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Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Containing Details of His Captivity, a First and Second Time on the High Seas, in the Revolutionary War, by the British, and His Consequent Sufferings, and escape from the Jersey Prison Ship, then lying in the harbour of New York, by swimming.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Containing Details of His Captivity, a First and Second Time on the High Seas, in the Revolutionary War, by the British, and His Consequent Sufferings, and escape from the Jersey Prison Ship, then lying in the harbour of New York, by swimming.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT189779Anonymous. By Sir Christopher Hawkins.London, 1772. iv,42p.; 8

The house at the end of the block with the overgrown lawn. The darkened store window in a forgotten corner of the shopping mall. The colorful characters of a children's TV show. What dark secrets do they hide?From award-winning author Christopher Hawkins come thirteen tales of the horrors lurking right next door.A shut-in sets out to make a new life for himself by losing weight at the point of a scalpel.A store clerk with a mannequin obsession hides a macabre and tragic secret.A master thief tries for one last score in a house that doesn't want him to leave.Two friends learn the hard way that having superpowers doesn't always make you a hero. It might just make you a monster.A lonely painter finds freedom with the help of something lurking beneath the ocean waves.At turns whimsical and somber but always unsettling, this debut collection of short horror stories is essential reading from a rising voice in dark literary fiction.

A sudden storm appears above an isolated farmhouse in rural Illinois, bringing with it a relentless and unnatural rain. A rain that eats away at everything it touches. A rain that turns people into monsters.Trapped inside his crumbling home, a father must do everything he can to keep his family from falling apart. But the rain calls to them, and not everyone wants to stay inside.Haunted by memories of loss, he must put aside his painful past and find a way to keep them all safe. But the rain shows no signs of stopping, and time is running out.