Ernest: 1678 books

The classic crime novel featuring blind detective Max Carrados, whose popularity rivalled that of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a new introduction and an extra short story. In his dark little curio shop Julian Joolby is weaving an extravagant scheme to smash the financial machinery of the world by...

This new edition of Ernest Bramah’s What Might Have Been (1907), a classic satirical speculative novel of political resistance, is better known in its abridged form as The Secret of the League (1909). It mixes science fiction, social realism and office espionage, and accurately predicted the invention...

"The secret of the League" is a dystopian novel written by Ernest Bramah, which is widely credited for having inspired George Orwell and his 1984 for its realistic, detailed and vivid depiction of the rise of Fascism as a response to the climb to power of a Labour government. Written in...

Although somewhat neglected now, at the height of his fame Ernest Bramah's mystery tales appeared alongside Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine, even occasionally outselling them. First published in 1913, 'The Knight's Cross Signal Problem' was one of his popular tales.

„The secret of the league” is a dystopian novel written by Ernest Bramah in 1907. It was first published as „What might have been: the story of a social war”, but later was republished in 1909 as „The secret of the league. „The Secret of the League” is kind of an underground oddity of...

Australia Twice Traversed by Ernest Giles.

this book has three tails for children, each tail has a moral at the end.tail 1 the wood fairy is all about a little girl seeking love.tail 2 the fisherman's gift is all about a little boy trying to become a good fisherman.tail 3 natalies secret garden, this tail is about a little girl watching her animal friends in the granddads garden.these tails will send your childern to sleep.

The phone sitting on Geoff Wilkinson’s desk rang. Geoff yawned and picked up the receiver. ‘Yes?’ he said shortly and then, when the receptionist announced that his next client had arrived to see him, added without much enthusiasm, ‘Show him up.’Prompted by the imminent arrival of the client...

Presented as a series of dreams, this volume explains various battlefield defence strategies devised by veteran army officer of the First World War. Within these dreams, the author explores different scenarios, able to see the results of different actions due to the nature of this ‘nightmare’....

In this book, Ernest Sosa explains the nature of knowledge through an approach originated by him years ago, known as virtue epistemology. Here he provides the first comprehensive account of his views on epistemic normativity as a form of performance normativity on two levels. On a first level is found...

Commander Donald Castillo is the commander of the Virginia class fast attack nuclear submarine Kansas. It is the latest and best that the U.S. Navy has to offer. He is asked to test a new ground-breaking countermeasure that will revolutionize naval warfare. Its code name is Apparition and he will...

When several of Kate Newberry’s friends are found murdered in unusual ways, she takes it upon herself to find the culprit.Little does she know, this particular evil has no face.Her only lead is a circle drawn on a strange piece of paper with a chaotically sketched X in the middle.With...

Gabe was staring at something out of a nightmare. It was supposed to be an urban legend, but there it was, staring right back at him. How was he supposed to deal with something that appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared before he could react? Dealing with one of these things was...

The only surviving member of his clan, Wahb the grizzly cub grows up alone in the Wyoming mountains, harboring anger and hatred for humans and other creatures that harmed him. As he develops into a full-grown grizzly, he becomes an unstoppable force whose former foes seem tiny in comparison. Wahb...