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Oppenheim, E. Phillips, using the pseudonym Partridge Anthony, is the author of The Golden Web. The Little Anna Gold Mine, which was found in South Africa by Stirling Deane, has been sold. He is now wealthy as a result of the sale and works as the Head of the business to whom he sold the mine. A former acquaintance from his time in South Africa has appeared and claims that he is the mine's owner and that he has the mine's original deed. A few ...

Hugh Thomson, a surgeon-major, and Geraldine Conyers are engaged. He is in command of military counter-intelligence while being ostensibly in charge of military hospitals on the French front. He is a German master spy who appears to be able to cross borders and switch between Germany and England. After being twice captured and again escaping the Germans, Captain Granet is a wounded war hero who was recently given the DSO. He meets Geraldine Co...

American sportsmen don't need an introduction to Buffalo Jones. He spent almost his whole life pursuing wild animals after being born on the Illinois prairie sixty-two years ago. It has been a chase that has been driven by a single passion-almost an obsession-to catch alive rather than to kill that has given it an unwavering vigor and unbreakable purpose. Every well-known wild animal that is native to western North America has been captured an...

The book The Double Four opens with Peter Ruff who chooses to leave the criminal underworld for the more lucrative career of a private investigator. Peter is the ideal investigator because of his connections to the underworld and his ability to appear as somebody else. Mr. Ruff is incredibly prosperous in his new job, and Violet Brown, his trustworthy and beautiful assistant, helps him out tremendously. He is seen and accepted as a leader by a...

E. Phillips Oppenheim is the author of the mystery book The Great Impersonation, which was published before 1920. German Leopold von Ragastein, who meets his English doppelganger Everard Dominey in Africa, is the main character of the story. Just before World War I, he plots to kill Dominey and steal his identity in order to spy on English high society. However, in this story of romance, political intrigue, and a (literally) haunted history, q...

The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy includes the novel The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story begins in Paris in April 1794, when Theresia Cabarrus is betrothed to Citizen Tallien, a popular Representative in the Convention and member of Robespierre's inner circle. Later, a handsome, impulsive young man named Bertrand Moncrief looks prepared to commit himself in opposition to the revolutionary government. In order to do thi...

The Gods of Mars' is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and it was printed in a complete book form in 1918. The main characters in this novel are John Carter and Carter's wife Dejan Thoris. After the long deportation on Earth, John Carter returned to his beloved Mars. But Dejan Thoris, the woman he loved, had disappeared. Now he was confined in the famous Eden of Mars. This book also holds most probably the first-e...

The Seventh Man's Horse" is a western novel by Max Brand. The story follows the adventures of Dan Barry, a wild and unpredictable young man who is feared and respected by all who know him. Dan Barry is known for his exceptional horse-riding skills and his ability to train even the wildest of horses. When a group of outlaws steal his prized horse, the Seventh Man's Horse, Dan sets out to track them down and get his horse back. Along the way, Da...

Uncle Tom's Cabin describes the story of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person portrayed as innocent and honorable, respectable and ethical in his beliefs. While being shifted by boat to an auction in New Orleans, Tom saves the life of Little Eva, a lovely and forgiving little girl, whose thankful dad then buys Tom. Later, Eva and Tom become great friends. Eva is always in a delicate situation and starts to decline quickly, and on her deathbed, she re...

The Old Curiosity Shop, novel by Charles Dickens, first printed sequentially in 1840-41 in Dickens's own weekly, Master Humphrey's Clock, it was later published in book form in 1841. The novel was exceptionally praised in its early days but later it was contempted for its embarrassed emotionality. The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of Little Nell Trent and the evil dwarf Quilp. When Little Nell's grandfather lost his curiosity shop to his len...

The Yellow Crayon, which was written before 1903, goes into more detail on the exploits of Mr. Sabin, who is a cherished main character searching for a startling truth about whose wife Lucille has been singled out by an unidentified secret society. Lucille becomes motivated to learn the truth about her connections to the industry in her abrupt absence. Now, Mr. Sabin is back with a case involving his wife, an unanticipated victim. He is quickl...

The Zeppelin's Passenger is a fictional suspense story by E. Phillips Oppenheim. A Zeppelin crashes in a small English town and at first, no one realizes it was carrying a mysterious passenger. A tense melodrama about espionage and romance during World war I. The plot revolves around the residents of Dreymarsh finding an observation car from a German zeppelin and a Homburg hat nearby. When Mr. Hamar Lessingham, an Englishman, shows up at Sir H...

A powerful love tale from 1913 written by E. Phillips Oppenheim about the struggle of a young Englishman. The narrative is based on Douglas Guest, an orphan who was raised in the North of England by his strict, pious, and unyielding uncle, Gideon Strong. He is ordered by his uncle to wed his cousin and accept a position as a clergyman in their little village, but he confronts him, steals the money meant for his schooling, and flees to London. ...

Ismailia (1874) can be considered an autobiography of Sir Samuel W. Baker as it describes the author's expedition to Central Africa. An exceptional narrative of Sir Samuel W. Baker's mission to stop the slave trade in Central Africa. Baker took charge of the Sudanese area in southern Egypt alongside a force of 1700 men from the Khedive Authority. He engaged in multiple conflicts with slave traders before establishing a reliable trading territo...

Peter Ruff And The Double Four is a book written by E. Phillips Oppenheim. A set of short stories about the gentleman criminal and master of disguise ''Peter Ruff''. The main character, Peter Ruff, goes to great lengths to discredit a police investigator who got in his way and abducted his lady. Following a career in crime, Peter Ruff decides to use his insider knowledge to work as a private investigator. Along with action, fancy English conve...

G.A. Henty was a prolific English novelist born on 8 December 1832 near Cambridge. In his childhood facing the health issues, he was almost confined to bed so, he developed a good hobby of reading books. For his education he joined Westminster School London and Cambridge University. He had good interest in sports also. In 1853, Crimea war broke out, by the time he decided to join the British army and he went Crimea as war correspondent. After ...

Walden And On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience'' is written by Sir Henry David Thoreau. The main idea of this book by Henry David Thoreau is to find the meaning of life. The author set out to think about himself, life, and the place of man in the universe. In this book, Thoreau made the case that if the government forces people to uphold injustice by adhering to "unjust laws, " they should "break the law, " even if doing so results in jail time....

Percival Lowell's theories that intelligent life exists or formerly lived on Mars and constructed the canals are subject to a scientific assessment in the book "Is Mars Habitable? " Lowell was an amateur astronomer, but Wallace is a scientist by profession and applies science to Mars with a little more discipline. An article about the likelihood of biological life existing on Mars is titled "Is Mars Habitable." The Welsh town of Llanbadoc is w...

The 1918 book In Defense of Women by H. L. Mencken discusses women and how the sexes interact. The book has received both progressive and reactionary reviews. Mencken did not advocate for women's rights, but he did disparage ordinary males by describing women as wiser in a number of innovative and observable ways. The defense was originally titled A Book for Men Only, but it also had the working titles The Eternal Feminine and The Infernal Fem...

The Apology by Plato is a description of the statement Socrates gives during his trial. Socrates is accused of creating new gods and ruining Athens' young. By no means is Socrates' speech an "apology" in the sense we use today. Socrates generally uses extremely simple, conversational language. Socrates compares himself to a gadfly stinging a lethargic horse, the Athenian state, in The Apology of Socrates. He then starts questioning Meletus, wh...