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The Greatest Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Suicide Club, The Body Snatcher, and Other Short Stories
Par Herman Graf, Robert Louis Stevenson. 2018
The Best Short Works of One of English Literature’s Most Masterful Storytellers Collected in a Single Volume Known mostly for…
his seminal full-length works, such as the famous classics Treasure Island and Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterful short fiction is often overshadowed. Now these pioneering works in the English short story tradition are presented here, collected in a single volume. Including the beloved novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," which G. K. Chesterton called “a double triumph,” and “The Merry Men,” as well as stories like “The Suicide Club” and “The Rajah’s Diamond” from the acclaimed 1882 collection New Arabian Nights, The Greatest Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson immerses you in Stevenson’s extraordinary worlds—thrilling tales of pure adventure and suspense, glorious evocations of the beauty of the Scottish countryside, and characters painted with the same vigor and energy as his most well-known creations. Showcasing his brilliant and lucid prose, his dramatic skill, and his perfect sense of pace that made him a celebrity during his time and a landmark author in the history of English literature, Stevenson’s enduring stories continue to capture the imagination of the contemporary reader and rightly belong to popular mythology today.Shadows out of Africa
Par Bianca Aparicio Vinsonneau. 2019
Near the end of the eighteenth century, Kofi’s village in a remote part of Africa is brutally attacked and he…
is captured and sold into slavery. Thanks to an unexpected twist of fate, he is saved from being shipped to the plantations of the New World to instead remain a prisoner of Cape Coast Castle. From there, he risks his life to maintain a secret correspondence with the love of his life. Two hundred years later, anthropologist Claudia Carpio is sent to what was once known as the Gold Coast. She is immersed in working on the most important publication of her career when she learns of some mysterious letters. Troubled by their abrupt and disconcerting ending, she finds herself compelled to investigate the murky past in order to discover what happened to Kofi and why he stopped writing. What she doesn’t suspect, however, is that you can’t close the book so easily on certain chapters of history, and she soon finds herself entangled in a dangerous game.Waiting for Nothing
Par Tom Kromer. 1986
Waiting for Nothing, first published in 1935, is a sobering, first-hand account of the author's life as a homeless man…
during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The book, a classic portrayal of the brutality and inhumaness of the time, was written while author Tom Kromer (1906-1969) was working at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in California, and was his only completed novel. Waiting for Nothing describes Kromer's travels on the rails, his encounters with small-time cooks, prostitutes and homosexuals, and the endless search for enough food to eat and a warm place to sleep. Throughout the book, Kromer describes the plight of a vast army of unemployed workers, left to fend for themselves in a largely uncaring society.The Judges of the Secret Court: A Novel About John Wilkes Booth
Par David Stacton. 2011
b>The Judges of the Secret Court, first published in 1961, is a historical novel about John Wilkes Booth and the…
aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The book vividly portrays the setting and sentiments of the time, as well as Wilkes’ befuddled thinking and his short-lived escape from justice, followed by the trial of those involved in the assassination.David Stacton’s The Judges of The Secret Court is a long-lost triumph of American fiction as well as one of the finest books ever written about the Civil War. Stacton’s gripping and atmospheric story revolves around the brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, members of a famous theatrical family. Edwin is a great actor, himself a Hamlet-like character whose performance as Hamlet will make him an international sensation. Wilkes is a blustering mediocrity on stage who is determined, however, to be an actor in history, and whose assassination of Abraham Lincoln will change America. Stacton’s novel about how the roles we play become, for better or for worse, the lives we lead, takes us back to the day of the assassination, immersing us in the farrago of bombast that fills Wilkes’s head while following his footsteps up to the fatal encounter at Ford’s Theatre. The political maneuvering around Lincoln’s deathbed and Wilkes’s desperate flight and ignominious capture then set the stage for a political show trial that will condemn not only the guilty but the—at least relatively—innocent. For as Edwin Booth broods helplessly many years later, and as Lincoln, whose tragic death and wisdom overshadow this tale, also knew, “We are all accessories before or after some fact....We are all guilty of being ourselves.”Jamie
Par Jack Bennett. 2019
Jamie, first published in 1963, is a moving novel set in South Africa and centered on 12-year-old Jamie Carson. The…
region is experiencing a severe drought, forcing wild animals to approach farmsteads in their search for water. Sadly, Jamie’s father is killed by a wild buffalo, and Jamie is determined to seek revenge. The boy receives sympathy from the adults, but they offer no help in his securing a rifle and ammunition, as he is determined to find and kill the rogue animal. He is eventually able to buy a poorly made gun and several bullets from a native African, and goes into the bush accompanied by a native boy to seek his prey. An excellent book for both teenagers and adults, Jamie evokes a strong sense of place, and the reader will feel a part of the hot dry landscape as Jamie wanders the scrubland in search of the buffalo.Linden on the Saugus Branch (American Autobiography Ser.)
