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  Rob Roy - The Highland Outlaw...

  Walter Scott

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  An English merchant's son is sent north on his father's business and falls in with a Highland cattle-dealer who is also an outlaw with a price on his head. Scott had talked to men who remembered Rob Roy MacGregor, and the novel did more than anything else to turn the Highlands from a danger into a destination. Fifty plates of painting, from Thomas Gainsborough to Edvard Munch, follow the road and the open country that carry the outlaw north.

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  Bernice Bobs Her Hair

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is a captivating short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It first graced the pages of the Saturday Evening Post in May 1920 and was later included in the September 1920 short story collection titled "Flappers and Philosophers"1. Let's delve into the tale of Bernice and her transformative decision.

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  Quicksand

  Nella Larsen

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  Quicksand is a novel by American author Nella Larsen, first published in 1928. This is her first novel and she completed the first draft quickly. The novel was out of print from the 1930s to the 1970s. Quicksand is a work that explores both cross-cultural and interracial themes. Larsen dedicated the novel to her husband.
  Discussing the novel, Jacquelyn Y. McLendon called it the more "obviously autobiographical" of Larsen's two novels. Larsen called the emotional experiences of the novel "the awful truth" in a letter to her friend Carl van Vechten.
  Nella Larsen introduces the educated mixed-race protagonist, Helga Crane who struggles to find her identity in a world of racialized crisis in the 1920s. The novel begins with Helga teaching at a southern black school in Naxos which is meant to be a fictional mirroring of the Tuskegee Institute. Helga is the Daughter of a Danish mother who died when she was an adolescent and West Indian father who is absent. Her early years were spent with her Danish mother and White step-father who loathed her and there began her torn relationship with her split identity. The novel gives us a glimpse into the dichotomy of being mixed raced and the divergence into two vastly different worlds as the protagonist travels through uniquely different cultural spaces from 1920's Jazz Age Harlem to Copenhagen, Denmark.

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  The Science of Getting Rich

  Wallace D. Wattles

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  The Science of Getting Rich is the classic guide to creating wealth through the Law of Attraction. First published in 1910, a hundred years later it inspired Rhonda Byrne's bestselling book and movie, The Secret. According to Wallace D. Wattles, "There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches; once these laws are learned and obeyed by any man, he will get rich with mathematical certainty."

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  Capitola the Madcap - The Sequel...

  E. D. E. N. Southworth

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  Capitola, an orphan discovered dressed as a boy and selling newspapers in New York, is taken to a Virginia estate as an heiress — and proceeds to fight a duel, outwit a highwayman and rescue everyone who tries to rescue her. Southworth was abandoned by her husband with two small children and no money, took up her pen, and became the most widely read American novelist of her century. Capitola is why. Fifty-nine plates after Eastman Johnson and John Frederick Kensett bring the century's American landscape and shoreline into the story of a girl who refuses to be rescued.

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  Mark

  Saki Saki

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  A witty short story in which author Augustus "Mark" Mellowkent finds himself face to face with an overzealous book salesman.Mark first appeared in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers (1919), the first posthumous publication of Saki (H. H. Munro) following his death during active duty in World War I.

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