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William Le Queux (1864-1927) was a famous and incredibly visionary writer who wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage - in the years leading up to World War I. His best-known works are the invasion thrillers "The Great War in England in 1897" and the anti-German invasion fantasy "The Invasion of 1910." – all written before the war…NovelsThe Great War in England in 1897The Invasion of 1910Guilty BondsZoraidaThe TemptressThe Great White QueenDevil''s DiceWhoso Findeth a WifeThe Eye of IstarIf Sinners Entice TheeThe Bond of BlackThe Day of TemptationThe Veiled ManThe Wiles of the WickedAn Eye for an EyeIn White RaimentOf Royal BloodHer Majesty''s MinisterThe Under-SecretaryThe Seven SecretsAs We Forgive ThemThe Sign of the StrangerThe Hunchback of WestminsterThe Closed BookThe Czar''s SpyBehind the ThroneThe Pauper of Park LaneThe Mysterious Mr. MillerWhatsoever a Man SowethThe Great Court ScandalThe Lady in the CarThe House of WhispersThe Red RoomSpies of the KaiserThe Great God Gold (Treasure of Israel)Hushed Up! A Mystery of LondonThe Death-DoctorThe Lost MillionThe Price of PowerHer Royal HighnessThe White LieThe Four FacesThe Sign of SilenceThe Mysterious ThreeAt the Sign of the SwordThe Mystery of the Green RayNumber 70, BerlinThe Way to WinThe Broken ThreadThe Place of DragonsThe Zeppelin DestroyerSant of the Secret ServiceThe Stolen StatesmanThe Doctor of PimlicoWhither Thou GoestThe IntriguersThe Red Widow (The Death-Dealers of London)Mademoiselle of Monte CarloThis House to LetThe Golden FaceThe Stretton Street AffairThe Voice from the VoidShort Story CollectionsStolen SoulsThe Count''s ChauffeurThe Bomb-MakersThe Gay Triangle

This carefully crafted ebook: "AFRICAN MYSTERIES" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Zoraida" is a tale of a romance in the harem and the adventures in the great Sahara desert. "The Great White Queen" – Scars is a young boy who gets sent to a boy''s preparatory school outside London where he befriends Omar, a strange kid from Africa. When Omar is called back home by his mother, Scars decides to join him on what he thought it would be a great adventure."The Eye of Istar" – Zafar-Ben-A''Ziz, called by some El-Motardjim or the translator, has spent a couple of years in London. Upon his return from the land of infidels, Zafar becomes a dervish in the service of Mahdi."The Veiled Man" is an account of the adventures and misadventures of Sidi Ahamadou, Sheikh of the Azjar Maraude.William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French writer who mainly wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage, particularly in the years leading up to World War I. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy "The Great War in England in 1897" and the anti-German invasion fantasy "The Invasion of 1910."

This meticulously edited collection contains the complete novels of the great Frances Burney, as well as her plays, journals, diaries and essays, complemented with her biography. Burney''s novels explore the lives of English aristocrats, and satirize their social pretensions and personal foibles, with an eye to larger questions such as the politics of female identity. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but she also foreshadowed such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and Thackeray.Novels:EvelinaCeciliaCamillaThe WandererPlays:The WitlingsJournals & Diaries:The Diary and Letters of Madame D''ArblayOther Works:Brief Reflections Relative to the French Emigrant ClergyBiography:Fanny Burney by Austin DobsonFrances Burney (1752-1840) was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. She is best known for her novels Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla and The Wanderer.

Frances Burney was a famous English novelist, diarist and playwright. Burney''s novels explore the lives of English aristocrats, and satirize their social pretensions and personal foibles, with an eye to larger questions such as the politics of female identity. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but she also foreshadowed such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and Thackeray.Novels:EvelinaCeciliaCamillaThe WandererPlays:The WitlingsJournals & Diaries:The Diary and Letters of Madame D''ArblayOther Works:Brief Reflections Relative to the French Emigrant ClergyBiography:Fanny Burney by Austin Dobson

Chaldea was a Semitic-speaking nation which existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC. This book brings the complete history of Chaldean nation and gives insight into Chaldean language, religion, arts and sciences. Contents: General View of the CountryClimate and ProductionsThe PeopleLanguage and WritingArts and SciencesManners and CustomsReligionHistory and Chronology

Ancient Media is an area of northwestern Iran where the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, lived. The Medes'' emergence in Iran occurred between 800 BC and 700 BC, and in the 7th century the whole of western Iran and some other territories were under Median rule. This book brings the chronology and history of the Medes. It also provides a significant amount of information on Median manners and customs and the Medes'' language and religion.Contents: Description of the Country.Climate and Productions.Character, Manners and Customs.Religion.Language and Writing.Chronology and History.

The Parthian Empire was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran. Arsaces I of Parthia, a leader of the Parni tribe, founded the country in the mid-3rd century BC when he conquered the region of Parthia in Iran''s northeast, then a province in rebellion against the Seleucid Empire. Mithridates I of Parthia greatly expanded the empire by seizing Media and Mesopotamia from the Seleucids. At its height, the Parthian Empire stretched from the northern reaches of the Euphrates, in what is now central-eastern Turkey, to eastern Iran. The empire, located on the Silk Road trade route between the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin and the Han Empire of China, became a center of trade and commerce.