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Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was a best-selling American author and politician.
This novel is based on the newspaper strip by Fred Harman (1902-1982) about Red Ryder, "America's famous fighting cowboy."
Edgar Evertson Saltus (1855-1921) was an American novelist whose style was compared with that of Oscar Wilde and Huysmans. He also wrote two books of philosophy.
This classic detective novel follows Jim Felton, an amateur sleuth, as he becomes embroiled in a case involving a rare and valuable French cabinet. After a murder is discovered in connection with the cabinet, Felton must unravel the secrets behind this mysterious piece of furniture, which hides both treasures and dark dangers. Filled with suspense, clever twists, and richly detailed puzzles, the story captivates readers from start to finish.Burton E. Stevenson (1872-1962) was the editor of The Home Book of Verse and The Home Book of Familiar Quatations. At times he turned his hand to writing mysteries, such as The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet.
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) gained fame as the author of Rookwood, a novel about Dick Turpin. The Star-Chamber is one of his popular historical romances.
Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was a prolific American writer of children's books. He published juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother Samuel Phillips Abbott founded the Abbott School.
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. This detective novel features a World War One ace as the hero.
Stephen Angus Cox (1865- 1944) wrote historical boys' adventure novels. The 12-volume Dare Boys series was set during the American Revolution. This is volume seven in the series.
Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859-1936) was an Irish author and nationalist politician. Among other works, he wrote biographies of Sir Robert Peel (1891), Pope Leo XIII (1896) and William Ewart Gladstone (1898).
To know Puss Junior is to love him forever. That's the way all the young people feel about this young, adventurous cat, son of a famous father.
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (1801-1835) was an Italian opera composer, best know for his bel canto operas La sonnambula, I puritani, and Norma, about a Druid Priestess and her Roman proconsul lover.
Visiting the six counties of Western Maryland, spending much time in each district, examining ancient newspapers, musty manuscripts, family, church and society records, conversing with the aged inhabitants, and collecting from them orally many interesting facts never before published, and which otherwise, in all probability, would soon have been lost altogether. The first in a two-volume set.
Sven Elvestad (1884-1934) was a Norwegian journalist and author. As a reporter he often staged his own sensations, famously spending a day in a circus lion's cage. He is best known for his detective stories, which were published under the pen name Stein Riverton and translated to several languages, including German and English.
Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories.
George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include the series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and Brewster's Millions, which was made into several films.
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860?-1936) was an American writer. Best known for The Perfect Tribute, a widely read short story about Abraham Lincoln, her many works included August First, A Good Samaritan, Vive l'Empereur and others.
Marie Aimée de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse (1600-1679) was a French aristocrat of great personal charm who placed herself at the center of many of the intrigues of the first half of the 17th century in France.
Sir Roger de Coverley was the name of a character in The Spectator (1711). An English squire of Queen Anne's reign, Sir Roger exemplified the values of an old country gentleman, and was portrayed as lovable but somewhat ridiculous, making his Tory politics seem harmless but silly.
Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American writer best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle". This is a biography of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771).
William Benjamin Basil King (1859-1928) was a Canadian-born clergyman who became a writer after retiring from the clergy. His anonymously published novel The Inner Shrine, about a French Irish girl whose husband is killed in a duel, became very popular when published in 1909. King subsequently published a number of best-selling works.
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