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The Sign of the Spider

Mitford, Bertram

The Sign of the Spider is a classic British adventure novel, first published in 1896. Bertram Mitford takes the genre of imperialistic adventure stories and turns it on its head, creating an anti-hero as protagonist and weaving throughout the story a deliberate look at racial attitudes and cultural...

The Heroic Milton

Milton, John / Dor, Gustave

The Heroic Milton collects John Milton's three epic poems, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and the poem-play Samson Agonistes. Also included are the illustrations for Paradise Lost by Gustave Doré.

Poe After Dark

Allan Poe, Edgar

18 of Edgar Allan Poe's dark, strange stories are collected in Poe After Dark. Poe's compelling tales, with eerie atmospheres and weird situations, are as unnerving today as when first written. Stories included are Metzengerstein, Berenice, Morella, Shadow-A Parable, Ligeia, The Fall of the House of...

Handbook for Spies (WWII Classic)

Alexander Foote

British citizen Alexander Foote was recruited into a Soviet network of spies against Nazi Germany. Based in Switzerland, Foote was responsible for maintaining the network and forwarding information to the Centre in Russia. Foote describes how the network operated, including codes and secret transmis...

Early Literature of Lacemaking

Hawkins, Daisy Waterhouse;Sharp, A. Mary;Goldenberg, Samuel L.

This book collects three early texts with full illustrations on lacemaking: Old Point Lace, and How to Copy It (1878), by Daisy Waterhouse Hawkins; Point and Pillow Lace (1899), by A. Mary Sharp; Lace: Its Origin and History (1904), by Samuel L. Goldenberg. These texts review patterns, descriptions,...

Fantasies of Science, Romance, and the Weird

Chambers, Robert W.

The short fiction of Robert W. Chambers ranges from the light romantic fantasies to the darkly weird. Through all, his imagination travels across the borders of the known and unknown in nature and the supernatural. This first volume includes his stories of strange zoology and anthropology: The Harbo...

The Legal Exploits of Randolph Mason

Post, Melville Davisson

The Legal Exploits of Randolph Mason collects all three short story anthologies of the amoral lawyer who extricates his clients from legal difficulties. Randolph Mason views Fate and Destiny with scorn, and his clients as mere pawns in games of legal strategy. A forerunner of more famous fictional l...

The Adventures of Madame Storey

Footner, Hulbert

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips. . . ." So we are introduced to t...

Foreign Finches in Captivity (2nd Edition Reprint)

Butler, Arthur G.;Frohawk, F. W.

Butler's Foreign Finches in Captivity is a fascinating look at aviculture in the late 1800s. This reprint of the second edition (1899) covers finches, mannikins, tanagers, buntings, cardinals, and whydahs, describing the species and offering notes on behavior and biology in the aviary and in the wil...

An African Millionaire (Mystery Classic)

Allen, Grant

Grant Allen's An African Millionaire, first published in 1897, is a classic in rogue fiction: a South African millionaire is hounded by a mischievous and larcenous conman, Colonel Clay. The tables may turn, but who is the greater rogue: the conman or the victim?

Sir David Brewster's Letters on Natural Magic

Brewster, David

David Brewster (1781-1868) wrote this fascinating treatise to illustrate the use of scientific principles by ancient governments and religious orders to frighten and delude the populace for their own advantage. He also covers a variety of other scientific curiosities and marvels (optical, auditory,...

Katzenjammer

Rudolph Dirks/Harold H. Knerr

The Katzenjammer Kids first ran in a supplement to the New York Journal in 1897. It was created by Rudolph Dirks, inspired by an old German children's story, Max and Moritz. In 1912, Dirks took a break from drawing, so the Hearst newspaper syndicate brought in artist Harold Knerr to continue the...