Inside the bank that June morning the clerks and accountants on their high stools were bent over their ponderous ledgers, although it was several minutes before the opening hour. The gray-stone building was in Atlanta's most central part on a narrow street paved with asphalt which sloped down from one of the main thoroughfares to the section occupied by the old passenger depot, the railway warehouses, and hotels of various grades. Considerable noise, despite the closed windows and doors, came in from the outside. Locomotive bells slowly swung and clanged; steam was escaping; cabs, drays, and...
Inside the bank that June morning the clerks and accountants on their high stools were bent over their ponderous ledgers, although it was several minu...
Inside the bank that June morning the clerks and accountants on their high stools were bent over their ponderous ledgers, although it was several minutes before the opening hour. The gray-stone building was in Atlanta's most central part on a narrow street paved with asphalt which sloped down from one of the main thoroughfares to the section occupied by the old passenger depot, the railway warehouses, and hotels of various grades. Considerable noise, despite the closed windows and doors, came in from the outside. Locomotive bells slowly swung and clanged; steam was escaping; cabs, drays, and...
Inside the bank that June morning the clerks and accountants on their high stools were bent over their ponderous ledgers, although it was several minu...
Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Will N. Harben's "The Land of the Changing Sun" is the tenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series, and it's a hollow Earth Science Fiction Classic. When a pair of air balloonists end up stranded on a lonely island in the Atlantic, they soon find themselves rescued by the crew of an incredible underwater vessel. They are then taken on a fantastic journey to a lost world deep within the bowels of the Earth. Here they encounter a strange race of humans-a race that is...
Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Will N. Harben's "The Land of the Changing Sun...
Harben excelled in creating memorable characters of older backwoods men and women, including Abner Daniel, a cracker-box philosopher noted for such witticisms as "The wust things I ever seed was sometimes at the root o' the best. Manure is a bad thing, but a cake of it will produce a daisy bigger'n any in the field." Pole Baker, a younger, cruder version of Abner, also has a way with words: "Well, boys, ef I had to go, I'd like to be melted up into puore corn whiskey an' poured through my throat tell thar wasn't a drap left of me."
Harben excelled in creating memorable characters of older backwoods men and women, including Abner Daniel, a cracker-box philosopher noted for such wi...
