Charles George: 165 books

"Kings In Exile" is a 1910 novel by Charles G. D. Roberts. Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 - November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and writer commonly hailed as the "Father of Canadian Poetry". He was amongst the first Canadian authors to gain international...

Close upon two hundred years ago, then, when Queen Anne was just dead, and the Elector of Hanover had ascended the throne of England as George I., the way to Holyhead was, in great measure, an affair of individual taste and fancy. Some travellers went by way of Oxford and Worcester, others by Woburn,...

One side of the ravine was in darkness. The darkness was soft and rich, suggesting thick foliage. Along the crest of the slope tree-tops came into view – great pines and hemlocks of the ancient unviolated forest – revealed against the orange disk of a full moon just rising. The low rays slanting...

She is upon us, the Emancipated Woman. Privileges once the exclusive rights of Man are now accorded her without question, and, clad in Rational Dress, she is preparing to leap the few remaining barriers of convention. Her last advances have been swift and undisguised, and she feels her position at...

The Bear that thought he was a Dog I. The gaunt, black mOther lifted her head from nuzzling happily at the velvet fur of her little one. The cub was but twenty-four hours old, and engrossed every emotion of her savage heart; but her ear had caught the sound of heavy footsteps coming up the mountain....

Drama / 3m, 2f / One of the most powerful stories ever condensed into a one act play, The Darkest Hour tells the story of young John Madison, within four hours of his execution for murder, having been found guilty on circumstantial evidence. He is innocent, but has no way of proving it, as appearances...

There were two of us: myself, the narrator, the artist-journalist of these truthful pages, and my sole companion, the Wreck. Why I call him by this unlovely title is our own private business, our exclusive bone of contention; not for untold gold would I disclose the identity of that man, the irresponsible,...

Beyond any possible doubt, there is more history—and more varied history—to the mile, along the lengthy road from London to Glasgow than on any other highway in this historic England of ours; with the sole possible exception of the road to Dover. The Great North Road itself is romantically historic,...

The Thames we all know intimately, for the river was discovered by the holiday-maker in the ’seventies of the nineteenth century; but we do not all know the villages of the Thames Valley, and it was partly to satisfy a long-cherished curiosity on this point, and partly to make holiday in some of...

No one can, with advantage, explore the rugged coast of North Devon by progressing direct from the point where it begins and so continuing, without once harking back. The scenery is exceptionally bold and fine, and the tracing of the actual coast-line by consequence a matter of no little difficulty....

On confiding to personal friends, journalistic paragraphists, and other Doubting Thomases, professional sceptics, chartered cynics and indifferent persons, the important and interesting literary news that a proposal was afloat to write a book on the Somerset Coast, the author was assured with an unanimity...

CONTENTS: A.A. MILNE 1. A Hint for Next Christmas ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER 2. The Ghost in the Picture Room ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 3. The Kit-Bag ALICE HALE BURNETT 4. Christmas Holidays at Merryvale ANDY ADAMS 5. A Winter Round-Up ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 6. The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle CECIL FRANCES...

This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of...