Publisher: Good Press
Sanders and Co. return to Africa to bring the old King's country under the Union Jack and try to uncover what has happened to a missionary and his daughter. Written in a humorous style, "Sandi, the King-maker" conveys the paternal attitude that England's officials had toward the native tribes of Africa.
'The Man Who Loved Islands' is a haunting story of a man who tries to control his life by making his world ever smaller by moving to increasingly smaller islands. Each one proves to be beyond his ability to control either other people or his sexual desire and finally the last island conquers him. The story can even be seen as a metaphor of man's inexorable march to death when we are all finally alone.Show book
First published in 1850, David Copperfield begins with avid the tragedy of David's brother dying when David is just a boy. After this episode, he is sent by his step-father to work in London for a wine merchant. When conditions worsen he decides to run away and embarks on a journey by foot from London to Dover. On his arrival, he finds his eccentric aunt, Betsey Trotwood who becomes his new guardian. Being witness to the formation of David's character is quite fascinating. David begins as a strong child whose only aspiration is a better life. On the way to his adulthood, David sees how people enter and leave his life. Romanticism takes its place in David’s life as he gets married to Dora Spenlow who is not long for this world. Will David ever find stability and happiness? And what of his wife? Dickens proves to be a master in creating an autobiographical work that is a captivating page-turner. Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.Show book
Great Animal Stories, featuring 25 beastly tales.Including: 'A Skinful of Trouble' by Arthur Morrison 'A Comedy of Capricorn' by Morley Roberts 'The Goldfish' by Elinor Mordaunt 'Bats in the Belfry' by Harry Graham 'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells 'The Young Bull' by Geraint Goodwin 'Dobbs Parrot' by Arthur Morrison 'The Empire of the Ants' by H. G. Wells 'A Tiger's Skin' by W. W. Jacobs 'Kerfol' by Edith Wharton 'The Moth' by H. G. Wells 'The Cats of Ulthar' by H. P. Lovecraft 'The Lizard' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne 'The Tiger' by Hugh Walpole 'Mrs Scarr' by Elinor Mordaunt 'The Whistle' by Hugh Walpole 'Pigs Is Pigs' by Ellis Parker Butler 'The Valley of Spiders' by H. G. Wells 'The Permanent Tenant' by J. S. Fletcher 'White Stockings' by Edgar Wallace 'Caterpillars' by E. F. Benson 'Rats' by M. R. James 'The Cat' by E. F. Benson 'The Story of a Piebald Horse' by W. H. Hudson 'The Wolf' by Guy de Maupassant.Show book
The legend begins when Tarzan's parents are placed on a jungle shoreline by mutinous seamen. Here they establish a crude residence and survive for a time until attacked and killed by a band of apes. But one female ape rescues the baby, takes it for her own and raises it among a large socially organized tribe of great apes. The baby grows to be a noble man whose great strength and keen senses compel the world around him to bend to his might according to the "law of the jungle."Show book
Where the sparks go is written by Abbie Phillips Walker. A dog and a cat are watching the fire and wonder where the sparks go. One spark tells them they all flly up to the sky and become stars. The moral of the story is: it's important to have faith. Recommended for age 4+.Show book
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Tom dirties his clothes in a fight and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work. He then trades the treasures for Sunday School tickets which one normally receives for memorizing verses, redeeming them for a Bible, much to the surprise and bewilderment of the superintendent who thought "it was simply preposterous that this boy had warehoused two thousand sheaves of Scriptural wisdom on his premises—a dozen would strain his capacity, without a doubt."Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.Show book
