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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century’s most renowned authors. Here is the lineup:AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth BraddonTHE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. JeromeTHE GHOST CLUB, by John Ke… more

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Early one morning, just as the trade wind began to lift the white mountain mist which enveloped the dark valleys and mountain slopes of the island, Denison, the supercargo of the trading schooner Palestine, put off from her side and was pul… more

“Ridan lived alone in a little hut on the borders of the big German plantation at Mulifenua, away down at the lee end of Upolu Island,”

George Lewis/Louis Becke (1848-1913) was an Australian short-story writer and novelist. He began his voyages in the south seas at a very early age and there are two accounts of these beginnings: one by the Earl of Pembroke, who presumably o… more

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

I Waited Until My Hand Was a Bit Steady

THE BEGINNING OF THE SEA STORYOF AUSTRALIAFrom “The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories”By Louis Becke ExcerptTo many people in England the mention of Australia conjures pictures of tented gold-fields and tall, black-bearded, red-shirted bus… more

Originally published in 1899 as a portion of the authors’ larger “The Naval Pioneers of Australia,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 20 pages, describes the 1789 incident in which the crew of the… more

George Louise Becke [1855-1913], better known as Louis Becke, was a short-story writer and novelist prominent in the 1890s. He was a frequent traveller to the South Pacific islands, and his experiences are reflected in his many works. His t… more

One by one the riding-lights of the few store-ships and whalers lying in Sydney Harbour on an evening in January, 1802, were lit, and as the clear notes of a bugle from the barracks pealed over the bay, followed by the hoarse calls and s… more

An anthology of 100 classic stories with an active table of contents to make it easy to quickly find the book you are looking for.Works includeAaron Trow by Anthony TrollopeThe Absence of Mr. Glass by Gilbert K. ChestertonThe Absurdity Is -… more

An excerpt:With her white cotton canvas swelling gently out and then softly drooping flat against her cordage, the Shawnee, sperm whaler of New Bedford, with the dying breath of the south-east trade, was sailing lazily over a sea whose wate… more

The Complete Works ofLouis Becke * A MEMORY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS * ÂMONA; THE CHILD; AND THE BEAST * CHINKIE’S FLAT AND OTHER STORIES * CONCERNING “BULLY” HAYES * “FIVE-HEAD” CREEK; and FISH DRUGGING IN THE PACIFIC * FOSTER’S LETTER OF MARQ… more

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

I Waited Until My Hand Was a Bit Steady

Can You Raed Tihs? You can raed tihs senetnce, eevn thgouh the wrdos are scrbamled. Your brain can read common words even if only the first and last letters are in their proper places. Test this ability for yourself with Old Mray - a scra… more

The eagerly awaited Volume Two of Graeme Kennedy’s best-selling New Tales of the South Pacific offers another collection of beautifully written short stories based on characters and their triumphant and tragic experiences in a region many b… more