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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 05
Robert Louis Stevenson
Boundless human foolishness and dark moral compromise collide when ordinary people dabble in double lives, violent political conspiracies, and unholy scientific transformations.
Quentin Durward
Walter Scott
A penniless young Scottish archer enters the lethal chessboard of fifteenth-century European politics, where chivalric honor collides directly with cold royal deceit.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
A trapped wife slips into a feather suit and vanishes into the sky, leaving her mortal husband to wander the earth's end in search of her.
The Prairie
James Fenimore Cooper
An aging frontiersman flees the advance of eastern civilization, seeking final solace across the Mississippi only to find the vast prairies brimming with rival tribes, desperate squatters, and lawless conflict.
The Smoky God
Willis George Emerson
A dying Norse sailor reveals the terrifying polar voyage that carried him into a hollow world beneath our own, where giant men live for centuries under a glowing subterranean sun.