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Excerpt from A Dream of Empire, or the House of Blennerhassett Screened by the drooping foliage, the shirking menial cast his body on the grass to store up energy for anticipated toil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from In the Days of Queen Elizabeth OF all the sovereigns that have worn the crown of England, Queen Elizabeth is the most puz zling, the most fascinating, the most blindly praised, and the most unjustly blamed. To make lists of her faults and virtues is easy. One may say with little fear of contradiction that her in tellect was magnificent and her vanity almost in credibly childish; that she was at one time the most outspoken of women, at another the most untruthful; that on one occasion she would mani fest a dignity thalz was truly sovereign, while on another the rudeness; of filler: manners was un worthy oi even the ageein which she lived. Some times she was the strongest oi these strong, some times the weakest oi the weak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His most known work came from collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel which led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of adventure novels including the two presented in this book, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction" and he is the second most-translated author in the world in the last four decades. Around the World in Eighty Days is a fantastic voyage by an Englishman and his servant. The story is a comedy filled with exotic locations, cultures and suspense along the way. Heroes of the story, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout, travel around the world to win a simple wager, but they leave an incredible story about loyalty and friendship in their wake. Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne. A German mineralogist Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the incredible world beneath the earth's crust.

Excerpt from The Rising of the Tide: The Story of Sabinsport Ralph Gardner was only 28. He had graduated six years before at a Western university where for the moment the sins of contemporary business and politics absorbed the interest of the greater part of faculty and students. There was a fine contempt for all existing expressions of life, a fine confidence in their power to create social institutions as well as forms of art which would sweep the world of what they called the worn out. Whatever their professions, they went forth to lay bare the futility and selfishness and greed of the present world. They had no perspective, no charity, no experience, but they had zeal, courage, and the supporting vision of a world Where no man knew want, no woman dragged a weary life through factory or mill, no child was not busy and happy. Never has there poured into the country a group more convinced of its own righteousness and the essen tial selfishness of all who did not see with their eyes or share their confidence in the possibility of re encra tion through system. Like revolutionists in al ages they felt in' themselves the power to make over the 'world and like them they carried their plans carefully diagramed in their pockets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Strange events are occurring around the world, involving lights, sounds and flags that are hung in seemingly impossible to get to locations. At the meeting of the Weldon Club in Philadelphia, Uncle Prudent (President) and Phil Evans (Secretary) and the membership debate about whether their balloon the Go-Ahead, should have its directional screw located in the front or the back. A man called Robur interrupts and takes over their meeting; he insists that to master the skies, a flying vehicle must be heavier than air. His remarks infuriate the balloonists and after their meeting, Uncle Prudent and Phil are kidnapped and taken on an around the world trip in the Albatross, Robur's heavier than air "Clipper of the Clouds." A fascinating companion to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Robur the Conqueror explores many of the same themes.