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Serialised from September 1914 to May 1915 in the Strand Magazine, "The Valley of Fear", is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.At the beginning of this novel, Holmes gets a message from one of Professor Moriartys agentsFred Porlock. From time to time, Porlock sends Sherlock inside information about Moriartys endeavors. Despite the fact that the law sees Moriarty as innocent, Sherlock firmly believes him to be the puppet master of a criminal underworld. Sherlock enlists the help of his friend and sidekick, Dr. Watson, to decode Porlocks message; from it, they learn that the life of John Douglas, who resides at Birlstone, is in danger...

First published in London in 1914, The Prussian Officer by David Herbert Lawrence is part of his collection The Prussian Officer and Other Stories and it is considered by some critics as one of the worlds masterpieces of short fiction.The plot of the story is so simple and its two characters are so stark as to be archetypal. An aristocratic Prussian captain becomes obsessed with his uncomplicated young orderly but deals with the obsession by repressing it, humiliating and physically mistreating the young man...a situation that will have dramatic consequences.The Prussian Officer is noted for its representation of sexual repression, and the emotional toll it can take on the body, mind, and spirit. Lawrence uses three repeated motifs in the story to build tension between the characters: neck, dryness or thirst, and the colour red. These motifs circle around each other, expressing the unspoken desire of the Captain and the building violence between the two men. In The Prussian Officer, sexual repression is fatal for both the object of affection and the man repressing his feelings.

Written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume with "The Ladybird" and "The Fox", "The Captains Doll" is a short story or novella by the English author David Herbert Lawrence. Set in Germany, after World War I, the story chronicles the journey of fallen German aristocrat Countess Johanna Hannele zu Rassentlow as she dates Captain Alexander, a Scottish officer of unusual philosophy. The relationship develops into one of David Herbert Lawrences idiosyncratic wicked triangles. The German protagonist makes dolls and is very good at doing so. She makes a doll of her Scottish friend, and one day, a British lady comes and wishes to buy it. The soldiers wife. The intimate relationship between Captain Alexander and Hannele is intruded upon when the captains wife Evangeline travels to Germany suspicious of foul play...."The Captains Doll" was the basis of the 1983 TV film of the same name with Jeremy Irons as the Captain.

First printed in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine in 1856, "The Hollow Land" by William Morris is a beautifully written story where the prose and imagery are vivid and wonderful.The plot is based on the search of hollow land where, the narrator saw his first love."The Hollow Land" is the most sophisticated work of William Morriss stories in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. Each of these stories has a medieval setting, and focuses on family lineage and knightly heroism, however, The Hollow Land adds a moral ambiguity absent from the earlier stories.Morris was not only the most prolific contributor to TheOxford and Cambridge Magazine but also its instigator, its first editor, and its sole financial backer.

First published in 1912, "In Desert and Wilderness" is a novel for children by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz. "In Desert and Wilderness" is set in the 19th century and tells the story of two children, Sta? Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, and their adventures as they cross the African desert and jungle. During the journey they face lions, leopards and malaria, make friends with desert tribespeople and an elephant, and learn about some harsh realities of life. An unusual "coming of age" story!For Henryk Sienkiewicz, "In Desert and Wilderness" represented a final triumph; this was the last novel he would complete. Sienkiewicz, who had visited Africa in 1891, successfully recreates in the book the beauty he encountered amid the continents entrancing landscape. Written over eighty years ago for a younger audience, but appealing to all ages, "In Desert and Wilderness" remains a literary treasure in Poland.

