Author: Rex Beach
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877 - December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. He was born in Atwood, Michigan, but moved to Tampa, Florida, with his family where his father was growing fruit trees. Beach was educated at Rollins College, Florida (1891-1896), the Chicago College of Law (1896-97), and Kent College of Law, Chicago (1899-1900). In 1900 he was drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His second novel The Spoilers (1906) was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he witnessed while he was prospecting in Nome, Alaska. The Spoilers became one of the best selling novels of 1906.
The Ne'er-Do-Well (Esprios Classics)
Author: Rex Beach
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877 - December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. He was born in Atwood, Michigan, but moved to Tampa, Florida, with his family where his father was growing fruit trees. Beach was educated at Rollins College, Florida (1891-1896), the Chicago College of Law (1896-97), and Kent College of Law, Chicago (1899-1900). In 1900 he was drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His second novel The Spoilers (1906) was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he witnessed while he was prospecting in Nome, Alaska. The Spoilers became one of the best selling novels of 1906.
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877 - December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. He was born in Atwood, Michigan, but moved to Tampa, Florida, with his family where his father was growing fruit trees. Beach was educated at Rollins College, Florida (1891-1896), the Chicago College of Law (1896-97), and Kent College of Law, Chicago (1899-1900). In 1900 he was drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His second novel The Spoilers (1906) was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he witnessed while he was prospecting in Nome, Alaska. The Spoilers became one of the best selling novels of 1906.
The Emancipated (Esprios Classics)
Author: George Gissing
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 167811605X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 167811605X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Mary Louise in the Country (Esprios Classics)
Author: Edith Van Dyne
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794852395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794852395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Author: Rex Beach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789356714236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789356714236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Robbers (Esprios Classics)
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794898026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794898026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Author: Rex Beach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781330832882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Excerpt from The Ne'er-Do-Well: Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy It was a crisp November night. The artificial brilliance of Broadway was rivalled by a glorious moonlit sky. The first autumn frost was in the air, and on the side-streets long rows of taxicabs were standing, their motors blanketed, their chauffeurs threshing their arms to rout the cold. A few well-bundled cabbies, perched upon old-style hansoms, were barking at the stream of hurrying pedestrians. Against a background of lesser lights myriad points of electric signs flashed into ever-changing shapes, winking like huge, distorted eyes; fanciful designs of liquid fire ran up and down the walls or blazed forth in lurid colors. From the city's canons came an incessant clanging roar, as if a great river of brass and steel were grinding its way toward the sea. Crowds began to issue from the theatres, and the lines of waiting vehicles broke up, filling the streets with the whir of machinery and the clatter of hoofs. A horde of shrill-voiced urchins pierced the confusion, waving their papers and screaming the football scores at the tops of their lusty lungs, while above it all rose the hoarse tones of carriage callers, the commands of traffic officers, and the din of street-car gongs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781330832882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Excerpt from The Ne'er-Do-Well: Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy It was a crisp November night. The artificial brilliance of Broadway was rivalled by a glorious moonlit sky. The first autumn frost was in the air, and on the side-streets long rows of taxicabs were standing, their motors blanketed, their chauffeurs threshing their arms to rout the cold. A few well-bundled cabbies, perched upon old-style hansoms, were barking at the stream of hurrying pedestrians. Against a background of lesser lights myriad points of electric signs flashed into ever-changing shapes, winking like huge, distorted eyes; fanciful designs of liquid fire ran up and down the walls or blazed forth in lurid colors. From the city's canons came an incessant clanging roar, as if a great river of brass and steel were grinding its way toward the sea. Crowds began to issue from the theatres, and the lines of waiting vehicles broke up, filling the streets with the whir of machinery and the clatter of hoofs. A horde of shrill-voiced urchins pierced the confusion, waving their papers and screaming the football scores at the tops of their lusty lungs, while above it all rose the hoarse tones of carriage callers, the commands of traffic officers, and the din of street-car gongs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Sagebrusher (Esprios Classics)
Author: Emerson Hough
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678043516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678043516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Signa, Volume 2 (Esprios Classics)
Author: Ouida
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 171601221X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 171601221X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories (Esprios Classics)
Author: Anna Katharine Green
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359831400
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359831400
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School (Esprios Classics)
Author: Jessie Graham Flower
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1716154219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1716154219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description