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The Madness of May
By Meredith Nicholson. 2012
A story to be read by all honest lovers of romance in terms of whimsy. It is altogether spirited and…
delightful, a masterful fantasy released from the sober interpretation of American life and character. (With illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele)A Night at the Opera
By Ray Smith. 2007
Set in the small German city of Waltherrott, this novel is a madcap excursion from the 1980s back to 1848,…
the year of revolutions, then back to the time of the Black Death in the late 1340s. A startling comedy, A Night at the Opera is a tour de force in the unexpected, the bizarre, and the serendipitous.The Gilded Age
By Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Louis J. Budd. 1874
First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an…
age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels.The Betrothed
By Alessandro Manzoni. 2012
This historical romance of seventeenth-century Milan, first published in 1827, is the most famous of Italian novels. It has great…
breadth and depth-- indeed its moral, religious, and political themes are as applicable to the problems of our own day as they were to the Napoleonic times when it was written, or the period of the Thirty Years War in which it is set.The Morgesons
By Lawrence Buell, Elizabeth Stoddard, Sandra Zagarell. 2006
Elizabeth Stoddard combines the narrative style of the popular nineteenth-century male-centered bildungsroman with the conventions of women's romantic fiction in…
this revolutionary exploration of the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her. Set in a small seaport town (1862), The Morgesons is the dramatic story of Cassandra Morgeson's fight against social and religious norms in a quest for sexual, spiritual, and economic autonomy. An indomitable heroine, Cassandra not only achieves an equal and complete love with her husband and ownership of her family's property, but also masters the skills and accomplishments expected of women. Counterpointed with the stultified lives of her aunt, mother, and sister, Cassandra's success is a striking and radical affirmation of women's power to shape their own destinies. Embodying the convergence of the melodrama and sexual undercurrents of gothic romance and Victorian social realism, The Morgesons marks an important transition in the development of the novel and evoked comparisons during Stoddard's lifetime with such masters as Balzac, Tolstoy, Eliot, the Brontes, and Hawthorne.Raggedy Andy Stories
By Johnny Gruelle. 2012
It is the air which we breathe that fills our lungs and gives us life and light. It is that…
which refreshes us if pure, or sinks us into stagnation if it be foul. Let me for awhile inhale the breath of an invigorating literature. Sit down, Mr. Mackinnon; I have a question that I must put to you. And then she succeeded in carrying him off into a corner. As far as I could see he went willingly enough at that time.Time's Covenant
By Eric Ormsby. 2007
Century
By Ray Smith. 2008
Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle…
on the Seymour family that moves from Austria, America and Africa, through Edinburgh and Venice, and then back through the Paris of the Belle Epoque and forward to 1923 Germany. One of the most far-reaching novels ever published in Canada.[Scribner's] Stories by English Authors in France
By Louise de la Ramée. 2012
A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT by R. L. Stevenson A LEAF IN THE STORM by Ouida A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED…
by Wilkie Collins MICHEL LORIO'S CROSS by Hesba Stretton A PERILOUS AMOUR by Stanley J. WeymanBen-Hur
By Lew Wallace. 1827
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books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: faced each other. Simultaneously their heads bent forward, their hands crossed upon their breasts, and, speaking together, they said aloud this simple grace: Father of all?God ?what we have here is of thee; take our thanks and bless us, that we may continue to do thy will. With the last word they raised their eyes, and looked at each other in wonder. Each had spoken in a language never before heard by the others; yet each understood perfectly what was said. Their souls thrilled with divine emotion; for by the miracle they recognized the Divine Presence. CHAPTER III. To speak in the style of the period, the meeting just described took place in the year of Rome 747. The month was December, and winter reigned over all the regions east of the Mediterranean. Such as ride upon the desert in this season go not far until smitten with a keen appetite. The company under the little tent were not exceptions to the rule. They were hungry, and ate heartily; and, after the wine, they talked. To a wayfarer in a strange land nothing is so sweet as to hear his name on the tongue of a friend, said the Egyptian, who assumed to be president of the repast. Before us lie many days of companionship. It is time we knew each other. So, if it be agreeable, he who came last shall be first to speak. Then, slowly at first, like one watchful of himself, the Greek began: What I have to tell, my brethren, is so strange that I hardly know where to begin or what I may with propriety speak. I do not yet understand myself. The most I am sure of is that I am doing a Master's will, and that the service is a constant ecstasy. When I think of the purpose I am sent to fulfil, there is in me a joy so inexpressible that I know the will is God's. The good man paused, unable to proceed, while t. . .Pandora
