Books with author Richard Martin

excerpt:"Matter!" Mr. Paxton's tone was bitter. "What is likely to be the matter with the man who, after having had the luck which I have been having lately, to crown it all finds the woman he loves philandering with a stranger--the acquaintance of a shower of rain--on Brighton pier.""You have no right to speak to me like that--not the slightest! I am perfectly free to do as I please, as you are. And, without condescending to dispute your inferences--though, as you very well know, they are quite unjust!--any attempt at criticism on your part will be resented by me in a manner which you may find unpleasant."A pause followed the lady's words, which the gentleman did not seem altogether to relish."Still the fact remains that I do love you better than anything else in the world."

excerpt:"Not a single creature! Not a living soul! I am helpless! It is because I am helpless that I am trampled on."Trampled on? I recalled Hetty's words. So she had been trampled on. Was being trampled on at that very moment. My blood, as usual, began to boil. Here was still another forlorn woman who had fallen a helpless victim to what Lord Byron called the "divine fever." And so a Frenchman did think that he could kick an Englishwoman about as if she were a football! I jumped at my conclusions with an ease and a rapidity which set all my pulses glowing."Do you think that it would make any difference if anyone spoke for you?""It must make a difference; it must! It is impossible that it should not make a difference! But who is there who would speak for me? Not one being on the earth!"

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CONTENTSMY AUNT'S EXCURSION.THE IRREGULARITY OF THE JURYMAN.Chapter I.-- The Juryman is Startled." II.-- Mrs. Tranmer is Startled." III.-- The Plaintiff is Startled." IV.-- Two Cabmen are Startled." V.-- The Court is Startled.MITWATERSTRAAND:--The Story of a Shock.Chapter I.-- The Disease." II.-- The Cure.EXCHANGE IS ROBBERY.THE HAUNTED CHAIR.NELLY.LA HAUTE FINANCE:--A Tale of the Biggest Coup on Record.MRS. RIDDLE'S DAUGHTER.MISS DONNE'S GREAT GAMBLE."SKITTLES"."EM".Chapter I.-- The Major's Instructions." II.-- His Niece's Wooing." III.-- The Lady's Lover." IV.-- The Major's Sorrow.A RELIC OF THE BORGIAS.---------------My Aunt's Excursion"Thomas," observed my aunt, as she entered the room, "I have taken you by surprise."She had. Hamlet could scarcely have been more surprised at the appearance of the ghost of his father. I had supposed that she was in the wilds of Cornwall. She glanced at the table at which I had been seated."What are you doing?--having your breakfast?"I perceived, from the way in which she used her glasses, and the marked manner in which she paused, that she considered the hour an uncanonical one for such a meal. I retained some fragments of my presence of mind."The fact is, my dear aunt, that I was at work a little late last night, and this morning I find myself with a trifling headache.""Then a holiday will do you good."I agreed with her. I never knew an occasion on which I felt that it would not."I shall be only too happy to avail myself of the opportunity afforded by your unexpected presence to relax for a time, the strain of my curriculum of studies. May I hope, my dear aunt, that you propose to stay with me at least a month?""I return to-night.""To-night! When did you come?""This morning.""From Cornwall?""From Lostwithiel. An excursion left Lostwithiel shortly after midnight, and returns again at midnight to-day, thus giving fourteen hours in London for ten shillings. I resolved to take advantage of the occasion, and to give some of my poorer neighbours, who had never even been as far as Plymouth in their lives, a glimpse of some of the sights of the Great City. Here they are--I filled a compartment with them. There are nine."There were nine--and they were about the most miscellaneous-looking nine I ever saw. I had wondered what they meant by coming with my aunt into my sitting-room. Now, if anything, I wondered rather more. She proceeded to introduce them individually--not by any means by name only.

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The Beetle (1897) tells the story of a fantastic creature, "born of God nor man," with supernatural powers and hypnotics, chasing British politician Paul Lessingham through London to seek revenge for the desecration of a sacred tomb Egypt. In imitation of various popular genres of fiction of the late nineteenth century, Marsh unfolds a tale of terror, late imperial fears, and the "return of the repressed", through which the crisis of the late imperial Englishness is revealed. *This book contains a small biography of the author.

This early work by Richard Marsh was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. In the first part of this split narrative, Thomas Tennant finds himself in the same train compartment with Ellen Howth, a woman from his past. He leaves the carriage while the train is still moving, but 'Nelly' falls out instead. When a woman's body is found by the railway line, Tennant assumes she has died and accepts the guilt. The second narrator is Reginald Townsend, who has strangled his mistress under the railway arches. Nelly takes up the story, relating how she has argued with Tennant, fallen out of the train, and witnessed the murder. Richard Marsh - or otherwise known as Richard Bernard Heldmann - was born in England in 1857. Heldmann began publishing fiction during 1880, in the form of boys' school and adventure stories, for magazine publications. A best-selling and prolific author of the late 19th century and the Edwardian period, Marsh is best known now for his supernatural thriller novel The Beetle, which was published the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).

Set in the South Pacific Ocean on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef; follow the thrilling story of Wave, a young female green turtle, from her birth on a tropical night through her perilous adventures with boyfriend, Web. Together they facemany natural and man-made dangers including sharks, storms and pollution.Each page is exquisitely illustrated with a text to delight and amuse childrenand adults alike.

This early work by Richard Marsh was originally published in 1900 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Chase of the Ruby' tells a thrilling tale of a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting. Richard Bernard Heldmann - better-known by his pseudonym, Richard Marsh - was born in England in 1857. He was educated at Eton and Oxford University, and began to publish short stories shortly after graduating. He published his first novel, The Mahatma's Pupil, in 1893, and went on to produce almost twenty more.

Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on the domestic contexts underlying imperial rhetoric, Arguing about Empire adopts a case-study approach, treating key imperial debates as historical episodes to be investigated in depth. The episodes in question have been selected both for their chronological range, their variety, and, above all, their vitriol. Some were straightforward disputes; others involved cooperation in tense circumstances. These include the Tunisian and Egyptian crises of 1881-2, which saw France and Britain establish new North African protectorates, ostensibly in co-operation, but actually in competition; the Fashoda Crisis of 1898, when Britain and France came to the brink of war in the aftermath of the British re-conquest of Sudan; the Moroccan crises of 1905 and 1911, early tests of the Entente Cordiale, when Britain lent support to France in the face of German threats; the 1922 Chanak crisis, when that imperial Entente broke down in the face of a threatened attack on Franco-British forces by Kemalist Turkey; World War Two, which can be seen in part as an undeclared colonial war between the former allies, complicated by the division of the French Empire between De Gaulle's Free French forces and those who remained loyal to the Vichy Regime; and finally the 1956 Suez intervention, when, far from defusing another imperial crisis, Britain colluded with France and Israel to invade Egypt - the culmination of the imperial interference that began some eighty years earlier.