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" He was waiting for her, he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one side and some eligible building sites on the other-and far away to the south-west the twinkling yellow lights of the Crystal Palace. It was not quite like a country lane, for...

" He was waiting for her, he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one side and some eligible building sites on the other-and far away to the south-west the twinkling yellow lights of the Crystal Palace. It was not quite like a country lane, for...

• Includes all of Chamberlain's known wartime letters • Shows his transformation from college professor to major general • Original writings placed into context by historian Mark Nesbitt In July 1862 Joshua Chamberlain, a family man and respected professor at Bowdoin College in Maine, joined...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old...

With this fantastic book, you will enjoy the most terrifying stories about ghosts. We are sure that you read many ghosts stories, but anyone like these ones.

A marvelous time-travel fantasy! Lame young Dickie Harding leads a pathetic life with his unpleasant aunt until he's lured away by a seemingly kind tramp into adventures that prove criminal. While trying to do the right thing, Dickie mixes into magic. Ultimately, he meets Edred and Elfrida of "The...

The story's title character is a man who somehow always seems to get what he wants. John makes up his mind to marry May Forster, the prettiest young woman in the village. After John asks her to marry him several times, May finally agrees. John says that his love for May is so great that he would come...

As a disciple of Christ Journey has faced many challenges in her life, as all do face in many stages in their lives. Journey looks back on her struggles, she looks back on her failures, and she looks back on her victories. After giving up everything to God, she reluctantly decided to accept the fact...

THE grass was gray with the moonlit dew,    The stones were white as I came through;    I came down the path by the thirteen yews,    Through the blocks of shade that the moonlight hews.    And when I came to the high lych-gate    I waited awhile where...

Cymbeline, the Roman Empire's vassal king of Britain, once had two sons, Guiderius and Arvirargus, but they were stolen twenty years earlier as infants by an exiled traitor named Belarius. Cymbeline now discovers that his only child left, his daughter Imogen, has secretly married her lover Posthumus...

They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an...

At the end of Five Children and It the five children promised not to ask the Psammead for another wish as long as they lived, but expressed a half wish to see it again some time. They find 'it' again in a pet shop in Camden Town, and their magic adventures start over again. 'It' leads them...

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