Judge Temple and his daughter, Elizabeth, are making their way home when a deer crosses their path and the Judge decides to take a few blind shots at it. He fails in killing the deer, but a... Læs mere
“I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken.” In this sequel to the famous ‘King Solomon's Mines’ Allan Quatermain has just lost his... Læs mere
After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attractive... Læs mere
"The other ladies consider her ‘very, very fast. Her lack of vanity, her slang, the way she treated men as though she was one of them, and the fact that she didn’t care twopence about her... Læs mere
"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the... Læs mere
"I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love."The war between the British and the French is raging in North America. Amidst... Læs mere
The two plucky sisters, Ruth and Alice DeVere, help their quite skeptical dad, a theater actor who's gone and lost his voice, find a new career in the silent film industry in New... Læs mere
"I returned to the City about three o’clock on that Monday afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it." So opens... Læs mere
For pilots in the First World War even getting through training was a matter of survival. Ashamed that the US was not yet in the war, American author James Norman Hall volunteered to fly... Læs mere
When the Dashwood sisters’ father dies unexpectedly, they are cast from their comfortable home and forced to begin again in a modest Devonshire cottage. There, reserved and sensible... Læs mere
"Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it." When her parents die, Mary, spoiled, yet unloved, is shipped from India to England to... Læs mere
As the first Anglo-Burmese War is raging, a young man, Stanley, finds himself involved. Set in early nineteenth century India and Burma, "On the... Læs mere