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The Good Soldier is considered Ford's masterpiece. This tale of adultery and deceit centers around two couples, Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, and their American friends, John and Florence Dowell. John Dowell narrates the events of Florence's affair with Edward, the "good soldier," and her subsequent suicide. Through Dowell's confused and perhaps unreliable narrative, Ford attempted to recreate real thoughts. This literary technique was a forerunner to literary techniques employed by such later writers as Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee.Ford Madox Ford (Ford Madox Hueffer) was born in 1873. He was a novelist, poet, literary critic, editor, and one of the founding fathers of English Modernism. He published over eighty books, including two collaborations with Joseph Conrad (Inheritors in 1901 and Romance in 1903). He died in 1939.
Teilo is a Cumbrian blacksmith, high in the secret Old Religion. When his young king Urien marries an unknown princess from Cornwall, he sees that Morgan is another of his kind. He forms an ambition to link her power to his.But he fatally misunderstands Morgan's desire to hold the balance between male and female, pagan and Christian, death and life. His life is irrevocably shattered by that mistake.Running wild in the forest, he comes upon Merlyn and young Arthur. Yet Morgan's power is summoning him back. Will this put Arthur in danger at the very outset of his career?
In 1920, Vincent Starrett privately printed "The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes," a novelette concerning a most unusual edition of Shakespeare's play. The edition is believed to have consisted of 110 copies, of which about 50 are still known to exist among collectors. Starrett, no stranger to fiction, wrote extensively in the mystery field, including the 1975 book, "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes." He also created his own Chicago-based detective, Jimmy Lavender, whose stories are very much in the Holmes tradition.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright, best known for his novel Fathers and Sons. A Nest of the Gentry was his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century.
In this gothic holiday novella, Alcott weaves a tale of mystery, romance, and moral conflict. Set during a Christmas gathering at a noble estate, the story follows Maurice Treherne, a once-promising young man now crippled by an accident. As past secrets resurface, Maurice faces both external and internal temptations, navigating love, jealousy, and intrigue. With its gothic overtones and moral dilemmas, this novella showcases Alcott's talent beyond her more famous domestic tales.
William A. Nitze (1876-1957) was a professor of Romance languages and literature, best known the originator and director of the Arthurian Romances Project, a long-standing project at the University of Chicago to trace the Arthurian legends and the story of the Holy Grail through the various literatures of medieval and post-medieval Europe. Harry F. Williams (1911-1998) was also a professor of Romance languages who studied figures of medieval French literature, such as the well-known Marie de France (late 12th century) and the more obscure whose lives and works Williams helped bring to light.
Robert Thomas Kerlin was a white American literary critic and proponent of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his collections The Voice of the Negro (1920), Contemporary Poetry of the Negro (1921), and Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923). This volume includes works by James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes. W.E.B. DuBois, Claude McKay, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jessie Fauset, Anne Spencer, and Georgia Douglas Johnson; and is illustrated by photographs of the poets and sculptures by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), an African-American woman noted for her innovative celebration of Afrocentric themes.
Ammon Monroe Aurand Jr. (1895-1956) was a Pennsylvania writer who self-published a number of similar booklets, including three more works on bundling -- an "old-fashioned custom of lovers or travelers sleeping in the same bed, usually without the formality of undresssing." Aurand also wrote a variety of works on somewhat more serious, traditional historical subjects.
Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was the earliest writer of spy fiction as understood today, inventing the "rogue male" school of adventure thrillers and writing over 150 novels of all sorts.
Richard Dehan is a pseudonym of Clotilde Augusta Inez Mary Graves (1863-1932), an Irish author who published several novels in the early twentieth century and was best known for her "humorous novels and stories of witchcraft and pagan religions."
Arthur Goodrich's (1878-1941) 1932 play about Ulysses S. Grant was well-received. George M. Cohan said, "I didn't put [Mr. Grant] down . . . . I read it twice. It's a grand piece of writing and it ought to play like a house afire."
Pope Joan, Conchobar's House, and Columcille Goes by A. Kingsley Porter is a collection of three distinct historical and literary essays that delve into fascinating legends and tales from medieval history and literature.Pope Joan explores the legendary figure of Pope Joan, a woman who is said to have disguised herself as a man and became Pope in the Middle Ages. Porter examines the historical and literary origins of this controversial and mysterious tale.Conchobar's House delves into the ancient Irish legends surrounding Conchobar mac Nessa, a legendary king of Ulster in Irish mythology. Porter analyzes the significance of Conchobar's royal house and its role in the epic tales of the Ulster Cycle.Columcille Goes focuses on Saint Columba (Columcille), the Irish missionary who spread Christianity in Scotland. Porter reflects on the legendary journeys and influence of this revered saint, exploring the blend of history and myth in his story.These essays offer a rich exploration of myth, legend, and history, showcasing Porter's scholarly insight into the medieval world.Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883-1933) was an American art historian and medievalist. These plays were written during the last years of his life and described as "free poetical renderings of medieval themes that particularly appealed" to Porter.
La Perle Noire: Comedie en Trois Actes, En Prose
Margaret Horton Potter (1881-1911) was an American novelist who wrote nine novels between 1899 and 1908, primarily romance and society novels. Istar of Babylon is an historical fantasy
For the first time, a complete life of the Princess des Ursins, who was the moving spirit in the succession of the Bourbons to the Throne of Spain.
From the author of "The Woman of the Twilight," "Pagan Prayers," "Indian Love Letters," and "For the Soul of Rafael."
In February, 1920, Marguerite E. Harrison crossed into Russia through the Polish Front as a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. She spent 10 months in prison as a result...
"Richelieu: A Tale of France in the Reign of King Louis XIII" is a historical novel set in France.
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