Der Chancellor Jules Verne - Der Passagier, der 1869 von den USA nach Europa reisen will, schifft sich auf dem Dreimaster Chancellor ein, der unter Kapitan Huntly über den Atlantik von Charleston (South Carolina) nach Liverpool fahren soll.
Twain originally envisioned the characters of Luigi and Angelo Capello as conjoined twins, modeled after the late-19th century Italian conjoined twins Giovanni and Giacomo Tocci.
Excerpt: "e;So the struggle for existence continued till I seemed to see all the world before me with its myriads of wild creatures preying upon one another; the spirit of nature, unquenchable as the fires of the sun, continuing ceaseless and imperturbable in its inscrutable design.
Excerpt: "e;Next day, upon resuming our journey, it pleased me to try to find the trail to Betatakin, the most noted, and surely the most wonderful and beautiful ruin in all the West.
"e;Desert Gold,"e; tells the story of Dick Gale, a restless wanderer in the west, and George Thorne, a US Army officer, who are brought together to protect Mercedes, George's romantic interest, who is being relentlessly pursued by a Mexican bandit named Rojas.
College student Ken Ward dreams of making the varsity baseball team, but as a freshman he doesn't stand a chance until he proves himself with, of all things, a potato!
The Call of the Canyon is a more contemporary, romantic tale, yet it still is characterized by a love of the West that shines through in his so many of Grey[s other novels.
In this classic, a lone camper in the forest overhears a conversation that convinces him to leave his wild paradise to save a young woman from certain doom.
