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A Padre In France
[english | 1918]George Birmingham
Excerpts: [... there were hospital trains. An Englishman would have written letters about the pressing need and there would not have been hospital trains for a long ...... were only two ways in which the enemy worried us. His submarines occasionally raided the neighbourhood of our harbour. Then our letters were delayed ...... I became aware that the whole business of the starting of this great ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | war] Downloads: 299
General John Regan
[english | 1913]George Birmingham
Summary: [George A. Birmingham was the pen name of James Owen Hannay (16 July 1865 - 2 February 1950) Irish clergyman and prolific novelist.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 428
Gossamer
[english | 1915]George Birmingham
Excerpts: [... did it seem to him an important thing that the fruit trade of South America should develop. What he cared for was his conception of religion. He saw ...... XI. I intended to call on the Aschers as soon as I could after I returned to London. I owed Ascher some thanks for his kindness in ...... pleasure in a statue when he had toothache. There is something to be said for the theory ...]
Genres: [war] Downloads: 402
Hyacinth
[english | 1906]George Birmingham
Excerpts: [... and over for him. Holiday time would bring him back to Carrowkeel, but would it be the same. Would he be the same. He looked at his father, half ...... ideas of the history of the Church. Afterwards essor Henry discussed the new class with his assistants as they crossed the square together. 'The ...... poverty was for ever tapping her on the shoulder, and no one except Mary herself ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 64
Lady Bountiful
[english | 1922]George Birmingham
Summary: [Lady Bountiful.-The strike breaker.-The faculty of medicine.-A lunatic at large.-The bands of Ballyguttery.-Starting the train.-Unlawful possession.-A soul for a life.-A bird in hand.-The emerald pendant.-Settled out of court.- A competent mechanic.-My niece Kitty.-A royal marriage.-Aunt Nell.]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 93
Lalage Lovers
[english | 1911]George Birmingham
Summary: [Lalage S Lovers by George A Birmingham. A novel set in Ireland]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 384
Our Casualty
[english | 1918]George Birmingham
Excerpts: [... Isles a more efficient military body than the Ballyhaine Veterans' Corps. The men look like soldiers when they have their grey uniforms on and their ...... too weak. I groaned occasionally but I suppose they didn't hear me.. And how long did you mean to lie out in this storm. I said. Till the ...... I came in. The C.O. sent for me at once.. I suppose, said Mackintosh, that you ...]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 402
Priscilla Spies
[english | 1912]George Birmingham
Excerpts: [... thrills of envious excitement It was Mannix again, Mannix at his greatest and best, who half an hour later stood up in his place. With an air of authority ...... spot on a warm day. Above its gravel beach rises a slope of coarse short grass, woven through with wild thyme and yellow crowtoe. Sea-pinks cluster on ...... and they're never much good for anything. I'm glad you're not ...]
Genres: [humor | nautical] Downloads: 91
The Island Mystery
[english | 1918]George Birmingham
Summary: [In 1914 there were not twenty men in England who had ever heard of the island of Salissa. Even now?I am writing in the spring of 1917?the public is very badly informed about the events which gave the island a certain importance in the history of the war.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 260
The Northern Iron
[english | 1907]George Birmingham
Excerpts: [... was whiter than ever, and his whole body shook as if with an ague. Kelso will tell, he said. Kelso knows, and they'll flog the secret out ...... would venture to make an arrest unless the officer in command was perfectly certain of the identity of his prisoner. So bold and determined were ...... said Neal, that he did his best to save Hope and me yesterday. I believe that he wanted ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 216
The Red Hand Of Ulster
[english | 1912]George Birmingham
Summary: [The Red Hand by Arthur Machen. The Red Hand by Arthur Machen I The Problem of the Fish-Hooks II Incident of the Letter III Search for the Vanished Heaven IV The Artist of the Pavement V Story of the Treasure-house I The Problem of the Fish-Hooks THERE CAN BE no doubt whatever said Mr. Phillipps that my theory is the true one these flints are prehistoric fish-hooks. I dare say but you know that in ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 366
The Simpkins Plot
[english | ]George Birmingham
Summary: [George A. Birmingham was the pen name of James Owen Hannay (16 July 1865 - 2 February 1950) Irish clergyman and prolific novelist.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 383