Men of Men

Men of Men

Author: Wilbur Smith

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 1785765825

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BOOK 2 IN THE BALLANTYNE SERIES, BY INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror A RUTHLESS MAN. AN UNFORGIVING DESTINY. Zouga Ballantyne has in his blood a fanatical need to find diamonds, and it is in the diamond mines of Kimberley that he finally realises his fate. But the price of success in one of the most punishing places in the world is high, and Zouga loses his beloved wife to one of the many sicknesses that haunt the diamond mine camp. Zouga and his sons are left to find their fortune elsewhere, and end up a part of the flourishing British Empire, developing their own form of civilisation in the face of tribal opposition. But Zouga's success has come at a price. The local Matabele tribe, who have tried to live alongside the colonists, are slowly losing everything. In the face of exploitation, violence and greed, who will triumph in the land of ruthless men? The second book in the epic Ballantyne Series. Book 3 in the Ballantyne series, The Angels Weep, is available now.


Mal

Mal

Author: François Mauriac

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1952

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0374526494

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The Enemy is an account of a French widow, deeply imbued with Jansenistic ideas, who raises her songs in an austere, religious atmosphere, shielding them from every source of contact with the wicked world.


The Weird Tales of Nictzin Dyalhis

The Weird Tales of Nictzin Dyalhis

Author: Nictzin Dyalhis

Publisher: Librorium Editions

Published: 2020-02-15

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 3967240592

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Over a period of fifteen years he published just 8 stories in Weird Tales magazine, and his small output, odd name, and pursuit of privacy made him a man of mystery. 1: When The Green Star Waned2: The Eternal Conflict3: The Dark Lore4: The Oath Of Hul Jok5: The Red Witch6: The Sapphire Goddess7: The Sea-Witch8: Heart Of Atlantan


Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories

Author: Bill Bowers

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1493057928

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Ghost Stories is a ghoulish collection of true classics, long-forgotten and legendary, with frightening stories from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, Willa Cather, and many others. Ghost Stories offers tales rooted in their time, place, and topic. This ghostly collection delivers the ghastly, horrifying, and otherwise haunting tales of terror we love to read – late at night, with the lights off. Included are: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe * The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving * An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce * The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle by Nathaniel Hawthorne * A Ghost of the Sierras by Bret Harte * The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford * The Lady’s Maid’s Bell by Edith Wharton * A Ghost Story by Mark Twain * The Night Call by Henry van Dyke * The Furnished Room by O. Henry * The Crime of Micah Rood by Elia W. Peattie * The Cross-Roads by Amy Lowell * Mistress Marian’s Light by Gertrude Morton * Consequences by Willa Cather * The Body-Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson * Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe * The Ghost of Fear by H.G. Wells * The Phantom ’Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling * The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad * On the Water by Guy de Maupassant * and many, many others


Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers

Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers

Author: Paul Negri

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0486114899

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This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories — each just six or fewer pages in length — features popular tales by Kafka, Poe, Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others.