A fantastic historical adventure novel set during the War of 1812, written by the author of 'The Last of the Mohicans', James Fenimore Cooper.

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Out of print for nearly 70 years, more classic tales from Ion Idriess, who explored Australia, chasing down the stories of a changing continent: "The stories in this volume record happenings or incidents in men's lives which interested me during years of wandering among the bushmen and natives of Cape York Peninsula; the pearlers, trochus and beche-de-mer getters of the Coral Sea; the native islanders of Torres Strait; the "beachcombers" of the Great...

Lou and Nancy were chums. They came to the big city to find work because there was not enough to eat at their homes to go around. Nancy was nineteen; Lou was twenty. Both were pretty, active, country girls who had no ambition to go on the stage.

Western novelette by W C Tuttle, published in Adventure magazine. Excerpt: -Scientific prospectin' has its merits," announced Ike Harper, as he climbed out of the gopher-hole and sat down beside me on a boulder and filled his pipe, "but fool luck has uncovered more bonanzas than science. "Now, there was ol' Jerry Sullivan's burro went skatin' down th' hill off th' trail one day and slid th' coverin' off th' Silver Cross, which made uh millionaire...

Hansel y Gretel han sido abandonados en el bosque, pero mientras intentan encontrar el camino de vuelta llegan a una gran casa... ¡hecha de caramelo! Parece un sueño, pero puede convertirse en una pesadilla.

'Grimm's Household Tales' contains fifty of their best-loved stories, edited and translated by Marian Edwardes, and illustrated by R. Anning Bell. It includes the narratives of 'The Golden Goose', 'Briar Rose', 'The Robber Bridegroom', 'Cinderella', 'Tom Thumb', 'The Juniper Tree', 'The Frog Prince', 'Hansel and Gretel', and many more. Robert Anning Bell (1863 – 1933) was an English artist and designer, famed for his beautiful watercolours, mosaics,...

"Bright Personality" is a satirical novella by Ilf and Petrov. The story revolves around a municipal employee named Egor Karlovich Filurin, who becomes invisible after using a special soap at a local bathhouse in the town of Pishcheslav. This development prompts significant changes in the town, as the residents abandon vices like drinking, nepotism, and profanity. Filurin is both revered and reviled for his invisible presence, leading to legal troubles....

A classic historical adventure novel by the master of the genre George A. Henty, telling the story of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow during the Napoleonic Wars.

A fantastic historical adventure novel by W. H. G. Kingston set in early colonial Australia.