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Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well as new ones like Mr. Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy ...
The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been cursed and are doomed to play out their bloody, vengeful destinies. At the beginning of the first part, the Trojan War has ended and the Greek general, Agamemnon, is returning victorious to his wife Clytemnestra. Yet she finds it difficult to forgive his sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, who was killed to ensure the Greek fleet fair winds in their voyage to Troy. Her desire for vengeance, and its dire consequences, instigates the action of these poetic tragedies. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast:AGAMEMNON, king of Mycenae - StephenCAEGISTHUS, cousin to Agamemnon - mbORESTES, son of Agamemnon - David O’ConnellCLYTEMNESTRA, wife of Agamemnon - Christie NowakCASSANDRA, a Trojan princess - Kristin HughesELECTRA, sister of Orestes - Claire GogetAPOLLO, god of the Delphic oracle - Andrew LebrunATHENA, goddess of wisdom - Catharine EastmanPYTHIA, a priestess of Apollo - Kirsten FerreriA WATCHMAN at Mycenae - Joe EarleyA HERALD from Troy - tipaewNURSE to Orestes and Electra - Elizabeth KlettATTENDANT of Aegisthus - Fr. Richard Zeile of DetroitATTENDANT WOMAN of Athena - Jennifer StearnsNARRATOR - Justin BarrettCHORUS in Agamemnon - Andy MinterCHORUS in The Libation-Bearers - Jc GuanCHORUS in The Furies - Kara Shallenberg, Rosalind Wills, and Christie NowakPYLADES - Annoying TwitBook Coordinators: Kirsten Ferreri, Sarah Jennings, Elizabeth Klett, and David LawrenceShow book
When James Everard announced that he had invited a young lady home for the holidays, his father, the Earl of Gyllford, was astounded and skeptical. Could it be that Jamie was finally showing an interest in something other than horseplay with his friends? But when lovely Miss Evalyn Pennington arrived at Gyllford Manor, it was the earl who found himself inexplicably drawn to her winsome beauty. Having been dismissed from her post as a governess, Evalyn would long remember the kindness of being welcomed at Gyllford Manor when she had nowhere else to turn. But neither Evalyn nor the earl expected the light of love that filled their Christmas with some very special gifts...Show book
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. It may well be that Empire has raised generations of its Nation’s kin abroad. And some, born abroad, adopted England as their home in preference to their own. For both this lure of ‘Home’ has nourished their ambition whilst all around them stories are to be found that they, with their unique outsider’s view, can create and deliver to our ears their literary masterpieces. 1 - The Top 10 - The English. Born Abroad - An Introduction 2 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad 3 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 4 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 5 - Major Wilbraham by Hugh Walpole 6 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray 7 - The Story of the RipplingTrain by Mary Louisa Molesworth 8 - The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Emmuska Orczy 9 - A Little Holiday by Oswald Sickert 10 - A Resurrection by H B Marriott Watson 11 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee 12 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon LeeShow book
First in the Irish gangland saga. “A full-length chiaroscuro portrait of the immigrant experience, filled with crackling dialogue and headlong plotting” (Stefan Kanfer, national bestselling author). Young Irish immigrant Colin O’Brien settles with his family in New York City. There Colin befriends a Cuban-American boy named Johnny Garcia. Life in America isn’t what Colin’s family expects and he experiences a shocking tragedy that alters his life. As Johnny and Colin grow into men, their friendship changes. They begin working for different crime syndicates, with Colin joining the ranks of charismatic Tom McPhalen’s Irish mob and Johnny becoming a member of debonair Tito Bernal’s Cuban gang. As Colin’s rise in the ranks of organized crime becomes increasingly more brutal and demeaning and his friendship with Johnny deteriorates, he begins to question his place in the seductive yet violent world he’s found himself in. Can he protect not just his livelihood, but his very life? Trilogy praise “Far more than a crime novel; a wise, carefully wrought narrative informed by a tragic sense of life.” —Stefan Kanfer, national bestselling author “Captures the atmosphere and the feel of the period to absolute perfection. I can just see this being made into a film. Superb.” —Books Monthly Perfect for Fans of Martina Cole, Kimberley Chambers, and Jessie KeaneShow book
Mary is a nursing sister at a Lancashire prison camp for the housing and treatment of German POWs. Life at work is difficult but fulfilling; life at home a constant round of arguments often prompted by her fly-by-night sister, Ellen, the apple of her shorttempered father's eye. Then Frank turns up at the house one night a guard at the camp, he's been watching Mary for weeks and won't leave until she agrees to walk out with him. Frank Shuttleworth is a difficult man to love and it's not long before Mary gives him his marching orders. But Shuttleworth won't take no for an answer and the gossips are eager for their next victim, for the least hint at fraternization with the enemy. Now, not only Mary's happiness but her very life is threatened by the most dangerous of wartime secretsShow book
E. F. Benson - The Grand Collection of his works Contents: Make Way For Lucia: Queen Lucia Miss Mapp Dodo Trilogy: Dodo: A Detail of the Day Dodo's Daughter or Dodo the Second Dodo Wonders David Blaize Series: David Blaize David Blaize and the Blue Door Other Novels: The Rubicon The Judgement Books The Vintage Mammon and Co. Scarlet and Hyssop The Relentless City The Valkyries The Angel of Pain The House of Defence The Blotting Book Daisy's Aunt Mrs. Ames Thorley Weir Arundel Michael Up and Down Across the Stream Short Story Collections: The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories Historical Work: Crescent and Iron Cross KommentaShow book
