CREATURE OF THE NIGHT The face and body of Annie Spragg possessed a wild and sensual beauty that filled men with a strange hunger. Her flaming red hair, her savagely primitive dances, her knowledge of something forbidden, made people suspect that ...
Pulitzer Prize winnerSabine Callendar had fled from the stifling propriety of Durham, New England twenty years ago. With a failed marriage behind her and an eighteen year old daughter to present to society, everyone is surprised to find that Sabine h...
Hindus and Moslems, Brahmins and Untouchables, western missionaries and British colonial bureaucrats, the famous novelist brings to life the social conditions of the last decade of the British Raj. Basis of a 1939 movie featuring Myrna Loy and Tyrone...
She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, worldly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure--stormy, glittery, tragic, but never dull.
Married at seventeen to one of the most colorful and rut...
1924. Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, comp...