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This carefully crafted ebook: "Spook Stories – Ultimate Collection: 25 Supernatural, Mystery, Ghost and Haunting Tales" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories. Table of contents: Spook Stories: Reconciliation The Face Spinach Bagnell Terrace A Tale of an Empty House Naboth''s Vineyard Expiation Home Sweet Home "And no Birds Sings" The Corner House Corstophine The Temple More Spook Stories: The Step The Bed by the Window James Lamp The Dance The Hanging of Alfred Wadham Pirates The Wishing-Well The Bath-Chair Monkeys Christopher Comes Back The Sanctuary Thursday Evenings The Psychical Mallards

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Christmas Child (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Excerpt: "And now Christmas was coming. Joan had never kept Christmas, and knew nothing about it. But at Aunt Priscilla''s farm it was a great day, as it always had been since she could remember. Every relative who could come to the farm was invited weeks beforehand; and nothing else was talked of but Christmas Day. The Sunday evening before it came old Nathan''s sermon was all about the shepherds in the field, and how they found the little babe lying in the manger; and he told the story so well that Joan did not go to sleep at all, but sat listening to him with her dark eyes wide open."Hesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith (1832-1911), an English writer of children''s books. Her moral tales and semi-religious stories, chiefly for the young, were printed in huge numbers. She became a regular contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round under Charles Dickens''s editorship.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Little City of Hope (Christmas Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories.Excerpt:"It''s worth while to be a great inventor to be able to make things like that!" he cried, and Overholt was as much pleased by the praise as an opera singer is who is called out three times before the curtain after the first act. So the little City of Hope grew, and they both felt that Hope herself was soon coming to dwell therein, if she had not come already."

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Wonderful Life (Christmas Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Hesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith (1832-1911), an English writer of children''s books. Content:THE CARPENTER:THE HOLY LANDJERUSALEM AND BETHLEHEMIN THE TEMPLETHE WISE MENNAZARETHTHE FIRST PASSOVERTHE PROPHET:JOHN THE BAPTISTCANA OF GALILEETHE FIRST SUMMERSAMARIATHE FIRST SABBATH-MIRACLEHIS OLD HOMECAPERNAUMFOES FROM JERUSALEMAT NAINMIGHTY WORKSA HOLIDAY IN GALILEEIN THE NORTHAT HOME ONCE MORETHE LAST AUTUMNLAZARUSTHE LAST SABBATHVICTIM AND VICTOR:THE SON OF DAVIDTHE TRAITORTHE PASCHAL SUPPERGETHSEMANETHE HIGH PRIEST''S PALACEPILATE''S JUDGMENT HALLCALVARYIN THE GRAVETHE SEPULCHREEMMAUSIT IS THE LORDHIS FRIENDSHIS FOES

This carefully crafted ebook: "ICE QUEEN (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."The early dusk of a December day was fast changing into darkness as three of the young people with whose adventures this story is concerned trudged briskly homeward. The day was a bright one, and Aleck, the oldest, who was a skilled workman in the brass foundry, although scarcely eighteen years of age, had given himself a half-holiday in order to take Kate and The Youngster on a long skating expedition down to the lighthouse…"When the brass foundry, where eighteen year old Alex Kincaid works, is gutted in fire, he and his sister Kate and youngest sibling Jim choose to relocate to their uncle''s home two hundred miles away in Cleveland. They plan to skate over the solidified Great Lakes with their provisions and their faithful dog Tug. But all of this is not as simple as it sounds. The children must face the threat of starvation, harsh winter, separation and great psychological duress to achieve any success. Read on!Ernest Ingersoll (1852-1946) was a renowned American naturalist, writer and explorer.

This carefully crafted ebook: "CRIME COLLECTION: Spy Thrillers, Murder Mysteries & Detective Novels of Frederic Arnold Kummer" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873-1943) was an American author, playwright and screen writer. He wrote in various genres including spy and international mysteries, detective novels, romances and non-fiction. Under the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks he wrote a series of mysteries featuring the detective Richard Duvall.Table of Contents:"The Film of Fear" - A detective novel centers around the early years of the film industry, features the young and beautiful film star, Ruth Morton. After receiving messages and threats of death and violence, the great detective Richard Duvall is hired to investigate the case. "The Ivory Snuff Box" - a small box of ivory for holding snuff, with no real value, has been stolen from the French ambassador. Detective Duvall is ordered to travel back to London emergently, and recover the snuff box at all costs. "The Blue Lights" - an American millionaire''s son has been kidnapped in Paris. They want desperately to include detective Duvall in the investigation. "The Green God""The Brute""The Web""The First Days of Man"

