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Here is the journal which ultimately proved the motive force for The Magnificent Obsession, the journal as it was set down by Doctor Hudson himself. One feels that he must have been a real person (or that at any rate, in his fictional being he represented the...
Hannah Mole is a middle-aged housekeeper/companion who starts at a new household, headed by Reverend Corder. All the occupants of the house, each of whom have their own quirks and goals are affected by Hannah's presence in good and not so good ways. Book was the winner...
In this delightful book of poems, Rose Fyleman scattered her thoughts into the world like so much dandelion fuzz. And here they have landed, over a century later, in your lap. Lucky, lucky you. I trust the faithful fairies will point from their world to things that are...
Nan has written her brothers and sisters that they are invited (and must come) home for Christmas. They had not all been home together for years. No spouses or children . Just the five siblings. They really didn't want to go, it did not sound like fun. The story of a...
First published in this English translation in 1927, “Giants in the Earth” is the Norwegian novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rolvaag which relates the struggles of a group of Norwegian immigrants to the Great Plains of America in the 1870s. A Norwegian...
First Published in a single volume in 1883, the stories collected in Little Novels of Sicily are drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood, reported at the time to be the poorest place in Europe. Verga's style is swift, sure, and implacable; he plunges into...
A collection of 21 short stories, originally written between 1929 and 1948: The Lost Limerick; The Missing Link; Odds and Ends; The Glasgow Smasher; The Crafty Jerko-Slovaks; Pardon the French; One Good Tern; The Ladies of Catsmeat Yard; The Rolling Stone; The Pearl of...
A story of two sisters and their trials and tribulations in love and life. This is a fascinating work and it eventually became a Hollywood movie starring Bette Davies.
There may be a grandson of the Sultan living. If so, Hambledon must find him. So begins Tommy Hambledon's craziest adventure...
It started the night a safe-cracker was shot on a Stepney street by a soft-spoken killer. Through an ingenious piece of detection - and with the help of his underworld friends - Tommy Hambledon succeeded in identifying the killer as the notorious Louis Magid. The...
This one's about murder and kidnapping and smuggling diamonds and turning lead into gold...
A British diplomat, looking natty in a green hat, walks into the brooding hills above Lake Como and disappears. The police investigate but can uncover no clues or evidence. This is a job for British Intelligence in the person of none other than the intrepid Tommy...
Tommy's Swedish vacation turns into a hunt for Nazis who still dream of restoring the third Reich.
British Intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon had the mistaken notion when he arrived at Innsbruck that he had left behind all connections with Herr Bastien, who had been shot in the railway compartment they shared on the Anglo-Swiss Express. But when he was commanded by a...
Crime Club classic with Scotland Yard on one side, a sinister gang on the other and the novel's Tommy Hambledon right in the middle in this, his first post-war adventure.
A vivid and dramatic story of a great conspiracy and a great love, set in 15th century France. King Charles VII, Agnes Sorel, his mistress, and Jaques Coeur, the king’s moneyman, and history’s first great merchant prince.
A story of romance and adventure set in Italy in the Middle ages. Noblemen plot amongst themselves to remove the counselors of their young Duchess and to induce her to marry one of their number. By a trick, one of her friends escapes death and plans a method of...
It is a fairy tale with every fairy but one grown up. For Lisbeth is no less a fairy because her hair is up, nor is Dick any the less a fairy prince because he is in trousers, nor the Imp any less Puck because he is in the disguise of the dearest, naughtiest, most...
The action takes place in Paris, London, and Sussex. This is a story of two feuds, in both of which Sir John is a principal figure. Throughout the book the gay, high-spirited and seemingly unmanageable Lady Herminia Barrasdaile carries on a vendetta against the man she...
A sweet, light-hearted, romantic comedy. The characters come alive with dialogue and crisp, minimal description. Betty, with the droop of her lashes and the stamp of her little foot, is one of the most likable—no, admirable—female characters you will ever come across in...
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