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This 1929 adventure novel by John Buchan features his popular character Sandy Arbuthnot. The story is set in the fictional South American country of Olifa....

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Described by Buchan as an "auld Highland story", it is set in 1745, the year when Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in Scotland and set in play the events that...

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John Buchan's political novel A Lodge in the Wilderness imagines a conference organized by a wealthy man named Francis Carey. Carey has invited eighteen...

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The hero of the novel is Adam Melfort, who marries young to a beautiful but mindless socialite who cannot return his love for her. When she forges her...

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The collection is made up of eight stories, all set in the Scottish Highlands and with an element of the supernatural.

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The Free Fishers by John Buchan tells the story of a young man named Peter who leaves his studies to go salmon fishing in the Scottish highlands. There he...

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A young boy, Bill, buys a walking stick from a roadside pedlar. He discovers that it's a magic stick that will take the owner to anywhere he wishes....

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The Half-Hearted tells the story of Lewis Haystoun, a young Scottish aristocrat who struggles to find purpose and meaning. In the first part of the novel,...

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In Witch Wood, John Buchan spins a mesmerizing tale of mysterious events in seventeenth-century rural Scotland. At the time the novel appeared, Samuel...

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A Son of the Sun is a mosaic novel by Jack London first published in 1912. It takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in the South Pacific and...

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Jody Luther is a 15 year-old white girl battling insanity at home and hate-filled 1970 Jackson, Mississippi leading to the Jackson State Massacre. Jody has...

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Thorne Smith's comic mystery novel, in the vein of Topper and Turnabout.

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Seven-year-old Sam finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck and alone on an uninhabited coastline of Alaska. He is eventually found by native people...

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Orignally published in The Blue Book Magazine (Oct 1920), "Little Death" tells the story of a mink named Little Death, following his interactions with a...

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The story naturally falls into two parts. The first deals with a wasteful young American who is induced to take charge of a trading expedition to the...

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The Tower of Ivory follows Margaret Hill, a singer whose talent attracts Al Levering. He rescues her from the notorious dive in which she is performing...

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"Aunt Flora" is a short story by Louis Bromfield (1896–1956), an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition, winning the...

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Hugh Gaylord, spoiled young heir to more wealth than is good for him is shamed into going on a "he-man" adventure, looking to make something more of himself...

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Mild-mannered investment banker, cuckold, and dipsomaniac T. Lawrence Lamb gains perspective on the human condition during a series of mysterious...