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An African fantasy of adventure and the supernatural by the author of King Solomon's Mines.

Credulity is a curious thing, " went on Treherne in a low voice. "It is more negative than positive, and yet it is infinite. Hundreds of men will avoid walking under a ladder, they don't know where the door of the ladder will lead. They don't really think God would throw a thunderbolt at them for such a thing. They don't know what would happen, that is just the point, but yet they step aside as from a precipice. So the poor people here may or ...

Three Englishmen, marooned on a mysterious South Sea island, learn of the islanders' powerful god Oro, who has been sleeping for 250, 000 years. They manage to wake him, along with his beautiful daughter, who is the spitting image of the hero's dead wife, while he is a ringer for her lost love. Other residents of an ancient Atlantean civilization are also returned to life in this tale of spirit travel, reincarnation, occult powers, teleportati...

In What's Wrong with the World, the brilliant G. K. Chesterton takes a hard look at what's wrong with England in 1910, and his insights are just as true for America in 2007. He rails against both capitalism and socialism, for both are equally dehumanizing. Politicians, thinkers, and civic leaders on both ends of the spectrum flail away at social problems by attacking symptoms--poverty, homelessness, and so on--but make the symptoms worse becau...

Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth-century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. An overtly moralistic work of unabashed propaganda, it is an attempt to make whites--North and South--see slaves as mothers, fathers, and children--as human beings. Her basic...

The first of William Morris's great fantasies. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

A magic mask, strange objects, a lost race, reincarnation, and an immortal woman who has preserved her dead husbands as mummies--all play a part in this supernatural thriller.

Of the three stories that comprise this volume, one, 'The Wizard, ' a tale of victorious faith, first appeared some years ago as a Christmas Annual. Another, 'Elissa, ' is an attempt, difficult enough owing to the scantiness of the material left to us by time, to recreate the life of the ancient Phoenician Zimbabwe, whose ruins still stand in Rhodesia, and, with the addition of the necessary love story, to suggest circumstances such as might h...

A comic thriller set in an English prep school for the children of nobility. Into their midst comes eleven-year-old Ogden Ford, the mouthy, overweight, chain-smoking son of an American millionaire. Ogden is the object of a kidnapping attempt, and the ensuing complications provide a side-splitting example of Wodehouse's classic comedy. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War I, a group of adventurers are marooned on Caprona, a hidden island suspended in time and inhabited by dinosaurs, cavemen, and scattered bands of human beings. Will the adventurers be able to escape?

The King of the Golden River is the story of young Gluck, a headstrong boy with two dreadful brothers who consistently mistreat him. One day, Gluck and his brothers go off to find the Golden River's source. When they do, they discover the King of the Golden River, who teaches them how to turn the Golden River into real gold. A popular children's story, The King of the Golden River dramatizes the moral that loving money more than people leads t...

The author writes, "It is enough to say that when Allan Quatermain, in the opening sentence of his narrative, speaks of this as 'one of the strangest of all the adventures which have befallen me in the course of a life, that so far can scarcely be called tame or humdrum, ' he is well within the mark.

Three short ghost stories (in the vein of A Christmas Carol) that originally appeared as Christmas tales. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Young Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, pieces of eight, and bottles of rum are all immortalized in this classic adventure on the seven seas. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Includes: Law of attraction in the thought world, Thought-waves and their power of reproduction, About the mind, Mind building, Secret of the will, How to become immune to injurious thought attraction, Transmutation of negative thought, Law of mental control, Asserting the life force, Training the habit mind, Psychology of the emotions, Developing new brain cells, Attractive power-desire force, Law, not chance. Newly designed and typeset in a ...

The Innocence of Father Brown is the first book of G.K. Chesterton's ingenious, thoughtful, and lyrically written mystery stories featuring the unassuming little priest who solves crimes by imagining himself inside the mind and soul of criminals, thus understanding their motives. The stories are full of paradox, spiritual insight, and "Chestertonian fantasy, " or seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. In this sterling collection, widely con...

An Englishman meets--and falls in love with--the duchess of Sant-Maclou in Normandy.

A romance takes place in a hidden city of immortals discovered by an intrepid heroine in the Egyptian desert. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

The original Book of the Grail was written early in the 13th century, but only fragments of the manuscript survive. The High History of the Holy Graal is the first volume of Perceval le Gallois, or the Story of the Grail, compiled in 1866 from a 16th-century copy of the original. This most complete version of the Grail story is an essential addition to the library of anyone who is interested in this most enduring of legends.

A swashbuckling tale of romance and adventure by the author of The Prisoner of Zenda. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.