Macmillan & Co.
1) Kim
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English
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An tale of an Irish orphan-boy who has lived free in the streets of Lahore before setting out, with a Tibetan Lama, on a double quest. This eventually leads to enrollment in the Indian Secret Service and a thrilling climax in the Himalayas.
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Love of Life and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of short stories by American writer Jack London. Containing eight stories by the author, a master of literary Naturalism and an experienced outdoorsman and adventurer, Love of Life and Other Stories explores the experience of humanity on the edge of civilization. Set mostly in Canada and Alaska, these stories follow characters for whom survival is a constant struggle, for whom death is as familiar...
3) Before Adam
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English
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A modern man experiences through his dreams the harsh and savage life of an ancestor from a time when our species was only beginning to rise above its animal origins. London's powerful writing conjures not only the sights, smells and sounds of that ancient time, but also the feelings of terror, joy and love that set early man apart from the animals.
Considered by many to be America's finest author, Jack London, had little formal schooling. Initially,...
5) White Fang
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English
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Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, the wolf cub White Fang soon learns the harsh laws of nature, growing fiercer and more independent in his struggle to survive. Yet buried deep inside him are distant memories of affection and love. Can he learn to trust man again?
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The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1906.
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English
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The title story is a short story by Jack London, on the subject of extreme antipathy. The unnamed protagonist of the story has an irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, the moon-face man. He hates really everything about him: his face, his laugh, his entire life, and when he finds out that Claverhouse engages in illegal fishing with dynamite, he works out a scheme to kill him while making it look like an accident...
The Leopard Man's
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The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1906.
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English
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Owen Wister was an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. However, his works were not limited to the Western. "Lady Baltimore" is a novel about aristocratic Southerners in Charleston.
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Macmillan and Co
Pub. Date
1887.
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English
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Published in 1887, Imaginary Portraits consists of four studies of fictional characters in historical settings. They are notable not only as illustrations of Pater's aesthetic theories but as influential works of literature. The characters include "A Prince of Court Painters," set in Valenciennes in 1701, "Denys L'Auxerrois," from a French town called Auxerre, "Sebastian van Storck," a young man from Holland during its push for independence, and...
12) Goblin market
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English
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Her sister's love saves Laura from the poison of the fruit she bought from the goblins in the haunted glen.
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Macmillan und Comp
Pub. Date
1869.
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Deutsch
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Die fiktionale Welt, in der Alice im Wunderland angesiedelt ist, spielt in solch einer Weise mit Logik, dass sich die Erzählung unter Mathematikern und Kindern gleichermaßen großer Beliebtheit erfreut. Sie enthält zahlreiche satirische Anspielungen – nicht nur auf persönliche Freunde Carrolls, sondern auch auf die Schullektionen, die Kinder im England jener Zeit auswendig lernen mussten.
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1902.
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English
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A collection of stories, drawn from the tales Kipling's Indian nurses told to him, in which Kipling creates the enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. The laziness of the Camel, the curiosity of the Elephant Child, the cleverness of the hedgehog, the confusions of the Painted Jaguar and all the rest of Kipling's delightful menagerie come alive.
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Macmillan & Co. Ltd
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1940.
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English
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The play follows two wealthy, materialistic English stockbrokers who buy an ancient Irish mansion and attempt to restore it with their wrong notions of Tudor customs and taste. They try to impose upon a community with vastly different customs and lifestyles that are much closer to ancient Gaelic ways and are against such false values. The Englishmen set their opposing standards against those represented by the men employed to renovate the house. In...
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The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1903.
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English
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Author Francis Marion Crawford (1854– 1909) was a prolific American writer, known especially for his novels set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories. 'The Heart of Rome' is an historical romance set in 19th-century Rome. The family of the heroine, Sabine Conti, is suddenly impoverished. Her selfish mother leaves her with a social-climbing woman who's married to Baron Volterra--the man mainly responsible for the fall of the Conti...
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Macmillan & Co. Ltd
Pub. Date
1961.
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English
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Behind the green curtains: A morality play which dramatizes a fight for the hearts and minds of Reena and Chatastray, between Beoman, a factory foreman, and Kornavaun, a church "strong man" who represents the repression of religion, the state and the capitalist class.
Figuro in the night: Set in Dublin, the appearance of a mysterious statue leads to a generational shift in this mythic story in which the freedom of youth clashes with a repressed older...
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Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street
Pub. Date
1928.
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English
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Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry returns, a cripple at the football club party. Everyone but the shattered war veterans dance and forget.
