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	A Life's Eclipse - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This is a short book by G.M. Fenn's usual standards, but you will enjoy reading it. The hero is John Grange, a young gardener on Mrs. Mostyn's estate, who finds himself to be in love with Mary Ellis, the daughter of the bailiff, James Ellis. But as he is no more than an under-gardener Ellis is angry with him for even thinking of Mary. There is an accident when John has ascended a large cedar tree that had lost a bough in a gale, and a broken branch needed to be tidied up... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Life's; Eclipse; PDF; HTML Downloads: 141 Average rating: (0 review)
	Diamond Dyke - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) A most authentic-seeming book about the difficulties a pair of young Britons faced when they went to South Africa, and set up an ostrich farm in the dry and largely empty veldt. They had a married couple of the locals to help them, and of these the man wasn't much use. They also had a most sagacious dog, who figures largely in the story. One of the enemies they had to face was lions. One day they found they needed more stores, so young Dyke, barely sixteen years of age, has to go on a six or sev... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Diamond; Dyke; PDF; HTML; ZIP; TXT Downloads: 121 Average rating: (0 review)
	First in the Field - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Here we have another George Manville Fenn book, full of realistic characters who get into positions of great suspense--the usual formula for this excellent author. The time of the story is the early part of the nineteenth century, and the place is, for most of the book, a sheep and cattle station in New South Wales. The owner is a former Doctor who had practised in London, and who had driven himself to illness with his work: the only possibility for him was a new outdoor life... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; First; Field; PDF; HTML Downloads: 137 Average rating: (0 review)
	Witness to the Deed - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This is indeed rather an extraordinary book, in many ways not in the usual style of Fenn, yet in others in a style that few but Fenn could rise to. One of the problems with this book is that, at least in the early chapters, there are flashbacks in the text, most unusual in the nineteenth century, though regrettably an oft-used device in the writing of today. This does make it difficult to follow the story, but you just have to push on with the work, and you will be rewarded in the end... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Witness; Deed; PDF; HTML; TXT; ZIP Downloads: 76 Average rating: (0 review)
	Hollowdell Grange - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This is one of Fenn's earliest books. The theme is that a boy from London goes down to stay in the country with his cousins, where the way of life is so very different, and challenging, from all that he had known in the great city. The descriptions of country life of those days are very well done, but we must make one warning--that many of the countrymen we meet in the story speak with a strong Lincolnshire accent, and the author has done his best to represent these sounds with what must very of... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Hollowdell; Grange; PDF; TXT; ZIP; HTML Downloads: 76
	Roy Royland; or, The Young Castellan - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This book was originally published under the name "Roy Royland"; or, "The Young Castellan". The edition we used was printed in the US, and for some reason was not given its full name. A Castellan is a person in charge of a castle, and that is what young Roy Royland has become, while his father, Sir Granby Royland, is away defending his king. For the time is about 1640, and there is a move afoot in the country of England to do away with the monarchy... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Roy; Royland; Young; Castellan; PDF; HTML; ZIP; TXT Downloads: 40 Average rating: (0 review)
	Glyn Severn's Schooldays - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Glyn Severn and the Maharajah of Dour, both about 15 or 16, have been sent together to an English Boarding School. Glyn's father has been for many years a Colonel in the Maharajah's father's army, but now the old Maharajah is dead, and his son, known at school as "Singh", has inherited the title. The Colonel is Singh's guardian. There are the usual schoolboyish rivalries and fights, in particular involving a nasty individual called Slegge... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Glyn; Severn; Schooldays; PDF; HTML Downloads: 128 Average rating: (0 review)
	Cormorant Crag - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) In this excellent book of smuggling life on the south coast of England, dating about 1830, from some of the passing comments made by the author, we read of the adventures of two boys living on a small off-shore island. One is the son of the local doctor, the other the son of the squire, or owner of the land round about. The boys are friendly with an old fisherman called Daygo. It is thought that he is of Spanish descent, from the Armada, but despite his name and appearance, he denies it... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Cormorant; Crag; PDF; HTML Downloads: 158 Average rating: (0 review)