This carefully crafted ebook: "Spy Thrillers & Detective Novels: The Web, The Green God, The Film of Fear, The Ivory Snuff Box, The Blue Lights & The Brute" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Table of Contents:"The Film of Fear" - A detective novel centers around the early years of the film industry, features the young and beautiful film star, Ruth Morton. After receiving messages and threats of death and violence, the great detective Richard Duvall is hired to investigate the case. "The Ivory Snuff Box" - a small box of ivory for holding snuff, with no real value, has been stolen from the French ambassador. Detective Duvall is ordered to travel back to London emergently, and recover the snuff box at all costs. "The Blue Lights" - an American millionaire''s son has been kidnapped in Paris. They want desperately to include detective Duvall in the investigation. "The Green God""The Brute""The Web"Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873-1943) was an American author, playwright and screen writer. He wrote in various genres including spy and international mysteries, detective novels, romances and non-fiction. Under the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks he wrote a series of mysteries featuring the detective Richard Duvall.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Mysterious Cases of Detective Richard Duvall" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."The Film of Fear" - A detective novel centers around the early years of the film industry, features the young and beautiful film star, Ruth Morton. After receiving messages and threats of death and violence, the great detective Richard Duvall is hired to investigate the case. "The Ivory Snuff Box" - a small box of ivory for holding snuff, with no real value, has been stolen from the French ambassador. Detective Duvall is ordered to travel back to London emergently, and recover the snuff box at all costs. "The Blue Lights" - an American millionaire''s son has been kidnapped in Paris. They want desperately to include detective Duvall in the investigation. Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873-1943) was an American author, playwright and screen writer. He wrote in various genres including spy and international mysteries, detective novels, romances and non-fiction. Under the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks he wrote a series of mysteries featuring the detective Richard Duvall.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE WEB" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Mr. Hoffman," said the man across the table, "you are expected to carry out whatever instructions may be given you, to the letter. Are you ready to do so?" Bob Hoffman hesitated for the fraction of a second, then nodded. "I am ready," he replied. "What are the instructions?""You will communicate, at once, without the least delay, any military information of which you may become possessed, to the German secret service authorities." The speaker bent upon the man before him a pair of intensely brilliant grey eyes. (Except) Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873-1943) was an American author, playwright and screen writer. He wrote in various genres including spy and international mysteries, detective novels, romances and non-fiction.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE BLUE LIGHTS (Mystery Thriller)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.In this detective novel - an American millionaire''s son has been kidnapped in Paris. They want desperately to include detective Duvall in the investigation. Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873-1943) was an American author, playwright and screen writer. He wrote in various genres including spy and international mysteries, detective novels, romances and non-fiction. Under the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks he wrote a series of mysteries featuring the detective Richard Duvall.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE IVORY SNUFF BOX (Mystery Thriller)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.In this detective novel - a small box of ivory for holding snuff, with no real value, has been stolen from the French ambassador. Detective Duvall is ordered to travel back to London emergently, and recover the snuff box at all costs. Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873-1943) was an American author, playwright and screen writer. He wrote in various genres including spy and international mysteries, detective novels, romances and non-fiction. Under the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks he wrote a series of mysteries featuring the detective Richard Duvall.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE FILM OF FEAR (Detective Novel)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.A detective novel centers around the early years of the film industry, features the young and beautiful film star, Ruth Morton. After receiving messages and threats of death and violence, the great detective Richard Duvall is hired to investigate the case.Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873-1943) was an American author, playwright and screen writer. He wrote in various genres including spy and international mysteries, detective novels, romances and non-fiction. Under the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks he wrote a series of mysteries featuring the detective Richard Duvall.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE FIRST DAYS OF MAN" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."Every child, between the ages of five and fifteen, seeks by constant questioning to grasp the fundamental facts upon which our whole fabric of present-day knowledge is based. These facts, painfully gathered by the human race during its many centuries of development, must of necessity be absorbed by the child within the short space of some ten or twelve years. It is a prodigious task, and one in which the growing mind should be afforded every possible assistance. Two courses are usually adopted by parents; one, to dismiss the child''s questions with the stock phrase, "You are not old enough to understand," the other, to place in his hands some so-called book of knowledge, containing, it is true, a great mass of information which the child should possess, but usually so badly presented, so jumbled together, that no one fact has any bearing on another, and thus the child is left to turn from "Why the ocean is salt?" to "What is a lightning rod?" without the least understanding of the principles and laws which underly these and all other facts, and link them together in a composite whole." – Frederic Arnold Kummer ("The First Days of Man")Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873-1943) was an American author, playwright and screen writer. He wrote in various genres including spy and international mysteries, detective novels, romances and non-fiction. Under the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks he wrote a series of mysteries featuring the detective Richard Duvall.

