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Guy Thorne
Written in 1898
"The anonymous author is evidently young and clever. He paints with a firm, bold hand. The characters are life-like, and in many cases drawn from the life…
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"The Socialist" by Guy Thorne
Society, in most forms, is a hierarchy in which some people are considered more valuable than others. Guy Thorne's "The Socialist" takes an opposite approach…
The storyline is pretty basic, mad scientist falls to the dark side, but the characters are intriguing and more importantly the writing style, that slow, contemplating description of events, people…
This is a remarkable novel, very gripping, very well-written, engaged in showing the horrors of alcoholism on a very personal level. I probably would not have wanted to read it…
When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great Conspiracy (1903) is a best selling Christian novel by English author Guy Thorne, in which a plot to destroy Christianity by…
Guy Thorne was the pen name of Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull (1875 - 9 January 1923), a prolific English journalist and novelist best known for his novel When It…
A novel written in the early 1900's about the sinful city of London and the most unlikely man chosen to win it over for the Supreme Being; God the Most…
CONTENTS
I: "I Believe"
II: The Fires of Moloch
III: The Historicides of Oxford
IV: The Brown and Yellow Peril
V: The Menaces of Modern Sport
VI: Vagrom Men
VII…
VII: An…
A Lost Cause is a book by Guy Thorne. It delves into critiques of the Catholic Church institutions during the early 20th century. Excerpt: "At no period in modern Church…
HOUSE OF TORMENT
A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of MR. JOHN COMMENDONE, Gentleman to King Philip II of Spain at the English Court (Published, 1911)
CHAPTER I. In…
First published in 1922, City in the Clouds still reads as high adventure, with a subplot of romance and a sense of science fiction. Just consider London at a time…
Printed in 1913
DEDICATION
To the poor of the east end among whom Mr. Charrington has laboured so long
About the Author:
Guy Thorne was the pen name of Cyril…
Written in 1915, in and for England. Submarine plays heroic part towards the end but primarily a ripping yarn of chaps and chapesses up against it with some dastardly swine…
The Soul Stealer by Guy Thorne is a gripping supernatural thriller that delves into the eerie and the macabre. Thorne, a renowned author of the early 20th century, crafts a…
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Theophile Gautier
This book by Charles Baudelaire's friend Theophile Gautier is an important early study of the poet.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
When I was a boy I made an occasional invasion of my father’s study, and in the absence of more congenial matter tried to extract some amusement from the shelves…
The Drunkard from Guy Thorne. English journalist and novelist (1876-1923).
Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the…
The Air Pirate from Guy Thorne. English journalist and novelist (1876-1923).
I do not think a book of this sort requires a very lengthy foreword, but one or two things I feel it necessary to say concerning it. In the first…
A Lost Cause from Guy Thorne. English journalist and novelist (1876-1923).
Under a gay awning of red and white which covered a portion of the famous roof-garden of the Palacete Mendoza at Rio, reclined Gideon Mendoza Morse, the richest man in…
House of Torment from Guy Thorne. English journalist and novelist (1876-1923).
Chance in Chains from Guy Thorne. English journalist and novelist (1876-1923).
The Serf from Guy Thorne. English journalist and novelist (1876-1923).
