John Greeve is the headmaster. The 30 years of his life at The Wells School have been rich, challenging, and full of meaning. But now John Greeve's precisely ordered world is crumbling. The values he so passionately believes in are being threatened b...
Two gifted teenagers, Juliana and Paul, deeply and irrevocably in love, struggle to cope with parents who want to discourage the relationship for the couple's "own good" and discover that they must make the ultimate decision about their lives for the...
Margaret Greeve is an outwardly accomplished and finished person: a wit, an intellectual, and the wife of the headmaster of a well-established boarding school for boys. She dwells in elegantly appointed rooms and summers on Cape Cod, cruising the pin...
In precisely the same spirit as Abelard and Heloise and Romeo and Juliet, Paul and Juliana are a fresh young couple who embody the near-impossible notion of perfect love. In this elegant, timeless, and lyrical love story, they walk the fine line betw...
Eddie is a boy with a hundred questions and a finger that is permanently stuck up his nostril. While on a bus ride with his mother, he meets a man who teaches him a lesson on manners. This man will not only change his life, but possibly yours too. Do...
John Greeve is the headmaster. The 30 years of his life at The Wells School have been rich, challenging, and full of meaning. But now John Greeve's precisely ordered world is crumbling. The values he so passionately believes in are being threaten...
The result of twenty years research, this is an eye-opening introduction to the study of gender in the classical world. Addresses both masculinity and femininity in Greek and Roman cultures using a wide range of sources Written in an easy-to-read sty...
When safely married partners are carried off course by romantic passion, they inevitably make a mess: guilt, shame, family wreckage, loss of social place. But not always. Perhaps, as in the case of big city journalist Sloan Fox and his improbable the...
In this third novel in the classic saga which includes THE HEADMASTER'S PAPERS and THE HEADMASTER'S WIFE, Richard Hawley brilliantly weaves the diary writings of headmaster John Greeve's cancer-stricken wife and estranged grown son into a tale which,...
Out of his unpromising cultural background in the American Midwest, Jonathan Force manages in the course of his undergraduate years at Yale to establish an Archimedean point outside of all culture from which to view contemporary life. He becomes a fa...