How Adam Penfeather smuggled Antonia aboard a privateer, disguised as Anthony, his half brother; how he engineered a bloodless mutiny with a false fire on board; how Antonia's hatred for the huge, hearty sailorman Absalom Troy turned slowly to love; how Adam and Absalom, sworn blood brothers, fought a duel; how Antonia and Absalom were married aboard a sinking ship; and how Adam attained his heart's desire by becoming master of his own ship; all this we discover as Jeffery Farnol carries the reader along in his breathless tale. There are murders and fights, sea battles, shipboard intrigues, all the adventures that the most avid armchair adventurer could require.

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Amateur Gentleman, The -- Photoplay Edition -- A. L. Burt

A tale of the dashing Georgian days, full of thrills from beginning to end. When Barnabas Barty, son of a famous retired boxing Champion, inherits a fortune, his one ambition is to go to London and be a Gentleman of Fashion. Thus he plunged into Adventure, and we, following, glory with him in his victories, brood with him over his perplexities, and sigh with him in his "Love for a Ladye". Readers of Jeffery Farnol often choose this book as a foremost favourite.

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Amateur Gentleman, The -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

"The Amateur Gentleman", the first novel Mr. Farnol has written since the publication of "The Broad Highway", possesses the same qualities which gave "The Broad Highway" its universal appeal -- the charm of style, the fresh, unusual humor, the vigorous yet whimsical characterizations. Barnabas Barty, a country-bred youth, son of the retired champion pugilist of England, is left a fortune; he sets forth for London to "become a gentleman", has many adventures, meets people of widely different types, and falls in love with a fascinating heroine. The period is the early nineteenth century, the scene England, and you will read of country things and people, of gentlemen of fashion and fine ladies, of romantic adventure, and hand-to-hand encounters, and most of all, of true love -- the whole making an entrancing story rich in sentiment and overflowing with ennobling human nature.

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Another Day -- US Edition -- Little Brown

Keith Dallas Chisholm, Mr. Farnol's young American hero, believing, with his millionaire father, that he is guilty of killing the man he hated, has fled from New York to England where he encounters a very small but friendly damsel, Patience. Keith meets and befriends the little girl's sister, Josepha, but he is torn between a desire not to lose sight of his Goddess and the guilty thought that there is blood on his hand so that he can have no place in the life of so lovely and innocent a girl.

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Beltane the Smith -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

Illustrator: Arthur E. Becher (1877-1941)

The romance of Beltane, a lad of mysterious origin, perhaps son of a duke, reared at a forest smithy, becomes the hero of a veritable Odyssey of adventure. It is a dim period of history that is described, approximating the times of anarchy in England under King Stephen. Righting great wrongs assaulting cities and fortresses., Beltane, the golden-haired giant. the unconquerable swordsman, goes his noble way through these pages and the tale is an incomparable one!

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Black Bartlemy's Treasure -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

The swashbuckling days of the buccaneers of the Spanish Main painted in brave, bright colors. Martin Conisby, Lord Wendover, embittered by his five years of slavery on the Spanish galleon Esmeralda, escapes during a sea fight to an English ship and makes his way back to England, determined to avenge himself on Richard Brandon, who was the cause of his father's death and his own ill-treatment. Broken in body and spirit, he arrives home one night disguised as a tramp, just in time to save from the hands of robbers a beautiful girl, Lady Jane Brandon, the daughter of the man whom he has sworn to punish. In a tavern he meets a pal, Adam Penfeather, who unfolds to him the story of Black Bartlemy, an infamous pirate, and his treasure buried on an island -- a treasure of fabulous value that has been the dream and hope of roving adventurers along the Spanish Main for many years

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Broad Highway, The -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

Illustrator: Charles E. Brock (1870-1938)

A young English gentleman starts on foot to make his fortune and his many romantic adventures along the lanes and highroads of Kent make this story a classic of modern literature.

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Charmian Lady Vibart -- US Edition -- Little Brown

A sequel to "The Broad Highway," the action takes place twenty years after the final episode of that book. Charmian, now in the early forties, is still a great beauty and not afraid to gamble love and honor in a game of sinister peril. Young Richard Vibart, son of Sir Peter and Lady Charmian, receives in Paris a challenge from a famous duelist whom Richard has slapped for speaking lightly of the boy's mother. When Sir Peter hears of it he hurries to Paris, while Charmian, with a plan of her own, follows secretly.

