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The Stellar LegionSilence was on the barracks like a lid clamped over tight-coiled springs. Men in rumpled uniformsoutlanders of the Stellar Legion, space-rats, the scrapings of the Solar Systemsweated in the sullen heat of the Venusian swamplands before the rains. Sweated and listened. The...

Exit From Asteroid 60Echo is naturally magnetic, probably more so than any other planetoidand Neal Bormon cursed softly, just to relieve his feelings, as that magnetism gripped the small iron plates on the soles of the rough boots with which the Martians had provided...

The CastawayWho was this bearded castaway of space? Some said he was Jonah. Others thought him a long-lost, mad scientist. But Lieutenant Brait knew him by a name that was old when the world was young. There was an ad in the classified columns...

Tizio Caio Sempronio: Storia mezzo romana Chi? domanderete. Il protagonista del mio racconto, il chiarissimo Tizio Caio Sempronio, cittadino romano, dell'ordine dei cavalieri. Non lo confondete, per carit, coi cavalieri moderni, che sono di pi ordini. A Roma i cavalieri formavano un ordine solo,...

The Running FightOnce, twice, thrice,failing miserably in his attempt to appear unconcerned,Ilingsworth paced back and forth in front of Peter V. Wilkinson's big house in Riverside Drive. There it stood: a massive, forbidding, modern pile of limestone, wholly unlike anything in its vicinity. And...

The Wreck of the CorsaireAll day long there had been a pleasant breeze blowing from abeam; but as the sun sank into the west the wind fined into light, delicate curls of shadow upon the sea that, at the hour of sundown, when the...

Kurjuksen kulukusta pelastunna: Entisestään vähissä meärin loajennettu murrejuttuPari kreikkalaista kirjailijaa toiselta vuosisadalta jlkeen Kristuksen syntymn, Ailianos ja Lukianos, ovat esittneet matkakertomuksia, joissa tmmisest merenkurimuksesta kerrotaan. Edellinen asettaa sen Hyperborealaisten (pohjantakalaisten) maan rajalle, nimitten sit Anostos (mist ei voi palata) ja mainiten sen olevan nieluntapaisen....

Tarzan and the Ant MenIn the filth of a dark hut, in the village of Obebe the cannibal, upon the banks of the Ugogo, Esteban Miranda squatted upon his haunches and gnawed upon the remnants of a half-cooked fish. About his neck was an...

Chicago and its cess-pools of infamyChicago is to the West what New York is to the East. It is not only the Great Metropolis of the western states, but is the chief attraction upon this continent, the great center to which our people resort...

Samlade skaldeförsökMin Sngm. Till Tonerna. Hvad jag helst ville vara. Det enda ordet. Den strsta boken. Svanen. Liljan. Perlan. Dufvan. Drufvan. Trnet. Perlbandet. Gossen och Filosofen. Stjernan. Flickan p Grafven (Barnsaga). Nktergalen (Saga, tillegnad Jenny Lind). Liljan och Fjrilen (Blekings-folkvisa). Den fattiges rikedom. Ung...

The City of Dreadful NightWe are all backwoodsmen and barbarians togetherwe others dwelling beyond the Ditch, in the outer darkness of the Mofussil. There are no such things as commissioners and heads of departments in the world, and there is only one city in...

Der HarzMag Samaria und Juda ein sehr fruchtbares Land gewesen sein, ich lobe mir dafr meine Gldene Au. So sprach, wie D. Luther erzhlt, Botho der Glckselige, Graf zu Stolberg, als er am 9. Februar 1494 von seiner Meerfahrt in das Gelobte Land in...

Cristóbal Colón y el descubrimiento de América, Tomo 2 - Historia de la geografía del nuevo continente y de los progresos de la astronomía náutica en los siglos XV y XVILo que ms halaga instruye en la historia filosfica de los descubrimientos y en...

Cristóbal Colón y el descubrimiento de América, Tomo 1 - Historia de la geografía del nuevo continente y de los progresos de la astronomía náutica en los siglos XV y XVILos siglos en que se revela con mayor viveza el movimiento intelectual presentan el...

Dick Merriwell's Assurance; Or, In His Brother's FootstepsA half million enthusiastic followers of the Merriwell brothers will attest the unfailing interest and wholesomeness of these adventures of two lads of high ideals, who play fair with themselves, as well as with the rest of...

Peggy from KerryIts really the most horrible thing! said Mrs. Wyndham. I dont know what to do about it; and your father is so determined! I cant shake his confidence that he is right, do as I will. Mrs. Wyndhams eyes filled with tears....

A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Vol. II death (143), army (116), Tower of London (95), war, died, battle, arms, money, power, enemies, soldiers, reign, prison, unhappy, insurrection, condemned, vain, treaty, refuge, possession, influence, forces,...

Langs de ZuiderzeeIn dit boek vertelt een wandelaar vluchtig van wat hij alzoo heeft ondervonden en wat hem door het hoofd is gegaan bij uitstapjes langs en over de Zuiderzee. Als je alles goed zoudt vertellen van al die aardige steden, al de mooie...

Beyond LightThey stood in the Orestes' tiny observation turret, Mallory's defiant arm still tight about the slim and lovely girl, just exactly as bull-voiced Captain Lane had found them. The shimmering reflection of the planet Venus, only a few thousand miles ahead, bathed the...

Meine erste WeltreiseNapoleon auf Sankt Helena. (Mmorial relatif la captivit de Napolon Ste-Hlne.) Von Sir Hudson Lowe (Gouverneur von St. Helena). Mit vier Tafeln nach alten Originalkupferstichen und mit andern zeitgenssischen Abbildungen. Broschiert 4 Mark. In Leinenband 5 Mark. Meine Abenteuer. (Meine Flucht aus...