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John Carter discovers that a First Born knows the secret of the Temple of the Sun and he and the Holy Hekkador Matai Shang want to rescue the Holy Thern's daughter, who is imprisoned with Dejah Thoris and another Barsoomian princess, Thuvia of Ptarth. John Carter follows them in the hope of liberating his beloved wife....

Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, and accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's 'How Fear Came,' included in 'The Second Jungle Book'....

The Second Jungle Book includes five further stories about Mowgli, an abandoned man-cub who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. As with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is preceded by a piece of verse, and...

Tarzan, one of the best-known literary characters in the world. He was only an infant, when his mother died of natural causes and his father was killed by Kerchak, leader of the ape tribe by whom Tarzan was adopted. Tarzan's tribe of apes is known as the Mangani, Great Apes of a species unknown to science. Kala is his ape mother. An archetypal...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels written by the author of The Phantom of the Opera (ISBN: 9781909676657). It is the first novel starring fictional detective Joseph Rouletabille, and concerns a complex and seemingly impossible crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked...

The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881. This spy and picaresque novel includes detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India....