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Crooked Furrow, The -- US Edition -- Doubleday Doran

The period and place - early 19th century England - which the author has made his particular province, form a lusty, colourful background for the stirring action of his story. It is the story of two cousins, Roland Verinder and Oliver Dale. Roland was an aristocrat, "sired by an aristocrat of proud and ancient lineage," and to him Oliver was a "damned, dunghilly, yokelly yeoman." Oliver was a farmer, descended on his father's side "through a sturdy yeoman ancestry," and to him Roland was a "young, blind cur." We read what happened to them when their rich uncle, cold, aloof Sir Everard Matravers, gave them fifty-two guineas apiece and commanded them "to essay fortune and dare circumstance for one year and a day." How they fight and frolic, laugh and love, with the enchanting characters they meet along the way, makes this a delightfully original tale. Here is a meaty and full-blooded story, in the great tradition of Sterne and Smollett and Fielding, exciting, witty and gay.

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Geste of Duke Jocelyn, The -- US Edition -- Little Brown

Illustrator: Eric Pape (1870-1938)

The Duke Jocelyn, a rich and powerful lord, had been terribly marred by a boar, when hunting one day, so that his face awoke no love in the hearts of the fair maids who came to witness joust and tourney. Then, therefore, die the Duke put on the motley of his Fool, and, with one attendant knight, journey to Canaline, where dwelt the Lady Yolande. In Fool's guise the Duke wooed her, ostensibly as ambassador for his master, and in wooing he fell on dangerous adventure, in all of which he acquitted himself with so much honor and valor that the Lady Yolande came to discern the high spirit and proud character of the Fool with the marred face, who wooed her for his master the Duke.

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Guyfford of Weare -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

In the darkness Sir Richard Guyfford, aware that some one is breaking into his house, stands rigid and alert. A leap, a faint cry followed by a fall, and light of a candle reveals his victim -- Lady Helen D'Arcy, reigning beauty and toast. She had come to steal a letter written to Sir Richard by a guileless and silly friend who repented of her folly. Taunting him for being the villain and reprobate that gossip asserted, Lady Helen leaves -- with the letter in her possession. The beginning of this delightful and typically Farnolesque novel of England in the early seventeen hundreds is but a taste of what is to follow. There is Cousin Julian, who more than deserves Richard's reputation, a group of shady gentlemen in Julian's power, an Irish duchess with a French name, and many another, equally picturesque. Needless to say, the story is a network of intrigue and misunderstandings, all of which are handled with Mr. Farnol's extraordinarily skillful touch and with a literary charm reminiscent of his many successes.

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Happy Harvest, The -- US Edition -- Doubleday

In "The Happy Harvest" we meet some old friends, including the loquacious Jasper Shrig, and make some new ones; and find the romance of Oliver Dale and the lovely Clia spiced with humor, and given tension by a mysterious murder which is solved by the astute Jasper, who also, on occasion, plays the role of Cupid. "The Happy Harvest" is fine Farnol fare, a tale of a courageous hero, of a mettlesome heroine, of forest duels and moonlight escapes. Few writers in any field have so consistently maintained such a high standard of performance.

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Heritage Perilous -- US Edition -- McBride

The action of the story takes place two years after the death of Admiral Nelson and concerns a strapping young seaman, Sam Felton, who, returning from hard years at sea, unexpectedly finds himself succeeding to an important earldom with its great house, vast lands and immense wealth. But his succession is not easily accepted by unworthy relatives and conniving neighbors who resent an usurper of a legacy that was to be their own. This means that Sam must fight his way with brawn and brain to gain control of his rightful heritage. It means too that he must fight for the charming and inscrutable Andromeda, a raven-haired beauty whose life was tinged with the same measure of excitement as Sam's even after that doughty young mariner makes her welfare his personal concern.

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High Adventure, The -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

"We are out upon the High Adventure, you and I; battle, murder and sudden death, Bill; blood, fire and stricken field are all one to us. Show me your teeth -- excellent! Look at these fists -- sufficient, I venture to think ! They did well enough at school and university and shall do better, I trust. Meanwhile, Bill, my boy, let us seek some hospice where we may refresh and shelter us -- though indeed a barn were better suited to your true adventurers; to sleep in a barn would be a novelty to me, Bill, and therefore hath its attractions -- Come !" So saying, Jeremy caught up his tough ash plant and rising to vigorous limbs, strode cheerily onward with the great dog at his side, who looked up to him ever and anon with eyes of adoration. Thus Mr. Farnol starts his hero, Jeremy Veryan, on his travels -- to outwit the attempts of his guardian to send him overseas and to find the murderer of his father. The quest brings in its train all the adventure Jeremy seeks and more that he doesn't, including love and romance.

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Jade of Destiny, The -- US Edition -- Little Brown

A glowing romance of the days of Queen Bess -- a romance dealing to some extent with one of the many plots against the life of the great Queen. Two contrasting love stories are woven through this swift-moving, colorful narrative and, as may be expected in a Farnol novel, the drama rises chapter by chapter to the ultimate climax.

