Lieutenant Gulliver Jones, U.S.N., arrived on Mars in a most unexpected fashion and promptly found himself head-over-heels in adventure. For Mars was a planet of ruined cities, ancient peoples, copper-skinned swordsmen, and weird and awesome monsters. There was a princess to be rescued, a River of Death to be navigated, and a strange prophecy to be fulfilled.

First published in 1905 as Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, Gulliver of Mars is a formative work of planetary romance, blending late-Victorian adventure, fairy-tale wonder, and proto-science-fictional speculation. Its discontented American soldier is carried to Mars, where he encounters fragile civilizations, ritualized courts, strange landscapes, and the captivating Princess Heru. Arnold's prose is ornate, ironic, and episodic, closer to romance and satire than technological futur...

Stranded on Mars Lieutenant Gullivar Jones must fight his way across a strange world covered by lush forests and populated by strange beasts. He will meet decaying societies and barbarians, and ancient cities whose splendors now lie under a pile of bones in a rush along the mythical River of Death, to save Heru, the beautiful Martian princess he fell in love with. Half the way between the utopian visions of H.G. Wells and the science fiction romance of E.R. Burroughs, this classic novel is...

Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation by Edwin Lester Arnold is an imaginative early science fiction adventure that transports readers from Earth to the mysterious and exotic world of Mars. Blending romance, exploration, and fantastical world-building, this classic novel follows the extraordinary journey of Lieutenant Gullivar Jones, a naval officer whose unexpected voyage leads him far beyond anything he could have ever imagined. After an unusual turn of fate, Gullivar finds himself swept a...

Arnold was born in Swanscombe, Kent, as son of Sir Edwin Arnold. Most of his childhood was spent in India, but he returned to England to study agriculture and ornithology. He became a journalist in 1883, and published his first books A Holiday In Scandinavia (1877) and Bird Life In England (1887) before writing his first novel The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician, the adventures of a warrior who goes in and out of an unexplained state of suspended animation in order to be a witn...

Now there is a text that provides students with a comprehensive blueprint for supervisory practice in the field of education. In Supervision in Education Bernadette Marczely draws on her expertise in both law and education to fully explain different methods of supervision and to carefully identify the legal issues that drive each approach. The book presents the information future educational administrators need to know, plus it offers helpful pointers on what they need to do. Students will...

While hiding in a cave in the Arizona desert, John Carter apparently dies, only to reawaken on Mars where he is re-embodied in a body identical to his old one on Earth. Thus begins John Carter’s many adventures on Mars, one of the greatest adventure fantasies of all-time. In an interesting twist, Burroughs cast himself as John Carter's nephew, entrusted with Carter's manuscripts relating his many Martian tales.Moving back and forth between earth and Mars via astral projection, John...

Classic Russian short stories, including A Reckless character, The Dream, Father Alexyei's Story, Old Portraits, The Song of Love Triumphant, Clara Militch, Poems in Prose and Endnotes. According to Wikipedia: "Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 1818 - 1883) was a Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction."

At various times during the latter half of the eighteenth century there crossed the Atlantic two Protestant Irishmen, a Lowland Scotsman, and an Englishman, and thereby they fixed the character of Mr Henry James' genius. For the essential thing about Mr James was that he was an American; and that meant, for his type and generation, that he could never feel at home until he was in exile. He came of a stock that was the product of culture and needed it as part of its environment. But at the ...

Excerpt: "The town of Castle Cumber it is not our intention to describe at more length than simply to say, that it consists of two long streets, intersecting each other, and two or three lanes of cabins—many of them mud ones—that stretch out of it on each side at right angles. This street, and these straggling appendages, together with a Church, a Prison, a Court-house, a Catholic chapel, a few shops, and half a dozen public houses, present to the spectator all the features that are genera...

Excerpt: "One evening in the beginning of the eighteenth century—as nearly as we can conjecture, the year might be that of 1720—some time about the end of April, a young man named Lamh Laudher O'Rorke, or Strong-handed O'Eorke, was proceeding from his father's house, with a stout oaken cudgel in his hand, towards an orchard that stood at the skirt of a country town, in a part of the kingdom which, for the present, shall be nameless. Though known by the epithet of Lamh Laudher, his Christia...