Red Pottage is the story of adultery and a clergyman who destroys his sister's art. The first plot contained in this novel is that of Rachael West an heiress and her love for a man trapped in an illicit affair who is doomed to die by is own hand. The...
According to Wikipedia: Mary Cholmondeley (8 June 1859 - 15 July 1925) was an English novelist. The daughter of the vicar at St Luke's Church in the village of Hodnet, Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, where she was born, Cholmondeley spent much o...
According to Wikipedia: Mary Cholmondeley (8 June 1859 - 15 July 1925) was an English novelist. The daughter of the vicar at St Luke's Church in the village of Hodnet, Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, where she was born, Cholmondeley spent much o...
•A rare view of colonial life from a bright and sensitive 12 year old girl from Nova Scotia, who was sent to Boston in 1770 by her parents to be educated in Boston schools. The diary was not published until 1894 when it was issued with notes and an...
COLONEL TEMPEST and his miniature ten-year-old replica of himself had made themselves as comfortable as circumstances would permit in opposite corners of the smoking carriage. It was a chilly morning in April, and the boy had wrapped himself in his t...
IT was the middle of July. The season had reached the climax which precedes a collapse. The heat was intense. The pace had been too great to last. The rich sane were already on their way to Scotch moor or Norwegian river; the rich insane and the poor...
BETWEEN aspiration and achievement there is no great gulf fixed. God does not mock His children by putting a lying spirit in the mouth of their prophetic instincts. Only the faith of concentrated endeavour, only the stern years which must hold fast t...
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I was on the point of leaving India and returning to England when he sent for me. At least to be accurate -- and I am always accurate -- I was not quite on the point but nearly for I was going to start by the mail on the following day....
I was on the point of leaving India and returning to England when he sent for me. At least, to be accurate-and I am always accurate-I was not quite on the point, but nearly, for I was going to start by the mail on the following day. I had been up to ...
THE DANVERS JEWELS
""Look here, Middleton," the old man went on; "I am dying, and I know it. "I'm watched I know I'm watched " he said in a whisper, his pale eyes turning slowly in their sockets. "I shall be killed for them if I keep them much...
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of A Devotee - An Episode in the Life of a Butterfly. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
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When Mr. Tempest dies, the family fortune and estate pass to his son, John, whom everyone except John himself knows to be illegitimate. Colonel Tempest, his spendthrift son Archie, and his beautiful daughter Diana find themselves cut off, and Colonel...
Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) was an English writer. Members of her family were involved in the literary world, notably her uncle Reginald Cholmondeley who was a friend of the American novelist, Mark Twain. Growing up, she liked to tell stories to he...
I have been writing books for five-and-twenty years, novels of which I believe myself to be the author, in spite of the fact that I have been assured over and over again that they are not my own work. When I have on several occasions ventured to clai...
Snow is falling and covering the house when she hears the knock at the door. The face that meets her gaze is sunken and hollow, ravaged with pain, and pitiful. His right arm is in a sling under his tattered military cloak.
"My husband will n...
Easthope, an old Tudor mansion, has been kept in the self-respecting Trefusis family since the times of Henry the Seventh. Now the estate is receiving a visit from a young woman, Janet Black, of remarkable beauty -- so remarkable, in fact, that a por...
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Moth and Rust - Together with Geoffrey's Wife and The Pitfall. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
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The chivalrous victim immured in an Italian prison must have suffered indeed from an appreciation of the fickleness and weakness of woman....
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