Charles Portis has been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel. First published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne (for which he won his only Academy Award),...
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The first book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series.
Tells of the rise in the 1780s of Nathanial Drinkwater to the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy. Prior to promotion he saves a young seaman from the brutal attentions of a depraved midshipman and...
Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer: his early exploits, being a curious and intimate relation of his tribulations, joys and triumphs taken from notes of his Journal and pages from his Ship's Log, and here put into complete...
Formerly published as TALISMAN OF TROY, this novel has been retitled.A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible, fascinating story to tell - the true reason for which the Trojan...
In A Brig of War, Nathaniel Drinkwater is promoted lieutenant of the brig HELLEBORE. He finds routine convoy escort duties end abruptly when Admiral Nelson, pursuing the French fleet to Egypt, sends HELLEBORE to the Red Sea with an urgent warning to...
In 1465 the Scottish Quentin Durward set of to France, because the Duke of Burgundy wants that countess Isabelle marries with Durward's uncle. Once there he himself falls in love with Isabelle, no much interested in the quarrel between the Duke...
Following the disastrous rule of Stephen (1135-1154), who could neither inspire loyalty to control his friends and family, nor successfully subdue his opposition, King Henry II (1154-1189) ascended to the throne. Seen as the founder of English...
A hundred years ago, in the Himalayan peaks of Nanvi Dar, the daughter of an English earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster. In a secret valley Agatha Farlingham is introduced to a family of motherless yetis and devotes her life to their...