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  The Lily of the Valley - A Love...

  Honoré de Balzac

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  A boy starved of affection meets, at a ball, a woman who becomes the whole moral weather of his life, and the two hold to a love that is never allowed to be anything else. Balzac wrote it in 1835 against Sainte-Beuve's Volupté, meaning to show how such a story should be done, and put his own Madame de Berny into the figure of Madame de Mortsauf. The letter she leaves at the end reverses everything the reader has been told to admire. Fifty-five plates by painters from Chardin to Daubigny trace the quiet domestic interiors, farmyards and river landscapes of the world Balzac's lovers move through.

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  Pimpernel and Rosemary

  Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy

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  Discover an unforgettable love story with Pimpernel and Rosemary by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy. This gripping tale of romance, danger, and intrigue is set against the backdrop of a world on the brink of revolution. With its fascinating characters and pulse-pounding plot, Pimpernel and Rosemary is a testament to Orczys skill as a storyteller. The stakes are high, the danger is real, and the love between Pimpernel and Rosemary will touch your heart. Dont miss out on this captivating tale of love and adventure. Secure your copy of Pimpernel and Rosemary by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy today and be prepared to be swept off your feet.

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  Ring Around the Sun

  Isaac Asimov

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  "Ring Around the Sun" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1940 issue of Future Fiction and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov. "Ring Around the Sun" was the fifth story Asimov wrote, and also the fifth to be published.

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  Paul's Case - From their pens to...

  Willa Cather

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  Willa Sibert Cather had Welsh ancestry but like her parents Charles and Mary, was born in Virginia, on 7th December 1873.  Despite strong roots in the community, Willa was 9, when the family moved to Nebraska, to work the rich soil and avoid TB of which there were numerous outbreaks in Virginia.   
  The vastness and drama of the Nebraska prairie and its’ extreme weather conditions as well as the many diverse cultures of the local families proved to be a major influence on her and can be evidenced in much of her later writing.   
  Her first writing was for the local journal when she was at the University of Nebraska and later became the managing editor of the student newspaper.    
  In 1896 she obtained work for a woman’s magazine in Pittsburgh and soon after became a regular contributor to the Pittsburgh Leader and wrote poetry and short stories for the Library, another local publication.   
  Her first collection of short stories, ‘The Troll Garden’, was published in 1905 and contains several of her most famous including ‘A Wagner Matinee’ and ‘Paul's Case.’ As a writer Cather was now taking immense strides forward.   
  Between 1913 and 1918 Cather wrote her Prairie Trilogy: ‘O Pioneers!’, ‘The Song of the Lark’, and ‘My Ántonia’ and in 1922 the Pulitizer Prize was hers for her novel ‘One of Ours’ set during WWI.  
  Acknowledged as one of America's greatest writers’ further honours flowed. In 1943 she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The following year Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.  
  A determinedly private person, Cather destroyed many old drafts, personal papers, and letters. Her will would also restrict the ability of scholars to quote from personal papers that remained. 
  On 24th April 1947, Willa Siebert Cather died of a cerebral haemorrhage at her Manhattan home. She was 73.

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  Don-A-Dreams

  Harvey J. O'Higgins

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  This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience.

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  The Return of Tarzan

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  The Countess Olga de Coude was twenty. Her husband forty. She was a very faithful and loyal wife, but as she had had nothing whatever to do with the selection of a husband, it is not at all unlikely that she was not wildly and passionately in love with the one that fate and her titled Russian father had selected for her. However, simply because she was surprised into a tiny exclamation of approval at sight of a splendid young stranger it must not be inferred therefrom that her thoughts were in any way disloyal to her spouse. She merely admired, as she might have admired a particularly fine specimen of any species. Furthermore, the young man was unquestionably good to look at...FROM THE BOOKS.

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