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John O' the Green -- US Edition -- Little Brown

King Tristan's plan was to unite the neighboring kingdoms and duchies -- with himself as ruler. The local kings and rulers, however, proved unwilling to be deposed in favor of Tristan and the plan seemed likely to fail until John o' the Green, a noble and an outlaw, was captured by King Tristan's men. Not to save his own life but for the sake of his nine captured comrades John agreed to his captor's proposal. With chain mail under his innocent minstrel's costume he set out for a neighboring duchy in the hope of winning it by cunning or by courage. He did not suspect that within its high-walled, many-towered chief city he would find a girl as its ruler, who by her courage would command his respect and by her youth and loveliness would win his love. He could not foresee that her troubles would become more important to him than his own and that her happiness and safety would be his chief care. A bold and dauntless hero and a brave and beautiful heroine hold the center of the stage in this noble of nobles and outlaws, of friars and fools, told with all the accustomed color of a Farnol romantic novel.

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King Liveth, The -- US Edition -- Doubleday Doran

During the dark years of the Ninth Century, when all seemed lost, and when so many English people were sunk in dejection and grief, we see King Alfred, known to-day, and properly so, as Alfred the Great, trying to inspire his people with hope and courage, rallying his forces, and stimulating them into activity, and himself working hard in many ways to rescue his country from the plight into which it had been allowed to blunder. King Alfred, the Great Deliverer, who achieved the apparently impossible feat of freeing Wessex from the powerful and in other ways very capable Danes, lives in these pages, in association with a large number of other characters; and the incidents, striking and interesting, lead at last to the crowning victory at Ethandune, the modern Edington, near Westbury, in Wiltshire Although in these stirring chapters there is much fighting, we are not always in the thick of battle, because the love interest is strong also; and the moving scenes are varied by the pleasing coming and going of noble, amiable and beautiful women. with ardent and tender wooing, sometimes in the moonlit forest; for just as Scott, in Ivanhoe, has given us engaging scenes in Sherwood Forest, so has Jeffery Farnol brought romance into the Forest of Selwood. that, in the time of Alfred, curved along the frontier of Somerset. under the chalk upland of Wiltshire.

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Lonely Road, The -- US Edition -- Doubleday Doran

Few writers can create an eighteenth century romance more gracefully than Jeffery Farnol; no one has a surer gift for cloaking characters in romance without robbing them of conviction and reality. "The Lonely Road" is in the best Farnol tradition -- a stirring stand-and-deliver tale of flight and fisticuffs, of swords that sparkle in the moonlight, of ambushes and rescues -- and chiefly of Jason Wayne, Jacobite and fugitive, with a price on his head and a lovely, headstrong maiden on his hands. The famous author of "The Broad Highway" and "The Amateur Gentleman" has given us a sturdy, full-blooded romance, played against a background of the glamorous past.

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Loring Mystery, The -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

There is tragic action almost from the beginning. Sir Nevel Loring had held the Loring Estates and titles so long that few besides himself knew he was not the rightful heir. His older brother, Humphrey, had many years before left England, and settled in Virginia, and his son, David, was the sole, legal claimant to the Estate. David Loring came to England to establish his claim, but before he had even a chance to present his proofs, his lifeless body was found in a watery grave, a shock to Sir Nevel, though one from which he easily recovered. Soon after, however, another David Loring, a mysterious, young man, who boldy asserted that he was the real heir, obtained audience with Sir Nevel. He was rudely received and swore in no uncertain terms that he would soon dispossess Sir Nevel of what was not lawfully his. And it was not long before the wicked relentless Sir Nevel was found dead in his home with a silver-hilted dagger, bearing mute evidence of the crime. A vitally thrilling mystery story.

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Martin Conisby's Vengeance -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

Martin Conisby (Lord Wendover) was an Englishman, whose one idea was to revenge himself upon the ancient enemy of his house who had caused him to suffer years of slavery and ill-treatment. His search for this man led Martin into romantic and hazardous adventures. He was left stranded alone on an island know to contain buried treasure, but was finally borne away as the prisoner of Captain Joanna, a girl pirate, who had set her heart on Martin, regardless of his scorn for her and his steadfast loyalty to the love of his earlier days, Joan Brandon.

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Money Moon, The -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

The amusing adventures of the rich American who, jilted by his sweetheart, starts on a walking tour through rural England and meets a delightful boy who introduces him to a still more delightful aunt, will appeal because of the strain of rich humor which is woven into the story. With plenty of worldly goods, the young American scents the plot of the villain in the story to drive the delightful aunt from her ancestral home by means of a mortgage which is held by one of his creatures. The boy is firm in the faith that he will find a store of gold in the garden just as soon as the "money moon" appears.

