A very unusual Western novel: a young cowboy dreams of flight and thinks he'll learn in time to be ready to go to the front lines in his airship when the US enters WW1.
Excerpt: "e;Casey Ryan, hunched behind the wheel of a large, dark blue touring car with a kinked front fender and the glass gone from the left headlight, slid out from the halted traffic, shied sharply away from a hysterically clanging street car, crossed the path of a huge red truck coming in from his right, missed it with two inches to spare and was halfway down the block before the traffic officer overtook him.
Excerpt: "e;Quirt Creek flowed sluggishly between willows which sagged none too gracefully across its deeper pools, or languished beside the rocky stretches that were bone dry from July to October, with a narrow channel in the centre where what water there was hurried along to the pools below.
Excerpt: "e;"e;Rowdy"e; Vaughan-he had been christened Rowland by his mother, and rechristened Rowdy by his cowboy friends, who are prone to treat with much irreverence the names bestowed by mothers-was not happy.
Excerpt: "e;The reappearance of Olafson, the violinist, who had gone out in the blizzard and was lost seeking the north wind that he might learn the song it sang, and who, according to Happy Jack, returned to earth on moonlight nights to play his violin in the doorway of the deserted shack in One Man Coulee.
Excerpt: "e;The proper way to begin this story would be to assure the reader, first of all, that I have never believed in ghosts; that is the way ghost-stories usually begin, I think.
Der Ölprinz Karl May - Einem Betrug mit einer Ölquelle sind in dieser spannenden Erzählung Winnetou und Old Shatterhand auf der Spur, und mit ihnen viele weitere Westmänner: Hobble-Frank, Tante Droll und das lustige 'Kleeblatt' Sam Hawkens, Dick Stone und Will Parker.
Abenteuer und Fahrten des Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain - Dieser Roman stellt eine Fortsetzung des 1876 erschienenen Romans Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer dar und wird häufig mit diesem in einem Band veröffentlicht.
Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy and now regarded as one of his minor works.
A Lost Lady Willa Cather - A Lost Lady tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester who live in the Western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad.
Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations.
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol - Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888.
The Call of the Canyon Zane Grey - This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Call of the Canyon (Unabridged)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Excerpt: "e;The term "e;gringo"e;-a word of vague origin, once applied with contempt to the American in Mexico-is now used throughout Latin America, without its former opprobrium, to describe any foreigner.
Excerpt: "e;In April, 1873, Henry Vane was sitting on the perron of a small summer house in Brittany, poking the pebbles in the driveway with his cane.
Excerpt: "e;It consisted of a few hundred new American eagles and a few times as many Spanish doubloons; for pirates like good broad pieces, fit to skim flat-spun across the waves, or play pitch-and-toss with for men's lives or women's loves; they give five-dollar pieces or thin British guineas to the boy who brings them drink, and silver to their bootblacks, priests, or beggars.
In this first novel by one of the western's most published writers, mistaken identities bring together a schoolmarm from the East with a sheep man believed to be an outlaw.
This classic tome belongs on the bookshelf of anyone and everyone with an interest in Great Lakes freighters and vessels and in the origin and functioning of the Great Lakes shipping trade.
Excerpt: "e;Philip Steele's pencil drove steadily over the paper, as if the mere writing of a letter he might never mail in some way lessened the loneliness.
