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  Tarzan and the Golden Lion

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden Lion, Jad-bal-ja, when the great and lordly animal becomes his ally and protector. Tarzan learns from the High Priestess, La, of a country north of Opar which is held in dread by the Oparians. It is peopled by a strange race of gorilla-men with the intelligence of humans and the strength of gorillas. From time to time they attack Opar, carrying off prisoners for use as slaves in the jewel-studded Temple where they worship a great black-maned lion. Accompanied by the faithful Jad-bal-ja, Tarzan invades the dread country in an attempt to win freedom for the hundreds of people held in slavery there...

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  Lady Susan

  Jane Austen

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  Written in the then fashionable style form of letters between the characters in the book, Jane Austen tells the story of the beautiful widow Lady Susan. Lady Susan has an eye toward re-marrying well, and marrying off her teenage daughter. To achieve her objectives, she spins a tale of Victorian humor and manipulation. In the end, she outsmarts even herself.Jane Austen’s earliest known serious work, Lady Susan is a short, epistolary novel that portrays a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point of social self-destruction.Lady Susan, a clever and ruthless widow, determines that her daughter is going to marry a man whom both detest. She sets her own sights on her sister-in-law’s brother, all the while keeping an old affair simmering on the back burner. But people refuse to play the roles assigned them. In the end, her daughter gets the sister-in-law’s brother, the old affair runs out of steam, and all that is left for Lady Susan is the man intended for her daughter, whom neither can abide.Told through a series of letters between the characters, the work concludes abruptly with the comment: “this correspondence…could not, to the great detriment of the Post Office revenue, be continued any longer.”The Letters:Letter 01: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. VernonLetter 02: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 03: Lady Susan Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 04: Mr. de Courcy to Mrs. VernonLetter 05: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 06: Mrs. Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 07: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 08: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 09: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 10: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 11: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 12: Sir Reginald de Courcy to His SonLetter 13: Lady de Courcy to Mrs. VernonLetter 14: Mr. de Courcy to Sir ReginaldLetter 15: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 16: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 17: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 18: From the Same to the SameLetter 19: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 20: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 21: Miss Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 22: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 23: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 24: From the Same to the SameLetter 25: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 26: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 27: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 28: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 29: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 30: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 31: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 32: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 33: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 34: Mr. de Courcy to Lady Susan VernonLetter 35: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 36: Mr. de Courcy to Lady Susan VernonLetter 37: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 38: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 39: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 40: Lady de Courcy to Mrs. VernonLetter 41: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyConclusion

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  Green Ink

  J.S. Fletcher

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  Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.'Green Ink' is a classic Victorian detective story. Carsdale the solicitor receives a mysterious visit from Mr. Flapp, an old Wrychester resident who has just returned from years of travel overseas. The purpose of the visit remains mysterious, although Grice, the clerk, believes that Mr. Flapp left something with Carsdale.When next day Mr. Flapp is found drowned in the canal, Carsdale is surprisingly silent on the subject of his business with Flapp. When a few days later Carsdale is found murdered, only Grice the clerk has an inkling that the two deaths might be linked...and he sets out to solve the mystery.

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  Beric the Briton: a Story of the...

  G. A. Henty

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  My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the masters of the country. The valour with which the natives of this island defended themselves was acknowledged by the Roman historians, and it was only the superior discipline of the invaders that enabled them finally to triumph over the bravery and the superior physical strength of the Britons. The Roman conquest for the time was undoubtedly of immense advantage to the people -- who had previously wasted their energies in perpetual tribal wars -- as it introduced among them the civilization of Rome. In the end, however, it proved disastrous to the islanders, who lost all their military virtues. Having been defended from the savages of the north by the soldiers of Rome, the Britons were, when the legions were recalled, unable to offer any effectual resistance to the Saxons, who, coming under the guise of friendship, speedily became their masters, imposing a yoke infinitely more burdensome than that of Rome, and erasing almost every sign of the civilization that had been engrafted upon them. How far the British population disappeared under the subsequent invasion and the still more oppressive yoke of the Danes is uncertain; but as the invaders would naturally desire to retain the people to cultivate the land for them, it is probable that the great mass of the Britons were not exterminated. It is at any rate pleasant to believe that with the Saxon, Danish, and Norman blood in our veins, there is still a large admixture of that of the warriors who fought so bravely against Caesar, and who rose under Boadicea in a desperate effort to shake off the oppressive rule of Rome.. (Introduction by G.A.Henty)

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  The Cosmic Computer

  H. Beam Piper

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  Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, "The Junkyard Planet", with news of the possible location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been abandoned there after the last war. The inhabitants hope to find Merlin, which they think will be their ticket to wealth and prosperity. But is Merlin real, or just an old rumor? And if they find it will it save them, or tear them apart?

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  The Woman of Andros

  Thornton Wilder

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  “From the earliest pages of his first novels and plays, Wilder examined the universal quandaries encapsulated in the questions the young man Pamphilus asks in The Woman of Andros: “How does one live? What does one do first?” — Penelope Niven Thornton Wilder’s celebrated novel The Woman of Andros, set before the birth of Christ on an obscure Greek island, tells the story of the enigmatic Chrysis, a courtesan (and an outcast) of haunting beauty and intelligence. In her gatherings with the young men of the island, Chrysis probes what is precious about life, and how we live, love, and die in a harsh world, themes that Wilder revisited eight years later in his play, Our Town. Pamphilus, the only son of a prominent villager, fathers a baby out of wedlock with Chrysis’s sister, whom he wants to marry. The questions faced by Pamphilus, his family and the other “respectable” citizens of the island also explore themes of social class and status.

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