Par Elliot Paul. 2018
That you will be completely charmed by Elliot Paul’s recollections of his boyhood is a matter beyond speculation. The turn-of-the-century…
scenes are not only dear to his heart but clear to his mind—albeit sometimes suspiciously so. But who will quarrel with so elegant a storyteller as Mr. Paul? Out of the sow’s ear of common occurrence he makes a silken purse to hold the coins of our enchantment. Rare is the reader who will not delight in these fortified memories.Those who recall The Last Time I saw Paris know that Elliot Paul is incapable of being banal or tiresome. Thus there is nothing of the diary-like march of events in this record of his early years in the Boston suburb where he was born. Instead you will find a series of neatly dovetailed stories, anecdotes, character sketches, comedies, tragedies and singularly embellished observations all set out for your allurement like gems in a jeweler’s window.Some of Mr. Paul’s tales of the people who lived out their lives in Linden will make you laugh, some may even tempt a tear. There are a few—such as the story of Alice Townsend, the schoolteacher who found that her name had been written in snow with a stylus of strange origin—that may inspire the sincerest suggestion of a blush.Linden on the Saugus Branch, a volume complete in itself, is another segment in what will ultimately be Elliot Paul’s life story: Items on the Grand Account. Both The Last Time I Saw Paris and The Life and Death of a Spanish Town are other books in this group.The Golden Rooms (Testament Of Man Ser.)
Par Vardis Fisher. 2019
A MAGNIFICENT NOVEL OF BLOOD LUSTS AND ANIMAL PASSIONS IN A PRIMATE SOCIETYHe wanted a woman...Harg returned from the hunt.…
His naked body was painted with bright colors and adorned with shells and the bones of animals. He had drunk fully of the blood of the animal he had killed and now the animal’s warmth and power surged within him. He felt hungry for a woman and turned to Memes—tall, broad of hip, with a full, voluptuous bosom—and he led her into the cave. She did not resist. He embraced her violently. His breathing sounded as if he were strangling. The others turned from their work to watch....THE GOLDEN ROOMS is a vivid and startling portrayal of the strange world of the brute man, his sexual urges and dark blood lusts, and his elemental need to satisfy them.“An absorbing narrative. A great contribution to the imaginative literature of our day.”—Saturday Review of LiteratureA Doctor’s Pilgrimage: An Autobiography
Par Edmund A. Brasset. 2018
THE WARM-HEARTED, HUMOROUS STORY OF A COURAGEOUS YOUNG DOCTOR IN NOVA SCOTIA“I am no Grenfell,” said young intern Brasset to…
Canada’s famous Dr. John B. Thompson, but he agreed to go to Canso, Nova Scotia, as sole doctor for 2,000 people, remote from the world. So begins the story of a doctor’s pilgrimage that describes the early trials and travels of a warm, human and completely delightful general practitioner.Young Dr. Brasset wanted to become a brain surgeon, but lacked the money. In desolate Canso, relay station for the Atlantic cable, his first patient was a sick baby fed only on dry cod. He went in debt $3,600 in six months, his largest fee being the twenty-two dollars he collected from three drunken men by beating them up. Temporary work in a mining town proved little better, but resulted in marriage to the lovely Sally MacNeil.At rural Little Brook, where lived descendants of 900 Acadians returned from their historic flight, the first patient proved to be a 1400-pound gored ox; but fortunes improved and eventually there came the opportunity for brain surgery at the great hospital—but by now Dr. Brasset’s experience with people had changed his ambition.The tragic, the pitiful, the touching, the funny incidents of this warm-hearted tale reveal how, through the author’s great courage and humor, what could have been a very grim battle became in reality a very happy story.Counterpoint: Kenneth Burke and Aristotle’s Theories on Rhetoric
