Another novel by this gifted author, which pulsates with adventure, romance, death and glory on the high seas in the period which he has made so peculiarly his own. The atmosphere of the book is redolent of tall ships and the Spanish Main, described by a pen which has be no means lost any of its old cunning. Indeed, the episode in which the young hero liberates his companions from their cruel thraldom by night, and together with the desperate pack of ex-galley-slaves boards and sets sail in the mighty treasure ship of the dons, is one of the best which he has ever written. Throughout, one can feel the springing deck of the great galleon, hear the thunder of the wind in her rigging and scent the salt spray -- so graphically does Mr. Farnol bring to life again the gracious days of sailing ships and describe the hazardous and strange voyages undertaken by his diminutive but dynamic hero, Adam Penfeather, who, forsaking England after the unjust execution of his father, sails with a chance acquaintance, Absalom Troy, for an unknown destination on a reckless adventure. With him he quixotically insists upon taking Antonia, a lovely waif whom he disguises as his half-brother, having saved her from the injustice of the laws of the period, and together with Absalom, that loveable but worthless rake who wins Antonia's heart to Adam's bitter disappointment, they plunge into a series of escapades which makes thrilling reading, and finally leads them to "those far latitudes where all were to find peril, many death, some few great fortune and success.

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Amateur Gentleman, The -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Herman Pfeiffer (1874-1960)

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 many different types, and falls in love with a fascinating heroine.

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Beltane the Smith -- UK Editions -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Charles E. Brock (1870-1938)

A novel more crowded with beauty and incident than this new romance of love and adventure would be difficult to find. Young Beltane, growing up in the care of Ambrose the Hermit, knows naught of men and women and teeming cities, but one day a mysterious stranger appears, presenting Beltane with a sword and giving him daily lesson in sword play and horsemanship. Lady Helen of Mortain, as she rides thorough the greenwood, meets Beltane and here is the first love scene - indeed the love interest is one of the strongest notes in this remarkable novel. The story moves with a tremendous sweep from one adventure to another and is by far the author's greatest achievement.

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Black Bartlemy's Treasure -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Charles E. Brock (1870-1938)

Between the families of Coniston and Brandon there existed a feud of long standing, causing bitter faction and bloodshed. Martin Coniston, whose father had been slain by Sir Richard Brandon and himself sold into slavery aboard a Spanish gallcass, eventually makes his escape and returns to England. He seeks his father's enemy, only to find that Sir Richard is still absent ...

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Crooked Furrow, The -- UK & CDN Editions -- Sampson & Low and Ryerson

Illustrator: Charles E. Brock (1870-1938)

In "The Crooked Furrow", Mr. Jefffery Farnol returns to the vigour and discursiveness of "The Broad Highway", but here the material is handled more surely and with a deeper understanding of life. Mr. Farnol has a magical touch for minor characters. In this new book, they crowd together full of instant light and colour to form a background for a story, grim perhaps, but none the less tinged with romance and warm with the love of living.

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Definite Object, The -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

The story of a rich, young New Yorker whose great wealth had taken from him all incentive to action. For want of a definite object in life he is toying with the thought of suicide, when he surprises a youthful burglar in the act of entering his room. Then, posing as a poor man -- "My Geoffrey" -- he takes up lodgings with the house-breaker in the old " Hell's Kitchen" of the New York slums. Thugs, gangsters, pugilists of unsavory reputation, take the place of the vicious characters of old-time Kentish lanes where there is battle, sudden deadly encounters, revenge and heartbreak, and love fair and foul before "the definite object" is attained.

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Fool Beloved, The -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

The scene of this romance in the typical Jeffery Farnol vein is the Duchy of Celonia, ruled over by the young and beautiful Duchess Jenevra. The hero is brave, adventurous Count Angelo, who, early in the story, loses his identity during a murderous attack in a tavern, and wears for a while the clothes of his murdered friend, with whom he was travelling. Angelo has been abroad, and he now finds that the attack in the tavern was part of a wicked scheme to put power in the hands of the evil Sebastian and his companion Gonzago. It was they who planned the attempt on his life, and who, more successfully, poisoned Angelo's brother, the famous soldier and statesman, Fortunio. Sebastian believes that Angelo is dead, but the young Count meets a jester playing merrily on his flute, and persuades him to change clothes. Thus disguised, Angelo haunts the Court, and with the aid of friends and his own keen wits, gradually brings justice back once more to the Duchy of Celonia; and he also woos successfully the beautiful Duchess Jenevra.

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Glad Summer, The -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

When Nicholas Harbourne unexpectedly inherited the Harbourne baronetcy and fortune he decides to stay incognito among his tenants to learn to know them and to discover how they lived -- and so met the lovely Joanne, who was valiantly running her farm under difficulties not of her own making. As the story progresses we meet Aunt Jemima and little Priscilla, who take Nicholas to their hearts for the man he is; the dissolute Lord Wolverton, who hates him for the same reason and is trying to blackmail Joanne into marriage ...

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John O' the Green -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

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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Justice By Midnight -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

The story is set in the uneasy England of James II. Rejected love turns the exquisite, soulful Mr. Anthony Armadale into the grim, misogynistic outlaw "Captain Midnight," the terror of those wealthy autocrats who considered themselves to be above the law. Encouraging him in his daring interventions between Tyranny and its victims, the little parson Aeneas Wade never guesses his identity. Nor so the lovely Lady Clarissa Fane, who sees through the embittered mask to the true man beneath it, and the story ends, as all stories should, happily.

