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By: Allan Arnold | |
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The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia |
By: Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) | |
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The Expressman and the Detective
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events associated with the agency after his death have tarnished the name, Pinkerton himself was one of the original human rights advocates. He was a dear friend to John Brown, an advisor to Abraham Lincoln, and 80 years ahead of his time in hiring female detectives. He was also stubborn, irascible, and an egomaniac... |
By: Allen French (1870-1946) | |
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At Plattsburg |
By: Allen Kim Lang (1928-) | |
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Blind Man's Lantern |
By: Allen Raine (1836-1908) | |
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Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead | |
By Berwen Banks |
By: Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) | |
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Tartarin of Tarascon
It tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very prosaic Algiers in search of lions. Instead of finding a romantic, mysterious Oriental fantasy land, he finds a sordid world suspended between Europe and the Middle East. And worst of all, there are no lions left. | |
The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 | |
The Nabob | |
Tartarin De Tarascon | |
Tartarin On The Alps | |
Fromont and Risler |
By: Alta Tabor | |
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Willie Mouse |
By: Alvin Addison | |
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Ellen Walton Or, The Villain and His Victims | |
Eveline Mandeville Or, The Horse Thief Rival |
By: Amanda McKittrick Ros (1860-1939) | |
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Irene Iddesleigh
Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did for poetry and Florence Foster Jenkins for the coloratura voice. She published a number of novels (all at her own expense) and in addition to being a novelist was a poet, her best known being 'Visiting Westminster Abbey' which beginsHoly Moses!Take a look!Flesh decayed in every nook!Some rare bits of brain lie here,Mortal loads of beef and beer.C.S. Lewis, J.R. Tolkien and The Inklings were admirers and held competitions to see who could read her work for the longest time whist keeping a straight face... |
By: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) | |
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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. Nothing is known of his death, as he went missing while an observer with Pancho Villa’s army in 1913/14. (Summaries by Peter Yearsley)The Ways of Ghosts: Stories of encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer... |