The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by English writer George Griffith. It was his…
This is the thrilling tale as told by Allan Quatermain of events in his life, or should we say his lives? By the use of…
An American Robinson Crusoe is a short version of the original story. An indolent, rebellious teen goes on a marine voyage against his parents’ wishes.…
Almayer’s Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. Kaspar Almayer is a white European.…
A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love…
Allan Quatermain was the quintessential Victorian English gentleman cum African big-game hunter. In this book, the second in the series, Quaterman and his two good…
Further adventures of Allan Quatermain.This is one of the 14 books that H. Rider Haggard wrote – starting with “King Solomon’s Mines” – depicting the…
Joel Shore, newly appointed captain of the whaling ship Nathan Ross following his brother’s apparent demise as captain of the same ship, elects to make…
In this book the children are taken by the author upon a personally conducted tour through the most characteristic parts of the South American continent.…
This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove…
A wilderness story of adventure and intrigue in Alaska in the 1920’s. Summary by Maire Rhode.military, who had taken him prisoner, accused him of spying,…
Little did Alan, Ned and Buck suspect what they were getting themselves in for when they approached the editor of The Herald with their plan…
Jefferies’ novel can be seen as an early example of “post-apocalyptic fiction.” After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to…
Lamb used Homer’s Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses’s journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca.…
Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association.…