Par L. Virginia Holland. 2018
Kenneth Duva Burke (1897-1993) was an American literary theorist, poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism,…
and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burke was best known for his analyses based on the nature of knowledge. One of the first individuals to stray away from more traditional rhetoric and view literature as “symbolic action,” Burke was unorthodox, concerning himself not only with literary texts, but with the elements of the text that interacted with the audience: social, historical, political background, author biography.“It is not our purpose to discover Burke’s indebtedness, conscious or unconscious, to Aristotle. The problem of influence is a difficult one and it is not at issue here. Rather, we merely hope to discover in what respects Burke’s rhetorical theory and Aristotle’s appear to be like or unlike.“We shall attempt, first of all, to set forth Kenneth Burke’s basic assumptions regarding the nature of man, society, and the function of the speaker in that society. With these assumptions serving as the matrix of his theory, we shall next attempt to make Burke’s theory of rhetoric explicit. We shall consider Burke’s conception of (1) the function of rhetoric, (2) its definitions, (3) its scope, and (4) the methodological devices of which it makes use. Finally, using this same fourfold perspective, we shall compare Burke’s conception of rhetorical theory with Aristotle’s.”—L. Virginia HollandThe Coming of the Monster: A Tale of the Masterful Monk
Par Owen Francis Dudley. 2018
FATHER ANSELM THORNTON, the Masterful Monk, reappears, to enter the lives of Captain Louis Vivien, of the French Intelligence Service,…
and Verna Wray, the girl of the tale.The theme is the growing revolt against God and the moral law which is now spreading openly or in subtle forms throughout the world.An unusual love story is interwoven, the setting of which lies mainly in England, with incidental work in Leningrad, Paris, Lourdes and Hollywood. The tale works up to a love-climax, and to a startling ending, consequent upon the detective work of Captain Louis Vivien and certain acts of the Masterful Monk.It will be noticed that the author has adopted a cinema technique—interspersing “interims” with “shots” superimposed in quick succession. The method is effective for showing the monster of revolt in the background, behind the happenings of the tale.Dostoevsky: A Collection of Critical Essays
Par René Wellek. 2018
First published in 1962, the present volume is a collection of critical essays on selected works by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881),…
the famous 19th century Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher.Critical evaluation of Fyodor Dostoevsky has been marked by sharp and violently bitter extremes. René Wellek has assembled a wide spectrum of these varied critical attitudes toward the works of the great Russian “tragedian of ideas.” Dostoevsky’s work is seen from psychoanalytical, existential, theological, and Marxist points of view. Professor Wellek’s introduction sketches the history of Dostoevsky criticism and influence in all main countries—a task never before attempted.The essays in this collection are:PHILIP RAHV—Dostoevsky in Crime and PunishmentMURRAY KRIEGER—Dostoevsky’s “Idiot”: The Curse of SaintlinessIRVING HOWE—Dostoevsky: The Politics of SalvationELISEO VIVAS—The Two Dimensions of Reality in The Brothers KaramazovD. H. LAWRENCE—Preface to Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor”SIGMUND FREUD—Dostoevsky and ParricideGEORG LUKÁCS—DostoevskyDMITRI CHIZHEVSKY—The Theme of the Double in DostoevskyV. V. ZENKOVSKY—Dostoevsky’s Religious and Philosophical ViewsDEREK TRAVERSI—DostoevskyCall Me Ishmael: A Study Of Melville (Bcl1-ps American Literature Ser.)
