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The fifth adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel, in which Marguerite, Sir Percy's wife, is kidnapped and held in Paris while Robespierre's Reign of Terror runs through its last days of violence, and all Chauvelin's cunning is turned to the capture of that Englishman who has eluded him -- till now!Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (1865-1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel is the third in the series of adventure novels set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.

Zane Gray tells the tale of a freshman at a college in Arizona who discovers his greatest talent -- as a baseball pitcher. Originally published in 1911, Zane Gray's western sports tale has thrilled readers for generations.

Florence Wilkinson wrote a number of historical romances around the turn of the 2oth century. The Lady of the Flag-Flowers is set in French colonial North America.

Elmer Wheeler (1904-1968) was one of the pioneers of persuasion, best known for his advice "Don't sell the steak - sell the sizzle." The Fat Boy's Book -- in which Wheeler humorously writes about how he had lost 40 pounds in 80 days. "After losing all that weight he found it creeping back on him." So Wheeler researched how to keep the weight off wrote his equally humorous follow-up, The Fat Boy's Downfall.

Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was a prolific English novelist and historian. The Rebel Queen is a play produced in the novel.

Herbert Bouldin Hawes (1872-?) undertook some serious historical research before allowing Virginia Dare -- Daughter of the Blood -- to "go forth from her hospitable dwelling in his house of fancies, into the world of printed pages." Virginia Dare (1587-?) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents into the short-lived Roanoke Colony in what is now North Carolina. What became of Virginia and the other colonists remains a mystery. In Dawes' 1930 novel, Virginia is involved in a romantic triangle with John Smith and Pocahontas. Neil Richard Gaiman (1960-) extended this story in his comic book series 1602, where a Native American named Rojhaz meets Virginia when she is about twelve and gives her an artifact allows her to transform into a series of white creatures whenever she is in danger.

Baron Palle Adam Vilhelm Rosenkrantz (1867-1941) was a Danish lawyer, translator, and writer considered to be the first Danish crime fiction author. His novel Mordet i Vestermarie (Murder in Vestermarie) was published in 1902. The annual Palle Rosenkrantz Prisen recognizes the best crime fiction novel published in Danish by the Danske Kriminalakademi (Danish Crime Academy).

Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1842-1921) was an American authority on railways, writer and novelist, best know for the 1909 trilogy, the Alexandrian Romances, about Alexander the Great. The Romance of Alexander and Roxana is the final volume which begins with Alexander the Prince, followed by Alexander the King.

Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1842-1921) was an American authority on railways, writer and novelist, best know for the 1909 trilogy, the Alexandrian Romances, about Alexander the Great. The Romance of Alexander the Prince is the first volume, followed by Alexander the King, and Alexander and Roxana.

This 1909 volume contains "Practical instructions in the art of gilding picture frames. Information that will enable anyone to finish frames in gold and silver leaf, bronze and Dutch metal.

Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950) was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic, and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the "Naughty Nineties." The first Lady Brendon separates from her husband while on an archeological dig in the early 1900s and scandals ensue.

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian Anton Chekhov, Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish August Strindberg. This volume contains three early 20th century plays, Beyond the Horizon, The Straw, and the ten-page, one-act Before Breakfast.

Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1863-1951) was an Irish author, best known for his 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, which was adapted three times for the silver screen. His 1914 Monsieur de Rochefort was also published in the United States as The Presentation. The Comte de Rochefort uncovers a plot to sabotage the presentation of Madame Dubarry at the French court and foils it,

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals. He is most famous today as the co-creator of King Kong. Over 160 films have been made of his novels. This volume contains 11 short stories with surprises and twists.

Albert Payson Terhune (1872-1942) was an American author, breeder of collies, and journalist, best known for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies, including 1922's His Dog.

Ferenc Molnár, Americanized to Franz Molnar (1878-1952), was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist who emigrated to the United States to escape persecution of Hungarian Jews by German authorities during World War II. Molnár's most popular plays are Liliom, later adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel; The Guardsman and the film of the same name (1931); and The Swan, which was Grace Kelly's next-to-last movie.

James Meeker Ludlow (1841-1932) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and author of historical novels. Sir Raoul is set during the Crusades.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed," "pursuit of the almighty dollar," "the pen is mightier than the sword," and the famous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night." Night and Morning is about the pursuit of an inheritance, but is also a proto-mystery featuring the character of Monsieur Favart, a Vidocq-like Parisian police chief.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834-1894) was an English artist and art critic and author, best known for The Intellectual Life. Much of which is still relevant today -- the benefits of solitude, the differences between a life of industry and one of intellectual pursuits, the effects of success and intoxication, the best hours to work, eating habits, etc.

Henry Drummond (1851-1897) was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer. Natural Law in the Spiritual World argues that the scientific principle of continuity extends from the physical world to the spiritual, providing common ground for discussions between scientists and religious leaders. His later work, The Ascent of Man, argued that altruism, or the disinterested care and compassion of animals for each other, was an important part in effecting the survival of the fittest.

In this profound philosophical dialogue, Plato explores the nature of the soul, its immortality, and the philosopher's pursuit of truth. Set during the final hours before Socrates' execution, the dialogue delves into discussions about the afterlife, the soul's eternal nature, and the relationship between the body and the soul. Through reasoned arguments, Socrates presents his views on why the soul persists beyond death, offering a foundation for Platonic thought on life and the afterlife.Plato ( c. 424 - c. 348 BCE) was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor Socrates and his student Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. In Phaedo, Plato advocates a belief in the immortality of the soul and imagines the afterlife.

Ely E. Pilchik (1914-2003) was a Polish-born American rabbi and author who wrote a text books on Judaism, biographies, histories, essays, sermons, and plays.

Alexander Stuart Murray (1841-1904) was a Scottish archaeologist and head of the British Museum's department of Greek and Roman antiquities, publishing his Manual of Mythology in 1873. William Henry Klapp (1849-1924) annotated and revised well-known works on mythology by Murray and Thomas Bulfinch. This volume contains 200 illustrations and an index.

The Goat Without Horns was Thomas Burnett Swann's first book-length work -- a strange tale of a remote island, an island which should be a paradise, but quickly becomes a nightmare in which all known rules of behaviour seem reversed. There, a young man brought up amidst the proprieties of Victorian England finds that his only friend is one small, lonely dolphin...and his enemies include several well-ordered hammerhead sharks...