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Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> Black John of Halfaday Creek by James B. Hendryx <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;Black John at Halfaday Creek" is an adventure fiction n…

American author Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879–1950) wrote her mystery novel «The Curious Affair at Heron Shoals» in 1940: Marty is a teenaged heroine, who lives in relative isolation with her grand…

Adam Brown, a British army Major in command of security for the British embassy in Beijing, learns of an impending Chinese nuclear strike against America. As all communications are compromised, A…

The Egyptians are disillusioned, disappointed, fatigued and silent. Caught between power and powerlessness. Their &apos;revolution&apos; has failed. Once again they&apos;re enjoying being governe…

&quot;The Second Jungle Book" is a sequel to «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in I…

&quot;There are stories I want to tell, there are stories that I try to keep a secret. If you listen carefully you will get to know me. I am the city." <br/> Experience «A Day in the City», a day…

A dangerous affair: Revenge for justice. Power and control. Set among the power games of the Mafia and the rich and beautiful of Italy, on the island of Ponza, in Ferrara and in London. Corruptio…

Set in 1914, during World War I, «The Thirty-Nine Steps» is a novel by Scottish novelist, historian, biographer John Buchan (1875 – 1940): Richard Hannay, the protagonist and narrator and an expa…

&quot;Robin Hood assured them that he had detached a party in the direction of the road they were to pass, who would not fail to discover and apprize them of any secret ambuscade; and that he had…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> The Island of Captain Sparrow by S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;The Island of Captain Sparrow" by author S. (…

More than a quarter of a century living away from the country she grew up in, the author finds she is constantly revisiting her native land, when often only inside her head. It is a journey which…

&quot;The Twilight of Magic" was written in 1931 by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), telling about the Middle Ages, when adults and children alike still believed in magic. The tale is full of castles, k…

&quot;Robin Hood assured them that he had detached a party in the direction of the road they were to pass, who would not fail to discover and apprize them of any secret ambuscade; and that he had…

&quot;The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous s…

This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial p…

This fascinating account, envisages as a virtual film, Alexander the Great&apos;s early life tracing events from his birth, through to his boyhood and thence to the brink of manhood. He inherited…

&quot;No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man&apos;s and yet as mortal as his…

It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again. One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor…

These three stories represent all that remained of Hemingway&apos;s early work after the suitcase full of his manuscripts was stolen in the Gare de Lyon. A masterful collection of three early wor…

The famous Fairy Tales written by the Brothers Grimm. Over 50 well-known and less well-known fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in one volume! The book includes classics like Rapunzel, Mother Holl…