THE GREAT BOER WAR

By Arthur Conan Doyle

	PREFACE TO THE FINAL EDITION.
CHAPTER 1.	THE BOER NATIONS.
CHAPTER 2.	THE CAUSE OF QUARREL.
CHAPTER 3.	THE NEGOTIATIONS.
CHAPTER 4.	THE EVE OF WAR.
CHAPTER 5.	TALANA HILL.
CHAPTER 6.	ELANDSLAAGTE AND RIETFONTEIN.
CHAPTER 7.	THE BATTLE OF LADYSMITH.
CHAPTER 8.	LORD METHUEN'S ADVANCE.
CHAPTER 9.	BATTLE OF MAGERSFONTEIN.
CHAPTER 10.	THE BATTLE OF STORMBERG.
CHAPTER 11.	BATTLE OF COLENSO.
CHAPTER 12.	THE DARK HOUR.
CHAPTER 13.	THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH.
CHAPTER 14.	THE COLESBERG OPERATIONS.
CHAPTER 15.	SPION KOP.
CHAPTER 16.	VAALKRANZ.
CHAPTER 17.	BULLER'S FINAL ADVANCE.
CHAPTER 18.	THE SIEGE AND RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY.
CHAPTER 19.	PAARDEBERG.
CHAPTER 20.	ROBERTS'S ADVANCE ON BLOEMFONTEIN.
CHAPTER 21.	STRATEGIC EFFECTS OF LORD ROBERTS'S MARCH.
CHAPTER 22.	THE HALT AT BLOEMFONTEIN.
CHAPTER 23.	THE CLEARING OF THE SOUTH-EAST.
CHAPTER 24.	THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING.
CHAPTER 25.	THE MARCH ON PRETORIA.
CHAPTER 26.	DIAMOND HILL—RUNDLE'S OPERATIONS.
CHAPTER 27.	THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION.
CHAPTER 28.	THE HALT AT PRETORIA.
CHAPTER 29.	THE ADVANCE TO KOMATIPOORT.
CHAPTER 30.	THE CAMPAIGN OF DE WET.
CHAPTER 31.	THE GUERILLA WARFARE IN THE TRANSVAAL: NOOITGEDACHT.
CHAPTER 32.	THE SECOND INVASION OF CAPE COLONY.
CHAPTER 33.	THE NORTHERN OPERATIONS FROM JANUARY TO APRIL, 1901.
CHAPTER 34.	THE WINTER CAMPAIGN (APRIL TO SEPTEMBER, 1901).
CHAPTER 35.	THE GUERILLA OPERATIONS IN CAPE COLONY.
CHAPTER 36.	THE SPRING CAMPAIGN (SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER, 1901).
CHAPTER 37.	THE CAMPAIGN OF JANUARY TO APRIL, 1902.
CHAPTER 38.	DE LA REY'S CAMPAIGN OF 1902.
CHAPTER 39.	THE END.

SONGS OF ACTION

By A. Conan Doyle

The Song of the Bow	1
Cremona	4
The Storming Party	13
The Frontier Line	18
Corporal Dick’s Promotion	21
A Forgotten Tale	28
Pennarby Mine	31
A Rover Chanty	35
A Ballad of the Ranks	40
A Lay of the Links	46
The Dying Whip	49
Master	61
H.M.S. ‘Foudroyant’	63
The Farnshire Cup	67
The Groom’s Story	77
With the Chiddingfolds	88
A Hunting Morning	91
The Old Gray Fox	96
’Ware Holes	101
The Home-coming of the ‘Eurydice’	105
The Inner Room	109
The Irish Colonel	114
The Blind Archer	115
A Parable	118
A Tragedy	119
The Passing	121
The Franklin’s Maid	131
The Old Huntsman	133

RODNEY STONE

By A. Conan Doyle

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Friar’s Oak	1
II.	The Walker of Cliffe Royal	18
III.	The Play-actress of Anstey Cross	33
IV.	The Peace of Amiens	50
V.	Buck Tregellis	65
VI.	On the Threshold	86
VII.	The Hope of England	98
VIII.	The Brighton Road	121
IX.	Watier’s	136
X.	The Men of the Ring	153
XI.	The Fight in the Coach-house	179
XII.	The Coffee-room of Fladong’s	201
XIII.	Lord Nelson	221
XIV.	On the Road	234
XV.	Foul Play	253
XVI.	Crawley Downs	261
XVII.	The Ring-side	277
XVIII.	The Smith’s Last Battle	294
XIX.	Cliffe Royal	314
XX.	Lord Avon	326
XXI.	The Valet’s Story	340
XXII.	The End	355

A DUET, WITH AN OCCASIONAL CHORUS

By A. Conan Doyle

	PAGE
The Overture	1
The Overture Continued	9
The Overture Concluded	24
The Two Solos	34
In Britain’s Valhalla	48
Two Solos and a Duet	71
Keeping up Appearances	88
The Home-Coming	100
Laying a Course	112
Confessions	128
Concerning Mrs. Beeton	146
Mr. Samuel Pepys	158
A Visit to Mr. Samuel Pepys	170
Trouble	185
A Rescue	204
The Browning Society	218
An Investment	236
A Thundercloud	251
Danger	269
No. 5 Cheyne Row	290
The Last Note of the Duet	311
The Trio	326

