Books with author George Augustus Sala Sala

In the last century -- and many centuries before the last; but it is about the eighteenth that I am specially speaking -- long before steamers and railways, or even frigate-built ships and flying coaches were dreamt of, when an Englishman went abroad, he stopped there. When he came back, if at all, it was, as a rule, grizzled and sunburnt, his native habits all unlearnt and his native tongue more than half forgotten. Even the Grand Tour, with all that money could purchase in the way of couriers and post-horses, to expedite matters for my Lord, his chaplain, his courier and his dancing master, took as many years as it now does months to accomplish. There were no young novelists in those days to make a flying-trip to the Gaboon country, to ascertain whether the stories told by former tourists about shooting gorillas were fibs or not. There were no English engineers, fresh from Great George Street, Westminster, writing home to the Athenæum to say that they had just opened a branch railway up to Ephesus and that (by the way) they had discovered a præ-Imperial temple of Juno the day before yesterday.This is a tale from before these things -- it is the tale of the Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. I of III. He was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors . . .

Excerpt from Mrs. Hephaestus: And Other Short Stories, Together With West Point, a Comedy in Three ActsThe constant attention I was obliged to be stow upon her was a direful infliction. I com plained bitterly, and Jennie thereat scolded, while mother made pointed references to the sin of selfishness. So peace fled from our limited family circle, and I wished that Hephaestus and his lovely wife could be suddenly transported to some rural retreat on the sunny slope of a lunar mountain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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