Par Charles Olson. 1998
First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences—especially Shakespearean ones—on Melville’s writing of Moby-Dick.…
One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the “theory of the two Moby-Dicks,” Olson argues that there were two versions of Moby-Dick, and that Melville’s reading King Lear for the first time in between the first and second versions of the book had a profound impact on his conception of the saga: “the first book did not contain Ahab,” writes Olson, and “it may not, except incidentally, have contained Moby-Dick.” If literary critics and reviewers at the time responded with varying degrees of skepticism to the “theory of the two Moby-Dicks,” it was the experimental style and organization of the book that generated the most controversy. Passionate in his poetry, Olson was no less passionate in his reading of Melville. Impatient with what he regarded as traditional forms of literary criticism, Olson engaged his own creativity to write a book as robust, original, and compelling as Melville’s masterpiece.“Not only important, but apocalyptic.”—New York Herald Tribune“One of the most stimulating essays ever written on Moby-Dick, and for that matter on any piece of literature, and the forces behind it.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Olson has been a tireless student of Melville and every Melville lover owes him a debt for his Scotland Yard pertinacity in getting on the trail of Melville’s dispersed library.”—Lewis Mumford, New York Times“Records, often brilliantly, one way of taking the most extraordinary of American books.”—W. E. Bezanson, New England Quarterly“The most important contribution to Melville criticism since Raymond Weaver’s pioneering contribution in 1921.”—George Mayberry, New RepublicPageant of Life: A Human Drama
Par Owen Francis Dudley. 2018
The task I have undertaken in these pages is that of disclosing an absorbingly lovable, difficult and pathetic character; and…
of a mystery underlying that character.A mystery not often held in a human soul.My task is difficult because Cyril Rodney is difficult. I have never known a personality quite so baffling; so hidden by reserve and yet so strangely attractive and compelling; so human and yet so alone…“…easily his best achievement. Literary skill of a very high order is here further elevated by his loyal and exalted service…. This is a great book, a noble book, because it puts before every one of us most arrestingly the challenge of Our Master.”—Catholic TimesEdgar A. Guest: A Biography
Par Royce Howes. 2018
When an enthusiastic admirer asked Eddie Guest, “What is the best thing you have ever done?” he replied, “Madam, I…
hope I haven’t done it yet!” Probably this answer best illustrates Eddie’s twinkling sense of humor, his refreshing modesty, and his all-pervading optimism.In these days of confused thinking and chaotic world conditions, it is truly inspiring to read of a life which epitomizes the homely virtues and simple verities, plus a jovial and robust love of living, about which Eddie Guest has written for so many years. And it is by no means accidental that his biographer ends this book with a sentence often on Eddie’s lips: “It’s been great fun—all of it!”“His editor and longtime friend Royce Howes has written the biography Guest deserves...Royce Howes has done a biography of a likeable and human man in not too adulatory a fashion; and it is readable.”—The Los Angeles Times“Hearty friendship and mutuality of association combined with author competence have produced a book which, in the most vital sense, will be of interest to all Americans.”—The Yuma Daily SunA Treasury of the Art of Living
Par Sidney Greenberg. 2018
A Treasury of the Art of Living brings together the keenest observations of the world’s greatest thinkers. “Great men taken…
in any way,” wrote Thomas Carlyle, “are profitable company.” They are perhaps most profitable when they speak to us about the dilemmas, the problems and the anxieties that weigh heavily upon our hearts and minds.We in our time are the heirs of all that these thinkers have ever thought and written. Their literary harvest is more accessible than ever before and it is more desperately needed than ever before.In this collection, Sidney Greenberg has included only the wisest and most inspirational thoughts of great thinkers. There are 86 themes in this therapeutic collection, including the art of living, of living happily, of living at our best, of living with our families and our fellow man, of living with our heritage, and of living when life is difficult.George McDonald wrote, “Instead of a gem or a flower, cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend.” A Treasury of the Art of Living is a collection of lovely thoughts and ideas that are constructive and calculated to bring out the best in us and to deepen our commitment to enduring moral and ethical values.Earthquake
