Cape Cod Classics

"Cape Cod Stories" by Joseph Crosby Lincoln is a quaint short story collection. Written in authentic dialect, you'll be able to learn about Cape Cod before it became the high-class haven that it is today. The stories in this particular book are told from the point of view of Barzilla Wingate and his old friend, Cap'n Jonadab Wixon. Most center around the old hotel they run and the tourists who stay there.

The story of a quaint, quiet, lovable maker of wooden, toy windmills living peacefully on Cape Cod.

Captain's inheritance infects his wife with social ambition.

"The road from Wellmouth Centre to East Wellmouth is not a good one; even in dry weather and daylight it is not that. For the first two miles it winds and twists its sandy way over bare hills, with cranberry swamps and marshy ponds in the hollows between. Then it enters upon a three-mile stretch bordered with scrubby pines and bayberry thickets, climbing at last a final hill to emerge upon the bluff with the ocean at its foot. And, fringing that bluff...

The Depot Master by Joseph Crosby Lincoln libreka classics — These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

"There's been no shortage of trouble on Cape Cod this March. A house party of men and women has been snowed in - and cut off from the outside world. The host is murdered. Poisoning, the doctor says; probably arsenic. But almost everyone is found to have arsenic among his or her possessions." --Book Jacket.