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John and his wife Athene raise their daughter, Camille, properly in the provincial town of Breconridge in this three act play.

It is lively, witty and amusing, as well as strikingly modern in displaying the vicissitudes of fortune in the character, Roderick.

Wolf Larsen, the captain of The Ghost, is considered a cruel and repelling man, but he also possesses a certain magnetism that draws one near.

The debonair and patriotic Sir Oliver is a pirate who invades Spanish ships for England when he is led into a conspiracy.

Bardelys is sentenced to death by the evil Judge Chatellerault who fears that his beloved Roxanne will chose Bardelys over him.

This is a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the...

When the more Evangelical Bishop Proudie takes succession, his ideals make him instantly unpopular with the rest of the diocese.

The captain of the ship, the Colorado, changes from an insecure and inexperienced ship captain, to a more confident and secure individual, due to his experiences with the Secret Sharer.

Lambert is sent by his wealthy fiancee, Mrs Newsome, to Paris to bring home her son Chad who is needed to take charge of the family business. When Lambert arrives, he discovers the young man much changed by his relations with the Countess de Vionette.

In order to save Fort Henry, Lewis Wetzel embarks on a bloody rampage to stop the border wars, face his rival, and avenge the deaths of missionaries.