Par Milton Berle, John Roeburt. 2018
TRAPPED IN CUSTOM-MADE GRAVESThere was Stroilov, who preferred suicide to suffocation—or to death by the killer who lurked in the…
silent blackness.There was Taylor, who gave apologies to no man and who now refused God, vowing even to murder before his last breath.There was Susan, who used her small space beneath the earth as a confession box, daring to speak thoughts that lay stagnant in her mind and blood.And there was Donna, most courageous of all, who struggled alone, delivering her child into a world created to be destroyed...Milton Berle and John Roeburt provide an unforgettable and soul-searching answer in this moving story of a small group of people brought together in a tiny Mexican village at precisely the time an earthquake strikes—and rips their world apart.We ask ourselves—Why? Why that place? Why those people? Which of them is destined to die? And can the lives—and souls—of the survivors ever again be the same?“Taut, nerve-gripping drama, brought off with skill and a sharp eye for the human comedy and the darkness at three o’clock in the morning.”—Stephen Longstreet“A curious book...an interesting chess game”—THE NEW YORK TIMESNo Time for Tears: The Story Of A Ten Year Old Boy's Desperate But Successful Battle To Survive Polio
Par Charles H. Andrews, Earl Warren. 2018
THE STORY OF A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY’S DESPERATE BUT SUCCESSFUL BATTLE TO SURVIVE POLIO, AND HIS FAMILY’S ROLE IN GUIDING HIM…
BACK TO A NORMAL LIFE.“This book tells of a ten-year-old boy who was suddenly deposited in an iron lung to battle for his very life. What he went through will illustrate the new ways that have been developed to fight polio. In recent years much has been learned about treating this disease, but there is still much more to know.“I think that this story will illustrate one important age-old truth, namely, that faith and confidence are essential factors in healing. Anyone who has watched polio patients find their way back to a normal life will understand why most of them have such a gallant spirit and will meet difficulties without fear or trepidation. I think it is probably because a polio attack is such a terrific blow that once the patient has decided to fight back, all fear seems to be left behind.”—Eleanor RooseveltSir Rogue
Par Leslie Turner White. 2020
That noble rogue, Sir Guy Spangler, was a favorite of Queen Bess and could have been a great success at…
court, but he preferred a life of freedom, adventure and excitement. That is why he embarked on one of the most amazing expeditions in all the history of Russia - a voyage to the fabulous land of Muscovy to win a fortune from Tsar Ivan the Terrible.The Boy in the Model-T: A Journey in the Just Gone Past
Par Stephen Longstreet. 2020
WHEN STEPHEN LONGSTREET was twelve years old, his grandfather (an unreconstructed G.A.R. officer) and his mother (one of the prettiest…
women of her day) took him across the continent and back on a year-long trek in a Model-T Ford. Now, a quarter of a century later, the mature and sensitive writer looks back on that time and projects it with drama, with humor, and with love.Before little Stevie returned from the trip, he had had his thirteenth birthday; he had fallen in love with a heartless sophisticate of fourteen; he had lived among the beer barons of St. Louis, been present at a hilarious Irish wedding in Montana, fished in the bayous of the Cajun country, learned to handle and love a hunting hawk, and absorbed a great deal about the meaning of both life and death.His mother, a woman of infinite determination and femininity, and his grandfather, as articulate, tough, and soft-hearted an old codger as ever chewed on a cigar, showed the boy our country—a picture full of courage and humor, pathos and wild hilarity, and, for those old enough to remember 1919, fraught with a heart-warming nostalgia.Pen-and-ink sketches by the author, a well-known artist, supplement a narrative style already famous for its rich vividness.The Bradshaws of Harniss
Par Joseph C. Lincoln. 2020
THE BRADSHAWS OF HARNISS is a classic Cape Cod tale - of a peppery old Cape Codder called back into…
the saddle because his grandson has gone to war... Seldom, if ever before, has Joe Lincoln fastened upon a more likely plot or a more appealing group of characters.