A Story of Love, Mystery and a Private Yacht “An astonishing story of love and mystery, which equals if not surpasses in interest those other lively stories of Mrs. Rinehart’s. The novel is one of the sprightliest of the season and will add to the author’s reputation as an inventor of ‘queer’ plots.” — Philadelphia […]
Making masterful use of a counterpointed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832. The main characters, Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate, each long for exceptional lives but are powerfully constrained by their own unrealistic expectations as well as […]
One of the first novels of manners to emerge in American literature, and also one of Wharton’s best-known works, The House of Mirth centers on Lily Bart, a New York socialite attempting to secure a husband and a place in affluent society.
Book Excerpt easily expelled, and had dyed with blackness the walls to which, bat-like, it had clung, these tapers served but ill to light up the gloomy hangings, and seemed to throw yet darker shadows into the hollows of the deep-wrought cornice. All the further portions of the room lay shrouded in a mystery whose […]
Book Excerpt ue, Éliza, Georgiana. Je vais le rapporter à maman, mais avant tout…»En disant ces mots, il se précipita sur moi; il me saisit par les cheveux et les épaules. Je sentais de petites gouttes de sang descendre le long de ma tête et tomber dans mon cou, ma crainte s’était changée en rage; […]
An exotic romance about a traveller to the jungle of Guyana in Venezuela. After befriending the local tribes the traveller meets a girl in the jungle when she saves him from a poisonous snake bite. Rima, the girl, is at home in the jungle and treats the animals as her friends, but is viewed by […]
The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Begining in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia, five northern POWs decide to escape in a rather unusual way – by hijacking a balloon! This is only the […]