Henty: 420 books

A fascinating historical novel which details the struggle between Britain and France for supremacy in the North American continent.

In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, and finish off escaping from captivity in China.

In the early 1880s, anti-European sentiment began to take hold throughout Egypt, with some rioters targeting the sitting government and the French and British business interests in the region. In this thrilling action-adventure tale geared for younger audiences, the British Mediterranean Fleet fights back with a stunning show of force.

The British waged three costly wars against the Burmese Empire during the 19th century. The costly wars took the lives of over 15,000 British and Indian soldiers. When the final war ended in 1885, Great Britain controlled all of northeastern India and Burma. In this book a young man by the name of...

The Cat of Bubastes: A Story of Ancient Egypt. 5s. The Young Carthaginian: A Story of the Times of Hannibal. 6s. For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem. 6s. Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion. 6s. The Lion of St. Mark: A Story of Venice in the 14th Century. 6s. The Lion of the North:...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with her children, to go to Paris as hostages. Guy Aylmer...

As a whole, however, these have not great reason for sadness. Not more than a third of them are boarders, and the rest, who have in truth, for the last week, begun to be tired of their holidays, will, when they once get out of school, and begin to choose sides for football, be really glad that the...

ON April 29th, 1849, two men were seated in a room whose open windows commanded a view down the Tiber. A sound of confused uproar rose from the city. "I am afraid, Leonard," the elder of the two men said, "that the crisis is at hand. The news that the French are landing to-day at Civita...

In 1832, amid the rough and tumble chaos of what is now Southern California, a brave sailor named William Harland saves a young man from Mexico from certain death when he is attacked by a roving band of marauders. The two become fast friends -- and soon find themselves caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Unusual tale of a young woman who meets soemone who thinks he knows her, but does not. Then, she finally realizes that there is someone in town who looks just like her. She sets out to find this person, and there is where the adventure begins, alnong with the mquestion: Who IS this girl?