“That’s a dangerous fellow, Stuart,” remarked Baldwin Carr, who had unperceived entered the library, and, over his nephew’s shoulder, read the title: “Thus Spake Zarathustra.” Stuart Heron laid down the ponderous volume of Nietzsche, and ...
A wonderfully gossipy novel that whisks readers through the glamorous worlds of turn-of-the-century Vienna, Paris, and London. The Rakonitz family - rich, cosmopolitan, and Jewish - is ruled over by the indomitable will of the matriarch, Anastasia....
It is 1921, Toni Rakonitz has made a success of her fashion salon, but at 27 she is tired of being a business woman. She marries Giles on impulse and they pursue the pleasures of the Jazz Age. Only when her life begins to collapse does she accept her...
From the author of The Ugly Dachshund comes a charming fable of animal life in the "Meadow." A duckling, dissatisfied with being one of eleven other black ducklings, gets the notion that he is actually a swan.Or perhaps even a peacock The other anim...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...