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  • The Attic Murder
    S. Fowler Wright
    Francis Hammerton is arrested and convicted of involvement with a gang of confidence men--a charge of which he is entirely innocent--but escapes police custody when a cell door is left unlocked. He finds refuge at a nearby boarding house, but is arrested again when he discovers (and reports) the murdered body of an upstairs tenant--and then is unjustly accused of murder. The de...
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  • Dante’s Purgatorio
    Dante Alighieri / S. Fowler Wright
    In his introduction to THE INFERNO, the translator says: 'I suppose that a very great majority of English-speaking people, if they were asked to name the greatest epic poet of the Christian era in Western Europe, would answer Dante.' THE DIVINE COMEDY continues to be widely read today, whether for its religious inspiration or for the sheer power of its verse. In the second part...
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  • Dante’s Paradiso
    Dante Alighieri / S. Fowler Wright
    In his introduction to THE INFERNO, the translator says: 'I suppose that a very great majority of English-speaking people, if they were asked to name the greatest epic poet of the Christian era in Western Europe, would answer Dante.' THE DIVINE COMEDY continues to be widely read today, whether for its religious inspiration or for the sheer power of its verse. In the third part ...
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  • The Life of Sir Walter Scott
    S. Fowler Wright / SFowler Wright
    Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is one of the best-loved Scottish writers. Beginning with a series of poetry collections and nonfiction works, Scott quickly became known as a rising force in British letters. But it was with the publication of Waverley (1814), the first of a series of sixteen bestselling historical novels known collectively as the Waverley novels, that the writer e...
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  • Deluge
    S. Fowler Wright
    A great cataclysm shakes the world, and much of Great Britain sinks beneath the ocean during a terrifying windstorm that has already flattened most of mankind’s dwellings. Martin Webster and his wife, Helen, manage to survive that first horrible night, but become separated as waves of salt water come surging into the English countryside. Webster, believing his wife drowned, mov...
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  • The Last Days of Pompeii
    Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton / S. Fowler Wright
    In 79 A.D., in the beautiful resort town of Pompeii, Glaucus the Athenian meets Ione, and quickly falls in love with her--and she with him. But the Egyptian mage, Arbaces, wants the girl for himself, and will do anything to attain his goal, including accusing the handsome Greek of a murder that he has committed himself. Glaucus is sentenced to death in the gladiator’s ring. Can...
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  • Marguerite de Valois
    Alexandre Dumas / S. Fowler Wright
    In 1570s France, young King Charles IX is dominated by his mother, Queen Catherine de Medici. Catherine engineers the massacre of the Huguenot (Protestant) leaders, and also seeks to kill King Henry of Navarre, the leader of that faction, and the third in line to the French throne. But Henry proves to be a man of resourcefulness, intelligence, political savvy--and just plain lu...
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  • Cortez
    S. Fowler Wright
    In 1518, a Spanish conquistador named Hernando Cortez set out with a handful of men to conquer the hitherto-unknown Aztec Empire. Facing armies that numbered, at times, 10 or 20 or 100 times his strength, he pushed his way into the interior, determined to establish Christianity among the Indians, and to erect a Spanish colony there. That he succeeded, even with the advantage of...
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  • Seven Thousand in Israel
    S. Fowler Wright
    In late 1920s England, on the verge of the Great Depression, John Oakley owns a small manufacturing plant that has fallen on hard times. Taxes are rising, orders are dropping, and the firm is gradually heading towards bankruptcy. But his grown children--Alway, Frida, Elsie, and Nina--are clueless as to the financial situation of the family, and live their lives according to the...
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  • David the King
    S. Fowler Wright
    'The aim of this book has been no more than to give an imaginative construction of David’s life from when he was a petty king in Hebron to the birth of Solomon,' says S. Fowler Wright in his Preface, but this summary ignores the vivid characters that the author has created in this riveting historical novel taken from the pages of The Old Testament. David must overcome impossibl...
