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(Excerpt): "In the year of our Lord 18—, I was delighted one morning by receiving a letter from my father, who was captain and owner of the brig Petrel, telling me that he had arrived safely at Bristol with a valuable cargo, and that both he and my brother Willie, who was second mate of the...

This short humorous novel by the American author, editor and satirist was first published in 1904. (Goodreads)

Excerpt: "This is the objective really of our holiday. Now it is settled, ways and means, and the route, etc., are but details. Packing! Well, I am a poor hand at packing. I think it must be a gift to be able to pack well. I think a good packer must be born, not made. If I pack, sure as fate, the...

"Das Amulett" ist eine kurze Novelle von C.F. Meyer. Der Autor hatte bereits als Jugendlicher mit Depressionen zu kämpfen, weshalb er einige Zeit in einer Nervenheilanstalt verbrachte. Nach dem frühen Tod des Vaters und dem Selbstmord seiner Mutter erbte er genug Geld, um eine längere Italienreise...

Die historische Novelle “Angela Borgia” ist Conrad Ferdinand Meyers letztes Werk vor seinem Tod 1898. Der Schweizer Dichter nahm sich für diese erstmals 1891 veröffentlichte Novelle die historischen Figuren der italienischen Fürstin Lucrezia Borgia, der mit ihr verwandten Angela und deren Verehrer...

Die Rahmenhandlung der Novelle spielt im Mittelalter am Fürstenhof in Verona und handelt von dem italienischen Dichter und Philosophen Dante Alighieri. Im Kreis der Adeligen berichtet er die tragische Geschichte des Mönches Astorre, die er einer Grabsteininschrift in einem Franziskanerkloster von...

Margaret Warner Morley (February 17, 1858 in Montrose, Iowa - December 12, 1923 in Washington, D.C.) was an American educator, biologist and writer, author of many books on nature and biology for children and novel writer. Excerpt: “When the dragon fly larva first hatches it is very small and its...

The story about a Mad Scientist (sort of) who revives, at the start of the 22nd century, an ancient Egyptian mummy. Part1 (Goodreads)

"The Rock of Chickamauga,” presenting a critical phase of the great struggle in the west, is the sixth volume in the series, dealing with the Civil War, of which its predecessors have been “The Guns of Bull Run,” “The Guns of Shiloh,” “The Scouts of Stonewall,” “The Sword of Antietam”...

Excerpt: "It would soon be Christmas and Harry Kenton, at his desk in the Pendleton Academy, saw the snow falling heavily outside. The school stood on the skirt of the town, and the forest came down to the edge of the playing field. The great trees, oak and ash and elm, were clothed in white, and they stood out a vast and glittering tracery against the somber sky.”

Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919) was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty-one novels and (at least) fifty-one short stories. This is a non-fiction book about the Boer War. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Excerpt: "It was Henry Arkell. For the years have gone on, and the lovely boy of ten or eleven, has grown into this handsome youth. Other people and other things have grown with him. Now then What be you doing here You just please to take yourself Off, young gentleman.' He quitted the railings in...

A series of vignettes about life in the Victorian times in Great Britain. Excerpt from First Series: "We lived chiefly at Dyke Manor. A fine old place, so close upon the borders of Warwickshire and Worcestershire, that many people did not know which of the two counties it was really in. The house...

East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood. A Victorian best-seller, it is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centring on infidelity and double identities. There have been numerous stage and film adaptations. Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined...