Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
Boy - A Sketch - cover

Boy - A Sketch

Marie Corelli

Publisher: Interactive Media

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

"Boy: A Sketch" unfolds as a poignant narrative, portraying the neglectful upbringing of 'Boy' by his careless parents. Despite the Muirs' indifference, the kindness of Miss Leslie and The Major shapes Boy's path. From Brittany to an English Military School, he grows indifferent and blase. Expelled from Sandhurst due to drunkenness, he spirals into debt and fraud. Remorseful, Boy enlists, redeems himself in the Boer War, sacrificing his life to save a childhood friend. Marie Corelli's novel is a powerful exploration of redemption, friendship, and the impact of upbringing on one's destiny.
Available since: 11/22/2023.
Print length: 240 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Dark Prince - cover

    The Dark Prince

    Rachel Lawson

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Stories of gothic emo magician Jnr.The Haunting of the Necromancer 
    A hilarious farce. 
    When the king of the grim reaper's son needs help to take a ghost haunting his home, he asks his father to help remove it but was it a mistake.The children of the Necromancer 
    When their granddad arrives for tea with a cursed book his grand kids have to look at it and it takes them to underworld to meet the most unexpected people.The Witch Doctor 
    Blake comes out as miracle healer in the paper Jack Taylor want him to bring back a dead actor. Blake tell him to find another Necromancer. 
    He does only he doesn't know it.The Dark Rainbow 
    Jnr starts to have dark visions and tries to stop them and ends up arrested for his girlfriend's murder and his family must save himWho was that masked man 
    Jnr has a vision of a terrorist attack and tries to stop it and his family wonder who the mystery man was.May You Live In Interesting Times, An Old Chinese Curse 
    "To think it all started with one alien being murdered. by a magician," said Lance. 
    "Not the first war that started with a murder world war one for example," said Blake sadly. 
    "Now we are being hunted and cancelled by the greys," said Lance, 
    "It started peacefully but the politics and darker elements got into it," said Blake sadly.The Rose 
    A killer wants the chicken dead. Jnr enchants the chicken to make him less careless as they try to catch the killer.The Grudge 
    Blake is framed of attacking a woman Jnr and the Chicken plot to clear his nameThe Rise of the Necromantor 
    The Gothic emo Prince of Darkness called Mr Average has grown up and took up the family business as a stage Illusionist when his wife, his assistant in his act dies of a trick going wrong after he predicted it he has the eyes of the press and law on him. Will he go to prison as a murderer or will he go free
    Show book
  • The Sea-Raiders - cover

    The Sea-Raiders

    H. G. Wells

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. "The Sea-Raiders" is a gruesome tale of a rapacious shoal of cephalopods which attack the coast of southern England.
    Show book
  • Babysitting is Hell - cover

    Babysitting is Hell

    Rachel Lawson

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Babysitting is Hell 
    When the king of the grim reapers took his young great-granddaughter the princess of vampires to the afterlife to babysit her as he worked he didn't expect it would end up with him and his assistant hunting for blood.The Princess of Darkness 
    Vampires Queen Astra and King Max of Vampires's daughter is on her first day at kindergarten, will this ankle biter be a pain in the neck. 
    "Hurry up Astry we're late!" cried Astry Starfire's Mum, "get in the car." 
    Astry jumped in her Mum's car. 
    "You remember every thing?" asked her mother Astra, Queen of Vampires. 
    "Yes Mum," Astry said.," got my lunch bottle." 
    "Remember to call it tomato juice not blood and don't share it," said her mum. 
    ''Yes mum" said Astry. 
    "And don't tell any one about vampires," said Astra. 
    "Yes mum," said Astry. 
    "We're here!" said Astra a while later. 
    "Out you hop," said said Astra. 
    "Mummy why is that girl so pale," a young child asked seeing Astry. 
    The mum of the child saw Astra and Astry scooped up their child and put them in their car and said "You're going to another Kinder," and sped off in their car.
    Show book
  • The Asylum Confessions - Deathbed Confessions of the Criminally Insane - cover

    The Asylum Confessions -...

    Jack Steen

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    They arrive alive. They always leave dead. 
    But first, they give me their confessions. 
    Fans of Stephen King, Joe Hill and like to read books like The Bird Box and The Haunting are going to enjoy reading the deathbed confessions from The Asylum. 
    My name is Jack Steen and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at the Asylum for the Criminally Insane.  
    Most of my patients are serial killers and mass murderers and they know me as the Angel of Death. 
    When they come onto my floor, I offer a deal: tell me their story, the one that hasn't been read about in the news, sensationalized by media or cataloged in a ridiculous number of academic papers. I want the real story - the one they haven't told anyone. Some of these killers have never confessed to their crimes, some kept certain information to themselves...those are the stories I want. 
    If they give them to me, I'll make their death...easier. They're already dying, that's why they're now my patients. If they play nice, I can make their death less painful. But only if they play nice and tell me their confessions. 
    The majority of these killers are expert manipulators. I realize they could be playing me and messing with my head. It's a chance I'm willing to take. 
    And now...they might just be playing with yours too. 
    Inside this book are 4 DeathBed Confessions: 
    Patient 1024 has an interesting 'appetite'. 
    Patient 974 is the Ken to his Barbie, and he would do anything to keep her happy. 
    Patient 871 is a Nanny, but not one you want watching your kids. 
    Patient 1203 is the sweetest, broken soul you'll ever meet but her confession is a hard read.
    Show book
  • Storm Over Warlock - cover

    Storm Over Warlock

    Andre Norton

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human would be left alive down there.And so Shann Lantee, most menial of the Terrans attached to the camp on the planet Warlock, was left alone and weaponless in the strange, hostile world, the human prey of the aliens from space and the aliens on the ground alike. (Summary from Front Cover )
    Show book
  • Lost Hearts - cover

    Lost Hearts

    M. R. James

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    An orphan discovers his foster father has evil plans for the children he takes in, past...and present.
    Show book