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  • Lorna Doone

    by R. D. Blackmore, Michelle Allen, R. D. Madison ...
    First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is ... Read more

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  • The Bounty Mutiny

    by William Bligh, Edward Christian ...
    The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersect on an April morning in 1789 near the island known today as Tonga. That morning, William Bligh and eighteen surly seamen were expelled from the Bounty and began what would be the ... Read more

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  • Army Life in a Black Regiment

    and Other Writings

    by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, R. D. Madison ...
    A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slavesThomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, ... Read more

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  • The Sea Lions

    Or, The Lost Sealers

    by James Fenimore Cooper, James P. Elliott, Lance Schachterle ...
    Series series The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
    An exciting adventure tale of sealers caught in the Antarctic ice in the early nineteenth century and forced to winter over in extreme conditions.The Sea Lions (1849) is the twelfth and last of Cooper's sea novels, a genre he largely invented. Drawing upon memories from nearly three decades earlier of his own ventures in whaling and his reviews of accounts of exploring and hunting in cold seas, ... Read more

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  • The Cruise of the Snark

    by Jack London ...
    Inspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the forty-five-foot ketch Snark, with his wife, Charmian, a skeleton crew, and his writing to keep him company. Beset by seasickness and tropical disease, London wrote incessantly—not only his major ... Read more

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  • The Essex and the Whale

    Melville's Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby-Dick

    Edited by R. D. Madison ...
    This fascinating anthology introduces readers to the literary side of Herman Melville's whaling world with an unprecedented collection of the original whaling texts from which Melville drew to create his masterpiece, Moby-Dick.The notorious 1820 sinking of the whaleship Essex inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, as recounted in Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling book In the Heart of the Sea: The ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • America's Darwin

    Darwinian Theory and U.S. Literary Culture

    by Tina Gianquitto, Lydia Fisher, Paul Ohler, Kimberly Hamlin, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Carol Anelli, Jeff Walker, Nicole Merola, Gregory Eiselein0, Melanie Dawson1, Lilian Carswell2, Karen Lentz Madison3, R.D. Madison4, Prof. Dr. Virginia Richter5, Heike Schaefer6 ...
    While much has been written about the impact of Darwin’s theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin’s theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America’s Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin’s works ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • Dariel A Romance of Surrey

    by R. D. Blackmore ...
    Meeting Dariel: George Cranleigh encounters Dariel while exploring the countryside. He is immediately struck by her beauty and the air of mystery surrounding her. Dariel lives with her father, Sergius, in a secluded part of Surrey.Growing Attraction: George and Dariel's paths continue to cross, and they develop a deep attraction to each other. However, the cultural and social differences between ... Read more

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  • Springhaven

    by R. D. Blackmore ...
    In the days when England trusted mainly to the vigor and valor of one man, against a world of enemies, no part of her coast was in greater peril than the fair vale of Springhaven. But lying to the west of the narrow seas, and the shouts both of menace and vigilance, the quiet little village in the tranquil valley forbore to be uneasy. ... Read more

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  • Mary Anerley

    A Yorkshire Tale

    by R. D. Blackmore ...
    Take a trip back in time to nineteenth-century Yorkshire in this emotionally engaging tale from British author R.D. Blackmore. Mary Anerley follows the life of the protagonist of the same name as she faces down the challenges of coming of age in an isolated rural environment. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • In the Heart of the Sea

    The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)

    by Nathaniel Philbrick ...
    **From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.In 1820, the whaleship Essex was ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Works Of Jules Verne

    by Jules Verne ...
    The works of Jules Verne in one giant collection with an active table of contents.Works include:20,000 Leagues Under the SeasAll Around the MoonAn Antarctic MysteryAround the World in Eighty DaysDick Sand - A Captain at FifteenEight Hundred Leagues on the AmazonThe English at the North PoleFive Weeks in a BalloonFrom the Earth to the MoonThe Fur CountryGodfrey MorganIn the Year 2889A Journey to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD