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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Lay Morals By Robert Louis Stevenson pute? 'Take no thought for the morrow.' Ask the Successful Merchant; interrogate your own heart; and you will have to admit that this is not only a silly but an immoral...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Part of the Wildside Fantasy Classics series. The famous ruins in Zimbabwe suggested this story to Haggard, in which he makes this "lost city" the Biblical Ophir, said to have fallen because of...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Set at the end of the reign of James VI and I, *The Fortunes of Nigel* sits among Walter Scott's richest creations in political insight, range of characterisation and linguistic virtuosity. Well versed...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934), was an English novelist and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey. He was educated at King's College London and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a history of the man could not...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint...

Benjamin Franklin, by Paul Elmer More, is a classic biography of the great American statesman and inventor, Ben Franklin. Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705][1] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, (born Nov. 11, 1836, Portsmouth, N.H., U.S.—died March 19, 1907, Boston), poet, short-story writer, and editor whose use of the surprise ending influenced the development of the short story. He drew upon his childhood experiences in New Hampshire in his popular classic The...

California - The Land of the Sun by Mary Hunter Austin For a graphic and memorable report of the contours of any country, see always the aboriginal account of its making. That will give you the lie of the land as no geographer could sketch it forth for you. California was made by Padahoon the...

The Formation Of Christendom Vol. 6 - The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations: Leo I to Gregory I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...

William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 - 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time...

Illustrated. American Pioneers and Patriots series. The story of the life and exploits of the popular naval hero of the Revolution. Contents: The Early Life of John Paul Jones; The Infant Navy; Bearding the British Lion; Captain Jones at Nantes and at Brest; Cruise of the Bon Homme Richard; The Bon...

"Tamawaca Folks" was published privately by L. Frank Baum under the pen name John Estes Cooke. It is a semi-fictional, semi-factual, account of the summer community located at Macatawa Park, Michigan, where Baum purchased a summer home in 1900, with the proceeds from his first hit, Father...

Those vast realms of northern Europe, now called Russia, have been inhabited for a period beyond the records of history, by wandering tribes of savages. These barbaric hordes have left no monuments of their existence. The annals of Greece and of Rome simply inform us that they were there. Generations...