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The World’s Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Hammerton and Mee
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Irish novelist, poet, and journalist, was born at Dublin on August 28, 1814. His grandmother was a sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, his father a dean. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Le Fanu became a contributor to the “Dublin University Magazine,” afterwards its editor, and finally its proprietor. He also owned and edited a Dublin evening paper. Le Fanu first came into prominence in 1837 as the author of the two brilliant Irish ballads, “Phaudhrig Croohore” and “Shamus O’Brien.” His novels, which number more than a dozen, were first published in most cases in his magazine. His power of producing a feeling of weird mystery ranks him with Edgar Allan Poe. It may be questioned whether any Irish novelist has written with more power. The most representative of his stories is “Uncle Silas, a Tale of Bartram-Haugh,” which appeared in 1864. Le Fanu died on February 7, 1873.
The World’s Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Edited: Arthur Mee; J.A. Hammerton
An encyclopediac volume which consists of expanded information about the world’s greatest books that changed or contributed greatly to major changes or movements in the world. ARTHUR MEE and J.A. HAMMERTON were the two editors who compiled this informative volume titled ‘The World’s Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters’.
The World’s Greatest Books — Volume 17 — Poetry and Drama by Hammerton and Mee
Goetz: Where can my men be? Up and down I have to walk, lest sleep should overcome me. Five days and nights already in ambush. But when I get thee, Weislingen, I shall make up for it! You priests may send round your obliging Weislingen to decry me—I am awake. You escaped me, bishop! So your dear Weislingen may pay the piper. George! George! (Enter George.) Tell Hans to get ready. My scouts may be back any moment. And give me some more wine!
The World’s Greatest Super Bikes
A super-bike is an amazing thing. Raw power, cat like reflexes and breath taking style are all prerequisites for one purpose: the ride of your life! But if the measure of a true super-bike is the size of the smile it puts on your face, then how many cylinders do you need, what the machine should look like and how much it costs… well that’s up to you. On these pages you’ll find some of the fastest, most desirable outright amazing bikes in the world, so sit back and enjoy the super-bike buzz!
The World’s Weirdest News Stories
The strangest news stories ever! If you thought the news was all doom and gloom think again. Taken from the pages of Fortean Times magazine and collected together within this MagBook are some of the strangest, most captivating stories ever to make the headlines. Featuring stories about weird sex, unusual animal antics, crazy criminal behavior to name a few, this MagBook is your ultimate reference to the world’s most bizarre, real news stories to date!
The Worlds Top 100 Coolest Cars
The love of cool cars is a deeply personal affair. There are cars we always dreamed of, cars that embody how we feel about ourselves, even cars we read about or played with as toys when we were children.
One man’s classic dream car is another man’s old fashioned piece of junk just as one man’s computer powered supercar is another’s bad taste nightmare. So cool isn’t just fast, cool isn’t just beautiful, cool isn’t just desirability. Cool can be all these things, but it can be so much more. Cool is about character, history, cult appeal even quirkiness, but above all else cool is about individuality.
So please enjoy this collection of our 100 coolest cars of all time, but there is more as well as the top 100 cool cars this issue also features dozens of other cars that are quirky, crazy or forgotten gems from the past plus a selection or vintage car adverts.
This magazine is a must for petrolheads everywhere.
Enjoy!
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Caroline Alexander
This post-war business is inartistic, for it is seldom that any one does anything well for the sake of doing it well; and it is un-Christian, if you value Christianity, for men are out to hurt and not to help—can you wonder, when the Ten Commandments were hurled straight from the pulpit through good stained glass. It is all very interesting and uncomfortable, and it has been a great relief to wander back in one’s thoughts and correspondence and personal dealings to an age in geological time, so many hundred years ago, when we were artistic Christians, doing our jobs as well as we were able just because we wished to do them well, helping one another with all our strength, and (I speak with personal humility) living a life of co-operation, in the face of hardships and dangers, which has seldom been surpassed.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit
Sent away to the country after a particularly unruly episode, the well-meaning but wayward Bastable children solemnly vow to reform their behavior. But their grand schemes for great and virtuous deeds lead to just as much mayhem as their ordinary games, and sometimes more.
The Wrecking Master by Ralph Delahaye Paine
“A thick night and no mistake, Dan. It’s as black as the face of a Nassau pilot. We ought to be nearing the coal wharf by now. Of course they wouldn’t have sense enough to leave a light on it to give us our bearings.”
Captain Jim Wetherly was growling through the window of the darkened wheel-house to his deck-hand, young Dan Frazier, as the oceangoing tug Resolute felt her way up the harbor of Pensacola. She had towed a dismasted bark into port after a long and stubborn tussle with wind and sea, and her master was in haste to fill the empty bunkers and drive her home to Key West, five hundred miles across the blue Gulf.
The mate and several of the crew had gone ashore for the evening, the fat and grizzled chief engineer was loafing on the deck below, and Captain Wetherly was somewhat consoled to have a sympathetic listener in his youngest deck-hand. This Dan Frazier was his nephew, not long out of the Key West High School, and trying his hand at seafaring in the Resolute as the first chance which had offered to ease his mother’s task of caring for him.
The Writer’s Desk Book by William Dana Orcutt
The present fictional novel titled ‘The Writer’s Desk Book’ was written by famous novelist William Dana Orcutt. It was first published in the year 1912. The narrative of the book is engaging and fast paced with a lot of drama. The language is typical of the Olf French style.
