The Madman and the Pirate
Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
A missionary on a Polynesian island is marooned by pirates on another island far from his wife and flock. Thinking that the same pirates had killed his son he vows revenge.
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
A missionary on a Polynesian island is marooned by pirates on another island far from his wife and flock. Thinking that the same pirates had killed his son he vows revenge.
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Category: Author:novel
McCutceon is at his best in this humorous and intriguing tale of a young man and his money. Castles, heroes, villains, maidens, servants and the cream of society get thrown I to one big pot and yield a great book to feast upon.
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Category: Author:novel
MAJOR OCHTERLONY had been very fidgety after the coming in of the mail.
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Category: Author:Fergus Hume
"Gypsies! How very delightful! I really must have my fortune told. The dear things know all about the future."
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Category: Author:novel
I FEAR City people are very mercenary in their views and habits. It is natural that they should be so; they come into the City to make money, and that is all they are thinking of while they are there. They do not all succeed in their attempt, I know. Some are idle and improvident, and do not deserve to win in the battle of life. Th...
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The occupational training of Matthew is plainly perceptible in the gospel he has written. When he left the receipt of custom to become a follower of Christ and then an apostle and even a gospel historian he carried with him his financial bent and ability. He always speaks of money with the accuracy and discrimination of a man who is a...
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Category: Author:novel
"The Consul for the Terrestrial States," Retief said, "presents his compliments, et cetera, to the Ministry of Culture of the Groacian Autonomy, and with reference to the Ministry's invitation to attend a recital of interpretive grimacing, has the honor to express regret that he will be unable—"
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Category: Author:novel
Silently, so as not to shock anyone with illusions about well dressed young women, Sandra Lea Grayling cursed the day she had persuaded the Chicago Space Mirror that there would be all sorts of human interest stories to be picked up at the first international grandmaster chess tournament in which an electronic computing machine was ent...
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Category: Author:novel
The story and the writing of it were suggested in a conversation with an energetic American boy who was crowded out of his own village into a career which led to something much more surprising than a profitable junior partnership.
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