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• "Treasure Island" (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson

  2 February by Robert Louis Stevenson

  One of the best books for younger readers ever written - anyone who has not read this book around the age of 12 years or so has missed something important in the growing-up experience!
  The writing is splendidly taut, the story moves along steadily at a nice pace, the bad guys are really well (...)

• "The adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1785) by Rudolf Erich Raspe

  15 November 2021 by Rudolf Erich Raspe

  An extravagant series of adventures purportedly recounted by the authentic Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720-1797) to the scholar and sometime author Rudolf Eric Raspe on returning to Germany after ten years of serving in the Russian army.
  This lively and (...)

• "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1927) by B. Traven

  15 October 2021 by B. Traven

  A remarkably realistic novel about a trio of American down-and-outers digging for gold in the troubled Mexico of the post-revolutionary period, told in the inimitably forceful, down-to-earth style of the author of The Death Ship.
  A forceful tale brimming with empathy for the common man and his (...)

• "The Death Ship" (1926) by B. Traven

  11 October 2021 by B. Traven

  This extraordinary account of the life and hardships of a penniless but very articulate and anti-establishmentarian not to say revolutionary sailor in the chaotic post-WW1 world of the twenties was first published as Das Totenschiff in Germany in 1926 under the pen-name of B. Traven. It was (...)

• "Dead Souls" (1842) by Nikolai Gogol

  16 June 2021 by Nikolai Gogol

  The account of the not-always-successful attempts of the traveling schemer Chichikov to make his way in the world by ingratiating himself with important people and devising complicated schemes to achieve financial and social success by wile and charm — notably to purchase deceased surfs (“dead (...)