	Crown and Sceptre - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) I groaned a bit when I saw that this story was about the Civil War in England, in the mid-seventeenth century. But I soon realised that it was a very good story, told in the tension-laden Fenn style. We start off in the Devon coombes (valleys near the sea) with two families that are close friends. The Markhams live at The Hall, while the Forresters live at The Manor. There are two teenage boys: Scarlett Markham and Fred Forrester... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Crown; Sceptre; PDF; TXT; ZIP; HTML Downloads: 127
	Fitz the Filibuster - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Another well-written book of nautical adventure by a writer who is a master of suspense. Our hero is a young midshipman called Fitzgerald Burnett, but always known as Fitz. The warship in which he serves is on Channel Patrol, and they are on the lookout for a smuggler who is running arms to a friendly Central American small Republic. They get more caught up in the struggle that is going on in that country, and so take part in several small fights and other tense situations... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Fitz; Filibuster; PDF; TXT; ZIP; HTML Downloads: 95
	Our Soldier Boy - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Well, this certainly is a departure from the usual Fenn style. Suspense as always there certainly is, but the intended audience is much younger than his usual teenager one. The date is the Peninsular War, in Portugal. A British family of merchants in Portugal are unaware of the intensity of the nearby fighting in the vicinity. They are at their country home, and go out for a few minutes, leaving their eight-year old son with the servants... Downloads: 184 Average rating: (0 review)
	In Honour's Cause - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This book is set in the Court of George the First, a Hanoverian King who was not very popular. To make himself feel more comfortable he had introduced into his Court a number of German people, and also Dutch ones. The hero of the story is 17-year old Frank Gowan, who is a page in the ante-room of the Prince of Wales, the King's eldest son. His father is an officer in the King's Guard. Another page is Andrew, whose father is pro-Jacobite, as Andrew is himself... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Honour's; Cause; PDF; HTML Downloads: 93 Average rating: (0 review)
	Marcus, the Young Centurion - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Marcus is eighteen, and his father had been a great Roman General, Cracis, who had fallen from grace some years before and was living quietly, farming in a small way in southern Italy. An old ex-soldier, Serge, works on the farm, and is helping to bring Marcus up. Marcus would like to be a soldier, and is encouraged in this by Serge, but his father has forbidden any discussion of the topic. One day a stranger comes to the door... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Marcus; Young; Centurion; PDF; HTML Downloads: 158 Average rating: (0 review)
	Yussuf the Guide - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Lawrence is a boy in his late teens, who has consumption, which makes him feel very tired and helpless. He says one day that he would love a holiday somewhere hot and sunny. He has no relations, but there is a guardian, a local lawyer; and a doctor and a retired professor elect to go to Turkey with him, to look at the antiquities. They travel first to Greece, where they find a lot of dishonesty, in particular in the crew of the little ship in which they sail to Turkey... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Yussuf; Guide; PDF; HTML Downloads: 144 Average rating: (0 review)
	Brownsmith's Boy - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This is an absolutely delightful book, which has most of its early action in a market garden, and then more in another one. The author is a great naturalist, and he has much to teach us about the way in which work should be done to raise fruit and vegetables to be taken to London daily for the market. Somehow that sounds boring but there is so much action entwined with these facts that they are made far from boring... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Brownsmith; Boy; PDF; HTML Downloads: 162 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bunyip Land - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Joe Carstairs is a boy on a farm in Australia. His father is a keen naturalist who, some years before had set off for New Guinea in search of specimens, and never been heard of again. Joe is old enough to mount a search expedition, and takes with him a local doctor and an aboriginal worker on his farm. They find themselves joined by a stowaway, Jimmy, whose father is a squatter (farmer) nearby, together with his dog, Gyp... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Bunyip; Land; PDF; HTML Downloads: 156 Average rating: (0 review)
	Dead Man's Land - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) The heroes consist of two teenaged boys, cousins, the father of one of them, and a family tutor. They decide to leave dear old England for a while, and pay a visit to Africa. Here all sorts of adventures befall them, some pleasurable, but many of them not so. There is one particularly awkward moment when one of the boys is pounced on by a lion. However, they get out of that one. As always with Fenn's books, there are numerous tight situations, many of which appear to have no solution, but they d... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Dead; Man's; Land; PDF; TXT; ZIP; HTML Downloads: 112
