Courtesans, Part III (Finale): Rolande de Montfort goes on her pensive journey across France, visiting many famous sites and being asked to direct visitors to the numerous places often overlooke...więcej »
When a man's childhood friend has been murdered, he travels to Austria to confront the mischievous figure whose betrayal ultimately led to his horrific death. This is a classic ...więcej »
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 - 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional wo...więcej »
Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was published in four parts, though a fifth and sixth part were planned. The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the c...więcej »
When Paul Manning begins working as an engineer clerk for the railroad, he decides to move in with his mother's family on their farm. There, he is able to be closer to his job as the railroad pa...więcej »
In Cove, the compulsive intensity with which James Brasfield seeks to capture a fleeting moment's imagery, "to choose a song sown / for the moment," imbues his poems with a sense of urg...więcej »
In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husbands, swept up in the goldrush, have been missing for almost a year and show no sign of returning. I...więcej »
All the characters of the Wild West around the Union Pacific Railroad
This concise book concentrates on the cowboys and the characters and events which surrounded them during the halcyon d...więcej »
Sophia Hollingsworth won't let the wedding that wasn't get her down - she's on her honeymoon, alone. But instead of the five-star accommodations she's ex...więcej »
Aren Jacobs trusts no one. Reeling from a devastating altercation with her foster family that left her scarred inside and out, she's suddenly unemployed and all too happy to isolate herself from...więcej »
Coyote weather is the feral, hungry season in California, when everything is drought-stricken and ready to catch fire. It's 1967 and the American culture is violently re...więcej »
Growing up in a broken home will always be a rough ride for any child caught in the crossfire. Naturally, when The Light speaks to nine-year-old Demetr...więcej »
Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th-century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published, irregularly, in eight instalments, between December 1851 and May 1853, in...więcej »
Set in a small English town during the 19th century, Cranford depicts the lives of women, centering on the elderly, the widowed, and the unmarried. The social expectations and customs of ...więcej »
Maggy Fitzgerald is happy. She works at her best friend's flower shop with the full knowledge that this is probably as good as its going to get. That is until that same fri...więcej »