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Excerpt from The House of Whispers The girl, quickly snatching away her hand, answered with a forced laugh, How absurd you really are, dear old dad! You're always fancying something or other. 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 digital...

Excerpt from The Sign of the Seven Sins No, I dare not reveal everything here, lest I may be misjudged. The narrative is, to say the least, a strange one, so amazing, indeed, that had I not been one of the actual persons concerned therein I would never have believed that such things could be. Yet these chapters of an eventful personal his tory, remarkable though they may appear, are nevertheless the truth, a combination of unusual circumstan...

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Excerpt from The Spider's Eye And you told them nothing, my dear George, she exclaimed with a slight smile. You are English, and an Englishman knows how to keep his mouth closed where a woman is concerned. 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 technol...

Excerpt from Lying Lips Already she had wrapped her big black hat in a newspaper to protect it from the dust, and placed it upon the rack, a fact which showed her to be at least no novice in the art of traveling. 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 ...

Excerpt from The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Chapters of Secret History In introducing myself to the reader of this chronicle of fact I suppose I ought - at the risk of using the first person singular a little too much - to explain that 1, Claude Munro, aged twenty-five, am son of Sir Reginald Munro, a man well known as a physician, a prominent prescriber of pills and powders in Wim pole Street. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publis...

Excerpt from Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England Colonel Mark Lockwood, Member for Epping, sounded a very serious warning note in the middle of 1908 when he asked questions of the Minister for War, and afterwards of the Prime Minister, respecting the presence of German spies in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and elsewhere. He pointed out that for the past two years these individuals, working upon a care fully prepared plan, had be...

Excerpt from The Way to Win Courage and resolution and a hard fist are the keys of the situation for the Allies. We have them in abundant measure. And unless Britain is unthinkably false to all the traditions that have made her great, our triumph in the Near To-morrow is assured. 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 ...

A dystopian invasion novel first published in 1906, which plays out a hypothetical German invasion and which sold over 1 million copies.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Excerpt from The Devil's Spawn: How Italy Will Defeat Them This is perhaps not surprising, for the Italian people are so complex in character that even those who have lived for many years in the country are often apt to misinterpret their politics and misjudge their intentions. The aim of this book is to endeavour to give, in plain, outspoken language, some idea of the various unknown phases of the Italian life and sentiment, as well as of t...

Excerpt from Stolen Souls Wrapped in furs until only my nose and eyes were visible, I was walking along the Nevski Prospekt in St. Petersburg one winter's evening, and almost involuntarily turned into the Dominique, that fashionable restaurant which, garish in its blaze of electricity, is situ ated in the most frequented part of the long, broad thoroughfare. It was the dining-hour, and the place, heated by high, grotesquely ornamented stoves,...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "I confess I'd like to know somethin' more about him." "Where did you run across him first?" "I didn't run across him, he ran across me, and in rather a curious way. We live in Linden Gardens now, you know. Several of the houses there are almost exactly alike, and about a month ago,...

Originally published in 1915, this work was partly meant as a sequel to the author's popular work "German Spies in England." I is a collection of rallying chapters about the perils of going war and the problems which must be overcome if Britain was to be victorious. The fact that this publication was written so early in the war gives great insight into the public fears as Europe embarked on years of bloodshed. This book is part of the World ...

Excerpt from Whatsoever a Man Soweth "Then you really don't intend to marry me, Wilfrid?" "The honour of being your husband, Tibbie, I must respectfully decline, " I said. "But I'd make you a very quiet, sociable wife, you know. I can ride to hounds, cook, sew clothes for old people, and drive a motor. What higher qualifications do you want?" "Well - love, for instance." "Ah! That's what I'm afraid I don't possess, any more than you do, "...

Excerpt from The Mysterious 3 "Do you know a Mr. Smithson, Gwen?" Sir is Charles Thorold asked his wife abruptly as he stood astride before the big fire in the hall. "Smithson?" Lady Thorold answered as she poured out the tea. "No. Who is he?" "I have no idea. Never heard of him." Then, addressing the butler, Sir Charles asked anxiously - "Did he leave a card, James?" "No, Sir Charles. He asked to sec you - or her ladyship." "Or me?" La...

Excerpt from The Stolen Statesman: Being the Story of a Hushed-Up Mystery "Look! Here he comes - at last!" cried a well-dressed young woman, evidently from the suburbs, who had been standing in patience for nearly an hour with a small knot of the curious in Downing Street, that narrow, official-looking thoroughfare which is the hub of the British Empire. The dark-painted door of the Prime Minister's old-fashioned official residence had been ...