Elizabeth Bland Books

Contains 23 accounts of daring escapes from captivity and courageous battles against death. Episodes from thrilling real life adventures and from some of the worlds most exciting fiction make up this outstanding collection. Atmospheric line drawings bring each story to life.

Includes love stories by Colette, Walter de la Mare, Anton Chekhov, Frank O'Connor, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Bronte, Tennessee Williams, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry James, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson, O. Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Damon Runyon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, and Mrs. Gaskell, among others.