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  Off Luzon

  Henry C. Rowland

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  Off Luzon by Henry C. Rowland is presented in a clean English digital edition with active navigation. The book belongs to classics and preserves the character of the source text for sustained ebook reading. The opening pages establish the work's atmosphere with this first movement: THERE were three of us aboard the schooner, Boles, Brown, and myself—Jordan Knapp, formerly of the Bridgeport Iron Works. Besides, there were three Filipino boys and the Chino cook. Boles and I had been shipmates on a rather peculiar cruise up the Chinese coast, about six weeks before we bought our schooner, and while. Detected sections include: Off Luzon. This edition is prepared for a fluent reading experience with clear typography and no extraneous promotional material.

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  Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen

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  At the age of 10, Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, is sent to live with her wealthy uncle's family, the Bertrams, at the country estate of Mansfield Park. The Bertrams treat her cruelly at first, and Fanny has trouble fitting in. Her female cousins, Maria and Julia, are fashionable and vapid, and her elder male cousin, Tom, is a drunk. The only family member she feels a connection to is the younger Edmund, who is preparing for life in the clergy. When her uncle leaves to manage business in Antigua, Henry and Mary Crawford, siblings from the region, come to live at Mansfield Park as well. Their arrival begins a series of romantic engagements that strains the entire family's relationships. Mansfield Park is unusual in that despite it being a great public success, with the first edition selling out in six months and a second edition selling out two years later, it wasn't publicly reviewed until 1821, seven years after it was first published. Contemporary reviews were generally good, praising the novel's morality. Modern reviews are more mixed, making it one of Austen's more controversial works. Modern critics have called it everything from eccentric and difficult to thoughtful and profound, with any number of interpretations possible depending on the lens one views the work through. Jane Austen (died 1817) was a celebrated writer of the Romantic era. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Mansfield Park exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  Ugly Customer An - From their...

  Bernard Capes

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  Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on the 30th August 1854 in London.  He was one of 11 children. 
  His early work was as a journalist and this developed into writing many short stories for the periodicals of the time including Blackwood's, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Illustrated London News, Macmillan's Magazine, Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, and The Queen. 
  It took him many years to decide that writing full-time could be a sustainable career path.  His initial success came with ‘The Mill of Silence’.  As well as being published it garnered second prize at a competition sponsored by the Chicago Record.  He exceeded that by winning it the following year with ‘The Lake of Wine’.   
  Capes quickly became both prolific and popular.  As well as his stories and articles for the periodicals he wrote around 40 volumes across novels, poetry, history as well as romance and mystery novels. 
  Bernard Capes died on 2nd November 1918 in the flu epidemic.

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  The commune of london and other...

  J. H. ROUND M.A.

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  The paper which gives its title to this volume of unpublished studies deals with a subject of great interest, the origin of the City Corporation. In my previous work, 'Geoffrey de Mandeville' (1892), and especially in the Appendix it contains on 'The early administration of London,' I endeavoured to advance our knowledge of the government and the liberties of the City in the 12th century. In the present volume the paper entitled "London under Stephen" pursues the enquiry further. I have there argued that the "English Cnihtengild" was not the governing body, and have shown that it did not, as is alleged, embrace a religious life by entering Holy Trinity Priory en masse. The great office of "Justiciar of London," created, as I previously held, by the charter of Henry I., is now proved, in this paper, to have been held by successive citizens in the days of Stephen.

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  The Captain of the Janizaries -...

  James M. Ludlow

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  Albania and Constantinople in the fifteenth century: a boy taken by the Turks and raised as a janissary, Scanderbeg's revolt in the mountains, and the last spring of the Byzantine city. Ludlow was a Presbyterian minister and wrote this in 1886, when Scanderbeg was a name Americans had never heard; the siege chapters are still the clearest account in fiction. Fifty-eight plates, from Goya to Munch, follow the boy soldier from snow and country lanes to the markets and piazzas of the old Mediterranean world.

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  Tarzan The Untamed

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  With the speed of the great apes, Tarzan rushed through the jungle toward his home and family. But he was already too late. The marauders had been there before him. His farm was in shambles and no one was left alive. Of his beloved wife there was only a charred, blackened corpse, still wearing the rings he had given her. Silently, he buried the body and swore his terrible vengeance against those who had done this terrible deed. Then he set out grimly to track them --through warring armies -- across a vast desert that no man had ever crossed -- and to a strange valley where only madmen lived.

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