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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 ...

Excerpt from Poems and BalladsTo the Editors of the London Daily Express, Country Life, and my thanks for the hospitality they have given to some of these verses in their columns.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 uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the ...

Excerpt from The PresentationFrance had long been accustomed to the rule, not of kings, but of favourites and ministers, and at the pres ent moment in the year of our Lord, 1770, she was under the rule of the most kind-hearted of women since the harmless La Valliere and the most upright min ister since Colbert.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis b...

Excerpt from Fanny Lambert: A NovelHe was an orphan blessed with a small competency. His Income, to use his own formula, consisted Of a hundred a year and an uncle. During the first four months or so Of the year he spent the hundred pounds, during the rest Of the year he squandered his uncle that is to say he would have squandered him only for the fact that Mr James Hancock, Of the firm of Hancock Hancock, solicitors, was a person most difficu...

Excerpt from The Drums of WarWell, said the Baron, rising to go, to - morrow, we will expect you in the afternoon. Till then, fare well.He saluted me as he left the room in the same forced, half-jocular manner with which he had returned my salute when I entered.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 w...

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Excerpt from Garryowen: The Romance of a Race-Horse 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. In rare cases, an imperfec...

Excerpt from The Rapin IN the rooms of my friend Otto Struve there hangs a parrot cage containing a somewhat de jected-looking lark. It was given to him by Gus tave Garnier, the man who took the Prix de Rome last year-or was it the year before? - and whose picture of a girl was bought by the state for I do not know how many thousand francs before it had hung a fortnight in the Salon. A story connects the painter and the picture and the bird -...

Excerpt from The Presentation France had long been accustomed to the rule, not of kings, but of favourites and ministers, and at the pres ent moment in the year of our Lord, 1770, she was under the rule of the most kind-hearted of women since the harmless La Valliere and the most upright min ister since Colbert. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com...

Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1863-1951) was an Irish author, best known for his 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, which was adapted three times for the silver screen. His 1914 Monsieur de Rochefort was also published in the United States as The Presentation. The Comte de Rochefort uncovers a plot to sabotage the presentation of Madame Dubarry at the French court and foils it,

Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1863-1951) was an Irish author, best known for his 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, which was adapted three times for the silver screen. The Beach of Dreams is a tale of shipwreck and rescue.

Stacpoole's often-filmed 1908 romance is a classic of lyrical beauty, as two children are castaway on a beautiful island and grow up there, innocent of the real world.

Stacpoole's often-filmed 1908 romance is a classic of lyrical beauty, as two children are castaway on a beautiful island and grow up there, innocent of the real world.

This early work by Henry De Vere Stacpoole was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Patsy' is a novel by the author of 'The Man Who Lost Himself'. Henry De Vere Stacpoole was born on April 9th 1863 in Kingstown, Ireland. After finishing his education, Stacpoole travelled widely, taking up a job as a ship's doctor. His time spent at sea undoubtedly inspired many stories and charac...

This early work by Henry De Vere Stacpoole was originally published in 1914 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry De Vere Stacpoole was born on April 9th 1863 in Kingstown, Ireland. After finishing his education, Stacpoole travelled widely, taking up a job as a ship's doctor. His time spent at sea undoubtedly inspired many stories and characters in his later writing. Stacpoole's writing career started wi...