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Moses was, according to the Hebrew Bible and Qur'an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. The Adopted Son, The Story of Moses follows the life of Moses in a manor tailored to the young reader. The day approached when, according...

Cheerful, optimistic, and the most modest of men, Gerry Sant has seldom spoken of his own adventures. The son of a certain nobleman who must here remain nameless, and hence the scion of a noble house, he has graduated through all stages of the dark and devious ways of espionage.

A remarkable mystery story in which valuables disappear from locked safes; written and whispered warnings come out of nowhere and a murder is committed behind locked doors--all in a modern New York apartment. "Full of arresting situations and making a strong appeal at every stage to the instinct of curiosity."

You will recollect our first meeting on that sunny afternoon when, in the stuffy, nauseating atmosphere of perspiration and a hundred Parisian perfumes, we sat next each other at the first roulette table on the right as you enter the rooms at Monte Carlo? Ah! how vivid it is still before my eyes,...

Written by British secularist, George W. Foote, Arrows of Freethought is a compilation of numerous articles that have appeared in the Secularist, the Liberal, the National Reformer, and the Freethinker.

When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great Conspiracy (1902) is a best selling novel by English author Guy Thorne about how a plot to destroy Christianity by falsely disproving the Resurrection of Christ leads to moral disorder and chaos in the world until it is exposed. Although commercially successful, it has been criticized as being anti-Semitic.

"The Adventures of Lot, The Nephew of Abraham" is a religious text written in 1836 by American educator, educational reformer, physician, and author William Andrus Alcott.

The gabion was ours. After two hours' fighting we were in possession of the first embrasure, and made ourselves as comfortable as circumstances would admit. Jack Delamere, Tom Delancy, Jerry Blake, the Doctor, and myself, sat down under a pontoon, and our servants laid out a hasty supper on a tumbrel....

No-Man's Land; The Far Islands; The Watcher by the Threshold; The Outgoing of the Tide; The Rime of True Thomas; Basilissa; Divus Johnston; The King of Ypres

"Een vaste burg is onze God" is a piece of religious text written in Dutch by Betsy de Heer.

From this scene we rushed off somewhat discomposed to make a breakfast off red mullets and grapes, melons, pomegranates, and Smyrna wine, at a dirty little comfortable inn, to which we were recommended: and from the windows of which we had a fine cheerful view of the gulf and its busy craft, and the...

The term Edda (Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age. The books are the main sources of medieval skaldic tradition in Iceland and Norse mythology.

Ordinarily the military least wants to have the others know the final details of their war plans. But, logically, there would be times--

THE CASE OF THE WARD LANE TABERNACLE -- THE IVY COTTAGE MYSTERY -- THE NICOBAR BULLION CASE -- THE FLITTERBAT LANCERS -- THE NARRATIVE OF MR. JAMES RIGBY -- THE CASE OF JANISSARY -- THE AFFAIR OF THE AVALANCHE BICYCLE & TYRE CO., LTD