Found 54 results for "River boats in fiction"
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
by Jules Verne
THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
SIDDHARTHA, the handsome son of the Brahmin, the young falcon, grew up together with his friend Govinda, the Brahmin's s...
The Confidence Man
by Herman Melville
AT sunrise on a first of April,* there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca,* a man in creamcolours, a...
The Wisdom of Father Brown
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"BETWEEN the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a s...
A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
by Henry David Thoreau
AT length, on Saturday, the last day of August, 1839, we two, brothers, and natives of Concord, weighed anchor in this r...
Poems
by Rudyard Kipling, Elliot
Looking back from this my seventieth year, it seems to me that every card in my working life has been dealt me in such a...
The River Between Us
by Ravin Kumar
Ravin and Pooja, though from two different worlds, shared a connection that neither could understand at first. Their pa...
Ben's boat
by Sophie Woodson Coors, Robin Mccuddy
Once upon a time deep in the swamps of Itaska, where the Mississippi River begins, lived a wood carver.
