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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 - 20 October 1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Henry James (1843 - 1916) was one of the leaders in the school of realism in fiction. He is known for his series of novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. James is considered...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: In the following pages an attempt has been made to render as closely as possible into English narrative prose the libretto of Wagner's "Valkyrie". The story is one little known to English readers,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Being Boston girls, of course they got up a club for mental improvement, and, as they were all descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, they called it the May Flower Club. A very good name, and the six young...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: "Who are you?" asked Cromwell. "I am the spirit of the boy you murdered," answered Robert. (page 176) Ralph Raymond's Heir, or The Merchant's Crime, was originally released as a serial in Gleason's Literary Companion in four issues from June 9th to July 10th 1869.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: One of Dickens’ Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter relates Dickens’ visit to the ancient Richard Watts’s...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: "Impressions of Theophrastus Such," published in 1879, marks the end of George Eliot's career and the end of her life with George Henry Lewes. In many ways this fable is a final testimony to her...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: There is no kind of exercise which I would so recommend to my readers of both sexes as this of riding, as there is none which so much conduces to health, and is every way accommodated to the body, according...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: These guide-books will deal more particularly with the Great Towns where objects of art and antiquity are numerous. In every one of them, the general plan pursued will be some what as follows. First will...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Written during his convalescence as James recovered from an illness, the stories collected in The Finer Grain embody the strengths of the author's late period. Though not quite as hauntingly complex as...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: James Lane Allen was an American novelist and short story writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color...