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The novel, set in the year 2137, was heavily influenced by the events of World War I.

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howells, then its assistant

Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature.

The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling.

Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671.

The adventures of Princess Tara in the land of headless men, creatures with the power of detaching their beads from their bodies and replacing them at will.

What secrets are held between friends? Drene, a dramatic, moody sculptor, shares many secrets with his childhood friend, Graylock.

While in the service of India's Nizam of Hyderabad, Marmaduke Pickthall converted to Islam and, with the help of Muslim theologians and linguists, produced this clear and lovingly precise Engl

This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong.

Contents: The goophered grapevine.--Po' Sandy.--Mars Jeem's nightmare.--The conjurer's revenge.--Sis' Becky's pickaninny.--The gray wolf's ha'nt.--Hot-Foot Hannib

This concise volume contains two addresses by Dr. Einstein outlining aspects of the theories.

Contents: In exile. -- Friend Barton's "concern". -- The story of the Alca?zar. -- A cloud on the mountain. -- The rapture of Hetty -- The watchman.

Joe Fleming, a youth of twenty, earning his livelihood as a sailmaker and supporting his mother and sisters by his trade, augments his income by prize-fighting before so-called sporting clubs.

"Folks at home said I'd be buncoed or have my pockets picked fore I'd bin here mor'n half an hour; wall, I fooled 'em a little bit, I wuz here three days afore they buncoed

He darted through the orange orchard searching for slugs for his breakfast, and between whiles he rocked on the branches and rang over his message of encouragement to men.