by H. R. Berndorff, Translated by Bernard Miall Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Hans Rudolf Berndorff (1895-1963) was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. From a young age was a journalist with an interest in the bizarre and adventurous, including shipwrecks and piracy. During the Nazi era he published a number of popular novels that steered… Continue reading Espionage!
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La Máquina Oscura
by D. G. Sutter Purchase through CreateSpace | Purchase through Amazon The ground rumbles. The humming beneath begins, a droning monotonous tune that will one day drive us mad. The machines rise and steal oxygen from the air, rotating at dangerous speeds and emitting lethal radiation. Upon the return home to the small village of Montejo de la… Continue reading La Máquina Oscura
Bugle Echoes: A Collection of the Poetry of the Civil War
Edited by Francis F. Browne Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Bugle Echoes offers a vast collection of poetry illustrating the lived experiences of the Civil War. The collection was edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1843-1913) who fought in the Civil War as a soldier in the Forty-Sixth Massachusetts Volunteers. His father, William Goldsmith Browne,… Continue reading Bugle Echoes: A Collection of the Poetry of the Civil War
The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the 1850s
by Samuel Adams Drake Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace The California Gold Rush really was a bonanza. Between 1849 and 1855 more than $400 million dollars was gathered by the miners; once adjusted, it is a sum today reaching into the trillions. It was a social phenomenon marked by the carnivalesque. In his work… Continue reading The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the 1850s
The Torch of Liberty
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Illustrated by Kreigh Collins Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace The Torch of Liberty features several Greek stories highlighting the development of democracy. The illustrations in this volume are by Kreigh Collins (1908-1974) who created the comic strip hero Kevin the Bold, and whose papers are collected by the library of… Continue reading The Torch of Liberty
The Wizard
by H. Rider Haggard Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace The Wizard was serialized in the African Review and then published in full in the 1896 issue of Arrowsmith’s Christmas Annual. The hero, a missionary named Owen, has to endure various trials at the hands of African tribal magicians, and discovers his own ability to… Continue reading The Wizard
Old-World Japan: Legends of the Land of the Gods
by Frank Rinder Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Frank Rinder (1863-1937) was the art correspondent of the Glasgow Herald and adviser to the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. He had the luck of a substantial bequest to the gallery, which enabled him to be aggressive as its agent. His other books included a history… Continue reading Old-World Japan: Legends of the Land of the Gods
Hymns to the Gods & Other Poems
by Gen. Albert Pike Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Albert Pike (1809-1891) began writing as a youth, and “Hymns to the Gods” was his first published poem when he was only 23. He subsequently became a contributor to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine after his book, Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country,… Continue reading Hymns to the Gods & Other Poems
Roads of Adventure
by Ralph D. Paine Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Ralph Delahaye Paine (1871-1925) owed part of his swashbuckling success as a writer to connections forged at Yale’s secret society Skull and Bones and to an early friendship with the publisher William Randolph Hearst, for whom he covered the Spanish American War as well… Continue reading Roads of Adventure
Dante and His Time
by Karl Federn In Dan Brown’s book, Professor Langdon tells his Harvard class that “Dante’s Inferno is a landscape so rich in symbolism and iconography that I often dedicate an entire semester course to it.” While taking Dr. Langdon’s course on Dante is impossible, there is no better guide to the references in Brown’s novel… Continue reading Dante and His Time
Social Satire and the Modern Novel
Purchase through Amazon Arnold Bennett wrote thirty novels but has been somewhat neglected by modern critics. He was ahead of his time in appreciating Joyce, Lawrence, Faulkner and Hemingway. His work is characterized by social irony without bitterness, and satire without nastiness. As this novel suggests, perhaps he has more in common with E.M.… Continue reading Social Satire and the Modern Novel
Paddle Your Own Canoe
Purchase through Amazon Edited and Introduced by Wallace Boston The protagonists in Horatio Alger stories are often, if one may play on a metaphor, up a creek without a paddle. In this celebrated Alger novel, the young hero is comfortably ensconced at the Essex Classical Institute until misfortune makes his expensive education impossible. If the… Continue reading Paddle Your Own Canoe
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