Tobacco Road

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 Georgia sharecroppers. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and ran for eight years. A 1941 film version, deliberately played mainly for laughs, was directed by John Ford, and the s…

Beauty In Black

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 her sights on only has eyes for the darker, more demure beauty of Mrs. Hughes. Soon this Marquess of Gillingham finds himself entangled in a web of desire and deception--and begins to understand that H…

As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust: A Flavia De Luce Novel

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978-0-8129-9923-5

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392 p.: 18 Cm

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Elusive Harmony (Mills & Boon)

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, including this one. Because it was written many years ago, it's dated so no technology etc. But what is even more of an issue is the unrealistic tone of the romance. The h is a companion to her father, a…

The Weed That Strings The Hangman's Bag

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 Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who’d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in G…

The Romantic Imagination

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 Gabriel Rossetti, and Swinburne.

The Eyes Of The Panther and Other Stories

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--a man at whom one would look again. The woman was young, blonde, graceful, with something in her figure and movements suggesting the word "lithe." She was habited in a gray gown with odd brown marki…

The Living Tide

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239 p.: ind.; 18 cm

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Zettai Seigi/Absolute Justice

menceritakan tentang geng sekolah yang beranggotakan empat perempuan yang terdiri dari Kazuki, Yumiko, Riho, Reika. Mereka memberanikan diri untuk berkenalan dan mengajak Noriko untuk bergabung dalam geng itu. Bahkan, guru-guru pun menyukainya. Sayangnya, Noriko ini sosok yang sangat menjunjung tinggi kebenaran.

Act Of Darkness

John Peale Bishop enjoyed a successful career as a writer and critic, though he is perhaps more known today for the friends he made during his lifetime. A poet, critic, and the author of both a novel and a collection of short fiction, Bishop travelled in circles that included Robert Penn Warren, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Tate, and Edmund “Bunny” Wilson, whose contributions to North America…