This carefully crafted ebook: "MECCANIA THE SUPER-STATE (Dark Dystopia)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."Meccania the Super-State" (1918) - Set in future 1970: a young Chinese traveller named Ming Yuen-hwuy enters Meccania for a five-month stay. Ming''s diary and notes describe his dreary and dehumanizing sojourn in a country where the militaristic government dominates social life. "Meccania" is a nation in Central Europe with obvious resemblances to Germany and surrounded by "Franconia" (France), "Luniland" (Britain), and "Lugrabia" (Russia). Here dissenters are sent to mental hospitals and concentration camps. The state maintains a eugenic breeding program, and commands its common citizens when to have children. All letters are censored, and all telephone conversations are monitored. All citizens wear the uniforms of their occupational classes and the works are not allowed to feel fatigued! A chilling reminder of what might have been if Nazis had won the War…Owen Gregory – Nothing is known about the author of this dystopian classic and most critics believed that it was a ruse to hide the true identity of the original "anonymous" author.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE STORY OF A PIONEER" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Anna Howard Shaw was a courageous woman who decided to preach in a time when women were not allowed to speak in public, let alone preach. Gradually over the years she became associated with the women''s movement in USA and along with other famous activists like Susan B. Anthony made it her life''s mission to work tirelessly for the cause of gender equality.Excerpt:"My father''s ancestors were the Shaws of Rothiemurchus, in Scotland, and the ruins of their castle may still be seen on the island of Loch-an-Eilan, in the northern Highlands. It was never the picturesque castle of song and story, this home of the fighting Shaws, but an austere fortress, probably built in Roman times; and even to-day the crumbling walls which alone are left of it show traces of the relentless assaults upon them…"

This carefully crafted ebook: "RIMROCK TRAIL (Western Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Excerpt:"The three partners, saddle-chums for years, ever seeking mutual employ, known through Texas and Arizona as the "Three Musketeers of the Range," sat on the porch of the ranch-house, discussing business and lighter matters. One year before they had pooled their savings and Sandy Bourke, youngest of the three and the most aggressive, coolest and swiftest of action, had gloriously bucked the faro tiger and won enough to buy the Three Star Ranch and certain rights of free range."J. Allan Dunn (1872–1941) was one of the high-producing writers of the American pulp fiction. He first made a name for himself in pulp magazine Adventure. He was a specialist in South Sea stories, and pirate tales. His main genres were adventure and western, but he also wrote a number of detective stories.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE TREASURE OF ATLANTIS" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.A revelation of Ronald Murdock, an orchid hunter, persuades Stanley Morse to take an expedition in the mountain jungles of South America where fearless explorers find the descendants of those who fled the destruction of ancient Atlantis.J. Allan Dunn (1872–1941) was one of the high-producing writers of the American pulp fiction. He first made a name for himself in pulp magazine Adventure. He was a specialist in South Sea stories, and pirate tales. His main genres were adventure and western, but he also wrote a number of detective stories.

This carefully crafted ebook: "A MAN TO HIS MATE (Sea Adventure Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Excerpt:"There was a fortune in sight. For gold, men forget the obligations of life and law in civilization; they revert to savage type, and their minds and actions are swayed by the primitive urge of lust. Treachery, selfishness, cruelty and crime breed from the shining particles even before they are in actual sight and touch. Rainey knew that. He had read many true yarns that had come down from the frozen North, in from the deserts and the mountains, tales of the mining records of the West."J. Allan Dunn (1872–1941) was one of the high-producing writers of the American pulp fiction. He first made a name for himself in pulp magazine Adventure. He was a specialist in South Sea stories, and pirate tales. His main genres were adventure and western, but he also wrote a number of detective stories.

Donald MacTavish is the newly appointed head commissioner of the Hudson''s Bay Company. This promotion infuriates MacTavish''s rival Angus Fitzpatrick who had wanted the job. Fitzpatrick takes his anger and resentment out on MacTavish and then sets out to get MacTavish fired. On the other hand, Fitzpatrick accuses MacTavish of stealing furs that were actually stolen by a group of thieving traders led by Sergius. And to complicate matters, both MacTavish and Sergius are in love with Fitzpatrick''s young daughter Jeanne! The book was also adapted into a 1919 Hollywood silent film whose prints are now lost.Excerpt:"Donald McTavish glared down into the heavy, ugly face of his superior—a face that concealed behind its mask of dignity emotions as potent and lasting as the northland that bred them. "I accuse you of nothing." Fitzpatrick pawed his white beard. "I only know that a great quantity of valuable furs, trapped in your district, have not been turned in to me here at the factory. It is to explain this discrepancy that I have called you down by dogs in the dead of winter..."Francis William Sullivan was an author of western fiction.

