Robert W Chambers: 184 books

Does anybody remember the opera of The Inca, and that heartbreaking episode where the Court Undertaker, in a morbid desire to increase his professional skill, deliberately accomplishes the destruction of his middle-aged relatives in order to inter them for the sake of practise?

A supernatural story featuring Dick Darrel.

Historical love story set during the Civil War.

When Stephanie was eighteen and Jim was a novelist of some promise he was able to discourse at length on women and their feminist business, their intrusion into men's affairs, and their fidgety dissatisfaction with a perfectly good civilization. But later, when he was desperately in love with Stephanie...

A light romantic tale involving the capture of a dying Dinosaur, a "thermosaurus", off the coast of Long Island.

The stories feature a man who searches for lost species -- animals not seen for centuries -- and as we follow him on these journeys we're introduced to a variety of amazing creatures including the half-man, half-amphibian called "the harbor master".

"Three great hulking cousins," said she, closing her gray eyes disdainfully. We accepted the rebuke in astonished silence. Presently she opened her eyes, and seemed surprised to see us there yet. "O," she said, "if you think I am going to stay here until you...

It was now almost too dark to distinguish objects; duskier and vaguer became the flat world of marshes, set here and there with cypress and bounded only by far horizons; and at last land and water disappeared behind the gathered curtains of the night. There was no sound from the waste except the wind...

A SKIRMISH A LANDING AN ADVANCE RECONNAISSANCE A FLANK MOVEMENT ARMISTICE A CHANGE OF BASE MANOEUVERING THE INVASION TERRA INCOGNITA PATHFINDERS THE ALLIED FORCES THE SILENT PARTNERS STRATEGY UNDER FIRE AN ULTIMATUM ECHOES PERIL THE LINE OF BATTLE A NEW ENEMY REINFORCEMENTS THE ROLL CALL A CAPITULATION...

Popular novel, first published in 1919. There was a big moon over the Bosphorus; the limpid waters off Seraglio Point glimmered; the Golden Horn was like a sheet of beaten silver inset with topaz and ruby where lanterns on rusting Turkish warships dyed the tarnished argent of the flood. Except...

...a series of three novels covering the period of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune. The last of the series, "The Red Republic," was written first; the first of the series, "Lorraine," was next written. The present volume, "Ashes of Empire," is the middle volume...

But from the flames of Poundridge town ablaze, to the rolling smoke of Catharines-town, Romance but limps along a trail hewed out for her more dainty feet by History, and measured inch by inch across the bloody archives of the nation.

On a beautiful day in spring as I was running as hard as I could run pursued by the New York police and a number of excited citizens, my mind, which becomes brilliantly active under physical exhilaration, began to work busily. I thought about all sorts of things: I thought about hard times and financial...