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Product Description: All Sorts and Conditions of Men By Walter Besant

"[...]     liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen,      how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"  —iv. 20. [...]".

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Product Description: It is likely that the brothers in this book will be recognised by some readers who may indict the good taste of revealing a secret guarded jealously during many years. To these let it be said that the brother who attained to the highest honours and dignities of his profession earnestly desired that the truth concerning certain incidents in his earlier career should be told in a biography...read more

Product Description: The evening sunshine fell athwart the pleasant gardens of Berrington Manor, glorifying all. Stray beams of light stole through the mullioned windows of the old grey building, peeping unbidden into dusty corners and dim recesses. They shone, too, on the figure of an old man, seated near an open casement, in the wainscotted library...read more

Whatever the effect of "Ship-Bored" upon others, its publication has exerted a very definite effect upon me, or rather upon the character of my daily mail. Instead of letters the postman now leaves little packages containing pills which, according to the senders, will prevent the casting of bread upon the waters. It is astonishing to learn how many sea-sick remedies there are. Looking at the bottles and the boxes piled, each morning by my breakfast plate, I sometimes wonder if there aren't as many remedies as sufferers. But suppose there are? Why do people send the medicines to me? Why do perfect strangers assume that, because I have taken up the task of muck-raking the Atlantic Ocean, I am in need of antidotes for mal de mer? Even suppose that I do suffer thus at sea? Is it anybody else's business—or luncheon?

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Product Description: “Submerge to five fathoms, Mr. Templeton!” The speaker was Lord Hastings, commander of the British submarine D-17. Jack Templeton, a British youth and first officer of the under-sea craft, repeated the command for which he had been waiting now for some moments...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: Hal Paine and Chester Crawford crouched low in a shell hole in No Man’s Land. All morning they had been there and the day had worn on now into the afternoon. Two hundred yards west of their refuge were the American lines. Sprinters such as Hal and Chester could easily have covered the distance in half a minute; and it was not for want of courage that so far they had failed to make the effort...read more

Product Description: Follow Jack Ralston and his pal "Perk"--famous air pilots--as they help Uncle Sam unravel baffling problems of the Secret Service. The adventures of these two detective aviators are part of a series, although each book is a complete story in itself...read more

Nine stories deal with the desperate and struggling individuals, couples, and families of America's small towns of the twenties and thirties

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The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office."

Product Description: Karn was only a savage, but he knew a thing or two about the way justice should be meted out—and he did it Against the blackness of the early morning sky the huge ball traced an arc of flame. Had Karn been watching the sky he would have seen the ball slow in its descent and then come to a landing some distance ahead of him...read more

Ten tales of fantasy and the supernatural by the German writer are presented together with biographical and explanatory notes

Short stories by the contemporary writer capture the varied dimensions of Jewish life

A collective view of American life from the original natives to the assassination of President Kennedy

Product Description: “Ah,” said Hassan, “I don’t believe in the world. There’s another world where life is different."These are stories of that world. The word m’hashish (equivalent in Moghrebi of “behashished” or “full of hashish”) is used only in a literal sense, but also figuratively, to describe a person whose behavior seems irrational or unexpected...read more