Classic Comics #14 Westward Ho! - First Edition (Gilberton, 1943)
Westward Ho! is an 1855 British historical novel by Charles Kingsley. The novel is set in the Elizabethan era, and follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh who sets sail with Francis Drake and other privateers to the Caribbean, where they battle with the Spanish.
Captains Courageous (MGM, R-1973) Adventure / movie poster
Starring Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Charley Grapewin, Mickey Rooney, John Carradine, and Jack La Rue.
Directed by Victor Fleming.
Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a fishing boat in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure’s magazine, beginning with the November, 1896 edition. +
The Old Man and the Sea
(Warner Brothers, 1958). One Sheet (27” X 41”).
Adventure; Starring: Spencer Tracy
The Octopus - An Absorbing Novel of the Wheat Growers and Their Fight with the Railroad(1901)
from wikipedia:
The Octopus: A California Story is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and the first part of a planned but uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of Wheat.
It describes the raising of wheat in California, and conflict between the wheat growers and a railway company. Norris was inspired by role of the Southern Pacific Railroad in events surrounding the Mussel Slough Tragedy. It depicts the tension between the corrupt railroad and the ranchers and the Ranchers’ League. The book emphasized the control of “forces” such as wheat and railroads over individuals.
Read it at:
The Internet Archive:
www.archive.org/search.php?query=title:octopus
Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/etext/268
or here:
Arthur Conan Doyle (back row, centre) - Bertram Fletcher Robinson (seated, middle). This picture was taken on the steam ship Briton en route between South Africa and Britain c. 1900.
Superior Stories 03: The Wreck of the Grosvenor
The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877) is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell, first published in 3 volumes. According to John Sutherland, it was “the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea.”
It remained popular and widely read in illustrated editions well into the first half of the 20th century. It was Russell’s best selling and most well known novel.
READ The Wreck of the Grosvenor at Internet Archive (scanned books, original editions, color illustrated)
ARGOSY WEEKLY
misc issues 1920 ~ 1942
- Golden Age Comic Book Stories -
Classics Illustrated - No. 81 - The Odyssey - Oct, 1966
The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odysseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer.
The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the first. It is believed to have been composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.
The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his ten year journey home after the fall of Troy.
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N C Wyeth; a few dust jackets - A Candle in the Wilderness (1930)
Addison Irving Bacheller (September 26, 1859 – February 24, 1950) was an American journalist and writer who founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States.
N C Wyeth; a few dust jackets - Captain Blood
an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922.
The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice medicine.
The book opens with him attending to his geraniums while the town prepares to fight for the Duke of Monmouth. He wants no part in the rebellion, but while attending to some of the rebels wounded at the Battle of Sedgemoor, Peter is arrested.
The sentence for treason is death by hanging, but King James II has the sentence for Blood and other convicted rebels commuted to transportation to the Caribbean, where they are to be sold into slavery.
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THE HOUSE UNDER THE SEA
A Romance by Max Pemberton
Author of Kronstadt, The Phantom Army, Etc.
NEW YORK; D. APPLETON and COMPANY, 1902
a Project Gutenberg eBook
Chapter One
…IN WHICH Jasper Begg makes known the purpose of his voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and how it came about that he commissioned the steam-ship SOUTHERN CROSS through Philips, Westbury, and Co.
Josephine Bell - The Port of London Murders
first publ. 1938, first Penguin 1955
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