	Dick of the Fens - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) A number of the actors in this tale speak in a broad Lincolnshire Fenland dialect, which may make it a little hard for some readers. Some of the more unusual words are annotated in square brackets. The Squire sees the gradually encroaching bog and marsh in his land, and realises that with drainage he could reclaim this as good farm land. On the other hand some of the locals would rather see the fen remain, along with their various occupations, and the wonderful and fragile wet-land natural histo... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Dick; Fens; PDF; HTML Downloads: 150 Average rating: (0 review)
	Featherland; or, How the Birds lived at Greenlawn - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) As he explains in the last paragraph the book was written for the amusement of two little girls who were fond of leaning up against his knee, and asking him to tell them a story. Fenn was a very good naturalist, and I feel sure that he enjoyed looking out at the birds on the lawn, and seeing their reactions to one another. From this he has gone on to add occasional snatches of English speech, to illustrate to the girls the way the birds, and a few other animals (the dog, the cat, the bees, a hed... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Featherland; Greenlawn; PDF; HTML Downloads: 134 Average rating: (0 review)
	Massa George - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) George Bruton, son of Captain Bruton is a young teenager. His father's plantation is in Georgia. The time is around the middle of the eighteenth century. Although not keen on the idea of slavery, Captain Bruton determines that he will buy one of them and will try to treat him extremely well. The man has a son, whom the family nickname Pompey, Pomp for short. Eventually these two become relaxed, realising that there will be no hard treatment for them, and the two boys, George and Pomp, become fas... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Massa; George; PDF; HTML Downloads: 117 Average rating: (0 review)
	Menhardoc - A Tale of Cornish Nets and Mines - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) In passing, the title of the book, Menhardoc, never once appears in the body-text of the book. But it has a sort of mysterious Cornish sound to it, and that does the trick. Mr. Temple and his two 15 or 16 year old twin sons have come to stay for the summer holidays in a Cornish fishing village. The two boys are very different. Arthur, or Taff, is very foppish and afraid of getting wet, hurt, or in any way inconvenienced... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Menhardoc; Cornwall; PDF; HTML Downloads: 171 Average rating: (0 review)
	Nat the Naturalist - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Nat's mother and father have died, and he is being brought up by an aunt and uncle, the latter being his mother's brother. His aunt does not care at all for boys, and in particular makes sniping remarks at Nat the whole time. But Nat's uncle is very fond of him, and they are great friends. But enter the aunt's brother, a famous naturalist, back from some trip in South America. Nat, who has already shown great interest in collecting specimens from nature, is enthralled, helps him to stuff and cat... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Nat; Naturalist; PDF; HTML Downloads: 167 Average rating: (0 review)
	Off to the Wilds - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) The setting is the northern part of what is now South Africa, in the middle of the nineteenth century. Mr. Rogers is a British settler in South Africa, a "cottage farmer". The earlier Dutch farmers and settlers are called Boers. The two teenage sons, Jack and Dick, have often asked if they could all go out on a trek to visit the northern parts of the country, for a natural history collecting expedition... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Off; Wilds; PDF; HTML Downloads: 157 Average rating: (0 review)
	Old Gold, The Cruise of the Jason Brig - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Here we have yet another suspense-filled adventure novel by Fenn. There seems to be no end to the situations into which the people in the book can get themselves, and from which there seem to be no escape. A couple of wealthy Englishmen are determined to sail as far as they can up one of the great rivers of South America, perhaps the Orinoco or perhaps the Amazon. At the time this has never before been done... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Old; Gold; Cruise; Jason; Brig; PDF; HTML Downloads: 151 Average rating: (0 review)
	The Adventures of Rob Harlow, a tale of the Grand Chaco - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) A small private naturalist's expedition is about to take place up one of the Paraguay rivers. The eponymous hero, Rob Harlow, is a teenager. They are going to be rowed up the river, and the larger vessel that had brought then there, with its Italian captain, is to wait for them. The captain's son, Giovanni, is very keen to come with them, and his father thinks it would be a very good idea. The other adults on the trip are not so happy about the responsibility, but eventually he is allowed to com... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Adventures; Rob; Harlow; Grand; Chaco; PDF; HTML Downloads: 193 Average rating: (0 review)