"The Knights of the Cross" (or "The Teutonic Knights"; Krzy?acy in Polish) is a 1900 historical novel, an epic of medieval times and national destiny, ranked as one of the highest achievements from the pen of Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Literature Nobel Prize winner in 1905."The Knights of the Cross" follows the adventures of Macko, a resourceful and wise veteran of war, and his young nephew, Zbyszko, the symbol of a maturing nation, as they struggle, along with the unified peoples of Poland and Lithuania, against the oppressive religious military Order (Knights of the Cross/Teutonic Knights). In a tavern inn Zbyszko falls in love with the lovely Danusia, who is traveling with the court of the Duchess Anna. He swears to her his knights oath and promises to bring her three trophies from the Teutonic Knights.Regarded as the most outstanding and prolific Polish writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, Henryk Sienkiewicz is perhaps best known for his epic historical novel "Quo Vadis", which depicts early Christianity and the persecutions. Sienkiewicz was known for his gigantic scenes, bright contrasts and the epic sweep of his works. He was a master in creating mass-action scenes and battles.

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First published in Argosy in 1924, "The Man Who Mastered Time" completes the trilogy of Ray Cummings tales of Matter, Space, and Time ("The Girl in the Golden Atom" and "The Fire People" dealing with the first two matters, respectively). The Matter, Space and Time series postulates that matter, space and time are interlinked and that one cannot exist without the others."The Man Who Mastered Time" is a sequel to and with the same characters as "The Girl in the Golden Atom"."The Man Who Mastered Time" tells the story of Loto, a man of twenty that explains to family friends that he and his father had been experimenting two years earlier with the fluorescence in a Crookes tube when they accidently created a ray that could see through time, showing them a distant ice age future where a figure was on a sled pulled by dog-like creatures that were as big as horses. The sled stopped at a low, oval building where Loto could also see a beautiful girl; it soon became obvious that the girl was a slave or a captive and Loto vowed to save her. It took Loto two years but the young man had perfected a space-time machine -- an airplane of sorts -- that could move through both space and time. He said goodbye to his friends, climbed into the plane, and vanished...Ray Cummings was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre".

First published in 1922, "The Fire People" by one of the masters of early science fiction, Ray Cummings, is the second novel of trilogy of tales of Matter, Space, and Time ("The Girl in the Golden Atom" and "The Man Who Mastered Time" dealing with the other two elements, respectively). The Matter, Space and Time series postulates that matter, space and time are interlinked and that one cannot exist without the others."The Fire People" is the story of a fiery invasion from another planet. No one could have suspected that the Earth was in mortal danger. It started with a small meteor streaking across the sky and smashing into the Earths surface, but the event was so much more than a simple collision between the Earth and a wandering piece of space rubble. A strange glow began to radiate from the meteor, a glow unlike anything known to Earthly science; and with these emanations came death, anything coming into contact with that light was immediately destroyed. The fate of the Earth fell into the hands of an inquisitive newspaper reporter and a brilliant professor of science as they strived to save mankind from its first interplanetary threat, an attack from a distant neighbour...Ray Cummings was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre".

First published in 1922, "The Girl in the Golden Atom" by Ray Cummings is a classic work of science fiction and one of the first to explore the world of the atom."The Girl in the Golden Atom" is the first and most famous work in Cummings Matter, Space and Time series ("The Fire People" and "The Man Who Mastered Time" dealing with the other two matters, respectively), which postulates that matter, space and time are interlinked and that one cannot exist without the others. "The Girl in the Golden Atom" was enormously successful at its publication, and Cummings went on to write an equally successful sequel, "The People of the Golden Atom". This novel stays as Cummings most highly regarded fictional work."The Girl in the Golden Atom" is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mothers wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can join her world.Ray Cummings is viewed as one of the founding fathers of the pulp science fiction genre.

Dana Bedwen never wanted to be a dark mage. Its in her blood. Its her destiny. But what is that, compared to a young womans desire to be an Alchemist?So she is looking for a job as an Alchemist, despite the suspicion and discrimination she faces as a dark arall. She wants to build steam trains and make money, not spend time on silly, antiquated rituals. But the Universe is conspiring against her. In order to save her own life, shell have to accept the fate she fought so hard to avoid. On the path to her destiny, shell regain longlost family, a boyfriend, and uncover some secrets about herself.Book one of the Alchemist series, which will take you through Danas personal growth story, as she accepts her destiny and matures to become the great woman she will become. Without forgetting alchemy, of course.

