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Born inside the walls of a debtor's prison, a selfless woman cares for her proud father while the Circumlocution Office strangles society in red tape. When a sudden inheritance changes their status, they find that the mental chains of poverty are harder to break than iron bars. A sweeping satire on the prisons we build for ourselves and others.
A red-headed surgeon with a temper, a brownstone practice, and the neighbors who put up with him. Richmond was a Congregational minister's daughter from upstate New York who wrote some thirty novels of domestic life; Red Pepper Burns was her one enduring character, and the operating scenes are done with a respect for the work that survives the romance around it. Fifty-eight plates of paintings by Luke Fildes and Thomas Eakins, among others, reproduce the harbors, fishing crews and working lives of the period 1850 to 1924, the world this country practice belonged to.Mostra libro
Another of the tales submitted in 1831 to the Saturday Courier, this story is a harmless buffoonery upon a very old theme. The attitude of Jews toward swine has frequently seemed amusing to those who do not share it. Poe made the most of a historical incident in which some ancient Romans played a clever trick upon the defenders of Jerusalem. Its cleverness lay in the fact that the legalistic Romans, who preferred to respect all divinities, including those of their enemies, avoided impiety, since for them a boar was a highly acceptable sacrificial victim; a boar, a ram and a bull were offered in the great purification ceremony called Suovetaurilia.Mostra libro
The Love of Monsieur by George Fort Gibbs is a captivating work of classic fiction that blends romance, drama, and intrigue into a compelling tale of human emotion and unexpected destiny. Set against richly detailed surroundings, the novel follows characters whose lives become intertwined through passion, loyalty, sacrifice, and the unforeseen consequences of their choices. As relationships deepen and hidden motives emerge, every decision carries lasting significance. George Fort Gibbs crafts an engaging narrative with memorable characters, vivid settings, and a finely balanced mix of suspense and emotional depth. Through themes of devotion, honor, redemption, and personal transformation, the story explores the complexities of the human heart while maintaining a sense of mystery and anticipation that keeps readers turning the pages. A memorable example of early twentieth-century literature, The Love of Monsieur continues to captivate readers with its elegant prose, timeless themes, and engaging storytelling. Perfect for admirers of classic romance, historical fiction, and character-driven novels, this enduring work offers a rewarding reading experience filled with emotion, atmosphere, and literary charm.Mostra libro
Lady Isabel leaves her husband and children for a man who does not want the burden, and returns — governess to her own children, unrecognised, in her own former house. Mrs Henry Wood wrote lying on a couch, curved from childhood by a spinal condition, and produced the sensation novel of the century: the stage version played for fifty years, and the line about the dead boy became a byword for Victorian excess. Fifty-seven plates of painting, among them works by Arthur Hughes and William Bell Scott, bring the Victorian domestic interiors, portraits and landscapes of the novel's world into the volume.Mostra libro
Anabasis is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. It gives an account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand, an army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II, in 401 BCE.Mostra libro
In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men—this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last only one vigorous intellectual effort was needed to finish the work. But the inexorable injustice of the popular mind has decided that of all these thousands, one man, and that a man who never flew, should be chosen as the discoverer, just as it has chosen to honor Watt as the discoverer of steam and Stephenson of the steam-engine. And surely of all honored names none is so grotesquely and tragically honored as poor Filmer’s, the timid, intellectual creature who solved the problem over which the world had hung perplexed and a little fearful for so many generations, the man who pressed the button that has changed peace and warfare and well-nigh every condition of human life and happiness. Never has that recurring wonder of the littleness of the scientific man in the face of the greatness of his science found such an amazing exemplification. Much concerning Filmer is, and must remain, profoundly obscure—Filmers attract no Boswells—but the essential facts and the concluding scene are clear enough, and there are letters, and notes, and casual allusions to piece the whole together. And this is the story one makes, putting this thing with that of Filmer’s life and death.Mostra libro
