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Seven Wives and Seven Prisons
This fantastically entertaining memoir relates the trials and tribulations of a self-described "e;matrimonial monomaniac"e; -- a man who is hopelessly addicted to marriage. …
Travels in West Africa
Supported by a family inheritance that gave her GBP500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled to Africa to complete the book her father had started. The subject was the culture …
Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction
Although he was an important novelist, poet and playwright in his own right, William Dean Howells also played a major role in shaping the literary landscape of America in the …
Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
In this exciting tale for younger audiences, seventeen-year-old Virginia Hunter welcomes her school chums to her home nestled among the wide-open spaces of Wyoming. The girls have …
Jacob's Room
Widely regarded as one of the most important modernist writers, Virginia Woolf was also one of the most important female authors of the twentieth century. Jacob's Room, Woolf's …
Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Sail off on a fantastical journey with Baron Munchausen, the jocular title character of this whimsical tale from Rudolf Erich Raspe. The book is based on the exploits of a …
Wilt Thou Torchy
Love horses? American writer and humorist Ford Sewell did too -- enough to base an entire series of novels and stories around these equine characters. Wilt Thou Torchy is a …
My Friend the Murderer
Many fans of Arthur Conan Doyle are best acquainted with the author's vast body of detective stories featuring detective Sherlock Holmes. But Doyle also wrote a number of horror …
Found at Blazing Star
In this compelling story from American author Bret Harte, a rough-and-tumble pioneer town is torn asunder by the arrival of outsiders, warring rivalries, romantic triangles, duels, …