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Fortunately, unfortunately
On his way to return his grandmother's umbrella, Milo has a series of unlikely adventures, some more fortunate than others.
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Allan Quatermain
The heroes of King Solomon's Mines return to Africa in this action-packed sequel that inspired the film Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold. Allan Quatermain, big-game hunter and explorer, has recently lost his son, Harry, to smallpox and is ready to get away from civilization.
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The blade itself
\"Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
One hundred fifty years later, Jules Verne's epic novel of science and adventure is just as thrilling as when it was first published
A dirty slip of parchment falls from the pages of an ancient manuscript. Deciphered by the indefatigable Otto Liedenbrock, professor of geology, and his reluctant nephew, Axel, the parchment's coded message is a wild assertion made by a medieval alchemist: Inside a volcano in Iceland is a passageway to the center of the earth. Impossible, says Axel—the temperature of the earth's core is far too high for any human being to go near it. That is one theory, the professor replies. Two days later, they embark on a journey so fantastic it will alter the very meaning of history.
First published in 1864, Journey to the Center of the Earth is a cornerstone of science fiction and one of the greatest stories ever told. This ebook edition contains the classic Ward Lock & Co. translation of 1877, one of the first English-language versions faithful to the original French.
This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
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The gathering
Years after the disappearance of the world's superhumans, the secret identities of three newly endowed superheroes are mysteriously leaked to the press, and the teenagers must take refuge at a hidden military installation.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
An epic adventure and one of the most enduring fables in Western literature Edmond Dantés has a life that any man would envy.A promising young sailor about to be made a captain, he has come home to Marseille to marry his beautiful fiancée, Mercédès.
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The remarkable journey of Prince Jen
Bearing six unusual gifts, young Prince Jen embarks on a perilous quest and emerges triumphantly into manhood.
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Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel
Although much has been written about how the novel relates to the epic, the drama, or autobiography, no one has clearly analyzed the complex connections between prose fiction as it evolved before 1800 and the literature of travel, which by that date had a long and colorful history.
Percy Adams skilfully portrays the emergence of the novel in the fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and traces in rich detail the history of travel literature from its beginnings to the time of James Cook, contemporary of Richardson and Fielding. And since the recit de voyage and the novel were then so international, he deals throughout with all the literatures of Western Europe, one of the book's chief themes being the close literary ties among European nations.
Equally important in the present study is its demonstration that, just as early travel accounts were often a combination of reporting and fabrication, so prose fiction is not a dichotomy to be divided into the \"adult\" novel on the one hand and the \"childish\" romance on the other, but an ambivalence -- the marriage of realism and romanticism.Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novelnot only shows the novel to be amorphous and changing, it also proves impossible the task of defining the recit de voyage with its thousand forms and faces. Often the two types of literature are almost indistinguishable; even beforeDon Quixote, Adams writes, many travel accounts could have been advertised as having \"the endless fascination of a wonderfully observed novel.\"
This study by Percy Adams will both modify opinions about the novel and its history and provide an excellent introduction to the travel account, a form of literature too little known to students of belles lettres.
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Masters of disaster
Twelve-year-old Henry's grand adventures spell disaster for best chums Riley and Reed, who always seems to land in a pile of \"smelly goo.\"
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