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  • Jilted!

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    by William Clark Russell ...
    Jilted! or, My Uncle's Scheme is a sharp Victorian tale of romantic disappointment, family intrigue, and the comic warfare of marriage politics. In this second volume of a three-part story, a calculating uncle's designs threaten to steer love toward profit, pushing the narrator toward Theresa while standing in the way of his attachment to Conny. After a sleepless night, he arrives at Grove End to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Jilted!

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by William Clark Russell ...
    In this lively final stretch of Jilted!; or, My Uncle's Scheme, romantic confusion turns into comic self-revelation. After returning to his lodgings and finding his uncle overwhelmed by fear for his daughter, the narrator is swept deeper into the family's turmoil, where Conny's silence, Curling's presence, and the pressure of a secret marriage sharpen every feeling. At Thistlewood, he grows ... Read more

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  • Jilted!

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by William Clark Russell ...
    Jilted! or My Uncle's Scheme begins as a sharp, lightly comic novel of manners, following a young narrator whose easy life in provincial France has been shaped by his handsome, idle army-major father and by his own long resistance to adulthood. He drifts through school, smoking, billiards, whist, and flirtation in Longueville-sur-mer until a letter from England upends the routine: an uncle offers ... Read more

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  • Heart of Oak

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    by William Clark Russell ...
    In February 1860, at Sir Mortimer Otway's storm-blown seaside home, frail twenty-year-old Marie stands on the threshold of a life-changing voyage. Ordered by doctors to seek health in sea air and changing climates, she is to sail on the merchant ship Lady Emma under the care of her beloved old nurse, Mrs. Burke, and the genial Captain Burke. Yet behind the practical talk of routes, cargo, and ... Read more

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  • Heart of Oak

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    by William Clark Russell ...
    On a stranded Antarctic ship, a distant sail briefly ignites desperate hope before the crew's survival instincts tear the vessel apart. A doctor's warning, a captain's fury, and a mutinous rush to seize the longboat leave Captain Burke overpowered, the sailors gone, and the wreck's last fragile order shattered. In the frozen silence that follows, Marie Otway and Mrs. Burke confront the terror of ... Read more

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  • Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

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    by William Clark Russell ...
    In the quiet west of England, Agnes Campbell sits at tea with her husband John, their young son, and her twin sister Mary, while the calm of family life is shadowed by a promise of something strange and terrible to come. Agnes recalls the past: her girlhood in Bath, the death of her father, the modest household she shared with Mary and their mother, and the understated courtship of the solicitor ... Read more

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  • Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

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    by William Clark Russell ...
    Aboard a ship bound for England, Agnes Lee lives in a state of anxious suspension: ill, isolated, and haunted by the blankness of her own past. While passengers trade literary opinions and watch one another with growing unease, Captain Ladmore draws her into grave confidences about Alice Lee's failing health and the fragile future awaiting her ashore. That uncertainty sharpens when he reveals that ... Read more

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  • Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

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    by William Clark Russell ...
    W. Clark Russell's Alone on a Wide Wide Sea opens as a haunting maritime mystery, following an amnesiac heroine adrift on a great ocean liner and cut off from every trace of her past. Awake in the moonlit night, she is overwhelmed by the ship's grandeur, the sleeping passengers below, and the terrifying emptiness of the sea, until her wandering brings her under suspicion and confirms her status as ... Read more

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  • The Honour of the Flag

    by William Clark Russell ...
    Manifold are the historic interests of the river Thames. There is scarcely a foot of its mud from London Bridge to Gravesend Reach that is not as "consecrated" as that famous bit of soil which Dr. Samuel Johnson and Mr. Richard Savage knelt and kissed on stepping ashore at Greenwich. One of the historic interests, however, threatens to perish out of the annals. It does not indeed rise to such ... Read more

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  • A Marriage at Sea

    by William Clark Russell ...
    In "A Marriage at Sea," Russell likely explores themes related to life aboard ships, the challenges faced by sailors, and perhaps the romantic or adventurous aspects of seafaring. Russell's stories often draw on his own experiences as a sailor, which lends authenticity to his depictions of life at sea.Russell's writing style is characterized by vivid descriptions of maritime scenes, authentic ... Read more

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  • The Journals of Lewis and Clark

    by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark ...
    The Journals of Lewis and Clark are a remarkable account of the historic expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806. This collection of journals chronicles their journey across the uncharted American West, detailing the landscapes, wildlife, and indigenous peoples they encountered along the way. The entries provide an invaluable firsthand perspective on the exploration ... Read more

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  • The Wreck of the Grosvenor: An Account of the Mutiny of the Crew and the Loss of the Ship when Trying to Make the Bermudas (Complete)

    by William Clark Russell ...
    There was every appearance of a south-westerly wind. The coast of France, which had been standing high and shining upon the horizon on the port bow, and so magnified by the clear northerly air that you could discern, even at that distance, the dim emerald sheen of the upper slopes and the streaky shadows thrown by projecting points and elbows on the white ground, was fast fading, though the sun ... Read more

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