Amusing mystery story, its melodramatic plot unwinding against the charming background of a South Carolina townlet stirred to its depths by the passing of an historic mansion, through a spite will, to the possession of “a Yankee woman named Smith.”
The book which made Mrs. Carlyle feel “in charity with the whole human race” could be no ordinary one. Adam Bede contains all George Eliot’s broad and catholic knowledge of life, and the characters are all drawn by the hand of a master.
Book Excerpt th the black-browed, dark-eyed beauty of a Cleopatra, for there was some Italian blood in her veins. It was given out occasionally by the Press that she had been a theatre-dresser, an organ-grinder, and fifty other things; but nevertheless, illiterate, common and ill-bred, she had yet achieved fame–or rather, perhaps, notoriety—by her dancing […]
The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature. Although the society it satirized was already history at the time of publication, the book was quite controversial, and […]
Two American girls, sojourning with their father at a little Dutch watering place, unintentionally become involved in a diplomatic intrigue which threatens the peace of Europe. A situation, humorous at first, rapidly becomes dramatic, and moves on to a breathless climax. There is also an absorbing, moving love story, in which Cupid, with the aid […]
Five short stories dealing with the escapades of society women in America and England. CONTENTS:I AFFINITIESII THE FAMILY FRIENDIII CLARA’S LITTLE ESCAPADEIV THE BORROWED HOUSEV SAUCE FOR THE GANDER
Book Excerpt Late that night two British officers sat on the verandah of a bungalow in the hills, discussing the tragedy which had happened at dawn.”It’s an appalling affair altogether,” said the elder man, as he threw away his half-smoked cigar. “If we had been five minutes earlier we should have saved the girl, and […]
Alban Kennedy, the impoverished son of a British parson, is compelled to take up his abode in the Whitechapel district of London, and becomes the suitor of a little Polish maid who is infinitely above her mean environment. The circumstances which lead to his adoption by a millionaire, the net of intrigue woven about him, […]