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  • Lorna Doone

    First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is ... Leer más

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  • The Bounty Mutiny

    The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersect on an April morning in 1789 near the island known today as Tonga. That morning, William Bligh and eighteen surly seamen were expelled from the Bounty and began what would be the ... Leer más

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  • Army Life in a Black Regiment

    and Other Writings

    A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slavesThomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, ... Leer más

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  • The Sea Lions

    Or, The Lost Sealers

    Series series The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
    An exciting adventure tale of sealers caught in the Antarctic ice in the early nineteenth century and forced to winter over in extreme conditions.The Sea Lions (1849) is the twelfth and last of Cooper's sea novels, a genre he largely invented. Drawing upon memories from nearly three decades earlier of his own ventures in whaling and his reviews of accounts of exploring and hunting in cold seas, ... Leer más

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  • The Cruise of the Snark

    de Jack London ...
    Inspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the forty-five-foot ketch Snark, with his wife, Charmian, a skeleton crew, and his writing to keep him company. Beset by seasickness and tropical disease, London wrote incessantly—not only his major ... Leer más

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  • The Essex and the Whale

    Melville's Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby-Dick

    Edición de R. D. Madison ...
    This fascinating anthology introduces readers to the literary side of Herman Melville's whaling world with an unprecedented collection of the original whaling texts from which Melville drew to create his masterpiece, Moby-Dick.The notorious 1820 sinking of the whaleship Essex inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, as recounted in Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling book In the Heart of the Sea: The ... Leer más

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  • America's Darwin

    Darwinian Theory and U.S. Literary Culture

    While much has been written about the impact of Darwin’s theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin’s theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America’s Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin’s works ... Leer más

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  • Dariel

    A Romance of Surrey

    Series Libro 2 - R. D. Blackmore Collection
    Dariel: A romance of Surrey is a novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1897. It is an adventure story set initially in Surrey before the action moves to the Caucasian mountains. The story is narrated by George Cranleigh, a farmer who falls in love with Dariel, the daughter of a Caucasian prince. Dariel was the last of Blackmore's novels, published just over two years before his death. ... Leer más

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  • Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War

    The story is set in the 17th century during the time of the Monmouth Rebellion in England and revolves around the lives of the inhabitants of Springhaven, a coastal village in Devon. The narrative follows various characters, their romances, conflicts, and their involvement in the rebellion, depicting the impact of historical events on their lives.R. D. Blackmore, celebrated for his descriptive and ... Leer más

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  • Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale

    Far from any house or hut, in the depth of dreary moor-land, a road, unfenced and almost unformed, descends to a rapid river. The crossing is called the "Seven Corpse Ford," because a large party of farmers, riding homeward from Middleton, banded together and perhaps well primed through fear of a famous highwayman, came down to this place on a foggy evening, after heavy rain-fall. One of the ... Leer más

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  • In the Heart of the Sea

    The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)

    **From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.In 1820, the whaleship Essex was ... Leer más

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  • Works Of Jules Verne

    de Jules Verne ...
    The works of Jules Verne in one giant collection with an active table of contents.Works include:20,000 Leagues Under the SeasAll Around the MoonAn Antarctic MysteryAround the World in Eighty DaysDick Sand - A Captain at FifteenEight Hundred Leagues on the AmazonThe English at the North PoleFive Weeks in a BalloonFrom the Earth to the MoonThe Fur CountryGodfrey MorganIn the Year 2889A Journey to ... Leer más

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