Books published in 1942
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Cross Creek
[english | 1942]Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Excerpts: [... an open forest. And after long years of spiritual homelessness, of nostalgia, here is that mystic loveliness of childhood again. Here is home. An old ...... She was a rich smooth brown. She came directly to me and inclined her head. She said, I come to pay my respecks. I be's Martha. Martha Mickens. I ...... totalled thirty-six dollars. I thought happily how far this would go. I ...]
Genres: [non-fiction | biography autobiography | fiction] Downloads: 106
Darkness And The Light
[english | 1942]William Olaf Stapledon
Excerpts: [... their values falsified. And so, like bees in a queenless hive, they floundered into primitive ways. They became marauding gangsters, or clamoured ...... however, forced them to sacrifice much to military necessity. Not only the physical but also the mental prosperity of the population suffered. What ...... a rigorous political training, practical and theoretical, could stand for ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 17
Guide To Life And Literature Of The Southwest
[english | 1942]J Frank Dobie
Excerpts: [... self is not for this extravert world. The banners of individualism are carried high, but the higher individualism that grows out of long looking ...... making good reading. I have never had any idea of writing or teaching about my own section of the country merely as a patriotic duty. Without apologies, ...... for Europe-a frontier that brought about the rise of democracy and ...]
Genres: [non fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 249
Henry Horn X Ray Eye Glasses
[english | 1942]Dwight Swain
Summary: [Henry Horn had a new invention a pair of glasses that worked on the x-ray principle. But he didnt expect them to reveal Nazi secret agents and their works of sabotage!]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 402
Henry Horns X Ray Eye Glasses
[english | 1942]Dwight Vreeland Swain
Summary: [Henry Horn had a new invention a pair of glasses that worked on the x-ray principle. But he didnt expect them to reveal Nazi secret agents and their works of sabotage!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 450
La Conception Materialiste De La Question Juive
[french | 1942]Abraham Leon
Summary: [Juif polonais Abraham Lon fut dabord sioniste de gauche militant de lHachomer Hatzar puis devient trotskyste au dbut de la IIe guerre mondiale un des cadres de la IVe internationale. Il crit le prsent document en 1942 est arrt en 1944 et meurt Auschwitz. Ce texte historique trs intressant propose un point de vue marxiste sur la question juive bien sr diffrent de celui du sionisme.]
Genres: [non-fiction | religion | judaism] Downloads: 35
Monsoons Of Death
[english | 1942]Gerald Vance
Summary: [Monsoons Of Death by Gerald Vance. Monsoons of Death appeared in the December 1942 issue of Amazing Stories. Ward Harrison got himself into a barrel of trouble when he accepted a job at the Martian Observation Station. There were fearful things on Mars....]
Genres: [short story | horror | post 1930] Downloads: 393
One Way Ticket To Nowhere
[english | 1942]Leroy Yerxa
Summary: [Like a ghost in the night a whole Mono train vanished. And it was up to Jeff Blake to find out where it had gone...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 56
Planet Of The Gods
[english | 1942]Robert Moore Williams
Summary: [Two planets circling Vega! But a more amazing discovery waited the explorers when they landed!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 458
Skeleton Men Of Jupiter
[english | 1942]Edgar Rice Burroughs
Excerpts: [... Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium, approached and saluted. From Tardos Mors to John Carter, Kaor! he said. The jeddak requests your immediate presence ...... capture came and sat down beside me. His rather handsome face was sad. I am sorry, John Carter, he said. Perhaps, if you will permit me to explain, ...... find her, I said. She is not on Barsoom. She is on Sasoom. You lie, Multis ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 184
The Jacob Street Mystery
[english | 1942]R Austin Freeman
Excerpts: [... little attention beyond noting the effect of the dark, sharply defined shapes against the in definite background and even this interested him but ...... of pocket dividers, with which he took off the distance from the cross to the nearest point on the path and measured it on the scale. A hundred and ...... Just laid in a fresh quire, and I don't use a lot as I work mostly in oil. ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 403
The Time Mirror
[english | 1942]Clark South
Summary: [Here was a strange mirror indeed! It reflected an image all right but not an image from the same era in history!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 463
The World Beyond
[english | 1942]Raymond King Cummings
Summary: [The Know-It-All: One Mans Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World is the title of a book by Esquire editor A. J. Jacobs published in 2004. It recounts his experience of reading the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica all 32 volumes of the 2002 edition extending to over 33000 pages with some 44 million words. He set out on this endeavour to become the smartest person in the world. The ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 91
The World With A Thousand Moons
[english | 1942]Edmond Moore Hamilton
Summary: [Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | science fiction] Downloads: 5
Warrior Of The Dawn
[english | 1942]Howard Browne
Summary: [From the forest deeps came brutal killers and Tharn the Cro-Magnon vowed that vengeance would be his....]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 152