Dragon Fever will destroy not one world, but twounless she can atone for the sins of her past to protect the future.When a world of magic is the only thing you know, what do you do when its gone? In the dark city of Draconia, ruled by powerful mages, the only thing that matters is magic, and Fran is on the search. Shes caught the attention of some unsavory types. It doesnt help that she has the most powerful magical object in the kingdom in her possession; an object many men have died to hold: a dragons egg. Can she use the egg to save her best friend before its too late?

The stories about Baron Munchausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in London in 1785 by Rudolf Erich Raspe as "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen." It is not clear how much of the story material derives from the Baron himself; however, it is known that the majority of the stories are based on folktales that have been in circulation for many centuries before Munchausens birth. "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen" presents a certain eighteenth-century German noble ventured abroad for military service and returned with a series of amusingly outrageous stories.Baron Munchausens astounding feats included riding cannonballs, traveling to the Moon, and pulling himself out of a bog by his own hair.Since the book appeared readers have been delighted in knowing about these unlikely adventures. Hence, by the nineteenth century, the tales had undergone expansions and transformations by several notable authors and had been translated into many languages. A figure as colourful as the Baron naturally appeals to the artistic imagination, and he has been depicted in numerous works of art. His definitive visual image, however, belongs to Gustave Dore.

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First published in a serial form in The Strand magazine July 1925-May 1928, "The Land of Mist" is the third and last novel in the Professor Challenger series, and is a marked departure from the previous tales. The novel picks up some of the characters who discovered an island full of prehistoric creatures in Conan Doyles "The Lost World", and sets them exploring the even stranger world of ghosts and spirits.For the later decades of his life, Conan Doyle was an enthusiastic spiritualist, and a great propagandist for the cause. He had the sense to keep Sherlock Holmes well away from his supernatural interests, but in this book Professor Challenger and company face all sorts of ethereal wonders. Challenger becomes a Spiritualist, and the novel strongly promotes the concept of Spiritualism.

First published in The Strand Magazine in September 1917, "His Last Bow" is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle and the final work in his classic mystery series about the legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes.Unusual for a Sherlock Holmes story, His Last Bow is a short spy story as opposed to a detective-centered mystery. It is also told in the third person, as opposed to the first. No one is entirely sure why. However, its said that the story could have been designed to boost public morale during the First World War, because of its portrayal of British and German spies.A criminal organization, a womans disappearance and a man pretending to be someone hes not - thats just a small sampling of the adventures in His Last Bow", eight great short stories about Sherlock Holmes and his investigative prowess.

Published in 1852, a mere nine years before the start of the US Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowes heartbreaking classic "Uncle Toms Cabin" seeks to unmask the horrors of slavery, revealing the brutalities that those who had not witnessed them could never have imagined, the terrors that those in the thick of it struggled to deny. In her story of suffering, barbarism, hope, and redemption, Stowe won millions to the abolitionist, or anti-slavery, cause in the US, and she created one of the most iconic and enduring novels in American literature."Uncle Toms Cabin" was not intended to become a full-length novel, but its huge popularity led a publisher to contact Stowe and convince her to expand it. Though already an active abolitionist, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was the impetus for Stowe to write the novel, which became a symbol of the power of literature in social reform. "Uncle Toms Cabin" was the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century and was only outsold by the Bible. The novel became a cultural phenomenon, spawning Uncle Tom Plays and giving birth to character tropes Uncle Tom, Topsy, Simon Legree, and others. The novel was banned in many of the Southern states and later in the Confederacy. Its popularity helped spread and strengthen the abolitionist movement throughout the Union. In spite of its role in the anti-slavery movement, the book is not without controversy. It is critiqued for perpetuating racial stereotypes; these negative connections often overshadow its historical significance."Uncle Toms Cabin" is comprised of two occasionally intersecting plots following Uncle Tom as he is sold down the river and Eliza and George Harris as they make their way north to freedom. Tom and Eliza are both slaves to the Shelby family of Kentucky. The Shelbys are indulgent masters and treat their slaves well. Tom is particularly well-liked by both the family and his fellow slaves for his honest, pious nature. Young George Shelby has a deep fondness for him.Mr. Shelby runs up debts, and his mortgage passes into the possession of Mr. Haley, a slave trader. Shelby is obliged to sell Tom and Harry, the sons of Eliza and George Harris...Stowes novel is a story of cruelty and hope, of faith and despair, and of humanity in the face of inhumanity.