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King Liveth, The -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

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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Martin Conisby's Vengeance -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

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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My Lord of Wrybourne -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

The great house of Wrybourne Feveril, and all within it, were at peace. The Earl of Wrybourne had retired from his seafaring life, and was happy to have his charming wife and young heir about him, content to devote his time and energies to the upkeep and care of his lands and tenants. But dark days lay ahead for the Earl. Sir Robert Chalmers, having lost his right hand in a duel with the Earl, was sworn to vengeance. He plotted to destroy the peace of Wrybourne, to sow jealousy between the Earl and his wife, and to kidnap the boy heir. One by one, in this evil design, the Earl loses his dearest friends: his cousin, Lord Scrope, believing Wrybourne to be in love with his wife, vows to kill him; twice his murder is attempted; in pride, the Earl dismisses his closest companion, and finally his child is kidnapped, and his wife, though devoted, flies from him.

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Ninth Earl, The -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

When a storm blew away part of the crumbling masonry of the old tower at Ravenhurst Castle, it revealed a skeleton, hidden for many years, which was without doubt that of the seventh Earl. Few people believed that the rightful heir whose existence until then had been unknown would be found so quickly -- or that he would prove to be the person that he did. But they counted without the presence of the ubiquitous Jasper Shrig, the Bow Street runner, in their sleepy Sussex village of Ravenhurst. One by one he unravelled the many mysteries which surrounded the castle and its curious inhabitants; the sullen eighth Earl, his frivolous son Viscount Hurst, the lovely Lady Clytie Moor and the dangerous Sir Humphrey Carr, his nephew ...

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Our Admirable Betty -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Charles E. Brock (1870-1938)

Here the author is back on the familiar ground of "The Broad Highway.' Betty is a perverse and fascinating beauty, a reigning belle, surrounded by a covey of ardent, fashionable swains. Humble Major D 'Arcy, Fighting D'Arcy he was, at Malapaquet and in a dozen other ferocious charges -- who had returned from the Army, and who limped, and who was no longer a youth in years, hardly dared sue for her favor. There is a villain in the piece. a very desperate, deadly villain, with lesser villains at his beck and call, and there are spirited haps and woundy doings before the romance works itself out to the satisfying climax!

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Over the Hills -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

Being the narrative of Adam (called Thursday) with particulars of his adventures, his joys and sorrows, his friends and right-beloved enemy.

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Matter of Business, A -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

Ranging in scene from Bombay to London's Strand, and in subject matter from the French Rrous collection of thirty short stories from the pen of Jeffery Farnol, undisputed master of the field of historical romance. Since the publication years ago of The Broad Highway, which was an immediate and outstanding success, Farnol has made the early swashbuckling, eighteenth-century English romance peculiarly and brilliantly his own. In this new book he shows that he can write as tellingly of evolution to the World War, these stories will provide a rich fare for any lover of a tale well told or a drama stirringly enacted. It is a well-balanced selection. Readers will meet familiar Farnol characters like the cockney detective, Jasper Shrig, highway robbers, good-hearted rogues, swaggering heroes, and wily villains - all bearing the unmistakable Farnol stamp - and will find many more who are new to Farnol's writing and who are superbly drawn. The stories are written in the graceful, fluent manner for which the author is famous, and exhibit that quality in his writing which, as a London reviewer has said, "in a musician is called touch."

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Pageant of Victory, The -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

The story opens in Virginia in 1774, at the moment when resentment at King George's treatment of the American Colonies and anger at Gaye's misguided high-handedness in Massachusetts, and particularly in Boston, are blazing to rebellion. George Charteris, Lord Wraybourne, is perfervidly loyal Tory peer settled in Virginia, vehemently denounces the agitation as treason, and is infuriated when his nephew, Anthony Falconbridge, express sympathy with it and declares his belief in the future of America as an independent sovereign power. Thus a family feud is originated which provides the main thread upon which all subsequent episodes constituting the novel are strung.

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Piping Times, The -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

From Sussex, this latest of Jeffery Farnol's rustic journeys proceeds westwards, not without incidents, and not without calls at village inns, with references to meals, which, in the words of Blackmore's John Ridd, "make my lips smack, and my ribs come inwards." The two good companions, who are faring together, trudge along the old Pilgrim's Way, through the desolate moorland parts of Devonshire; and so into Cornwall, where we have the most moving incidents of the story, though the author is not so entirely absorbed in his accounts of English country life, that he fails to give us an insight into the exciting adventures presented by the life of far western America, amongst the bullock wallopers, for into this peaceful Cornish scene there bursts the heroine, a wild, untamed American woman, who rides high-spirited horses, who can throw deftly a lariat, or use any kind of dagger, or firearm that we may wish to mention. It is in and around one of those impressive and dignified ancient Elizabeth or Stuart manor houses, built entirely of stone, with its mullions, dripstones and gables, that we become acquainted with some of the principal characters in the story, not forgetting the "Foxtotum," who provides the comic element, nor old Joel, a frequenter of Three Pilchards tavern, who reminds us of "The Ancient," in "The Broad Highway."

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Waif of the River, The -- UK Edition -- Sampson & Low

Illustrator: Henry M. Brock (1875-1960)

A young woman, unconscious and near to drowning, rescued from the muddy waters of London's river Thames -- an impetuous young man who, by quarrelling with his adopted father and his best friend, nearly ruins his life -- the disappearance of one of two sisters whose guardians employ a bodyguard of Italian thugs -- the mysterious and handsome "Bet" who can handle a boat like a man -- and Jasper Shrig, the famous Bow Street runner, who despite "vindictiveness" uncovers a conspiracy of intended murder and embezzlement; around these characters Farnol has woven a story of love and hate, of misery changed to happiness, of intrigue foiled and mystery uncovered ...

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