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Gustav Freytag (1816-1895) was a German dramatist and novelist. The Journalists "still delights audiences with its witty, animated dialogue and admirable characterizations, despite thematic material that is now irrelevant."
This novel blends romance and social commentary, following a wealthy young American woman navigating the complexities of society, love, and ambition. Set against the backdrop of late 19th-century Chicago, the story delves into the contrast between old-world aristocracy and the new American elite. Through sharp wit and keen observations, Barr explores themes of wealth, status, and the pursuit of happiness in a rapidly changing world.Robert Barr (1849-1912) was a British-Canadian short story writer and novelist, who published the first Holmes parody, The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs in 1892. The Chicago Princess begins with a penniless American man in Nagasaki watching a private yacht come in to the harbor, boding well for his personal fortunes.
George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister known for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels. The Princess and Curdie is the sequel to his very popular children's fantasy novel, The Princess and the Goblin.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. Don Quixote is his magnum opus, considered the first modern novel, a classic of Western literature, and amongst the best works of fiction ever written.
Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944) was a best-selling American writer during the first half of the 20th century, and is said to be the first American to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. The Mine with the Iron Door is set in and around Tucson, Arizona in the early 20th century.
Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) was a historian and served as the French Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1894-1898, a member or Academie Francaise, and a delegate to the League of Nations.
The Yearbook of Short Plays was published in 1931 to meet the need for " a readily accessible supply of reputable and desirable non-royalty plays for study and presentation."
Edward Bellamy Parttridge (1877-1960) practiced law with his father, a Civil War veteran and country lawyer before becoming a freelance writer, novelist and popular historian. He is best know for the national best-seller "Country Lawyer" (1939). Sube Cane is a humorous tale about the adventures of a lawyer's young son in the early 20th century.
A play about the Biblical heroine, Judith, who acts to stop the siege of the Jewish city Bethulia by the Assyrians by seducing and beheading Nebuchadnezzar's general Holofernes..
Evelyn Charles Henry Vivian (Jack Mann, E. Charles Vivian, 1882-1947) was the pseudonym of Charles Henry Cannell, an British editor and writer of fantasy and supernatural, detective novels and stories, including this occult detective novel in which the hero becomes involved in an eons old feud between two ancient families and falls in love with a white witch who uses an artifact from Atlantis to enter the fourth dimension,
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834 - 1924) was an English Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, Lew Trenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to the English. His historical novel "Domitia " concerns the later days of the Roman Empire and the spreading influence of Christianity.
When Old Hoggen disappeared, everyone in Charmouth suspected foul play. Hoggen had been rich, powerful -- and not well liked. Naturally suspicions fell on the summer vacationers...and in particularly newcomers Augustus, his wife, mother-in-law, and Cousin Jemima (who bears a striking resemblance to the missing man). When Augustus actually finds the Old Hoggen's body washed ashore in a storm, events take a decidedly sinister turn.A strikingly good, exceedingly rare mystery from the author of Dracula! (The text is taken from the 1893 newspaper apperarance in The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky.)
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