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  The Virgin of the Sun

  H. Rider Haggard

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  In this swashbuckling tale of medieval adventure, an English fisherman lost at sea finds romance, intrigue, and war among the peoples of Peru.While exploring the jumble of curiosities at the home of an eccentric antiquarian, an editor discovers a collection of letters dating back to the era of King Richard II. These letters recount the incredible life story of one Hubert of Hastings, a fisherman turned London goldsmith whose turbulent fortunes brought him to a strange new land that would become his home. Shortly after a whirlwind wedding, Hubert finds himself both widowed and framed for murder. Together with his old friend Kari, he escapes by ship, only to be storm-tossed across the Atlantic. Undertaking a voyage to Kari’s homeland along the Pacific coast, they hope to finally find peace. Instead they find a brewing war between the Chancas and the Incas, and Hubert finds an unattainable love that could change the course of history.

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  The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa

  H. Rider Haggard

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  A former British Army major voyages to West Africa to discover a lost city of gold in this adventure novel by the author of King Solomon’s Mines.Since a bout of blackwater fever robbed Maj. Alan Vernon of his military post, he has cast about for a new vocation. A business scheme in the Sahara seems like the perfect fit for his engineering skills, until revelations about his partners give him pause. To save his family estate, Vernon decides to undertake his African venture on his own.Years ago, Vernon’s uncle brought a small golden idol back from Western Africa. The idol itself is worth little, but its strange powers will lead Vernon on a perilous journey to a world of riches. And there he will meet a beautiful but fearsome tribal ruler who is determined to make him her next husband.

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  The Treasure of the Lake

  H. Rider Haggard

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  Gentleman adventurer Allan Quartermain discovers a strange African village in this 1926 novel by the author of King Solomon’s Mines.An Englishman living in South Africa, Allan Quartermain has spent his life exploring the mysteries of the Dark Continent. When he hears the legend of a lost tribe ruled by a magical priestess, he goes in search of a remote holy lake surrounded by tall cliffs. Together with his companion Hans, Allan discovers a land and a people even more peculiar than the legend describes. Published posthumously in 1926, The Treasure of the Lake is one of the last Allan Quartermain novels written by H. Rider Haggard. Set in the Victorian era, it is a quintessential tale of colonial adventure.

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  The Ivory Child

  H. Rider Haggard

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  The timeless adventure featuring explorer Allan Quatermain, the inspiration for Indiana Jones, from one of the first authors of the “Lost World” genre.  The Ivory Child is a novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain—explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. In one of his strangest undertakings yet, Quatermain finds himself in the throes of a war between two African tribes, one of them led by an evil spirit that resides in the body of a gigantic elephant.   Two foreigners, Harût and Marût, call upon Quatermain by the name he uses among the Africans: Macumazana. They are convinced by divination that only Quatermain can defeat the elephant god and save Africa from an epic battle destined to plunge the continent into chaos . . .

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  Mosquitoes

  William Faulkner

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  One of Faulkner’s most controversial novels!      A lesser-known but compelling novel from the author of Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury.      Have you ever wondered what speaks to the tortured soul of an artist? What would it be like to be stuck on a yacht with only the musings of the world and a group of artists as your company?      In the heat of the late Louisiana summer, Faulkner brings us a story of artistry that examines the thoughts and actions of Southern bohemians who have nothing to interrupt them but the hum and fire of the mosquitoes that surround them. “Faulkner’s message is clear: We are the mosquitoes, and the mosquitoes are us.”—Rein Fartel, “Twentieth Century Millennial: Revisiting Faulkner’s Mosquitoes.”       With a foreword by Carl Rollyson, a renowned biographer of Faulkner and other eminent authors, this fine new edition works to highlight the “Louisiana Faulkner,” the Faulkner before fame, and his thoughts on the lives of Southern artists.

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  30 Suspense and Thriller...

  Wilkie Collins, Mary Roberts...

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  This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names
  
  A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain]
  The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen]
  Mr Standfast [John Buchan]
  The Three Hostages [John Buchan]
  Greenmantle [John Buchan]
  The Island of Sheep [John Buchan]
  The Thirty-Nine Steps [John Buchan]
  The Efficiency Expert [Edgar Rice Burroughs]
  The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
  The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers]
  The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
  The Rome Express [Arthur Griffiths]
  Lysbeth [Henry Rider Haggard]
  Desperate Remedies [Thomas Hardy]
  Rupert of Hentzau [Anthony Hope]
  The Prisoner of Zenda [Anthony Hope]
  The Apartment Next Door [William Andrew Johnston]
  The Film of Fear [Frederic Arnold Kummer]
  The Green God [Frederic Arnold Kummer]
  The Czar's Spy [William Le Queux]
  The Pit: A Story of Chicago [Frank Norris]
  The Double Traitor [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]
  The Evil Shepherd [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]
  The Kingdom of the Blind [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]
  The After House [Mary Roberts Rinehart]
  The International Spy [Allen Upward]
  The Bandbox [Louis Joseph Vance]
  Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
  The River of Death: A Tale of London In Peril [Fred Merrick White]
  The Dust of Death: The Story of the Great Plague of the Twentieth Century [Fred Merrick White]

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