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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2017-10-20 |
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ISBN | : 9780266516910 |
Excerpt from South Sea Yarns, Vol. 1 IT was about three o'clock of a winter's afternoon in Tai-o-hae, the French capital and port of entry of the Marquesas Islands. The trades blew strong and squally the surf roared loud on the shingle beach; and the fifty - ton schooner of war, that carries the flag and influence of France about the islands of the cannibal group, rolled at her moorings under Prison Hill. The clouds hung low and black on the sur rounding amphitheatre of mountains; rain had fallen earlier in the day, real tropic rain, a waterspout for violence; and the green and gloomy brow of the mountain was still seamed with many silver threads of torrent. 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.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-05-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0199536082 |
Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).
Author | : John Gregory Betancourt |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0809592290 |
The famous "weird menace" pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s are among the rarest and most sought-after publications by collectors. The "Spicy" magazines -- which included Spicy Mystery, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective, and others -- published a titilating mix of fantasy, horror, mystery, and suspense, punctuated by episodes of torture, sadism, sex, and other risque elements. Although tame by current standards, and sometimes of dubious literary merit, these publications presented tales which thrilled a sensation-hungry audience. Despite the themes and constraints of the market, writers who would later become famous -- including Hugh B. Cave, E. Hoffman Price, Robert Leslie Bellem, and many more -- were frequent contributors. The August 1935 issue of Spice Mystery Stories includes contributions from Robert Leslie Bellem, Atwater Culpepper, Ellery Watson Calder, Carl Moore, E. Hoffman Price, Jerome Severs Perry, Don King, Charles R. Allen, Charles A. Baker, Jr., and Arthur Wallace.
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Total Pages | : 1140 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : English imprints |
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Author | : Basil Thomson |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Oceania |
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Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Author | : Basil Thomson |
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Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781331412816 |
Excerpt from South Sea Yarns In the great bure of Raiyawa there was a story-telling. The lying-places filled three sides of the house - mats spread upon grass four feet wide, - and between each lying-place was a narrow strip of bare earth sprinkled with wood-ashes, on which three logs, nose to nose, were smouldering. A thin curl of blue smoke wreathed upwards from each to the conical roof, where they met and filtered through the blackened thatch; so that from outside the bure looked like a disembowelled haystack smouldering, ready to burst into flame. On the fourth side was a low doorway, stopped with a thick fringe of dried rushes, through which ever and anon a grey-headed elder burst head-foremost, after coughing and spitting outside to announce his arrival. 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.
Author | : Granville Allen Mawer |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Sealing |
ISBN | : 9781865084473 |
Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale will seem like a minor eccentricity compared to the tales in this beautifully written adventure story about life on the high seas.
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Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1890 |
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