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  • The Lord’s Right in Languedoc
    S. Fowler Wright
    In medieval France, Count Gismond becomes locked in an escalating war of nerves between himself, the nearby town of Faucon-bas, and a mercenary captain named Halt Redwood. Gismond needs money to finance his lavish lifestyle, and the townsfolk refuse to give it. Both the Count and the town seek outside help in their war for dominance, with Redwood caught squarely in the middle. ...
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  • The Ordeal of Barata
    S. Fowler Wright
    British Doctor Enrico Dalston travels to Central America, where he finds himself entangled in the longstanding political quarrel between the republics of Barata and Bioli. On the voyage to Bioli, he becomes enamored of the beautiful daughter of Bioli President Gomez--and then is arrested when he steps foot in Barata. In an extraordinary turn of events, Dalston is suddenly named...
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  • The World Below
    S. Fowler Wright
    When George is transported to a far-future Earth, he finds himself caught between two very different species of humanity--the Amphibians, dwellers of the deeps, and the giant Dwellers, rulers of the large island that constitutes the major land mass. With the help of one of the Amphibians, George goes looking for any sign of two earlier time-travelers, neither of which has retur...
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  • The Island of Captain Sparrow
    S. Fowler Wright
    Stranded on an unknown island in the Pacific, Charlton Foyle must fight goat-like hominids, giant, semi-intelligent birds, degenerate pirate settlers, and the remnants of an ancient race of men with powers to foretell the future, in order to save the life and love of a beautiful French girl. 3 ...
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  • Power
    S. Fowler Wright
    Stanley Maitland, a young British politician, suddenly finds himself owning a super-weapon that makes him temporary Dictator of England. He wants to reform government and abolish all the unnecessary rules and regulations that have accumulated during the last century. Opposing him are the leaders of industry and the wealthy, entrenched upper classes. Can Stanley’s POWER overcome...
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  • Inquisitive Angel
    S. Fowler Wright
    When an inquisitive angel named Elya comes to Earth, she assumes the form of an extraordinarily beautiful young woman, and promptly proceeds to poke holes in the foundation of human society. Why, she wants to know, are we so irrational, so willing to lie to each other, and have so many ineffective laws on the books? When she assumes the form of a well-known judge, she overturns...
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  • Wyndham Smith
    S. Fowler Wright
    When Wyndham Smith is transported to the 45th century, he finds himself fighting a sterile dystopia in which machines have created a sterile womb for mankind, without pain or suffering. Humanity is on the verge of deliberate racial suicide, but Wyndham and Vinetta escape the doomed city, fleeing to Sicily. There they must fight a Man Killer robot that has been programmed to eli...
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  • The Blue Room
    S. Fowler Wright
    In this alternate history of 1990, the world is dominated by three great nation-states. When the United States of Europe declares 'limited war' on The Commonwealth of English-Speaking Nations, Lord Seeley Whitcombe must travel to Europe to find some way out of Armageddon. But the deranged European scientist, Richter, is determined to destroy most of mankind, leaving him in char...
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  • Red Ike
    J. M. Denwood / S. Fowler Wright
    In 1883 Cumberland, England, Red Ike and his friend Will Moffatt must persevere through great difficulties and hardships to build a life for themselves and for the women they love. A classic tale, also published as Under the Brutchstone. 3 ...
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  • Megiddo’s Ridge
    S. Fowler Wright
    In 1938 the Nazis launch a sudden attack on Czechoslovakia, which they quickly subdue, and also on England, which proves to be a much harder morsel to digest. As the allies from the West gather their forces in Palestine for a final climactic battle at Megiddo’s Ridge, British spy Richard Steele, who has infiltrated the highest levels of the German command, uncovers a great secr...
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  • Four Days’ War
    S. Fowler Wright
    The Nazis attack the West--in 1938! First their Blitzkrieg attacks and subdues Czechslovakia. Now it’s England’s turn, as wave after wave of German bombers devastate London and the other big cities. British spy Richard Steele has evidence of an appalling Nazi weapon, a gas that freezes everything it touches. But Steele’s stuck in Germany--can he return home in time to warn Bri...
