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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Lost EndeavorHaving dressed, we seat ourselves in our friend's verandah, and look down, by way of a quaint 'little wooden street, at the harbour, across which the faint outline of the Australian coast will presently be peeping up.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Bo...

Excerpt from The Beautiful White DevilMaloney knocked the ash off his cigar on his chair-arm and said, by way of explanation, Our friend Peckle, gentlemen, chowed last night at Government House. He hasn't sloughed his company manners yet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books use...

Excerpt from Love Made ManifestIn physique the boy was tall and well made, his hands and feet were small and neatly Shaped. His head, from a phrenological, and indeed from any other point of view, was a magnificent one, and crowned with a wealth of curly hair that in the sun light shone like molten gold. His features were a tri¿e disappointing, perhaps, but on the other hand they bore unmistakable promise of improvement with age. For the prese...

Excerpt from In Strange Company: A Story of Chili and the Southern SeasTo begin with, my name is Luke Sanctuary, I am a bachelor, a man of regular and studious habits, the possessor of what is vaguely termed a comfortable income, and, as the result of such an income, a house, my friends tell me, of considerable attractions, situated in that Garden of all England, the Isle Of Wight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousa...

This fourth novel of Boothby's Dr. Nikola series reveals that Nikola has discovered all of the facts necessary to extend a human being's life. He has studied science and magic secrets of Tibetan monks. He explains: "It has been a long and tedious search, but such labour only makes success the sweeter. The machinery is now prepared, all that remains is to fit the various parts together. In six months' time, if all goes well, I will have a man w...

In this second of Boothby's Dr. Nikola novels, adventurer Wilfred Bruce meets Dr. Nokola, who wants to hire Bruce to help him penetrate a secluded Chinese monastic society to obtain the occult secret for immortality. Dr. Nikola demonstrates to Bruce that he and his black cat have magical powers. He learned of the Chinese society from a disgraced Oxford don who spent many years in China and from an old Buddhist priest. He tells Bruce: "I will c...

The plague is spreading across Europe -- a plague as vile and vicious as the plagues of the middle ages. It is a plague more virulent than any childhood disease: everyone will catch it, everyone who catches it will die. But this is no ordinary plague: it is the work of a sorcerer -- a man of exactly the stripe as Boothby's infamous villain, Nikola. One man knows how it's spread. One man can stop it -- if he can face PHAROS, THE EGYPTIAN. If he...

Let me begin by explaining that I have set myself the task of telling this story for two sufficient reasons. The first, because I consider that it presents as good a warning to a young fellow as he could anywhere find, against allowing himself to be deluded by a false hatred into committing a sin that at any other time he would consider in every way contemptible and cowardly, and the second because i think it just possible that it may serve to...

Of the Dr. Nikola series John Clute writes: "The heart of the series is devoted to the Doctor's convoluted search for a Tibetan process that will resuscitate the dead and ensure immortality in the living, and there are some hints that - unhampered by compunctions, armed with psi powers and blessed with a powerful experimental intellect - he may have reached his goal.

You can give me no explanation, then?" said Nikola, with one of his inscrutable smiles. "And yet, having accumulated this power, this knowledge, call it what you will, you would still bid me give up Science. Come, my friend, you have seen something of what it can do, would you be brave enough to try, with my help, to look into what is called The Great Unknown, and see what the future has in store for you? I fancy it could be done. Are you to b...

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