	Steve Young; or, The Voyage of the "Hvalross" to the Icy Seas - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Steve Young is an orphan whose uncle, Captain Young, has disappeared on a voyage to the Spitzbergen area, well to the north of Britain. Some of the Captain's friends charter a Norwegian vessel to go in search of him, and, much to the disgust of the ship's doctor, who thinks boys are nothing but a nuisance, Steve goes with them. Steve is a sixteen year old, unconscious of his own good looks, but needing a few hard lessons in life, which the trip provides in plenty... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Steve; Young; Hvalross; PDF; HTML Downloads: 175 Average rating: (0 review)
	'Tention - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) A young private, Penton Gray, known as Pen, is injured during an engagement in the Peninsular War. When he comes to he finds that the boy bugler, Punch, from his regiment, is lying injured close by. The British troops are near, but the area where the boys are is occupied by the French, who are the enemy. The boys need to recover from their wounds, and then to get back to their regiment. They have numerous adventures, and meet several people who help them, including the deposed Spanish King... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Tention; HTML; PDF Downloads: 235 Average rating: (0 review)
	The Devon Boys - A Story of the North Shore - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) As per the title, the story revolves round the cliffs of the north shore of Devon, in South West England. It is 1752. There are three local teenage boys, who are all boarders at the nearby Barnstaple Grammar School. It is the summer holidays. Bob Chowne is the son of a local doctor, and is a bit cross in his manner; Bigley Uggleston is the son of a local fisherman (or smuggler), and is a very pleasant-mannered boy; while Sep Duncan, the "I" of the story, is the son of Arthur John Duncan, a naval... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Devon; Boys; PDF; HTML Downloads: 146 Average rating: (0 review)
	The Peril Finders - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This is a long and excellent book, though a rare one, and is George Manville Fenn at his very best. It starts in California, where several settlers had been trying to gain a living as fruit-growers, but the various blights and insects were getting the upper hand, and failure was in the air all round. One day an aged and deranged old prospector comes there, having walked in from the mountains and salt-plains, many hundreds of miles away... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Peril; Finders; PDF; HTML; TXT; ZIP Downloads: 88 Average rating: (0 review)
	Trapped by Malays - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This is good lively yarn by the master of suspense. There is continuous action throughout the book, and you are kept on your toes wondering how we are going to get through the latest apparent disaster. Sometimes just a little reminiscent of The Middy and the Ensign, set in a similar location, with similar personnel, but different enough to escape too much criticism. Makes a good audiobook. George Manville Fenn lived from 1831 to 1909, and was a prolific writer of boys' adventure stories... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Trapped; Malays; PDF; HTML Downloads: 290 Average rating: (0 review)
	Will of the Mill - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) A Huguenot settlement in the Derbyshire dales, in the middle of England, in the mid-nineteenth century. The Vicar's son, and the mill-owner's son are great friends. They become friends with a visiting artist, who is lodging in the house of one of the key-workers at the Mill, where they manufacture silk. The artist falls down an old mine-shaft up in the hills, and the boys find him. At home they are missed and a rescue party is sent out, and finds them all... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Will; Mill; PDF; TXT; ZIP; HTML Downloads: 86
	Principal books by George Manville Fenn - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) These books are in the form of PDFs. They are printable and searchable. They have been digitised by scanning nineteenth century or early twentieth century copies of the books. These original scans are also available in the Internet Archive. To make them more readable we have omitted the images, which can be seen, if desired, with the original scans in the Internet Archive. Books dated later than 1922 may not be viewed from within the USA... Keywords: Athelstane; George Manville Fenn; Principal Works; PDF; HTML Downloads: 183 Average rating: (0 review)
	A Dash from Diamond City - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) The setting is South Africa, during the Boer war. Two young men are sent from Mafeking with important despatches which they have to get back to the General at Kimberley, travelling through Boer-occupied country, and meeting with many mishaps. Just before they finally arrive they are both severely wounded, and are unconscious for a fortnight. Luckily the despatches, which had been sewn into a jacket, now filthy and blood-stained, are still to be found, though there had been the idea that the jack... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Dash; Diamond; City; PDF; HTML Downloads: 178 Average rating: (0 review)
