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What would a young Highlander leave his home and his bride-to-be to follow? D.K. Broster's The Flight of the Heron, set during the 1745 Jacobite uprising under Bonnie Prince Charlie, is the first book in a trilogy and follows the intersecting fortunes of two men who at...
The Fourth Way is the book about a system of self-development as introduced by Greek-Armenian philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff. It is a compilation of the lectures of P. D. Ouspensky at London and New York City between the years 1921 through 1946, published...
Set during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, this is the third and final instalment of D. K. Broster’s trilogy. The Dark Mile is the sequel to The Flight of the Heron and The Gleam in the North, completing the trilogy. The Dark Mile follows the intersecting fortunes of...
Strawberry Roan concerns life in the countryside and has at its heartStrawberry Roan, a cow belonging to Mr. Dibben, the local baker and grocer in Coombe Wallop in Wiltshire. The book followsStrawberry Roan from her calfhood, through her various changes of ownership, to...
The mystery begins with the discovery of the body of old Robert Garth in the trampled mud of an ancient outhouse.The Garth family live at Garthmere Hall, which was ruled by Robert with a rod of iron.The Hall is a gloomy medieval building. When the local police officer...
Justin, Viscount Wade-Orrington has never felt like much of a gentleman's son, he's always been different from those high-falutin' aristocrats. His father doesn't seem to worry about any of that, instead he sets about arranging for him to marry Helene, Marchioness of...
Kuhn contended that the Bible derived its origins from other Pagan religions and that much of Christian history was pre-extant as Egyptian mythology. He also proposed that the Bible was symbolic and did not depict real events, and argued that the leaders of the church...
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental re-telling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus, telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. As Joseph is saved from the well and sold to Egypt, he adopts a new name, Osarseph, replacing...
The Light Heart, the fourth installment in Elswyth Thane's Williamsburg series, covers the years 1902 to 1917.The reader enjoys these stories of the Days and the Spragues families in this saga series of novels, in successive generations, as one might the Whitecaks of...
Kuhn contended that the Bible derived its origins from other Pagan religions and that much of Christian history was pre-extant as Egyptian mythology. He also proposed that the Bible was symbolic and did not depict real events and argued that the leaders of the church...
This is Henry Bellamann's wonderful novel that many call a lost American classic. Despite being a critical and commercial success on its release in 1940, leading to a film version with Ronald Reagan two years later, King's Row and the rest of Bellamann's works are...
In this sequel to Kings Row, Parris Mitchell is definitely the proponent of the story - and not Kings Row itself. Parris has achieved his goal as psychiatrist (still a young profession in the Midwest of the First World War) in his home town hospital - but he is still...
In this new volume, Miss Millay shows herself an ardent lover of life and beauty. Here, in a matchless sonnet sequence, is enshrined the quintessence of her emotional and artistic power. She brings to the classic form new color and new splendor. Here are sonnets from...
Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, states Dame Edith Sitwell, because of “that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and the birthright of the British nation.” Originally published in the 1930s, The English...
Drink to Yesterday was based on the early life of one of its two collaborators, Cyril Henry Coles, who left school, lied about his age and enlisted as a teenager in the British army during World War I. He was transferred to intelligence when his remarkable aptitude for...
Tommy is back, and again he’s in Germany, posing as a camera-toting tourist while trailing Fascists. The investigation starts in Cologne when a corpse is found hung out like a batch of wash from a ruined building. ThenTommy learns about two girls whose custom it is “to...
A marvelous collection of love, treachery, foolishness, tragedy and humor. All the famous great ancient Greek tales are here compellingly re-told, from the insolent exploits of Phaeton and Icarus, to the sorrow-filled fate of Orpheus and Eurydice, and many others.
This roaring, virile novel is a fiery recreation of the legend of Jason, the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece. Jason's turbulent marriage to Medea and his tangled affairs with many women form the framework of this spectacular historical which was written in the grand...
The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses by William Horatio Bates. A brilliant book written by an eye-surgeon for the masses. William Horatio Bates (1860–1931) was an American physician who practiced ophthalmology and developed what became known as the...
Dorothy Parker was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding...
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