Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
Something about the Elder Baron, the Little Baron’s Father—How the Elder Baron made the Ascent of the Mountains of the Moon—Wonderful Escape of the Elder Baron and Baroness from the Impenetrable Fog, 12
Once more I grow tired of the quiet pleasures of home. The elder Baron opposes my leaving the land. His reasons. How I freed the ancestral estates from the pests of moles, meado...
14. CHAPTER V.Preparations for my first voyage. The elder Baron selects the port from which I am to sail. Description of port No Man’s Port. How I escaped its quicksands, Whirlpool and Thor’s...
17. CHAPTER VIII.In the streets of Constantinople, I fall in with an Armenian merchant, who presents me with a MS., 6,000 years old. It proves to be palimpsest. Its wonderful contents. I learn o...
15. CHAPTER VI.How the elder Baron and the Baroness received Bulger and me upon our return from our first voyage. I am decorated by the Emperor with the grand cross of the Crimson Cincture. Th...
18. CHAPTER IX.How I grew weary of travel and resolved to settle down for a long rest. A quiet life however soon tires me, and I desire to set out again. Bulger’s opposition. How I deceived hi...
12. CHAPTER III.My birth. The elder Baron reads my horoscope. Birth of Bulger. The elder Baron puts on mud-shoes and goes out for a walk. What he discovers. My wonderful precocity. My love for...
13. CHAPTER IV.How the elder Baron lost flesh worrying about the investment of my money. Effect of his anxiety on the rest of the household. I take the matter in hand and devise ways to increa...
11. CHAPTER II.The elder Baron uncertain as to the exact locality of my birth. Reasons why will be given later. My parents traveling in Africa at this time. The elder Baron’s remarkable ascent...
10. CHAPTER I.Short account of one of the little Baron’s most celebrated ancestors, called “The Armless Knight.” His wonderful strength and bravery. How he followed Cœur de Lion to the Orient...
9. CHAPTER IX.How the Little Baron again left Home contrary to Bulger’s Advice—Some Account of the Awful Storm which cast them on the Island of Gô-gû-lâh—Adventures among the Roundbodies who...
4. CHAPTER IV.How the Elder Baron and Baroness, the Household Servants, and the Horses and Cattle, of the Baronial Estates, all lost Flesh in consequence of the Elder Baron’s Worrying about t...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Elder Baron’s Gift of a Copy of a Roman Newspaper—The Strange Story it contained—How the Little Baron, upon reading it, was moved to set sail in Search of the Sculptors’ Isl...
5. CHAPTER V.The Little Baron’s First Voyage to Southern Seas, with a Brief Account of how He Triumphed over the Terrors of Port No Man’s Port and Rescued his Vessel from the Terrible Calm—H...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Visit of the Little Baron to Neptune’s Caldron—How a Fearful Storm drove them on the Coast of China—His and Bulger’s Adventures in the Kingdom of the Sun, including an account o...
7. CHAPTER VII.Journey of Bulger and the Little Baron to Central Asia—Benè-agâ, the Blind Guide—Their Passage through the Great Gloomy Forest and their Perilous Flight down the Rocky Steps of...
3. CHAPTER III.Birth of Bulger and the Little Baron in the Land of the Melodious Sneezers—How the Little Baron was Rescued from Death by His Faithful Bulger—The Elder Baron’s Return to Europe—...
2. CHAPTER II.Something about the Elder Baron, the Little Baron’s Father—How the Elder Baron made the Ascent of the Mountains of the Moon—Wonderful Escape of the Elder Baron and Baroness from...
1. CHAPTER I.