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Guy Newell Broothby was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century.
The Red Rover is a novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. It was originally published in Paris on November 27, 1827, before being published in London three days later on November 30. It was not published in the United States until January 9, 1828, in Philadelphia. Soon after its publication it was adapted for theater both in the United States and in England.
The novel follows the activities of the sailor Dick Fid, free black sailor Scipio Africanus and Royal Navy officer James Wilder as they encounter the famous pirate, “The Red Rover”. A contemporary reviewer in the North American Review noted how Cooper was particularly good at writing sea novels such as The Red Rover, the sea being his more natural element than what the author calls wilderness novels which focused on an Indian introducing a white man to the wilderness, like The Last of the Mohicans. In addition, The Red Rover presents some of the first serious depictions of characters of African lineage in American literature.
The story follows Captain Tom Lingard, the recurring protagonist of The Lingard Trilogy, who was on his way to help a native friend regain his land when he falls in love with a married woman whose yacht he saves from foundering.
Henry James is primarily known for themes of morality and hidden sexuality. Here’s a comedic James, who deplored the media, about a match that may be ruined by a gossip column. Larky nonsense that foreshadows today’s celebrity-driven media.
The Sacred Fount is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1901. This strange, often baffling book concerns an unnamed narrator who attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside.
The novel is set in a village in Puritan New England. The main character is Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne a child out of wedlock. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, arrives in New England very much alive and conceals his identity.
The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers is an 1849 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The plot revolves around two sealers stranded in amongst Antarctic ice. The novel was first published in two volumes, by Stringer & Townsend.Critic W.B. Gates described the novel as taking inspiration from Charles Wilkes’s Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition of the Years 1838-1842.
Herman Melville reviewed the novel in 1849 for the magazine The Literary World.Melville’s praise for the novel focuses on the action and adventure of the novel, saying, “Upon the whole, we warmly recommend the Sea Lions; and even those who more for fashion’s sake than anything else, have of late joined in decrying our national novelist, will in this last work, perhaps, recognise one of his happiest.
The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894–5, often under different titles.
Many of Conrad’s works deal with an individual character’s personal journey through life, through moral questions, and through their own soul. “The Secret Sharer” examines the personal and moral journey of a young captain who is new to the ship he commands and does not know his crew.
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