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Unusually for O. Douglas, she begins this story in London, where Kitty and Isobel are staying in an hotel. They both feel the need for a change and soon Kitty has taken a flat in London, whilst Isobel falls in love with an old historic house in the Scottish borders.
Scarlet Sister Mary is set among the Gullah people of the Low Country in South Carolina. The date is never clearly established, but appears to be around the beginning of the twentieth century. The title character, Mary, was an orphan on an abandoned plantation who was...
"Crime and Custom in Savage Society" represents Bronislaw Malinowski's major discussion of the relationship between law and society. Throughout his career he constructed a coherent science of anthropology, one modeled on the highest standards of practice and theory....
The Surrays, a husband and wife and their five offspring, are a prolific writer family, having published scores of novels, reviews and treatises. Ruth, the middle sister, has, however, recently given her elder brother, Richard, some cause for concern. Richard, a...
Falcons of France -- a novel about flying, World War I, and contemporary moralities. It was written by two American veterans of the 'Escadrille Lafayette', and contains thrilling tales of aerial battle and life during the war. This is a text that will appeal to anyone...
First published in 1928, now public domain. The beautiful, young, and headstrong Ruth Virey gets herself in trouble with her fiery temper and impulsive ways. Willing to risk anything to escape her life at a "barren desert water-hole," she finds herself having jumped...
Bess Streeter Aldrich has made a big place for herself among novel readers by her wholesome, happy and truthful stories of American small-town life. In The Cutters she takes a family that is typical of many thousands of homes and portrays it with humor and sympathy.
The Wimsey mysteries established Dorothy Sayers as one of the foremost practitioners of detective fiction during the golden age of the British mystery. This is a rare collection of 24 of Sayers' best detective short stories... A must-read!
The lonely old house in Starvel Hollow stands as usual one evening.The next morning it is a heap of smouldering ruins. When the almost cremated remains of its three inmates are discovered an inquest is held and a verdict of accidental death arrived at. However, some...
The sequel to Jalna, and featuring the same brilliant set of characters.The chapters which describe the last days of old Gran, and which hold us in suspense to learn upon which member of the great Jalna clan she has bestowed her hoarded fortune, would alone make the...
First published in 1926 by George Routledge and Sons: London, now public domain. In 1925, after being kicked out of Oxford University for “misdemeanors” and mooching aimlessly around London, Robert Byron and two friends left for the Continent. As with his famous...
First published in 1927, now public domain. Madeleine Bellamy has been murdered in a wealthy town on Long Island. Susan Ives and the victim’s husband, Stephen Bellamy, have been accused of the crime and must stand trial. Lasting eight days, the ordeal exposes the sordid...
What the Gospels don't reveal about Christ's suffering, science does. The Gospels reveal only the barest essentials about the physical sufferings of Our Lord. But in this mind-opening book, Dr. Pierre Barbet relies heavily on his close analysis of the Holy Shroud of...
"The Overcoat" which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg stories, is a tale of the absurd and misplaced obsessions. From the Father of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, Nicolai Gogol’s The Overcoat is one of the greatest...
First published in 1928. Laura Temple faces the predicaments of many British middle-class wives and mothers living in country villages between the World Wars. Her too-large house, inherited by her husband Alfred, requires three servants to keep it running: generally...
"A sublime ferocious farce." —The New Yorker. "Incomparable ... a wonderful slapstick satire on hypocrisy." —New Statesman. "One of the great comic novels of the twentieth century." —Anthony Burgess. Meet our memoirist, Augustus Carp, a self-proclaimed "good man"...
“How the Steel Was Tempered” is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936). With 36.4 million copies sold, it is one of the best-selling books of all time and the best-selling book in the Russian language. The story follows the life of Pavel...
This work is concerned with "the Great Black Man" theory of history.This theory presents history, specifically black history, as a mural of achievements by prominent black people. He devoted a significant amount of his professional life to unearthing facts about people...
The Greatest Book on Dispensational Truth in the World. This is Larkin's famous book on dispensationalism that includes his beautifully drawn black and white charts. A must have book for any student of dispensationalism. Over 115 charts, maps, and woodcuts. Great Truths...
Grampa in Oz (1924) is the eighteenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fourth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Things are going from bad to worse in the dilapidated kingdom of Ragbad; even the rag crop is failing. To top it...
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