a picaresque, swashbuckling adventure, each chapter charmingly illustrated by Gary Gianni…Chabon's highfalutin writing is an object lesson in style perfectly matched to genre…If any good adventure is all about the journey, there is also, as Amram remarks, "an appeal in the idea of seeing some business through from start to finish."
Mid-Victorian Imperialists - British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind
Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the information regarding the empire by examining the writings of a collection of gentlemen who were amongst the first people to join the Colonial Society in 1868-69.
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was the last novel to feature some of Wodehouse's best known characters, Bertie Wooster and his resourceful valet Jeeves, and the last novel fully completed by Wodehouse before his death.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Books Volume 1 Being a Sampler of the Earlier Exploits of a Certain Gathering of Incredible Individuals, to whit : Miss Mina Harker, Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Henry Jekyll and Hawley Griffin, their unconscionable adversaries Professory Moriarty and Dr. Fu-Manchu and their esteemed allies, C. Auguste Dupin, Mycroft Holmes, Selwyn Cavor, Randolph Carter, John Carter, Lady Ragnall and an unidentified Time Traveller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen
