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By: A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason (1865-1948) | |
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The Philanderers |
By: A. E. W. Mason | |
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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
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... | |
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) | |
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... | |
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) | |
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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 | |
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The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story |
By: A. Ethelwyn Wetherald (1857-1940) | |
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An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada |
By: A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman (1856-1930) | |
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Peeps at Many Lands: Norway |
By: A. F. Mockler Ferryman | |
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The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia |
By: A. F. Morris Hands | |
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Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor |
By: A. F. Warburton | |
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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 | |
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Five Thousand Dollars Reward | |
Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery |
By: A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins (1869-) | |
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The Radio Amateur's Hand Book |
By: A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner (1865-1946) | |
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Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough |
By: A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales (1870-1936) | |
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Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front |
By: A. G. (Andrew George) Little (1863-1945) | |
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Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures |
By: A. G. Riddle | |
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Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio |
By: A. G. Seklemian | |
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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) | |
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Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age | |
A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 |
By: A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane (1833-1912) | |
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Man, Past and Present |
By: A. H. Beesly (1839-1909) | |
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Gracchi, Marius and Sulla
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augustus Henry Beesly writes, "a brilliant period of foreign conquest had succeeded the 300 years in which she had overcome her neighbors and made herself supreme in Italy. In 146 B.C. she had given the death-blow to her greatest rival, Carthage, and had annexed Greece." But Rome was on the brink of a one hundred year-long revolution. In this slim volume Beesley, recounts the careers of four of its first dynamic leaders: the idealistic Brothers Gracchi, who attempted land reforms, and the rough, resourceful soldier, Marius, who overhauled the army... |
By: A. H. Cruickshank | |
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Philip Massinger |
By: A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge (1865-1906) | |
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A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate |
By: A. H. Phelps | |
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The Merchants of Venus |
By: A. H. U. Colquhoun (1861-1936) | |
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Chronicles of Canada Volume 28 - The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion
During and after the United States' War of Independence, Canada remained loyal to Great Britain. The upheavals of the 1830's and early 1840's led to a Popular Government and union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841, but many still wanted confederation of the provinces into one centralized government. It would take over two decades for that to become a reality, "From Sea to Sea". This work chronicles the birth of the Dominion of Canada. |
By: A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson (1873-1952) | |
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The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church |
By: A. Hoatson | |
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Merry Words for Merry Children |
By: A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh) Fisher (1867-1945) | |
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Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See |
By: A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill (1871-1954) | |
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Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise |
By: A. J. (Adoniram Judson) Gordon (1836-1895) | |
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The Ministry of the Spirit |
By: A. J. (Alec John) Dawson (1872-1952) | |
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The Message | |
Jan A Dog and a Romance | |
The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography |
By: A. J. (Alfred James) Hill (1833-1895) | |
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History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry |
By: A. J. (Augustine J.) O'Reilly | |
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Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius |
By: A. J. Bueltmann | |
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White Queen of the Cannibals: the Story of Mary Slessor |
By: A. K. Browne | |
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The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama |
By: A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew (1842-) | |
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A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 |
By: A. L. G. (Anna Louisa Geertruida) Bosboom-Toussaint (1812-1886) | |
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Major Frank |
By: A. L. Kroeber | |
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The Religion of the Indians of California |
By: A. Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943) | |
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The Government of England (Vol. I) |
By: A. Lawrence Rotch | |
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Sounding the Ocean of Air |
By: A. Lys Baldry | |
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Leighton |
By: A. M. (Albert Moore) Reese (1872-) | |
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Wanderings in the Orient | |
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator |
By: A. M. (Arthur Mason) Worthington (1852-1916) | |
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The Splash of a Drop |
By: A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling | |
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The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 |
By: A. Marie Miles | |
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The Key to Peace |
By: A. Marsh | |
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The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple |
By: A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson (1857-1944) | |
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Emily Brontë |
By: A. Maude (Agnes Maude) Royden (1876-1956) | |
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Sex and Common-Sense |
By: A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour (-1941) | |
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The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West |
By: A. Medium | |
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Revelations of a Spirit Medium
Written anonymously by "a working 'medium' for the past twenty years", this little book was an inspiration for a young Harry Houdini, and also rather hard to find until a facsimile edition was published in 1922, due to all the copies being bought and destroyed by spiritualists. According to the preface, "the most wonderful of the 'medium's' phenomena will be so thoroughly explained and so completely dissected that, after reading this book, you can perform the feats yourself". - Summary by Jordan |
By: A. Mouritz (1861-1943) | |
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“The Flu”: A Brief History of Influenza in U. S. America, Europe, Hawaii
PREFACE This Booklet has been written and compiled for the use of any student or layman who seeks concise and clear information on the history of Influenza. Brief and salient facts are set forth relating to “Flu” epidemics and pandemics: other collateral features have also been discussed, connected with or bearing upon this subject. Honolulu, Hawaii, U. S. A., 1921. - A. Mouritz Notes: Much of the material in "The Flu" is still relevant today, like pandemic terminology, thoughts about causes and micro-organisms, the flu's relationship with pneumonia, the impact on society, and approaches to treatments "The Flu" is included in the Surgeon General's Library at the U... |
By: A. Mueller | |
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On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote |
By: A. Murray Smith | |
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Westminster Abbey |