A daring tale that “explains” a great historical event. The most daring and the most consistently sustained of his many stories, and is heartily recommended to seekers for exciting reading.
A Love Story of the New Spirit of America.Vigor, dramatic intensity and teh sweep of a fine romance are here in this new novel by Mrs. Rinehart–a story of “all of us.” The pages are so many luminous windows before which one sits and, fascinated, watches the unfolding of a great American drama.
Forty-three million miles from the earth–a succession of the weirdestand most astounding adventures in fiction. John Carter, American, findshimself on the planet Mars, battling for a beautiful woman, with theGreen Men of Mars, terrible creatures fifteen feet high, mounted onhorses like dragons.
The critical reader may possibly notice a tone of almost boisterous gayety in certain parts of these imaginary Confessions. I can only plead, in defense, that the story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor […]
The story of young Lucy Honeychurch, traveling through Italy and returning to England during the repressive Edwardian period. At once a romance as well as a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.
Book Excerpt e was roused from her forgetfulness, by the sound of the castle clock, which struck one. Surprised at the lateness of the hour, she rose in haste, and was moving to her chamber, when the beauty of the night attracted her to the window. She opened it; and observing a fine effect of […]
Book Excerpt ss.””I thought she favored you, Alexander.” “A little–a little, perhaps–but not enough to spoil her. If she has kept the Gordon beauty, she will be a’ the mair welcome to me. I have aye had a strong prejudice in its favor;” and he leaned forward and took Madame’s small brown hand, and then […]
Margaret Earle, an Eastern girl, thinking she has reached her destination in Arizona, where she is going to teach school, steps off the train at a lonely, desert water tank, and the train moves on, leaving her in the darkness and in a strange, forlorn land. But she steps off into a series of adventures […]