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Teddy Robinson was a nice, big, comfortable teddy bear who belonged to a little girl called Deborah. Sometimes a little shy - and sometimes a bit of a show-off - but alway...
Chase Benteen Calder is bound to wrest a fortune from Montana land, where the whisper of riches sweeps across a sea of buffalo grass. With the formidable and loving Lorna ...
John Mortimer has led an extraordinary life as a playwright, bestselling novelist, and former practicing barrister. In "The Summer of a Dormouse", the third installment of...
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Set in turn-of-the-century Chicago, this 1931 Pulitzer Prize winner follows the life of Jane Ward, from her first girlhood crush to the autumn of her life. Barnes reminds ...
Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood 'while it was still running.' That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the ...
Book Description Hail, humble Helpstone ... Where dawning genius never met the day, Where useless ignorance slumbers life away Unknown nor heeded, where low genius tries A...
Book Description The Queen's Wake is one of the landmarks of British Romantic poetry. It focuses on the return of Mary, Queen of Scots to Scotland in 1561 to take personal...
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
Patrick Leigh Fermor
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(3)At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adve...
Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr. Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday eveni...
'Human nature may be easy to see through, but it is very hard to understand.' The ageing Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head...
Narrating the courting done by the protagonist, this is a charming tale. With a light-hearted atmosphere prevailing over the complete narration, the work captures the fanc...
These satirical "memoirs" were produced by a club that included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Thomas Parnell, Robert Harley, and John Arbuthnot. First publishe...
Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity...
This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris...
Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who are forced to share their quarters with a G...
MORE BY J. R. ACKERLEY, ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS
The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle ...
Book Description1896. With biographical sketch, critical opinions and explanatory notes. In the volume Southey takes on the task of writing about the life of the great nav...