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The Hidden Masterpiece
By Honore De Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
The Marriage Contract
By Honore De Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
The Vicar of Wakefield
By Oliver Goldsmith.
The White People
By Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The Deserted Woman
By Honore De Balzac, Ellen Marriage.
The Gadfly
By E. L. Voynich.
The Turmoil
By Booth Tarkington.
The Shuttle
By Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The Emancipated
By George Gissing.
Guy Mannering
By Sir Walter Scott.
Alice Adams
By Booth Tarkington. 2014
The basis for George Stevens’s major motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in her Oscar-nominated leading role. In a small Midwestern…
town in the wake of World War I, Alice Adams delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russell, a gentleman of a higher social class in life. Desperate to keep her family's lower-middle-class status a secret, she and her parents concoct various schemes to keep their family afloat. Though the realities of her situation eventually reveal themselves and her relationship with Arthur fizzles, Alice's acceptance of this leads her to seek out work to support her family with an admirable resiliency. An enchanting and authentic tale of a family's aspirations to seek more out of life, Alice Adams reveals the strength of the human spirit and its incredible ability to evolve. Originally published in 1921, this bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was adapted into film twice, and its heroine, the sparkling Alice Adams, still resonates with readers today. With a new foreword by Anne Edwards.Facino Cane
By Honore De Balzac.
A Simple Soul
By Gustave Flaubert.
For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred…
francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress - although the latter was by no means an agreeable person. Madame Aubain had married a comely youth without any money, who died in the beginning of 1809, leaving her with two young children and a number of debts. She sold all her property excepting the farm of Toucques and the farm of Geffosses, the income of which barely amounted to 5,000 francs; then she left her house in Saint-Melaine, and moved into a less pretentious one which had belonged to her ancestors and stood back of the market-place. This house, with its slate-covered roof, was built between a passage-way and a narrow street that led to the river. The interior was so unevenly graded that it caused people to stumble. A narrow hall separated the kitchen from the parlour, where Madame Aubain sat all day in a straw armchair near the window. Eight mahogany chairs stood in a row against the white wainscoting. An old piano, standing beneath a barometer, was covered with a pyramid of old books and boxes. On either side of the yellow marble mantelpiece, in Louis XV. style, stood a tapestry armchair. The clock represented a temple of Vesta; and the whole room smelled musty, as it was on a lower level than the garden.Drifting South
By Charles Davis. 2008
Shady doesn't exist anymore. Neither does Benjamin Purdue. In a single day he lost his family, his love, his freedom…
and even his name for reasons he's never known. Now after spending twenty-one years in prison for crimes he didn't commit, the young man he used to be is dead. And the man he's become is no one he--or anyone else--would ever want to know. With only fifty dollars of state money in his pocket, Henry Cole, aka Benjamin Purdue, journeys back to the dangerous outlaw settlement hidden deep in the Allegheny Mountains of Virginia where it all began. The only place he's called home. Instead of answers, he finds only old sunken graves. Now as he drifts southward, he gets closer to the beautiful woman he will never forget--whose untimely visit to Shady that fateful Sunday afternoon ended in a killing. A woman who holds the keys to his past. . . and his future.No World Concerto
By Rhett Mcneil, Darren Koolman, A. G. Porta. 1982
Hailed by Spain's Revista Quimera as one of the top ten Spanish-language novels of the decade, alongside Bolaño's 2666, Vila-Matas's…
Bartleby & Co., and Marías's Your Face Tomorrow, the many layers of The No World Concerto center around an old screenwriter, holed up in a shabby hotel in order to write a screenplay about his lover, a young piano prodigy who wants in turn to give up music and become a writer, and believes she may be in contact with creatures from another dimension. Shifting effortlessly between realities, The No World Concerto is a delightful and prismatic novel, and the first of A. G. Porta's books to appear in English, finally joining those of his early writing partner Roberto Bolaño.Night Journal, The
By Elizabeth Crook. 2006
A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy With its family secrets and hallowed…
texts containing explosive truths, The Night Journal suggests A. S. Byatts Possession transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg Mabry has spent her life oppressed by her familys legacya heritage beginning with the journals written by her great-grandmother in the 1890s and solidified by her grandmother Bassie, a famous historian who published them to great acclaim. Until now, Meg has stubbornly refused to read the journals. But when she concedes to accompany the elderly and vipertongued Bassie on a return trip to the fabled land of her childhood in New Mexico, Meg finally succumbs to the allure of her great-grandmothers storyand soon everything she believed about her family is turned upside down. .The Gentle Grafter
By O. Henry.
My Lady's Money
By Wilkie Collins.
The Intrusion of Jimmy
By P. G. Wodehouse.
In a German Pension
By Katherine Mansfield.