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The Eyes Have It and Tony and the Beetles

by Philip K. Dick

The Eyes Have It is a science fiction short story by american author Philip K. Dick. Aliens have invaded the earth! Horrible one celled creatures disguised as normal human beings ! Well, at least that is what it seems to the author. Yes, The Eyes Have It is a whimsical story, making gentle fun of certain writing styles, but only a topflight science..

Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition. I..

Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron

by Rudyard Kipling

Some thirty of her Majesty’s men-of-war were involved in this matter; say a dozen battleships of the most recent, and seventeen or eighteen cruisers; but my concern was limited to one of a new type commanded by an old friend. I had some dim knowledge of the interior of a warship, but none of the new world into which I stepped from a Portsmouth wher..

Fringes Of The Fleet

by Rudyard Kipling

The Fringes of the Fleet is a booklet written in 1915 by Rudyard Kipling. The booklet contains essays and poems about nautical subjects in World War I. It is also the title of a song-cycle written in 1917 with music by the English composer Edward Elgar and lyrics from poems in Kipling's booklet...

Abaft The Funnel

by Rudyard Kipling

This is a collection of stories (and one poem) in the reprinting of which, Kipling’s hand was forced. He had not intended that these particular items should be republished after their original appearance in the Civil and Military Gazette, the Pioneer and Pioneer Mail, the Week’s News, and the C&MG 'Turnovers' between 1888 and 1890. In 1909, B.W..

France At War: On the Frontier of Civilization

by Rudyard Kipling

There was a specimen tree—a tree worthy of such a park—the sort of tree visitors are always taken to admire. A ladder ran up it to a platform. What little wind there was swayed the tall top, and the ladder creaked like a ship's gangway. A telephone bell tinkled 50 foot overhead. Two invisible guns spoke fervently for half a minute, and broke off li..

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by Daniel Defoe inspired by the real life experiences of the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk. This novel narrates the adventurous journey of a sailor whose shipwreck turned his life to staying alone for decades in Islands where only Cannibals lived. While Robinson Crusoe's parents wa..

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

Dracula is a horror novel written by Bram Stoker, which narrates the battle between the Dracula count which tries to invade into England in search of fresh blood and Professor Van Helsing and his team which tries to stop Count leaving Transylvania. This Gothic fiction work is narrated in epistolary format which portrays the incidents happening in..