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  • The Song of Songs and Other Poems
    S. Fowler Wright
    This beautifully rendered sequence of traditional poetry tells the story of King Solomon of Israel and the Shulamite girl. Also included are 'Some Songs of Bilitis' and 'Songs of Balochistan.' 3 ...
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  • Prelude in Prague
    S. Fowler Wright
    In 1935 S. Fowler Wright penned the first volume of an SF trilogy based on the notion--then considered absurd--that Adolf Hitler was an evil, empire-seeking megalomaniac bent on conquering the world. First Hitler rearms Germany, then forces Europe to accept the German occupation of Austria, and finally gives Czechoslovakia an ultimatum: accept German rule--or be conquered! The ...
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  • The British Colonies
    S. Fowler Wright
    In early 1939 writer S. Fowler Wright penned a passionate polemic against the policy of appeasement then being practised by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Already, both Austria and Czechoslovakia had been handed over to Nazi Germany, in order to 'preserve the peace'--and now some were proposing to give the Nazis several British colonies as well. Wright was one of t...
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  • Who Murdered Reynard? A Classic Crime Novel
    S. Fowler Wright
    Prof. Blinkwell, the suave, unscrupulous scientist and criminal mastermind, is back, this time visiting Paris. When Henri Reynard, the official investigating Blinkwell, is murdered in the hotel suite of the U.S. Ambassador, the prime suspect becomes Scotland Yard detective William Kindell, who’s released when his identity is confirmed. But the Ambassador’s daughter is kidnapped...
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  • The Wills of Jane Kanwhistle
    S. Fowler Wright
    Jane Kanwhistle leaves ten thousand pounds from her estate to her nephew, Frederick Corder--provided that he commit a different crime each and every day for a year, and avoid prosecution and imprisonment. Fred and his writer wife Adeline decide to carry out the terms. But when their cousin Percy, Kanwhistle’s primary heir, is murdered, Fred is accused of the crime--and only Mr....
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  • Was Murder Done? A Classic Crime Novel
    S. Fowler Wright
    Crime writer Alfred Culbertson concocts a scheme to increase his royalties: he’ll fake the murder of his cousin, Thomas Birchell (who’s also hard-up for cash), and together they’ll reap a bonanza. When Tom takes a dive off a nearby cliff, supposedly to reappear at a later date, all seems to be well -- until a mutilated corpse wrapped in Tom’s clothes washes ashore. Is Tom reall...
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  • Three Witnesses
    S. Fowler Wright
    Roger Truscott and brother Cyril inherit a controlling interest in their late father’s firm. Rowton, the company manager, urges them to sell out before the business fails. The brothers argue in Rowton’s office, and shortly thereafter, Cyril is shot dead on the entrance stairs. Three witnesses claim to have seen the brothers together at the exit. Is Roger doomed to hang, or can ...
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  • Too Much for Mr. Jellipot
    S. Fowler Wright
    When Phillip Briggs is murdered in his bed, the prime suspects are Robert Ames, his partner, Henry Gilson, a major investor in the firm, Reggie Tudor, Mr. Jellipot’s clerk, and Mr. Jellipot himself, heir to the Briggs estate. Then Ames disappears, and Briggs’ niece accuses Gilson of BEING Ames. Gilson sues the niece, and Jellipot must provide her defense. Can Inspector Combridg...
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  • The Secret of the Screen
    S. Fowler Wright
    In The Bell Street Murders, Evelyn Merivale had helped the police solve the murder of her friend, Wilfrid Ralston, who’d invented a process to revolutionize the motion picture industry. But the master criminal, Professor Blinkwell, still wants the lucrative equation, and so he kidnaps the young woman to blackmail her paramour, Sir Reginald Crowe. Only Inspector Combridge and th...
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