"Humdrum isn''t where you live; it''s what you are. Perhaps you are one of those whose lives are bound by neighbourly interests. Imaginatively, you never seek what lies under a gorgeous sunset; you are never stirred by any longing to investigate the ends of rainbows. You are more concerned by what your neighbour does every day than by what he might do if he were suddenly spun, whirled, jolted out of his poky orbit..."Harold MacGrath was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

50 years old Hugh Mainwaring is found murdered under mysterious circumstances in his room along with a burnt copy of his will. The mystery of his death doesn''t remain a private family affair and soon the whole drama is dragged to the court. An entertaining whodunit for mystery lovers with a hint of romance, intrigue and mistaken identities!

A train is robbed by masked robbers on its way to the gold-mining region of the Rocky Mountains and a man is murdered ruthlessly in the process. Our hero who is the sole witness of the crime suffers a terrible brain fever and loses his memory including, the name of the murderer. But as fate would have it, the murderer is the leader of the gang but pretends to be a law-abiding citizen of the same town where our hero now lives with a new name and new identity. Will the murder be ever discovered? And will the justice be served in this hostile region? Read on!

This carefully crafted ebook: "A Mysterious Disappearance" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Claude Bruce is a barrister and an amateur detective who is caught unaware into the mysterious disappearance and the subsequent murder of Lady Dyke, his friend''s wife. Together with White, in an amateurish Sherlock Holmes'' fashion, Bruce must use his power of deduction to find the culprit. But unlike Sherlock, Bruce is fallible and makes some costly mistakes which results in a humorous but enjoyable murder mystery. The power of this novel lies in its expression and the layout of the puzzling case which has endeared this novel to the mystery lovers for generations!

Vanity Fair follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. Becky is a strong-willed, cunning, moneyless, young woman determined to make her way in society. After leaving school, Becky stays with Emmy, who is a good-natured, simple-minded, young girl, of a wealthy London family. There, Becky meets the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne (Amelia''s betrothed) and Amelia''s brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious but rich civil servant home from the East India Company. Hoping to marry Sedley, the richest young man she has met, Becky entices him, but she fails. George Osborne''s friend Captain William Dobbin loves Amelia, but only wishes her happiness, which is centered on George.

A Christmas Posy is a wonderfully selected collection of beloved children''s stories:"Grandmother Dear''s" Old WatchMy Pink PetAn Honest Little ManThe Six Poor Little PrincessesBasil''s ViolinThe Missing Bon-bonsLost RolloThe Blue Dwarfs

"The pine forest is a wonderful place. The pine-trees stand in ranks like the soldiers of some vast army, side by side, mile after mile, in companies and regiments and battalions, all clothed in a sober uniform of green and grey. But they are unlike soldiers in this, that they are of all ages and sizes; some so small that the rabbits easily jump over them in their play, and some so tall and stately that the fall of them is like the falling of a high tower. And the pine-trees are put to many different uses. They are made into masts for the gallant ships that sail out and away to distant ports across the great ocean. Others are sawn into planks, and used for the building of sheds; for the rafters and flooring, and clap-boards and woodwork of our houses; for railway-sleepers, and scaffoldings, and hoardings. Others are polished and fashioned into articles of furniture. Turpentine comes from them, which the artist uses with his colours, and the doctor in his medicines; which is used, too, in the cleaning of stuffs and in a hundred different ways. While the pine-cones, and broken branches and waste wood, make bright crackling fires by which to warm ourselves on a winter''s day.But there is something more than just this I should like you to think about in connection with the pine forest; for it, like everything else that is fair and noble in nature, has a strange and precious secret of its own."

Marian is a little girl who stays at her grandparents for winter holidays. She had never been allowed to have a Christmas tree since her grandparents did not approve of such things. This Christmas, Marian is determined to get her tree and she is ready to do whatever it takes.

This book is intended to serve as an elementary edition for all studies of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs, to all who are interested in the study of the mental development of ancient nations. It is not addressed to the Egyptological specialist, to whom, as a matter of course, its contents are well known, and therefore its pages are not loaded with elaborate notes and copious references. In selecting the texts for translation in this book an attempt has been made to include compositions that are not only the best of their kind, but that also illustrate the most important branches of Egyptian Literature. Among these religious, mythological, and moral works bulk largely, and in many respects these represent the peculiar bias of the mind of the ancient Egyptian better than compositions of a purely historical character.Contents: The Pyramid TextsStories of Magicians who Lived under the Ancient EmpireThe Book of the DeadBooks of the Dead of the Græco-Roman PeriodThe Egyptian Story of the CreationLegends of the GodsHistorical LiteratureAutobiographical LiteratureTales of Travel and AdventureFairy TalesEgyptian Hymns to the GodsMoral and Philosophical LiteratureMiscellaneous Literature