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Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom

Category: Author:Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston 

 "Il n'y a pas trois officiers." Such was the memorable epigram by which Sherif Bey, Turkish Captain of the Prisoners-of-War Guard at Kăstamōni


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The Prisoners of Hartling

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Arthur Woodroffe's voice was quite cheerful as he framed this indictment of the life of a general practitioner in a poor neighbourhood, but his companion frowned and shook his head impatiently.


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Pride and His Prisoners

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 Bright and joyous was the aspect of nature on a spring morning in the beautiful county of Somersetshire. The budding green on the trees was yet so light, that, like a transparent veil, it showed the outlines of every twig; but on the lowlier hedges it lay like a rich mantle of foliage, and clusters of primroses nestled below, whi...


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The Prisoners of Mainz

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The small box respirator, like the thirty-nine articles of the Faith, should be taken on trust; one is quite prepared to believe in its efficiency. Countless Base instructors have extolled it, countless memos from Division have confirmed their panegyrics; and with these credentials one carries it on one’s chest in a perfect faith; but ...


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The Abbeys of Great Britain

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IN the hope of making the following sketches of more general interest, it will be as well to review as concisely as possible the progress of Monasticism in connection with the Church from the earliest times, and to renew our acquaintance with the history of the early British Church during those years previous to the coming of St August...


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Tales of Illusion

Category: Author:Edgar Allan Poe 

THERE are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the mere romanticist must eschew, if he do not wish to offend or to disgust. They are with propriety handled only when the severity and majesty of Truth sanctify and sustain them. We thrill,...


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The Sea Hawk

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Nicknamed "Sea Hawk" British pirate captain, in seventeenth century England and Spain combat ordered sank the French ambassador ride warships, and self released in ship fooled slave labor of a group of British prisoners and trouble, but also because of his justice and brave and win the love of the ambassador's daughter


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The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

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It was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty- four, that I, Gill Davis to command, His Mark, having then the honour to be a private in the Royal Marines, stood a-leaning over the bulwarks of the armed sloop Christopher Columbus, in the South American waters off the Mosquito shore.


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The Man in the Iron Mask

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Died in 1662, the French king Louis xiii, the succession of Louis xiv arrogant, cruel, and dissolute.To cory, Louis will the son of former bodyguard team, o king Leo sent to the front to kill.Son's death aroused the indignation of sass, meanwhile, ella Smith priests have a secret plan, is to rescue from prison with the iron mask myster...


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Robison Crusoe

Category: Author:Daniel Defoe 

This is a novel by the English author Daniel Defoe, published in 1719. It is one of the most popular adventure novels in all literature. It is the story of Bobinson Crusoe, an Englishman who is shipwrecked in a lonely tropical island. He builds himself a hut, grows his own food, and becomes self-sufficient. After 23 years he meets with...


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