	Brave and True - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Although Fenn's name appears on the cover, and on the title-page, he does not appear to have written more than one of the stories, and the story that gave its name to the book was not by him. There are several stories that were not signed by an author's name, so we have a mystery there. They were probably just using Fenn's name to sell the book. The target audience appears to be seven- or eight-year-olds; certainly not the sixteen-year-olds that Fenn generally aimed for... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Brave; True; PDF; HTML Downloads: 162 Average rating: (0 review)
	Begumbagh, a story of the Indian Mutiny, and other stories - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This book of short stories is an excellent read in the usual Fenn style of suspense. "How does he get out of this one?" is always in the reader's mind. Most of the book is taken up with a story about the plight of the British members of a small garrison, during the Indian Mutiny. The second story is about half as long, and is a well-written and extremely plausible story about a house owned by an old gentleman of ancient lineage, where there is a collection of gold plate which was said to be an "... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Begumbagh; incubus; PDF; HTML; ZIP; TXT Downloads: 145 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bluejackets; or, The Log of the Teaser - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) Another very exciting nautical novel by this author, who is a master of suspense. HMS Teaser, a clipper-gunboat, is patrolling the China Seas on the lookout for pirates. At the time of the story she has proceeded up the Nyho river, and is at anchor off the city of Nyho. The teller of the story is one of three young midshipmen, Nathaniel Herrick. A most important character is Ching, the Chinese interpreter, who would love to be much more important than he is... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Bluejackets; Log; Teaser; PDF; HTML Downloads: 206 Average rating: (0 review)
	Burr Junior - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) I thought that it was unusual for Manville Fenn to set a novel in a boys' boarding school, since I had become used to exotic settings in Malaysia, or South America, for his tension-filled novels. Here he certainly does not disappoint if it's tension and suspense you are expecting of him. The last few chapters, in particular, are extremely nail-biting, but the book is quite hard to put down at any point... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Burr; Junior; PDF; HTML Downloads: 135 Average rating: (0 review)
	Charge! - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) The earliest European settlers in South Africa were mostly Dutch. They were known as Boers, the Dutch word for farmer. They were doing well, and even though the British had come to rule the country, their comfortable and profitable existence was all that most of them wanted. However, an Irishman of the name of Moriarty thought otherwise, and urged them to rebel against the British, simply because there is a class of Irish people that enjoy fights, and the English are their nearest neighbours, an... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Charge; PDF; HTML Downloads: 141 Average rating: (0 review)
	Cutlass and Cudgel - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) In some ways this book is reminiscent of "The Lost Middy", by the same author, but I suppose that with a similar theme, a nosey midshipman taken prisoner by a gang of smugglers, there are bound to be other points of similarity. Anyway, it is a good fast-moving story, with lots of well-drawn human interest. It starts off with a comic scene, where the Excise patrol vessel is cruising near an area suspected of being heavily involved with smuggling... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Cutlass; Cudgel; PDF; TXT; ZIP; HTML Downloads: 126
	Fire_Island - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This is good vintage Fenn, with dreadful situation following dreadful situation, and the heroes (mostly) managing to get out of it somehow. Right up to the last chapter the reader never knows how the problems that throw themselves upon a little group of naturalists and the sailors that brought them to the island on which all these frightening events occur, will be solved. George Manville Fenn lived from 1831 to 1909, and was a prolific writer of boys' adventure stories... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Fire; Island; PDF; HTML Downloads: 112 Average rating: (0 review)
	Gil the Gunner - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This is a very long book from this author. Gilbert Vincent, very young at the time, joins the army to serve in India. Various battles and engagements take place, as a result of which Gil gets injuries, and spends a lot of time unconscious or recovering. At one stage he is captured by the local Rajah, who is extremely wealthy, and who takes a shine to our hero, making sure that he is treated extremely well by his domestic servants... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Gil; Gunner; PDF; HTML Downloads: 164 Average rating: (0 review)