THE MYSTERY OF CLOOMBER

By Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER I	THE HEGIRA OF THE WESTS FROM EDINBURGH
CHAPTER II	OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH A TENANT CAME TO CLOOMBER
CHAPTER III	OF OUR FURTHER ACQUAINTANCE WITH MAJOR-GENERAL J. B.HEATHERSTONE
CHAPTER IV	OF A YOUNG MAN WITH A GREY HEAD
CHAPTER V	HOW FOUR OF US CAME TO BE UNDER THE SHADOW OF CLOOMBER
CHAPTER VI	HOW I CAME TO BE ENLISTED AS ONE OF THE GARRISON OF CLOOMBER
CHAPTER VII	OF CORPORAL RUFUS SMITH AND HIS COMING TO CLOOMBER
CHAPTER VIII	STATEMENT OF ISRAEL STAKES
CHAPTER IX	NARRATIVE OF JOHN EASTERLING, F.R.C.P.EDIN
CHAPTER X	OF THE LETTER WHICH CAME FROM THE HALL
CHAPTER XI	OF THE CASTING AWAY OF THE BARQUE “BELINDA”
CHAPTER XII	OF THE THREE FOREIGN MEN UPON THE COAST
CHAPTER XIII	IN WHICH I SEE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN SEEN BY FEW
CHAPTER XIV	OF THE VISITOR WHO RAN DOWN THE ROAD IN THE NIGHT-TIME
CHAPTER XV	THE DAY-BOOK OF JOHN BERTHIER HEATHERSTONE
CHAPTER XVI	AT THE HOLE OF CREE

THE DOINGS OF RAFFLES HAW

By Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER I.	A DOUBLE ENIGMA
CHAPTER II.	THE TENANT OF THE NEW HALL
CHAPTER III.	A HOUSE OF WONDERS
CHAPTER IV.	FROM CLIME TO CLIME
CHAPTER V.	LAURA'S REQUEST
CHAPTER VI.	A STRANGE VISITOR
CHAPTER VII.	THE WORKINGS OF WEALTH
CHAPTER VIII.	A BILLIONAIRE'S PLANS
CHAPTER IX.	A NEW DEPARTURE
CHAPTER X.	THE GREAT SECRET
CHAPTER XI.	A CHEMICAL DEMONSTRATION
CHAPTER XII.	A FAMILY JAR
CHAPTER XIII.	A MIDNIGHT VENTURE
CHAPTER XIV.	THE SPREAD OF THE BLIGHT
CHAPTER XV.	THE GREATER SECRET

THE LAST GALLEY

IMPRESSIONS AND TALES

By Arthur Conan Doyle

PART I.

I THE COMING OF MAXIMIN

II THE RISE OF GIANT MAXIMIN

III THE FALL OF MAXIMIN

THE COMING OF THE HUNS

THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS

PART II.

THE BLIGHTING OF SHARKEY

THE MARRIAGE OF THE BRIGADIER

THE LORD OF FALCONBRIDGE

OUT OF THE RUNNING

“DE PROFUNDIS”

THE GREAT BROWN-PERICORD MOTOR

THE TERROR OF BLUE JOHN GAP

MICAH CLARKE

By Arthur Conan Doyle

Chapter I	Of Cornet Joseph Clarke of the Ironsides
Chapter II	Of my going to school and of my coming thence
Chapter III	Of Two Friends of my Youth
Chapter IV	Of the Strange Fish that we Caught at Spithead
Chapter V	Of the Man with the Drooping Lids
Chapter VI	Of the Letter that came from the Lowlands
Chapter VII	Of the Horseman who rode from the West
Chapter VIII	Of our Start for the Wars
Chapter IX	Of a Passage of Arms at the Blue Boar
Chapter X	Of our Perilous Adventure on the Plain
Chapter XI	Of the Lonely Man and the Gold Chest
Chapter XII	Of certain Passages upon the Moor
Chapter XIII	Of Sir Gervas Jerome, Knight Banneret of the County of Surrey
Chapter XIV	Of the Stiff-legged Parson and his Flock
Chapter XV	Of our Brush with the King’s Dragoons
Chapter XVI	Of our Coming to Taunton
Chapter XVII	Of the Gathering in the Market-square
Chapter XVIII	Of Master Stephen Timewell, Mayor of Taunton
Chapter XIX	Of a Brawl in the Night
Chapter XX	Of the Muster of the Men of the West
Chapter XXI	Of my Hand-grips with the Brandenburger
Chapter XXII	Of the News from Havant
Chapter XXIII	Of the Snare on the Weston Road
Chapter XXIV	Of the Welcome that met me at Badminton
Chapter XXV	Of Strange Doings in the Boteler Dungeon
Chapter XXVI	Of the Strife in the Council
Chapter XXVII	Of the Affair near Keynsham Bridge
Chapter XXVIII	Of the Fight in Wells Cathedral
Chapter XXIX	Of the Great Cry from the Lonely House
Chapter XXX	Of the Swordsman with the Brown Jacket
Chapter XXXI	Of the Maid of the Marsh and the Bubble which rose from the Bog
Chapter XXXII	Of the Onfall at Sedgemoor
Chapter XXXIII	Of my Perilous Adventure at the Mill
Chapter XXXIV	Of the Coming of Solomon Sprent
Chapter XXXV	Of the Devil in Wig and Gown
Chapter XXXVI	Of the End of it All
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