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  • A Fisher Girl of France

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Fernand Calmettes ...
    In a French fishing village where the sea gives life and takes it away, Elise Hénin prepares to sail with the Bon-Pêcheur, burdened by her father's loss and by the fierce duty that has made her almost a mother to her younger brother, Firmin. Admired for her seamanship yet scorned for taking a man's work, she refuses Silvere's pleas for marriage and security, determined instead to see Firmin ... Read more

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  • A Fisher Girl of France

    A Channel Coast Village and Its Sea

    by Fernand Calmettes ...
    Series series Salon & Steppe
    Complete and unabridged, with 13 full-page plates by Stanhope Forbes, Robert Strickland Thomas and Joseph Heard. A fishing village on the Picardy coast, a girl who waits for the boats, and the season that changes what waiting means. Calmettes wrote about the French coast with an eye trained in the studios - he was an art critic before he was a novelist. This edition adds a gallery of 13 plates ... Read more

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  • A Fisher Girl of France and The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story

    by Fernand Calmettes & S. S. Van Dine ...
    To-morrow at daybreak they will go aboard together, Elise Hénin and her little brother Firmin. They have put on their Sunday clothes to say farewell to their mother, who sleeps on the slope of the dune in a corner of the old graveyard. Nine years has the poor woman lain there in the peace of her last sleep—deaf forever to the noise of the tempests which roused her so often, of old, to the vigil of ... Read more

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  • Shahnameh

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    by Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
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  • Dead Men Tell No Tales - 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventure Classics

    Epic Pirate Sagas & Treasures of the Golden Age Sea

    by Captain Charles Johnson, Howard Pyle, Ralph D. Paine, Charles Ellms, Currey E. Hamilton, John Esquemeling, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Stanley Lane-Poole, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson0, Sir Walter Scott1, Richard Le Gallienne2, Edgar Allan Poe3, Jack London4, Jules Verne5, Charles Boardman Hawes6, J. M. Barrie7, Arthur Conan Doyle8, Frederick Marryat9, R. M. Ballantyne0, Charles Dickens1, L. Frank Baum2, J. Allan Dunn3, Robert E. Howard4, James Fenimore Cooper5, Alexandre Dumas6, William Hope Hodgson7, F. Scott Fitzgerald8, Harold MacGrath9, Harry Collingwood0, W. H. G. Kingston1, G. A. Henty2, Joseph Lewis French3 ...
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  • The Return of Tarzan (Illustrated)

    by Edgar Rice Burroughs ...
    The Return of Tarzan is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine New Story Magazine in the issues for June through December 1913; the first book edition was published in 1915 by A. C. McClurg.The novel picks up soon after where Tarzan of the Apes left off. The year is 1910 and ... Read more

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  • Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War

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    From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz: the three magnificent novels—published in an omnibus edition for the first time—that form an ancient-Egyptian counterpart to his famous Cairo Trilogy.Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years to bring us tales from his homeland's majestic early history—tales of the Egyptian nobility and of war, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharoahs. In Khufu's ... Read more

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  • PIRATE NOVELS: 50+ Adventure Classics, Treasure Hunt Tales & Maritime Novels

    Classic Buccaneer Tales of Buried Gold, Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Ocean Peril

    by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, Rafael Sabatini, Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frederick Marryat, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph D. Paine0, Richard Le Gallienne1, Charles Boardman Hawes2, J. M. Barrie3, R. M. Ballantyne4, William Macleod Raine5, Charles Dickens6, L. Frank Baum7, Jeffery Farnol8, J. Allan Dunn9, Robert E. Howard0, John Masefield1, Alexandre Dumas2, William Hope Hodgson3, F. Scott Fitzgerald4, Harold MacGrath5, Harry Collingwood6, Frederick Ferdinand Moore7, W. H. G. Kingston8, Stephen W. Meader9, Percy F.Westerman1, G. A. Henty2, Joseph Lewis French3, Howard Pyle4 ...
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  • Tales of the Alhambra

    by Washington Irving ...
    The Alhambra, a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards, was published in May 1832. Consisting of a series of essays and short fiction pieces, it was referred to as his "Spanish Sketch Book." In 1851 Irving wrote the "Author's Revised Edition," also titled Tales of the Alhambra. ... Read more

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  • The Jolly Roger Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventures

    Blackbeard, Captain Blood, Facing the Flag, Treasure Island, The Gold-Bug, Captain Singleton…

    by Captain Charles Johnson, Howard Pyle, Ralph D. Paine, Charles Ellms, Currey E. Hamilton, John Esquemeling, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Stanley Lane-Poole, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson0, Sir Walter Scott1, Richard Le Gallienne2, Edgar Allan Poe3, Jack London4, Jules Verne5, Charles Boardman Hawes6, J. M. Barrie7, Arthur Conan Doyle8, Frederick Marryat9, R. M. Ballantyne0, Charles Dickens1, L. Frank Baum2, J. Allan Dunn3, Robert E. Howard4, James Fenimore Cooper5, Alexandre Dumas6, William Hope Hodgson7, F. Scott Fitzgerald8, Harold MacGrath9, Harry Collingwood0, W. H. G. Kingston1, G. A. Henty2, Joseph Lewis French3 ...
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  • Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan

    by Marco Polo ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook ... Read more

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