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''The Death That Lurks Unseen'' is Fletcher's early masterpiece in the mystery and crime fiction genre. At this stage in his career, Fletcher was blending his journalistic precision with a flair for atmospheric, psychological narrative, featuring enigmatic protagonists...
Richard Goulbourn, a humble clerk, comes into a fortune that enables him to start courting the beautiful and rich Moira. He and his sister move into the house next to the black house in Harley Street where Moira lives with her uncle, Dr. van Mildert, her uncle's...
''The Best of Robert Benchley'' showcases the rapier-sharp wit and absurdist humor of one of the 20th century's most influential American humorists, serving as a definitive introduction to the man who was the cornerstone of the Algonquin Round Table, an influential,...
''Inside Benchley'' is the celebrated anthology of humorous essays by American writer Robert Benchley first published in 1942. The collection is particularly notable for being illustrated by the artist Gluyas Williams, whose drawings were long considered the perfect...
''Boon Island'' by Kenneth Roberts is a historical novel detailing the harrowing true story of the 1710 shipwreck of the Nottingham Galley off the coast of Maine. It centers on the survivors' desperate battle against starvation, sub-freezing temperatures, and severe...
While the title might sound unusual to modern ears, in the context of the 1940s, "period stuff" referred to stories about historical or bygone eras—the "interwar" and early WWII periods in which Yates specialized. The stories here were written around 1939 and published...
''Shoal Water'' (1940) is a thriller by British author Dornford Yates and belongs to the author's collection of "adventure thrillers," often categorized alongside the Chandos series, though it features a different primary narrator. The story is narrated by Jeremy...
''The Saracen Blade'' is the very memorable historical adventure novel by Frank Yerby that follows the life of Pietro di Donati, a 13th-century Sicilian peasant. Pietro rises from his humble origins to become a powerful nobleman. The story begins with Pietro seeking...
''Situation Vacant'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a 1946 detective novel about a series of mysterious deaths in an English village, revolving around two secretaries to the same woman at a manor house, with Inspector Arnold and sleuth Desmond Merrion uncovering a...
This fabulous comedy of manners is about the residents of Durham Square, which is a respectable if not totally fashionable London address. We see their snobberies, their quarrels and reconciliations, and we discover that one of the residents of the square has been...
''Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History'' is a landmark biography by Robert E. Sherwood that chronicles the unique partnership between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his closest advisor, Harry Hopkins. The book won the1949 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or...
When this book was first published in 1940, one critic claimed that "adjectives pale before the superb drive and force of Oliver Wiswell." In the novel Kenneth Roberts portrays a very different side to the story of the American Revolution, that of the loyalists...
''The Deepening Stream,'' published in 1930, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Dorothy Canfield Fisher widely regarded as her masterpiece and a significant, though often overlooked, work of World War I literature. The story follows the life of Penelope "Matey"...
The true story of the amazing Henry Gross - the man with uncanny extrasensory power! ''Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod'' (1951) by Kenneth Roberts documents the alleged water-dowsing abilities of Henry Gross, a Maine game warden. Roberts claims Gross used a Y-shaped...
First published in 1910 by North Carolina minister and professor Arthur Talmage Abernethy, ''The Jew a Negro'' is a controversial historical work that argues ancient Jewish people shared significant ancestry with African populations. Abernethy utilized what he termed...
F.O. Matthiessen’s ''American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman'' is a seminal and important work of literary criticism. It analyzes the explosive cultural output of 1850–1855, focusing on how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau,...
''Northwest Passage'' is widely considered a benchmark of the historical adventure genre for its meticulous research and vivid portrayal of colonial America during the mid-18th century. The story is told through the eyes of Langdon Towne, a young artist and Harvard...
''The Foxes of Harrow'' chronicles the rise and fall of Stephen Fox, an audacious Irish gambler in mid-19th-century Louisiana. Arriving in New Orleans in 1825 with almost nothing, Fox uses his skills as a card shark to amass a fortune, eventually building Harrow, one of...
''Brother Man'' (1954) by Jamaican author Roger Mais (died 1955), is the author's best-known work. Set in "The Lane" in the slums, the story follows John Power, known as Brother Man. An honest cobbler and healer, John Power lives a peaceful life according to his...
''The Chief Witness'' is a classic Golden Age British mystery by Herbert Adams, originally published in 1940. It features the amateur detective and golf enthusiast Roger Bennion. The story begins with a bizarre and macabre coincidence: two brothers—one a successful...
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