These are sixteen short stories and a long story the Mr. Cozzens has selected. They comprise a body of fiction that is entertaining, provocative, and enlightening. The themes of the stories are: recollections of youthful experience, the Civil War, and love and kisses which includes the story "Eyes To See" being published here for the first time.
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 adalah sebuah novel sejarah yang ditulis oleh James Fenimore Cooper. Novel ini merupakan buku kedua dalam pentalogi Leatherstocking Tales. The Pathfinder yang diterbitkan 14 tahun kemudian pada tahun 1840 merupakan sekuel dari novel ini.
Hired by a noble vampire to care for his son, a young governess' compassion for her handsome, tragic employer soon gives way to affection, desire... and heart soaring romance. Vanquish the Night by Shannon Drake A beautiful Texas innocent falls under the mesmerizing spell of a dashing, exotic immortal...and is resucued from etermal damnation by the rapturous power of love. My Aunt Griz…
Marrying Jack Auerbach was Essie Litsky’s salvation, enabling her to break free of her strict Russian-Jewish immigrant parents and escape New York’s poor, dirty, overcrowded Lower East Side. Together with her husband, Essie amassed a fortune that dwarfed their wildest dreams: She was living in a grand mansion on Park Avenue, collecting priceless art, even conferring with a US president. …
As a child, a young girl with coltish legs and dusky skin, I spent many anxious hours prowling the low desert and the craggy foothills of southeastern Arizona's Huachuca Mountains— anxious hours not just because I was trespassing on the forbidden Cristo Rey land grant but also because I was searching among the rocks and cactus-stubbled dunes for the Ghost Lady, hoping and praying I could get …
Two Misfits. One Extraordinary Love. Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough... Eleanor. Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, …
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words beacuse women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Haandmaids are valued on…
Sense and Sensibility adalah sebuah novel yang ditulis oleh Jane Austen, dan merupakan karya pertamanya yang dipublikasikan dibawah nama samaran "A Lady" pada tahun 1811. Sebuah karya fiksi romantis, Sense and Sensibility berlatar belakang di Southwest Inggris antara tahun 1792 dan 1797, dan menggambarkan kehidupan dan kisah cinta Dashwood bersaudara, Elinor dan Marianne. Novel ini bercerita te…
Bleak House is considered by many leading critics to be one of Dicken's finest achievements, ensuring his reputation as a serious and mature novelist as well as a consummate entertainer. It is a story of love and inheritance, and its graphic depiction of the realities and costs of HIgh Court legal actions - drawn from the author's personal knowledge and experience - have direct relevance to ou…