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Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fo...

Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fo...

Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fo...

The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet.  The cast of characters head to England, and from there on it is a typically Wodehousian romantic farce, set at the stately Dreever Castle, overflowing with imposters, detectives, crooks,...

The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet.  The cast of characters head to England, and from there on it is a typically Wodehousian romantic farce, set at the stately Dreever Castle, overflowing with imposters, detectives, crooks,...

The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet.  The cast of characters head to England, and from there on it is a typically Wodehousian romantic farce, set at the stately Dreever Castle, overflowing with imposters, detectives, crooks,...

The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet.  The cast of characters head to England, and from there on it is a typically Wodehousian romantic farce, set at the stately Dreever Castle, overflowing with imposters, detectives, crooks,...

Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from fungous wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean—across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroi...

Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from fungous wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean—across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroi...

Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from fungous wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean—across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroi...

Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from fungous wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean—across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroi...

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar , based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath.  Probably written in 1599 and among the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed at the Globe Theater, Julius Caesar is one of his best-known dramas and has received innumerable performances throughout the cen...

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar , based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath.  Probably written in 1599 and among the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed at the Globe Theater, Julius Caesar is one of his best-known dramas and has received innumerable performances throughout the cen...

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar , based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath.  Probably written in 1599 and among the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed at the Globe Theater, Julius Caesar is one of his best-known dramas and has received innumerable performances throughout the cen...

The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York. It was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who later came to be known as 'the mother of the detective novel', and ' The Leavenworth Case ' was cited by Agatha Christie as an influence on her own fiction.  The story plot twists and turns leaving the reader uncertain as to the identity of the murderer until the v...

The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York. It was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who later came to be known as 'the mother of the detective novel', and ' The Leavenworth Case ' was cited by Agatha Christie as an influence on her own fiction.  The story plot twists and turns leaving the reader uncertain as to the identity of the murderer until the v...

The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York. It was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who later came to be known as 'the mother of the detective novel', and ' The Leavenworth Case ' was cited by Agatha Christie as an influence on her own fiction.  The story plot twists and turns leaving the reader uncertain as to the identity of the murderer until the v...

The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York. It was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who later came to be known as 'the mother of the detective novel', and ' The Leavenworth Case ' was cited by Agatha Christie as an influence on her own fiction.  The story plot twists and turns leaving the reader uncertain as to the identity of the murderer until the v...

The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York. It was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who later came to be known as 'the mother of the detective novel', and ' The Leavenworth Case ' was cited by Agatha Christie as an influence on her own fiction.  The story plot twists and turns leaving the reader uncertain as to the identity of the murderer until the v...

The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York. It was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who later came to be known as 'the mother of the detective novel', and ' The Leavenworth Case ' was cited by Agatha Christie as an influence on her own fiction.  The story plot twists and turns leaving the reader uncertain as to the identity of the murderer until the v...

The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York. It was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who later came to be known as 'the mother of the detective novel', and ' The Leavenworth Case ' was cited by Agatha Christie as an influence on her own fiction.  The story plot twists and turns leaving the reader uncertain as to the identity of the murderer until the v...

The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York. It was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who later came to be known as 'the mother of the detective novel', and ' The Leavenworth Case ' was cited by Agatha Christie as an influence on her own fiction.  The story plot twists and turns leaving the reader uncertain as to the identity of the murderer until the v...

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of Staffordshire, England, known as the Potteries. Arnold Bennett chose to fictionalize these towns by changing their names and omitting one (Fenton) as he apparently felt that “Five Towns” was mo...

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of Staffordshire, England, known as the Potteries. Arnold Bennett chose to fictionalize these towns by changing their names and omitting one (Fenton) as he apparently felt that “Five Towns” was mo...

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of Staffordshire, England, known as the Potteries. Arnold Bennett chose to fictionalize these towns by changing their names and omitting one (Fenton) as he apparently felt that “Five Towns” was mo...