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Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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The following is a collection of tales from various authors all bound by the same theme - adventures occurring indoors, and oftentimes in uncanny circumstances. Featured titles include The Bet (Anton Chekov), The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allen Poe), and Dr. Manette's Manuscript (Charles Dickens).
Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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The following is a collection of tales from various authors all bound by the same theme - adventures occurring indoors, and oftentimes in uncanny circumstances. Featured titles include The Bet (Anton Chekov), The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allen Poe), and Dr. Manette's Manuscript (Charles Dickens).
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465523324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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Very much of this story must remain untold, for the reason that if it were definitely known what business I had aboard the tramp steam-freighter Glarus, three hundred miles off the South American coast on a certain summer's day, some few years ago, I would very likely be obliged to answer a great many personal and direct questions put by fussy and impertinent experts in maritime law—who are paid to be inquisitive. Also, I would get "Ally Bazan," Strokher and Hardenberg into trouble. Suppose on that certain summer's day, you had asked of Lloyds's agency where the Glarus was, and what was her destination and cargo. You would have been told that she was twenty days out from Callao, bound North to San Francisco in ballast; that she had been spoken by the bark Medea and the steamer Benevento; that she was reported to have blown out a cylinder head, but being manageable was proceeding on her way under sail. That is what Lloyds's would have answered. If you know something of the ways of ships and what is expected of them, you will understand that the Glarus, to be some half a dozen hundred miles south of where Lloyds's would have her, and to be still going South, under full steam, was a scandal that would have made her brothers and sisters ostracize her finally and forever. And that is curious, too. Humans may indulge in vagaries innumerable, and may go far afield in the way of lying; but a ship may not so much as quibble without suspicion. The least lapse of "regularity," the least difficulty in squaring performance with intuition, and behold she is on the black list, and her captain, owners, officers, agents and consignors, and even supercargoes, are asked to explain. And the Glarus was already on the black list. From the beginning her stars had been malign. As the Breda, she had first lost her reputation, seduced into a filibustering escapade down the South American coast, where in the end a plain-clothes United States detective—that is to say, a revenue cutter—arrested her off Buenos Ayres and brought her home, a prodigal daughter, besmirched and disgraced. After that she was in some dreadful blackbirding business in a far quarter of the South Pacific; and after that—her name changed finally to the Glarus—poached seals for a syndicate of Dutchmen who lived in Tacoma, and who afterward built a clubhouse out of what she earned.
Author: Nella Braddy
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Author: Nella Braddy Henney
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: Briton Hadden
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1912
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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