here we present a collection, first published in 1923, featuring 18 of his best known works, including Simple Simon, the Wife of Ted Wickham and The Devil in the Churchyard.

By: A. E. Housman (1859-1936)

A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman A Shropshire Lad

This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to the fullest.

Book cover Shropshire Lad (Version 3)

Composed while Housman was living in London, and mostly before he even visited the county of Shropshire, A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of 63 poems which describe an idyllic rural existence, but with the main theme being young mens' early deaths. This led its popularity during the Second Boer War, and then later during WWI. - Summary by clarinetcarrot

Book cover night is freezing fast

volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The night is freezing fast by A. E. Housman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 17, 2019. ------ Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Housman was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars who ever lived. - Summary by Wikipedia

By: A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John) Rawlinson (1884-1960)

Book cover Religious Reality

By: A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason (1865-1948)

Book cover The Broken Road
Book cover The Summons
Book cover Ensign Knightley and Other Stories
Book cover The Philanderers

By: A. E. W. Mason

Running Water by A. E. W. Mason Running Water

Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times), he was a prolific and popular writer of the period. Running Water, published in 1907, is, like its predecessor, a tale of romantic adventure. Though much of the story takes place in England, the real setting here is in the high Alps, in the range of Mont Blanc near Chamonix and Courmayeur. Here it is that Captain Hilary Chayne arrives, having spent the prior...

The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just prior to Sir Garnet Wolseley's 1882 expedition to Egypt to suppress the rising of Urabi Pasha. He is faced with censure from three of his comrades for cowardice, signified by the delivery of three white feathers to him, from Captain Trench and Lieutenants Castleton and Willoughby, and the loss of the support of his Irish fiancée, Ethne Eustace, who presents him with the fourth feather...

Book cover Watchers

A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to be expected from the author of The Four Feathers, the tale begins with a dangerous youth who sat in the stocks, and a girl named Helen, and a gang of men watching a granite house at the edge of the sea. NOTE: Contains some language that would be considered offensive to the modern ear. (Christine Dufour)

Book cover Affair at the Semiramis Hotel

Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as well as the opposite of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. The Affair At The Semiramis Hotel , a novella, is the second Hanaud mystery. Did the robbery/murder really happen or was it the mescal-induced hallucination of the witness? The first novel is At The Villa Rose . The third is The House Of The Arrow . In 1910, Mason undertook to create a fictional detective as different as possible from Sherlock Holmes, who had recently been resuscitated after his supposed death by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1903...

Book cover House Of The Arrow

A young English girl is accused in Dijon of murdering her French aunt. Hanaud to the rescue! Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as well as the opposite of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. In 1910, Mason undertook to create a fictional detective as different as possible from Sherlock Holmes, who had recently been resuscitated after his supposed death by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1903. Inspector Gabriel Hanaud was...

By: A. Edward Newton (1864-1940)

Book cover Doctor Johnson: A Play

The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and those of others around him. "Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination can read this play with pleasure; with two teaspoonsful, I will not be responsible for results. He, or she, may be disappointed, for there is no plot to speak of. But there is talk - about as good talk as has ever been reported, and James Boswell as a reporter has never had an equal. " - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: ACT 1: Mr. STEWART: James Thomas Mr. MAITLAND: Tomas Peter Mr...

By: A. Eric Bayly

Book cover The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story

By: A. Ethelwyn Wetherald (1857-1940)

Book cover An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada

By: A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman (1856-1930)

Book cover Peeps at Many Lands: Norway

By: A. F. Mockler Ferryman

The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. Mockler Ferryman The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia

By: A. F. Morris Hands

Book cover Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor

By: A. F. Warburton

Book cover Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York

By: A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

Book cover Five Thousand Dollars Reward
Book cover Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery

By: A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins (1869-)

Book cover The Radio Amateur's Hand Book

By: A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner (1865-1946)

Book cover Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough

By: A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales (1870-1936)

Book cover Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front

By: A. G. (Andrew George) Little (1863-1945)

Book cover Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures

By: A. G. Riddle

Book cover Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio

By: A. G. Seklemian

Book cover Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia

Armenians trace their history back to before the time of the Babylonians and earliest recorded history - in fact, to Togarmah, a grandson of Japhet, Noah's son, who settled in Armenia after the Ark came to rest on mount Ararat. Armenia was also the first State in the world to adopt Christianity as their official religion, around the 3rd Century AD. This book contains many wonderful folk and fairy tales culled from this long history of the Armenian country people, to whom all nature is full of stories, by the scholar and storyteller Mr. A. G. Seklemian. - Summary by Noel Badrian

By: A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen (1857-1920)

Book cover Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age
Book cover A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4

By: A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane (1833-1912)

Book cover Man, Past and Present

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