Category: Historical Novels
The existence of Man in the geological period that preceded the one we live in, in his full anthropoid reality, possessing a mind, self conscious, radiant with powers of creation, of language, of inquisition, has been established. Man, vested with his essential attributes and...
The little village of the horse-hunters, if village it could be called when it was a sort of communal dwelling house, was built upon a very flat and scantily herbaged plain, for...
3. CHAPTER III.Ageless woman! The beckoning centuries seem to run before her tireless energies, still stretching forward the span of her sublime motherhood, still exacting the tribute of her s...
4. CHAPTER IV.Where the opening valleys of the Fair Land turned northward into the Dismal Country of heaped ridges, interminable peat hogs, low woods, and scanty or puissant streams, upon an...
8. CHAPTER VIII.In prehistoric time the camp was the stopping place, a few boughs, a few skins, a fire amongst stones, perhaps a shelter under a rock. In the southern land where they now were a...
5. CHAPTER V.In the newly systematized psychologies the analysis of love carries our introspection to equilibrating shocks of feeling, of an accommodation between an objective irritant and a...
7. CHAPTER VII.When Ogga left Lagk, he crossed the uplands with rapid strides. His hunter’s keen desire and ambition had been roused by the strange report which Lagk had made to him. Lagk had...
2. CHAPTER II.It was a region of splendid contrasts. A continental zone which presented in the wide range of its mere longitudinal extent a succession of physical features that were opposite...
1. CHAPTER I.The existence of Man in the geological period that preceded the one we live in, in his full anthropoid reality, possessing a mind, self conscious, radiant with powers of creatio...