	In the Mahdi's Grasp - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) A young army officer has been captured during the wars in Soudan, and is being held as a slave in the stronghold of the Mahdi. For years it had been thought that he was dead. His friends in London decide to go and try to rescue him. One of them is a well-known and proficient surgeon. They arrive in Cairo, and proceed on down into the Soudan, where they get in contact with an influential Sheikh. They establish themselves by doing many cures, where it is possible, and gradually work themselves nea... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Mahdi; Grasp; Harlow; Grand; Chaco; PDF; HTML; ZIP; TXT Downloads: 104 Average rating: (0 review)
	Jack at Sea - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) We do seem to have rather a problem with this book, because the copy we worked from had pages 15 and 16 missing (sheet was missing) and also the bottom half of pages 283 and 284 has been torn out. Eventually, when I can see another copy of the book I will be able to rectify this, but at the moment there does not seem to be a copy in sight: it doesn't even seem to be listed in the British Library Catalogue... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Jack; Sea; PDF; TXT; ZIP; HTML Downloads: 80
	Jungle and Stream; or, Two Boys in Siam - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This story is so packed with action that it is hard to know where to begin. There is a small colony of Europeans in this part of Siam (now Thailand), and there is the King in his Palace, a very modern-thinking man, who loves his people and works incessantly for their good. There is a sort of second King, who takes the totally opposite view of progress, and wants to halt and reverse the steps forward taken by the King... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Jungle; Siam; Stream; PDF; HTML Downloads: 181 Average rating: (0 review)
	King o' the Beach - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This book was written just before the end of the century, when it would have been expected that travel by steamer was pretty safe. Carey, a teenage boy making his way by steamer "Chusan" to meet his parents in Australia, becomes very friendly with the ship's doctor, and also with one of the seamen, Bob Bostock. But somewhere out in the Indian Ocean he has an accident, falling from the ship's rigging, and is unconscious and possibly may not live... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; King; Beach; PDF; HTML Downloads: 157 Average rating: (0 review)
	Middy and Ensign - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This was the first Manville Fenn book I ever encountered, and I loved it at first sight. So much so that I had put nearly fifty of his books on the website within a couple of years, although, writing in 2005, two years ago I had never heard of Manville Fenn. HMS Startler is on patrol up the Parang River in the Malay peninsula. On board are the midshipman, Bob Roberts, and the ensign, Tom Long. Their friendly bickering goes on throughout the book... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Middy; Ensign; PDF; HTML Downloads: 295 Average rating: (0 review)
	Quicksilver; or, The Boy with no Skid to his Wheel - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) I don't know where they get titles for books from. The subtitle is "The Boy with no Skid to his Wheel", and that is the only mention of the word "skid" in the entire book. The only "wheel" mentioned is when the boy hero does cartwheels round the drawing-room. And the said boy is referred to as "a globule of quicksilver". So I suppose it is something the author had in his mind before he began the book... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Quicksilver; Skid; Wheel; PDF; HTML Downloads: 109 Average rating: (0 review)
	Sail Ho! - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This appears to be one of Fenn's later novels, and is just as exciting and full of tension as are his earlier ones. The hero is a seventeen-year-old boy called Alison Dale. We have never heard of a boy called Alison before, but this one is pretty tough, and already knew a lot about seamanship even before he went to sea, on account of having often sailed in his father's large yachts. Hopefully most boys on their first cruise to sea won't have anything like the adventures that befell Master Alison... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Sail; Ho; PDF; TXT; ZIP; HTML Downloads: 145
	Sappers and Miners - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) This must be one of Manville Fenn's very best books. The suspense is totally gripping, right to the very end. Normally Fenn places his moments of terror at the very end of a chapter, so that this book with 52 chapters must have quite a few of them. When preparing this book for publication on the web, the editor was truly sorry when the work ended, so greatly had he enjoyed every moment of it. The action takes place in Cornwall, in and around an old tin-mine, possibly dating back to Roman and Pho... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Sappers; Miners; PDF; HTML Downloads: 168 Average rating: (0 review)
	Syd Belton - George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) The book opens with a domestic scene with the boy Sydney having just finished dinner with his father, a Captain in the navy, and his uncle, an Admiral. They are discussing Syd's career, which the two old gentlemen hope will be as a naval officer. Syd, however has other ideas: he has been on his rounds with the local doctor, and thinks that he might like to be a doctor, too. The time of the story is in the middle of the eighteenth century, but the only real evidence of this is the fact of people ... Keywords: Athelstane; George; Manville; Fenn; Syd; Belton; PDF; HTML Downloads: 172 Average rating: (0 review)