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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from Navy Blue: A Story of Cadet Life in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis The author cannot lay down his pen without ex pressing his hearty gratitude for the assistance and encouragement he has received in his work: to the authorities at Washington for facilities Offered in the collection of material, to Officers of the navy attached to the Naval Academy, and to the cadets at that insti tution and a¿oat, who have given him...

In the Morning is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these boo...

This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that e...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Excerpt from Around the Yule Log In the course of his long practice, aided by a series of fortunate speculations, he had amassed such a goodly sum that his name stood near the head of the list of Our Prominent Taxpayers, he drove a fine span of horses, and was free enough with his money, in a general way. That is, when some large philanthropic movement was on foot, Alonzo M. Broadstreet, Esq., was pretty sure to be down for a round sum. He pa...

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Excerpt from Lost on Umbagog "Now, look here, Ned, if you don't believe in this expedition, you can just stay at home and read Virgil." "You know very well that I'm up to that sort o' thing as much as any of you fellows, " replied Ned, with dignity. "Only it's all nonsense to rush off to the woods in the dead of winter, without looking the dangers in the face." Ned was always the conservative force in our Parliament, and we were pretty well...

Excerpt from Christmas on Wheels With which breath of summer in his winter of discontent the young man proceeded to finish his cigar, con sult his watch, and, as the last warn ing bell rang, step upon the platform of the already moving Pullman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgot...

Excerpt from Silver Rags Help! Help!" It was a girl's voice, clear and sharp with distress. The cry echoed over Loon Pond, and rang through the woods which surrounded its dimpled waters. In a small, flat-bottomed boat, about fifty yards from the shore, crouched a young girl of perhaps sixteen years, her face blanched with terror as she gazed into the depths beneath and uttered again and again that piercing cry: "Help! O quick, quick! Help!...

Excerpt from In the Morning In The Morning Vita Nuova. A Desert, treeless, boundless, The low sun round and red, Air stifling, moveless, soundless And I alone with my dead. Her head lay on my shoulder, The crimson light ebbed fast, Her face grew paler, colder - The face of my own dead Past. Then darkness, black and frightful, Dropped from the eastern sky, With never a star, but a night-full Of horrors creeping by. About the Publish...

Excerpt from Gulf and Glacier: Or the Percivals in Alaska "All aboard!" It was a bright July morning, and its gladness was reflected in the faces of the throng that hurried to and fro, like an army of particularly busy ants, in the Boston and Lowell Depot. Way trains puffed in and out, discharging their loads of out-of-town people, who poured through the doorway in an almost continuous stream, carrying baskets of lunch, bunches of pond lili...

Excerpt from The Violet Book Many of the selections in this volume are waifs and strays, found in obscure periodicals and newspapers, or in long-forgotten books on the dusty shelves of libraries. Some of them have been gathered from copyrighted works, and for the use of these the compiler owes and renders his best thanks. Special acknowledgments are due to the following publishers and copyright holders: About the Publisher Forgotten Books ...

Excerpt from Cleared for Action: A Story of the Spanish-American War of 1898 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. I...

Excerpt from Kelp: A Story of the Isles of Shoals "Wake up! wake up!" Tom Percival turned uneasily on his hot pillow, - it was the middle of a sultry night in June, - and was dropping off into a sounder nap than before, when a hand on his shoulder thoroughly roused him. It was his father who spoke. "Wake up, Tom, and dress yourself as fast as possible. I've just got word that there's a fire in our block down-town, and I want you to go with ...