By Voltaire. 2012
Fate would make us wretched here, But hope shall dry up every tear; In sorrow he shall give us rest,…
And make us even in anguish blest: Love shall preserve us from the paths of vice, And strew his flowers around the precipice.The Pioneers
By James Fenimore Cooper. 2012
In this classic novel, James Fenimore Cooper portrays life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the…
closing years of the eighteenth century. He describes the year's cycle: the turkey shoot at Christmas, the tapping of maple trees, fishing for bass in the evening, the marshalling of the militia. But Cooper is also concerned with exploring the development of the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of the American experience. He writes of the conflicts within the settlement itself, focusing primarily on the contrast between the natural codes of the hunter and woodsman Natty Bumppo and his Indian friend John Mohegan and the more rigid structure of law needed by a more complex society. Quite possibly America's first best-seller (more than three thousand copies were sold within hours of publication), The Pioneers today evokes a vibrant and authentic picture of the American pioneering experience.A New-England Nun
By Sandra Zagarell, Mary E. Freeman. 1852
A collection that shows Freeman's many modes - romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic - as well as her use of…
pathos and sentimentality, humour, satire and irony. These stories centre on questions of women's integrity, courage and privation; explore the idea of masculinity; and dramatise the relationship between rural New England and modern culture and commerce. Also included here is 'The Jamesons', a series of sketches about village life reprinted for the first time since the turn of the 20th century.Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel
By Anthony Trollope. 2012
The year 1874 saw the conclusion in London of a much publicized court case involving an unlikely pretender to an…
English baronetcy. Trollope responded to the public's interest in scandal with this novel, which traces the claim of a shadowy figure to the marquisate of Brotherton. The novel is full of sensational elements and is highly revealing of the social issues of the mid-1870s.The Pioneers
By James Fenimore Cooper, Max Cavitch. 2007
She Stoops to Conquer
By Oliver Goldsmith. 2012
Wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping…
the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around lower-class females. On his first acquaintance with Kate, the latter realises she will have to pretend to be common, or Marlow will not woo her. Thus Kate stoops to conquer, by posing as a maid, hoping to put Marlow at his ease so he falls for her.Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
By James Hogg. 2013
On the surface, this novel is a simple tale of a young man who encounters a shape-shifting devil, an early…
manifestation of a doppelganger, and the various misadventures that follow. This novel was perhaps the first post modern novel; it employs clustered narratives, self-reflexive point-of-view, unreliable narrators, and an unsympathetic-protagonist. This is indeed a landmark novel.Bel Ami: The History of a Scoundrel
By Henri Rene Guy De Maupassant. 2012
Returning from three years of military service in Algeria, journalist Georges Duroy takes advantage of his mistresses to achieve success.…
He wields his charm with unscrupulous ambition, becoming one of the most powerful men in Paris. In his 1885 novel Bel Ami, Maupassant constructs a cynical portrait of human nature.The Man in Lower Ten
By Mary Roberts Rinehart. 2012
Lawrence Blakely, attorney-at-law, sets off by train to deliver valuable documents in a criminal case. His ride will be eventful.…
Along the way he'll encounter romance, treachery, a train wreck, even a murder in which he'll be implicated. Who's after Blakely and his papers -- why? The first detective novel to appear on national bestseller lists, THE MAN IN LOWER TEN is still a great read almost ninety years after its publication. It has all the thrills of a contemporary whodunit and a satiric edge that gently mocks the conventions of male detective fiction.The Eleven Comedies
By Aristophanes. 2012
Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic…
drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.