Book Excerpt resting, have no particular bearing upon the development of this tale. What interests us is the outcome, which occurred in the middle of a very bloody fourth round, in which Jimmy Torrance scored a clean knock-out.It was a battered but happy Jimmy who sat in his room the following Monday afternoon, striving to […]
Book Excerpt The _then_ of changeless sunny days– the _now_ of shower and shine– But Love forever smiling,– as that old sweetheart of mine.[Illustration] This ever-restful sense of _home_, though shouts ring in the hall.– The easy-chair–the old bookshelves and prints along the wall; The rare _Habanas_ in their box, or gaunt churchwarden-stem That often […]
Book Excerpt counting his gains, the boy sobbing against the bank on which he had thrown himself, and the monkey gibbering and chattering overhead–a dark shapeless object on an invisible rope. For night was falling: where the fun of the fair was not were gloom and a rising wind, lurking cutpurses, and waste land.The showman […]
A dramatic love story. The hero, forced into a fight, kills his opponent. Years later, without knowing her identity, he falls in love with the man’s widow, and the story is of the adjustment of their lives after discovery of the circumstances.
The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain’s house as a result of a bet. The cast of characters head to England, and from there on it’s a typically Wodehousian romantic farce, set […]
A graphic picture of the adolescent American girl, brave and loyal, innocently daring, trustful alike of her vagrant impulses and of people, warm hearted and impulsive. She is quite right when she complains that her family does not understand her. Most parents do not understand their daughters of that age. Therefore this is a book […]
Book Excerpt mp.Thinking about his embrace and its pleasures, she seems to be asking Shouldn’t our glorious son here at our side stand erect? XIV Can’t you hear voices, beloved, out on the Via Flamina? Reapers are now going home, back from harvesting grain. They had journeyed to Rome from afar, and here plaited for […]
It is seldom that Haggard has attained, in his own special vein, the height and amplitude of the present volume.
A pastor’s daughter is inadvertently involved the heist of the famous Dark Star gem. Is there a prince who can save her from ruin and recover the stone?