CK - Fiction & Literature 17

In narrating these few episodes in the undulatory, not to say switchback, career of my friend Aristide Pujol, I can pretend to no chronological sequence. Some occurred before he (almost literally) c……続きを見る

OUTFIT AND SUPPLIES Rumor of gold in northeastern AsiaーPlan to prospect through Kamchatka and north to Bering StraitーSteamer CosmopoliteーRussian law in the matter of liquor trafficーI make up my ……続きを見る

In a dusty old chest in his attic, a boy named Micah discovers an old book. Finding what he believes is a treasure map inside, he embarks on a quest with his friend, Jonah. He also joined by some ta……続きを見る

From the point of view of literature, the Great War of to-day has brought us into a new and closer sympathy with the England of the past. Dr. Woods and Mr. Baltzly in their recent careful study of E……続きを見る

It would be presumption on my part were I to follow the example of the German translator and write a lengthy preface on the merits of this book. It would be but a poor imitation, at best. Any one wi……続きを見る

Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. Having survived with him through the horrors and deprivations of th……続きを見る

CADIZ CADIZ was the prettiest of all the towns of Spain, thought Byron. I would rather say that she was the most beautiful. She rises out of the seaーthe boundless salt ocean that stretches from pol……続きを見る

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The fourth decade of the deceased century dawned on a procession of Oriental pilgrims, variously qualified or disqualified to hold the gorgeous East in fee, who, with bakshîsh in their purses, a the……続きを見る

It is so strange to see a long, well-plotted novel suddenly come to a dead stop. (Of a projected twelve episodes, Dickens wrote six before his death.) The title character is either murdered or missi……続きを見る

At a loose end after college, Ellis Barstow drifts back to his hometown and takes a job as a reconstructionist – investigating and recreating the details of fatal car accidents. Ellis forms a bond w……続きを見る

It had been seventeen years since Tara Martin had been to Ocracoke, North Carolina. It was easy to remember how long it had been; it was the last vacation she had taken with her father. They had spe……続きを見る

The Wolf Cub: A Novel of Spain By Patrick and Terence Casey. WITH FRONTISPIECE BY H. WESTON TAYLOR, BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY in 1918. Copyright, 1918, BY PATRICK AND TERENCE CASEY. Published……続きを見る

Whitelocke continues the negotiation. Now was the heat of Whitelocke’s business, and many cross endeavours used to render all his labours fruitless, and to bring his treaty to no effect. But it plea……続きを見る

Old Pybus follows the falling apart and rediscover of three generations. A military man disowns his sons when they fail to enlist only to be rediscovered by his grandson years later. Expertly format……続きを見る

Beloved author Lori Wick presents a new standalone in the tradition of her bestselling Sophie's Heart. After losing her parents, Arcineh Bryant lives with her grandfather as a girl. But growing up w……続きを見る

My story begins on the morning of December 18, 18ー, while sitting at breakfast. Let it be understood before we go Further that I was a bachelor living in lodgings. I had been left an orphan just be……続きを見る

Michael Quinn, former rock star, turned his back on a band on the verge of superstardom twenty-four years ago. Hes spent his life since hiding from everything hed been. When a woman chased by thugs ……続きを見る

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Great Airship. - A Tale of Adventure.. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many……続きを見る

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Under the Star-Spangled Banner - A Tale of the Spanish-American War. It was previously published by other bona fide publishe……続きを見る

I KNOW not any thing that more enlarges the mind of man than voyages. They are not only of absolute use in opening a commerce with our fellow inhabitants of the globe, but by exhibiting a stupendous……続きを見る

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Brains, drive, and vision are foundations of Silicon Valley success stories.    Make the world a better place and make a fortune in the process.   Like so many young people starting o……続きを見る

Skulduggery strikes the Bonnie Scots Tour... Lilian Jackson Braun takes her unusual detective team to Scotland in the delightful mystery The Cat Who Wasn't There. Perfect for fans of cosy crime and ……続きを見る

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Frontier in American History. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Frederick……続きを見る

Slade arrives as a servant at the Hotel Caroline. His adventures and interactions with Mrs. Pomeroy throughout the novel are engaging and worth a re-read. Considered one of Warwick Deeping's top ten……続きを見る

Introduced by John Burns. Caught up in the strife between smugglers on the Solway Coast and the gypsies of Galloway, young Patrick Heron is flung into a society of social outcasts, outlaws and downr……続きを見る

Retold for Learners of English by Richard Rogers London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a ……続きを見る

It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV, Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister, Abba is top of the pops, and in the small Yorkshire village of Ragley-on-the-Forest, Jack Sheffield re……続きを見る

New Zealand was supposed to be where Pierre de Villiers would escape his past. A misadventure in Angola had cost him his faith in the military, and almost his life and sanity. Another event cost him……続きを見る