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B. J. Harrison Reads Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Hungary during the Ottoman wars: Turks attack Buda and set up a siege of Eger. Gergely Bornemissza is a poor half-orphan who is about to become a national hero. "Eclipse of the Cre ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Ayesha, The Return of She
In 'Ayesha, The Return of She' (1905) the white queen is feared not to be dead after all. After eighteen years, Horace and Leo once again set out on a journey, this time to Asia, w ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Allan Quatermain
H. Rider Haggard's 19th-century novel 'Allan Quatermain," is the sequel to the novel "King Solomon's Mines"(1885). In this novel, adventurer Allan Quaterman's son has passed away a ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Deathworld
Jason dinAlt is a professional gambler who travels between different worlds in the universe. Right now, he is gambling on the planet Cassylia. One day, he meets the ambassador of P ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Bartleby, the Scrivener
The narrator of this story is a successful lawyer on Wall Street. He hires a scrivener named Bartleby to help him with all the papers and relieve the load of work. Bartleby quickly ...
B. J. Harrison Reads A Kidnapped Santa Claus
'A Kidnapped Santa Claus' returns to the world of L. Fran Baum's novel 'The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus'. Santa Claus lives in his castle in Laughing Valley. In the nearby m ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Casting the Runes
Mr. Edward Dunning is a researcher studying "The Truth of Alchemy" by Mr. Karswell. He starts seeing the name "John Harrington" everywhere he goes and finds out that Harrington was ...
B. J. Harrison Reads After Twenty Years and Mammon and the Archer
Two friends make a pact: no matter what happens, they will meet at a certain place twenty years later. The years go by and it’s time for them to reunite. While Bob is waiting for h ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Christmas by Injunction
Cherokee is a wealthy man who, unlike many others, wants to share his fortune with the people of his town Yellowhammer. He wants to give away presents to the children there but the ...
B. J. Harrison Reads A Journey in Search of Christmas
Cowboy Lin McLean rides into Cheyenne, Wyoming at Christmastime. His plans quickly take an unexpected turn when he encounters the child of a person he once knew. In the spirit of C ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Bill the Bloodhound
Henry Pitfield Rice is an unglorified detective leading an uneventful life, making ends meet by keeping up with the comings and goings of certain people. One day, he comes across t ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Jeeves and the Unwanted Guest
A friend of Bertie Wooster’s Aunt Agatha makes an unannounced visit and wishes to drop off her son at Bertie’s for a couple of weeks. Bertie is not too thrilled about this visit, e ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg
When the wealthy English gentleman Bertie Wooster meets with his friend Francis "Bicky" Bickersteth, he hears that his friend is in a bit of a pickle. As usual, Bertie turns to his ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Death at the Excelsior
With 'Death at the Excelsior' the master of humor, P.G. Wodehouse, entertains his readers with a classic detective story. When a sea captain dies under terribly mysterious circumst ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Jeeves and the Chump Cyril
The social adventures of the English gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves return in a story brought to life by B. J. Harrison. An acquaintance of Bertie’s Aunt Agatha, Cyr ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Gismondi's Wage
Benvenuto Gismondi is sitting on his horse, breathing hard and grinning, while looking at Messer Crespi. Crespi is also grinning while laying in the snow with his arms flung wide. ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Intelligence
Forty-year-old Professor Kauffmann is awakened by the loud, insistent trilling of the electric bell. He slides his hand, holding a weapon, into his gown’s pocket and goes downstair ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Captain Blood
Dr. Peter Blood is an Irish physician who served in the Dutch and French navies. He now works as a doctor in the city of Bridgwater in southwestern England. During the rebellion of ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde, and Other Stories
Henry Jekyll is an idealistic young scientist whose main goal it is to unlock the secrets of the human soul. He creates many different potions and chemical mixtures in his lab, but ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Beyond the Broken Glacier
We all have heard about the great glaciers. Some may have even seen them. But did you ever wonder what is hidden behind the great and treacherous Canadian glacier? Now you have the ...
B. J. Harrison Reads If
Some poems can really teach us something if we read carefully and understand the essence. This lyric poem by Kipling makes no difference. By reading it, a man can find some wise ad ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Kaa's Hunting
We have all heard about Mowgli and his adventures. In this story, Baloo the bear teaches Mowgli the Law of the Jungle. Bagheera, however, doubts Baloo’s teaching style. Mowgli is l ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Ivanhoe
"Ivanhoe" is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, part of the Waverley series. The action takes place during the 12th century in England, and the themes revolve mainly around ch ...
B. J. Harrison Reads A Marine Excursion
"The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias" is the third story from Stephen Leacock’s masterpiece story sequence 'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town'. It deals with an explora ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Barbara of the House of Grebe
"Barbara of the House of Grebe" is a short story from Thomas Hardy’s collection "A Group of Noble Dames". It is a dark that intertwines madness and desire. Barbara Grebe is alread ...