Henry Hall: 8 books

One of the highest selling novelists of the late Victorian and the Edwardian era, Hall Caine wrote immensely popular romances, which addressed serious political and social issues of the day. This comprehensive eBook presents Caine’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts...

SOME thirty years after the defeat of Xerxes, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who had travelled much in the lands of the barbarians as well as in Greece, set himself to write down for the men of his own time and for posterity the events of the great struggle and also to describe, as completely as he could,...

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Viking Tales • WolfvilleAlfred Henry Lewis • Buried Cities, Volume: Pompeii • Buried Cities, Volume: Olympia...

Small Murders is an anthology packed with short stories you will wish were full novels. The diversity of the writers gives each tale a distinct voice. Scottish novelist Ian Hall takes you to his old stomping grounds to deal in a dash of espionage in Case of the Missing Opal. Denis Smirl, a top-rated...

Magic swords and mighty longships. Treacherous maidens and invisible elves. A powerful gold ring. SAGA SIX PACK 2 presents another awesome collection of classic adventure tales from the North Atlantic: The Poetic Edda The Nibelungenlied Saga of Thorstein Fridthjof the Bold Ingolf’s Saga King...

Ethan Allen is the Robin Hood of Vermont. As Robin Hood's life was an Anglo-Saxon protest against Norman despotism, so Allen's life was a protest against domestic robbery and foreign tyranny. As Sherwood Forest was the rendezvous of the gallant and chivalrous Robin Hood, so the Green Mountains were the...

The intimate correspondence of history «Napoleon's Letters to Josephine». What needs to be said about the relationship between Napoleon and Josephine that has not become legend? He was a humble Corsican who rose meteorically through the ranks of the armies of Revolutionary France to be...

I have no apology to offer for the subject of this book, in view of Lord Rosebery's testimony that, until recently, we knew nothing about Napoleon, and even now "prefer to drink at any other source than the original." "Study of Napoleon's utterances, apart from any attempt to discover the secret of his...