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Maurice Leblanc's classic 1909 thriller pits France's Gentleman Burglar against England's Great D...

In the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, there are two graves. Each is covered by a black ston...

Twenty years before Peary, a French scientific expedition to the North Pole becomes stranded in t...

The Wing, A Romance of the New Age (1911) is the story of the alerion, a flying machine capable o...

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The mysterious Lord Ruthwen travels to Venice and strikes again, killing the beautiful Bettina an...

The Year 5865 was published in 1865. It is a remarkable novel, consisting of a first-person narra...

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In 1675, a female vampire possessing the secret of immortality was burned alive. Forty-five years...

S. Henry Berthoud (1804-1891) was a writer of considerable ability, remembered today mostly for h...