First published in 1912, "The Book of Wonder" is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany, a writer and playwright now most famous for his fantasy stories, predominantly in the form of short stories and with an atmosphere and style so different to what is now considered fantasy fiction as to put it almost in another genre."The Book of Wonder" contains 14 short tales, each one strong in elements of the fantastic, the mythic, the romantic and often too the tragic. Dunsany writes stories that dont always have a happy ending, and these are no exceptionthough theyre written in an almost fairy tale or allegorical style, they each have a melancholy, vengeful, or even mad edge to them.Dunsany was a major influence on fantasy and weird fiction in the first half of the twentieth century (particularly on H.P. Lovecraft, a writer ironically at his best when furthest from the style of the man who most inspired him), and later on artists as disparate as Guillermo del Toro and Jorge Luis Borges.

First published in 1920, "The Story of Doctor Dolittle", an essential childrens novel, is the first in Hugh Loftings Doctor Dolittle series. The novel depicts the many adventures of Dr. John Dolittle as he learns the language of animals and takes on various feats including exotic travel, a dangerous encounter with pirates, and a mission to set right from wrong.The novel begins with the introduction of Dr. John Dolittle, an animal lover and respected physician, who lives in the small English town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh with his unmarried sister. Due to an increase in the number of animals in his home, he loses many of his clients which results in a decline of wealth. Even his sister is repelled from the amount of animals in their home. However, one day Dr. Dolittle learns the secret to speaking with animals from his parrot Polynesia, who teaches him the language of animals. Consequently, he leaves behind his unfulfilling job surrounded by people and instead decides to take up a veterinary practice.This career change proves to be the correct one, as Dr. Dolittle quickly becomes renowned throughout the animal kingdom. Eventually he finds himself on the way to Africa along with his most trusted animal companions to help cure a monkey epidemic. Yet, unfortunate events lead to a shipwreck and Dr. Dolittle and his animal friends are imprisoned by the king of Jolliginki, who is a victim of colonization and for this reason dislikes all Europeans. The protagonist and his escort undergo many adventures in their task to spread kindness and animal awareness throughout. An optimistic and heartwarming novel, "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" leaves no one feeling indifferent, as Dr. Dolittle risks losing everything including his house, family and wealth for the sake of proper care and love of animal life. Abundant with humour and a fun easy-to- follow plot, Lofting has successfully created a rich fantasy world with vivid portrayals of memorable characters which have entertained generations time after time.

Originally published in 1840, "The Pathfinder" (in full "The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea") is a picturesque novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. "The Pathfinder" is the fourth of five novels published as The Leatherstocking Tales, but in terms of the chronological narrative, it is third in the series."The Pathfinder" is a naval story set on the Great Lakes of the 1750s. Fashioned from Coopers own experience as a midshipman on Lake Ontario, the novel revives Natty Bumpo (who had died in "The Prairie"), and illuminates Coopers interest in American history with his concern for social development.Natty Bumppo is a 40-year-old wilderness scout living near Lake Ontario during the French and Indian War who comes to the aid of a British colonial garrison under attack. He dearly loves Mabel Dunham, daughter of a sergeant. Mabel refuses his offer of marriage because she loves his friend, Jasper Western (under suspicion of being a traitor), in large part because of his fluency in French.