Title: The Lost World
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Adventure, Cooking
Annotation:
I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who’s half a man,
Or the man who’s half a boy. …
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Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES.
MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our […]
Title: The Case Book Of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
PREFACE
THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
I fear that Mr. Sherlock Holmes may become like one of those popular tenors who, having outlived their time, are still tempted to make repeated farewell bows to their indulgent audiences. This must cease and he must go the […]
Title: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
A Scandal in BohemiaTo Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love […]
Title: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
Adventure I
Silver Blaze
“I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,” said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.
“Go! Where to?”
“To Dartmoor; to King’s Pyland.”
I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed upon […]
Title: The Daniel Defoe Collection
Author: Daniel Defoe
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
Daniel Defoe - Born toward the of the summer of 1660, died on April 24, 1731- original surname Foe, Defoe altered it in 1703English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, author of ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719), a story of a man shipwrecked alone on an island. Along with Samuel Richardson, […]
Title: Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good
family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of
Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by
merchandise, and leaving off his trade lived afterward at York, from
whence he had […]
Title: The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
CHAPTER I - REVISITS ISLANDTHAT homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. “That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,” was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that […]
Title: Rob Roy
Author: Walter Scott
Category: Adventure, Classic
Annotation:
For why? Because the good old rule
Sufficeth them; the simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can.
Rob Roy’s Grave Wordsworth
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Title: TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
Author: JULES VERNE
Category: Adventure, Children, Classic
Description:
PART ONE
CHAPTER I
A SHIFTING REEF
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious
and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population
and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents,
seafaring men were […]