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Over the Hills -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

"Ere long thy homespun shall be changed for laces and velvets and thy young eyes behold hate and grief, love and death." In these words Moll, the old witch, prophesied the future of Adam, the nineteen-year-old boy whose parentage was shrouded in mystery. A strange talisman which he wore about his neck was his only heritage, and he deplored his red hair and small stature. When Sir Hector Keith, finding him in the garb of a despised Jacobite, demanded that he assume the role of Lord Bellcastonborough, he was dismayed; he was struck dumb with amazement when that devilish officer of the king compelled him to marry the gloriously beautiful Barbara MacGregor. Thus in the stirring period of the Jacobite uprisings does Mr. Farnol set the stage for his newest tale. The old witch surely spoke the truth when she foretold that "here are journeyings by land and sea. Here be dangers and perils a-many ! Here is love and hate and bloodshed ! Here shame and grief and great joy !"

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Peregrine's Progress -- US Edition -- Little Brown

Peregrine Vereker, in the eyes of his aunt Julia, who brought him up to the mature age of nineteen, was a polished young gentleman, an incipient artist and poet. In the opinion of his two uncles he was an ignorant mollycoddle, a ladylike nincompoop, unacquainted with manliness. Stung by their scorn, Peregrine "ran away" as many a lad before and since, to learn the world and prove his worth, and ran the gamut of happiness and misery, of fear and courage, of loneliness and love before he matched up to the requirements of his two uncles.

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Quest of Youth, The -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

A thrilling romance of a weary man of the world who goes in search of his vanished youth.

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Sir John Dering -- US Edition -- Little Brown

In "Sir John Dering," Farnol has kept to the period of "Peregrine's Progress" and "The Broad Highway" -- engrossing plot, historical background, and dramatic incidents display Farnol at his best. This time, however, his hero is a skilled swordsman who, having incurred the enmity of the Lady Herminia Barrasdaile, is forced to fight duel after duel, which she has instigated in the hope that he would thereby meet his death. A chance encounter enables her to travel for a space in his company, disguised as a simple serving maid in need of rescue. Sir John penetrates the disguise eventually, but before the romance comes to its close he needs all his skill with sword to preserve his life and his love.

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Valley of the Night -- US Edition -- Doubleday Doran

This is another triumphant episode in the career of Jasper Shrig, that shrewd, dour limb of the law whose amazing career has provided so much enjoyment for Jeffery Farnol's readers. Valley of Night is an enthralling tale of mystery and intrigue which is set in eighteenth-century England and ranges from London to that wild Cornish coast where the shipwreckers plied their nefarious trade. Although Jeffery Farnol has created a host of memorable characters, Edward Brandonleigh and Virginia Wrybrook will live among his best creations, and their individual love stories, beset as they were by murder, intrigue, and greed, will not soon be forgotten. Mr. Farnol has outdone himself in his exciting and eerie descriptions of the shipwreckers of the Cornish coast and in his depiction of the aged, scheming Lady Polgarth, whose desperate attempt on the life of Edward Brandonleigh, in her efforts to conceal the secret of the disinterred skull, forms one of the high lights of a book which contains the last full measure of sustained and thrilling romance. Jasper Shrig, that magnificent Cockney, who is brought into the case by Brandonleigh and whose thick accent and homely philosophy have been such a high light in other Farnol books, is once again in the center of the gripping events with which "Valley of Night" is replete. This is magnificent entertainment in the well-known Farnol manner.

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Way Beyond, The -- US Edition -- A. L. Burt

Illustrator: Charles E. Brock (1870-1938)

When the curtain rises on "The Way Beyond," twenty-one years have passed. Charmian and Peter, now Sir Peter, are just as you would expect them to be -- Peter a little thicker of figure, serious, fond, occupied with affairs; Charmian -- the years have been kind to Charmian. From an impulsive, headstrong girl she has grown into a beautiful, gracious and brilliant woman. They have a son, Richard, and the story that follows is of how Richard found, lost and finally won his bride.

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Winds of Chance -- US Edition -- Little Brown

Her name was the Deliverance and her crew formed one of the strangest bands of pirates who ever sailed the Spanish Main. Every man of them had pulled at an oar of a galley and bore the scars of manacle and whip. To a zest for loot they added a quest for vengeance. Their lives were pledged to the rescue of other galley slaves, yet they were no mealy-mouthed psalm-singers as the crews of many a galleon and galley could testify. On the voyage which forms the basis of our story, The Deliverance carried an unwilling passenger, a young and spirited lady, abducted without apparent reason, who before she could again see England, would know the terrifying beauty of South American jungle, would witness the last flash of Inca splendor, and would be a fugitive from lustful and pitiless Indians.

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