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Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 – September 18, 1946) was an American author. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he earned degrees from University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1895; M.A., 1903). From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books."
An ailing American colonel and an Italian countess find a revitalizing love amid despair in post-World War II Venice in this classic novel. Set in Venice at the close of World War II, Across the River and into the Trees is the bittersweet story of a middle-aged American colonel, scarred by war and in failing health, who finds love with a young Italian countess at the very moment when his life is coming a physical hardship to him. It is a love so overpowering and spontaneous that it revitalizes the man’s spirit and encourages him to dream of a future, even though he knows that there can be no hope for long. Spanning a matter of hours, Across the River and into the Trees is tender and moving, yet tragic in the inexorable shadow of what must come.Now a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber!Ver libro
Embark on a captivating journey through the realms of mystery, suspense, and imagination with our exclusive digital audiobook collection featuring timeless tales by some of literature's greatest storytellers. "The Lady or the Tiger" by Frank R. Stockton: Dive into this enigmatic classic that leaves readers pondering the ultimate choice between love and jealousy. "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving: Join Tom Walker on a Faustian journey through New England's eerie forests as he encounters the sinister figure of the Devil himself. "Markheim" by Robert Louis Stevenson: Explore the depths of human nature and morality in this haunting tale of a man's encounter with his own conscience on a fateful Christmas Eve. "Marjorie Daw" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Delve into the world of mistaken identity and whimsical romance as a chance encounter sets off a chain of delightful events.Ver libro
Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.The Parting of The Ways: Mrs. Longworth crossed the hotel piazza, descended the steps, and walked out of sight down the shore road with all the grace of motion that lent distinction to her slightest movement. Her eyes were very bright, and an unusual flush stained the pallor of her cheek. Two men who were lounging in one corner of the hotel piazza looked admiringly after her.Ver libro
Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor was an English writer famous for her outstanding supernatural stories which were published in a single volume in 1920, just two years before her death.Room Number Ten tells the story of Peter Maxton, a literary gentleman invited to join a house party at a remote house in Scotland. The driver taking him to the house from the station comments that the house is full, and they may have to use room number 10, and he pities whoever has to sleep there. But he refuses to be drawn further on the subject.On arrival, Maxton finds he has been assigned to room number 10. It also appears that the rest of the party all know more about the room than they care to let on...and are singularly unwilling to set foot in it. On the first night, Maxton already has a foretaste of the strangeness of room number 10...and the second and third nights are more terrifying still....Ver libro
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, due to its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. Narrated in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a diagnosis common to women during that period. Among the most significant works Charlotte Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper, Women and Economics, The Man-Made World; or Our Androcentric Culture, What Diantha Did, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Mag-Marjorie, Benigna Machiavelli, Herland, With Her in Ourland, Unpunished and many more.Ver libro
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.BOOK 8: As we are now entering upon a book in which the course of our history will oblige us to relate some matters of a more strange and surprizing kind than any which have hitherto occurred, it may not be amiss, in the prolegomenous or introductory chapter, to say something of that species of writing which is called the marvellous.Ver libro
