William Henry Giles Kingston

No publication date, but has Dedicatory Preface (to author's cousin) before Contents pages

A Hudson's Bay Company outpost in western Canada during the mid 1800's (presumably) is the subject of several attacks by a hostile tribe of Native American Indians who are bent on capturing the fort, killing its chief factor, and kidnapping the factor's lovely daughter. This story portrays many acts of stoicism, bravery, and sheer nerve and grit by the fort's hopelessly outnumbered inhabitants, who try desperately to stay alive and hopeful in the face of almost constant peril.

A collection of anecdotes of the world of animals. W.H.G. Kingston : Writer of tales for boys, William Henry Giles Kingston was born in London, but spent much of his youth in Oporto, where his father was a merchant. His first book, The Circassian Chief, appeared in 1844. His first book for boys, Peter the Whaler, was published in 1851, and had such success that he retired from business and devoted himself entirely to the production of this kind of literature, in which his popularity was deservedly great; and during 30 years he wrote upwards of 130 tales.

The story of Nicholas Moretz, a woodcutter from the Gutach Valley in the Black Forest, Germany, takes place during the peasant uprisings in Germany at the time of Martin Luther's Reformation movement.

The Wanderers is a loosely plotted, autobiographical novel, in which author Ezekiel Mphahlele, through the protagonist Timi Tabane, continues the story of his life from the point at which his autobiography Down Second Avenue (1959) ends. Down Second Avenue describes Mphahlele{u2019}s years in the black townships and urban ghettos of South Africa, but The Wanderers concentrates on the period of exile in Nigeria and Kenya that followed his escape from South Africa in 1957. --www.enotes.com.