A beautiful novel tracing one family's account of the demise of colonialism on the island of Java.
The author of Rivals and Heiress dazzles again with a contemporary story of a woman torn between love and fame. Talented actress Kit Masters returns home to settle her father's estate and realizes …
This article is about the novel. For the play, see Tobacco Road (play). For the film, see Tobacco Road (film). First edition (Scribners) Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about G…
Young widow Marianne Hughes is to chaperone the even younger Louisa Crookshanks to London for her come-out. But, in a most awkward happenstance, it turns out that the one gentleman Louisa has set h…
I read this on KU. When this author's books were first released on Kindle, this one was not among them. I periodically did a search to see if they would be released and finally a few more were, inc…
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s …
A critical guide to the poets of the romantic period, this collection of lectures reassesses the literary value of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Poe, Christina and Dante Gabr…
A man and a woman--nature had done the grouping--sat on a rustic seat, in the late afternoon. The man was middle-aged, slender, swarthy, with the expression of a poet and the complexion of a pirate…