Called "as gripping and realistic a sea tale as you are likely to run across" by the New York Times, C. S. Forester's Beat to Quarters finds Hornblower faced with a near-impossible mission off the coast of Nicaragua. June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua -- a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner...
Two Novellas by Yae (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)
by Youssouf Amine Elalamy and John Liechty
Two Novellas by YAE comprises two works by Youssouf Amine Elalamy, also known as YAE, translated from French into English for the first time. A Moroccan in New York tells the tale of a young man seeking to make sense of two cultures which seemingly could not be more opposite, yet, are on many levels, so much the same. Autobiographical, YAE's story is the compilation of the musings of a young man on a Fulbright grant in New York in the early 1990s. In particular, the work reveals multiple misconc...
B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. This is one of her stories.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad "The Classic Annotated & Complete Unabridged Volume"
by Joseph Conrad
Captains Courageous a Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling
by Rudyard Kipling
Eine kluge, politische Satire voll bitterer Wahrheiten und fast schon prophetischer Voraussicht in die gesellschaftspolitische Entwicklung unserer Zeit, geschrieben von James Fenimore Cooper, dem Autor der Lederstrumpf-Romane. Die immer noch Gultigkeit besitzende Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftskritik dieser Fabel befasst sich mit den Eitelkeiten der Menschen, dem Streben nach Macht und Geld, der Globalisierung und der AbsurditGeld, der Globalisierung und der Absurditat fremdartiger Gebrauche. Coo...
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad The New Annotated Literary Version
by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad The New Annotated Adventure Story
by Joseph Conrad
John Masefield was sent to join a training ship at a young age, his aunt hoping the experience would cure him of his addiction to books. Instead, Masefield was to become one of the greatest writers on life at sea. In this collection of short stories, extracts from novels, poetry (including 'Sea-Fever' and 'Cargoes') and autobiography, he writes of the hardship, romance and adventure of seafaring with a sailor's way with language and sense of a good yarn: of life in dock and on the swelling seas,...