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Author: Nella Braddy
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
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Author: Nella Braddy Henney
Publisher: Brownell Press
ISBN: 1408686295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Nella Braddy
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of Desert Places In these volumes the word adventure has been used in its broadest sense to cover not only strange happenings in strange places but also love and life and death - all things that have to do with the great adventure of living. Questions as to the fitness of a story were settled by examining the qualities of the narrative as such rather than by reference to a technical classification of short stories. Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of Desert Places Nella Braddy (1894–1973), a pioneer among female editors, compiled this seven-story collection, and published Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of Desert Places in 1922. It features seven authors: Edgerton Castle, Stephen Crane, Selma Lagerlöf, Bret Harte, Thomas Hardy, O. Henry, and W. H. Hudson. It’s a stellar group. Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of Desert Places Braddy went on to write and edit more articles and books, including two more in the Masterpieces of Adventure series; one focused on Helen Keller’s breakthrough teacher, Anna Sullivan Macy; and a biography of Rudyard Kipling. Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of Desert Places Once inside Stories of Desert Places, though, listeners will soon realize that Braddy treats the idea of “desert” very loosely. Perhaps it’s about what’s in a protagonist’s mind or heart, rather than the actual setting of the story that Braddy felt evoked the idea of “desert.” Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of Desert Places It’s left to us to find the “desert”—physical or metaphorical—of an eastern European castle on a snowy night, somewhere in the American West, Norway, early day California, a rainy night in England, in Texas near the Rio Grande, and Argentina. In these stories, people strive, often foolishly, and yet they persevere in unexpected ways. Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of Desert Places

Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465523324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Very much of this story must remain untold, for the reason that if it were definitely known what business I had aboard the tramp steam-freighter Glarus, three hundred miles off the South American coast on a certain summer's day, some few years ago, I would very likely be obliged to answer a great many personal and direct questions put by fussy and impertinent experts in maritime law—who are paid to be inquisitive. Also, I would get "Ally Bazan," Strokher and Hardenberg into trouble. Suppose on that certain summer's day, you had asked of Lloyds's agency where the Glarus was, and what was her destination and cargo. You would have been told that she was twenty days out from Callao, bound North to San Francisco in ballast; that she had been spoken by the bark Medea and the steamer Benevento; that she was reported to have blown out a cylinder head, but being manageable was proceeding on her way under sail. That is what Lloyds's would have answered. If you know something of the ways of ships and what is expected of them, you will understand that the Glarus, to be some half a dozen hundred miles south of where Lloyds's would have her, and to be still going South, under full steam, was a scandal that would have made her brothers and sisters ostracize her finally and forever. And that is curious, too. Humans may indulge in vagaries innumerable, and may go far afield in the way of lying; but a ship may not so much as quibble without suspicion. The least lapse of "regularity," the least difficulty in squaring performance with intuition, and behold she is on the black list, and her captain, owners, officers, agents and consignors, and even supercargoes, are asked to explain. And the Glarus was already on the black list. From the beginning her stars had been malign. As the Breda, she had first lost her reputation, seduced into a filibustering escapade down the South American coast, where in the end a plain-clothes United States detective—that is to say, a revenue cutter—arrested her off Buenos Ayres and brought her home, a prodigal daughter, besmirched and disgraced. After that she was in some dreadful blackbirding business in a far quarter of the South Pacific; and after that—her name changed finally to the Glarus—poached seals for a syndicate of Dutchmen who lived in Tacoma, and who afterward built a clubhouse out of what she earned.

Author: Nella Braddy
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ISBN: 9781330646328
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Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Excerpt from Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of Desert Places In these volumes the word adventure has been used in its broadest sense to cover not only strange happenings in strange places but also love and life and death - all things that have to do with the great adventure of living. Questions as to the fitness of a story were settled by examining the qualities of the narrative as such rather than by reference to a technical classification of short stories. It is the inalienable right of the editor of a work of this kind to plead copyright difficulties in extenuation for whatever faults it may possess. We beg the reader to believe that this is why his favorite story was omitted while one vastly inferior was included. 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.

Author: Nella Braddy
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of The Sea and Sky by Nella Braddy. THIS LITERARY COLLECTION INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING WORKS: THE SHIP THAT SAW A GHOST.- FRANK NORRISA NIGHTMARE OF THE DOLDRUMS.- W. CLARK RUSSELLTHE KITE.- MAJOR-GENERAL E. D. The ship that saw a ghost / Frank Norris -- A nightmare of the Doldrums / W. Clark Russell -- The kite / Major-General E. D. Swinton, D.S.O. -- Superdirigible "Gamma-I" / Donn Byrne -- The lighthouse keeper of Aspinwall / Henryk Sienkiewicz -- The wreck / Guy de Maupassant -- A descent into the Maelström / Edgar Allan Poe.

Author: Nella Braddy
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Languages : en
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Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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The following is a collection of tales from various authors all bound by the same theme - adventures occurring indoors, and oftentimes in uncanny circumstances. Featured titles include The Bet (Anton Chekov), The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allen Poe), and Dr. Manette's Manuscript (Charles Dickens).

Author: Bjorn Sortland
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 9781575053769
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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On her search for the art museum's bathroom, Anna meets famous artists, becomes part of some of their paintings, and makes her own art.

Author: Nella Braddy
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