I have recently reread.
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njoyed the readings of E.R. Burroughs "Tarzan of the Apes" [1914] as well as Hope's'The Prisoner of Zenda' [1895].Honestly,on a cold ,lonely nigh,would'nt you prefer to curl up in a warm room with a hot cocoa reading classics (espesially if there was a storm outside.Pardon me for being a 'romantic'.

Randy, nice post. A while back I read Talbot Mundy's "King, of the Khyber Rifles," from 1916. It was the Classics Illustrated version of this that I read as a kid 50 years ago that introduced me to Islamic concepts such as "jihad."

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I have in my library a copy of "Stray Sport" ,1st ed. circa 1894 stamped by the British garrison on Malta. Good reading as well as historical value is everything!

There's a gem. By Brown, no?

Yep,J. Moray Brown of the Queen's own Cameron Highlanders.

just a wee dram or two of Amarula in that cocoa would have made it a perfect evening...

Och,aye.In my past I remember Wing Commander Holmes coming to our house for supper (my father was a fighter pilot);he was a pilot in the "Battle Of Britain". I recall my mother saying something about the scotch. The fine old lady reared up on her hind legs + let it known to God + 7 other white men that "Scotts werrrr peeple,scotch ye trinnk.errr)