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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 Letters to a DjinnBut, Hinbad, remark that just after the name of the Thompsons the finger of fate - for I can not believe it to have been the mere finger of a secretary - traced in my own humble name. Who, you ask, would invite the social secretary, the poor relative, of the Panama Commissioner's wife to a ball at Government House? Obviously, no one. But there it was, in black on white.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes...

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The groundbreaking novel that was the basis for Frank Capra's strange, shocking drama starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther. Traveling to Shanghai to marry her medical missionary fiancé, the beautiful Megan Davis finds herself caught in the toils of civil war between Republican and Communist forces. Determined to save the inhabitants of an orphanage in a Communist-occupied city nearby, Megan joins a nighttime rescue mission that ends up un...

Excerpt from Letters to a Djinn Dear Hinbad: Immediately on opening this, I want yon to leave your apartment on Ninety-second Street and go somewhere - it matters little where - along the water-front near New York. The park down at Fort Hamilton where we used often to sit would perhaps answer the purpose, for it was there we watched the smoke of passing tramps and liners, the spread of occasional sails, and breathed strong airs fresh from th...

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Letters To A Djinn, By Gracce Zaring Stone. 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.