In HEART OF DARKNESS, Conrad's most existential hero, Marlow, is the commander of a riverboat looking for ivory to trade in the Belgian Congo. His journey into the heart of the Congo is both a thrilling adventure and a symbolic excursion into the depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the ...
Tom Swift has caught a falling star--a visitor from outer space who is as beautiful as she is strange. But his secret encounter has set off alarms at the highest levels of government. To check Tom out, a top-secret intelligence agency sends two of its top operatives: Frank and Joe Hardy. When the alien is kidnapped, the three must work together to ...
The Hardy Boys merge their sleuthing skills with Tom Swift's inventive genius in this pulse-pounding YA adventure. Tom Swift's miraculous time travel machine has been stolen by his evil nemesis, the Black Dragon. And Frank, Joe and Tom must stop the Dragon--before he succeeds in turning the time machine into the ultimate doomsday device.
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Oh Tom, is it really safe? A young lady - an exceedingly pretty young lady, she could be called - stood with one small, gloved hand on the outstretched wing of an aeroplane, and looked ...
An electric locomotive that can make two miles a minute over a properly ballasted roadbed might not be an impossibility" said Mr. Barton Swift ruminatively. "It is one of those things that are coming" and he flashed his son Tom Swift a knowing smile. It had been a topic of conversation between them before the visitor from the West had been seated ...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "Some one to see you, Mr. Tom." It was Koku, or August, as he was sometimes called, the new giant servant of Tom Swift, who made this announcement to the young inventor. "Who is it, ...
Tom Swift, Jr., aided by his friend Bud Barclay, overcomes several sabotage attempts while trying to design and build the first solar-operated space station.
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Now, see here, Mr. Swift, you may think it all a sort of dream, and imagine that I don't know what I'm talking about; but I do! If you'll consent to finance this expedition to the ...
The exciting adventures of the fondly remembered Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and 27 other different sets of boys' series books will come vividly to life with this first time coverage of this topic. The author, John Axe, has brought together a rich treasury of book covers and information about 29 different boy's series authors and their books, from the ...
American boys' fiction under pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate who produced Tom Swift series, Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, Dave Fearless and many others.
Tom convinces a friend at NASA to use an all-new Swift-enhanced space shuttle to retrieve a mysterious stone that's orbiting the Earth, but the flight ultimately leads Tom to the surface of the moon.
A late-night run-in with some local thugs gets Tom thinking: how can he rig the perfect anticrime device? The answer is a gizmo that projects a powerful personal force field to repel anything that comes near it. But when an unscrupulous TV reporter broadcasts the videotape of Tom's invention, the "ultimate shield" becomes the target of an evil ...
Tom Swift and his father travel to a South American country in their flying space lab to look for uranium and keep it from falling into the hands of a group of dangerous rebels.
Hideous giant fish have lain siege to the shore at Laguna Paquena Beach--and many lay the blame on Tom who, hoping to feed the world's starving masses, has been using growth hormones to create huge fish. But Tom believes the true source of the beasts is the sinister Dr. Loew, whose next step could be the genetic alteration of human beings.
Testing his high-tech diving gear, underwater laser beam, and minisub in the South Atlantic, Tom and his pals discover they're in the middle of the infamous Bermuda Triangle! After several cargo ships vanish without a trace, Tom discovers a ruthless nemesis from his past is planning to destroy Bermuda and Florida.
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