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MASTER OF THE WORLD ij/. ir -i t! i JULES VERNE Introduction The year 1828 was an unsettled and unsettling one in Europe and America. In the United States, the old Federalist Party was fighting a losing battle against the popular forces that surrounded Andrew Jackson, as President John...

THE HOUNDOF THEBASKERVILLESSIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIntroductionVery rarely in the history of fiction has an author been obliged because of public clamor and appeals to revive a character whom he has conveniently killed off. Such was the case with A. Conan Doyle's universally admired creation,...

The Three Musketeers ALEXANDRE DUMAS Introduction The story is told of two English boys walking along the Seine River in Paris and browsing about at one of the small book stalls for which the city is famous. "Look!" said one to the other, after having examined one of the books. "Here's a...

Michael Strogoflf t ' ! JULES VERNE Introduction U' I. ' After this I shall travel only in my imagination!" Such was the vow made by an eleven-year-old boy who had just been chastised by his parents for running away to sea. His voyage had been a brief one—the ship after leaving one...