George Manville Fenn: 365 books

Book cover of Eli's Children: The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The sisters stopped at the road-side to gaze at the long low ivy-covered cottage, with a broad patch of green in front, upon which was a lumber of broken carts and waggons waiting to be doctored. There was a shed at one end, from which came the sound of sawing, for which job there was a good-sized...
Book cover of A Fluttered Dovecote
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

You will excuse me for a moment? I must take another sheet of paper—I, Laura Bozerne, virgin and martyr, of Chester Square, Belgravia—for that last sheet was all spotted with tears, and when I applied my handkerchief, and then the blotting-paper, the glaze was gone and the ink ran. Ce n’est...
Book cover of Glyn Severn's Schooldays
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Slegge said it was all “bosh;” for fifty years ago a boy at school had not learned to declare that everything which did not suit his taste was “rot.” So Slegge stood leaning up against the playground wall with a supercilious sneer upon his lip, and said it was all “bosh,” and only fit...
Book cover of The Rajah of Dah
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The boy looked full in the speaker’s face, thrust his hands into the pockets of his brown linen trousers, and began to whistle softly. “There, good-bye, Wilson. The sun will soon be overpowering, and I want to get on.” “Well, you’ve got the tide to help you for the next three hours. Sorry...
Book cover of The Black Bar
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Two middies talking in the stern-sheets of the cutter belonging to Her Majesty’s fast little cruiserNautilus, stationed on the west coast of Africa “blackberrying,” so the men called their duty, Tom Fillot, one of their jokers, giving as the reason that the job was “black and berry nasty.”...
Book cover of Bunyip Land
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016

Joe Carstairs is a boy on a farm in Australia. His father is a keen naturalist who, some years before had set off for New Guinea in search of specimens, and never been heard of again. Joe is old enough to mount a search expedition, and takes with him a local doctor and an aboriginal worker on his...
Book cover of Brownsmith's Boy
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of The Peril Finders
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The gentlemen named strode into the roughly-furnished kitchen-like room, looking as unlike a clergyman and a lawyer as could be imagined, for both were dressed in well-worn garments, half farmer, half back wood settler, the one with a thistle staff or spud in his hand, the other shouldering a double...
Book cover of Sail Ho!
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of First In The Field
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of Nat the Naturalist
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015

A thrilling tale of a young man traveling the Eastern Seas, looking at and studying people and animals.  This is a pleasant story of a lad who, though he is brought up in a strictly quiet fashion by an aunt, has a great desire to go abroad to seek specimens in natural history, and has that desire...
Book cover of The Golden Magnet
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Daybreak in the Incas’ realm on the far western shores, known to our fathers as the great wonderland—the great country discovered by adventurous mariners, and thought of, dreamed of, seen through a golden mist raised by the imagination—a mist which gave to everything its own peculiar hue; and...
Book cover of Real Gold: A Story of Adventure
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Two boys sitting in a boat half a mile from the shore, and sheltered by a ridge of rocks from the tremendous swell of the vast Pacific Ocean, which to north and south curled over in great glistening billows upon the sand—in the former instance, to scoop it out, carry it back, and then throw it up...
Book cover of Midnight Webs
by George Manville Fenn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

I’ve waited these many years, expecting some one or another would give a full and true account of it all, but little thinking it would ever come to be my task; for it’s not in my way. But seeing how much has been said about other parts and other people’s sufferings, while ours never so much...
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