Quatermain at eighteen, in love with a Boer girl whose father will not have an Englishman, caught in the siege of a mission station and then in the Great Trek - and at Retief's massacre by Dingaan, which he watched from a hill.
A woman learns on her honeymoon that her husband has been tried for murdering his first wife and let go on a Scotch verdict of Not Proven - and decides that a wife may investigate what a court would not.
An Eastern writer of Western stories, told he has never seen the West, goes to Montana to gather material and is put to work punching cows by men who know exactly what he is.
Certaines vies sont marquees par l'injustice, des ames brisees par la cruaute du destin, des existences qui basculent en un instant sans espoir de retour.
Stories of men in the woods and on the water: a Canadian guide, a trout stream, a keeper of a lighthouse, a boy and a canoe - and in each one a governing passion that decides everything.
A rich patron brings a brilliant young American sculptor to Rome to make him great, and watches him instead discover women, idleness and his own limits.
A young woman who had always known the truth, discovered that it wasn't the whole truth and that created a perceived obligation for which she was not equipped.
Robin Hood as high comedy: Marian, an heiress who can shoot better than most of the outlaws, walks out of her own wedding into Sherwood, and the friar, the baron and the sheriff argue about it in perfect Regency prose.
A young American in London begins a courtship through the personal column of a newspaper, and to hold the girl's interest invents a murder in the house next door - then the murder happens.
Billy is engaged to Bertram, and everyone in both families has an opinion - while a composer, a sister-in-law and a very great deal of Boston propriety take a hand.
Ten-year-old Nikolenka is taken from the country to Moscow, and everything happens in the small print: the tutor's temper, the hunt, his mother's hands at the piano, the first lie he tells.
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Twenty-odd tales written in a damp parsonage where Emerson had lived before him - a scientist who erases his wife's birthmark, a man who steps out of his life for twenty years to watch it from across the street, a garden whose beauty is fatal.
Professor Challenger announces that dinosaurs survive on a plateau in South America and dares the Royal Society to prove otherwise; a reporter, a sportsman and a rival scientist go with him to find out.
Blix follows the life of a spirited young woman in a socially conscious San Francisco household, where family ties and romantic entanglements shape her journey toward self-discovery.
The conqueror: Being the true and romantic story of Alexander Hamilton Book I presents a vivid and humanized portrayal of an iconic historical figure shaped by instability, ambition, and the tensions of a rapidly evolving world.
The Ralstons Volume I is a novel that reflects on the tension between personal identity and the expectations placed upon individuals by family, wealth, and society.
True and other stories presents a sequence of narratives that examine the subtleties of human emotion, the tension between historical memory and personal longing, and the fragility of connection.
An elder brother portrays the quiet, reflective life of an aging bookseller whose reclusive routine is shaped by solitude and devotion to his small bookshop.
Maria or the wrongs of woman portrays the harrowing struggles of a woman imprisoned unjustly by her husband in a patriarchal society that denies her agency and rights.
Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a poignant exploration of family, social class, and the complexities of young love, set in the picturesque English countryside during the mid-19th century.
Lord and Lady Clonbrony live in London, spending the rents of an Irish estate they have not seen in years, while their agent squeezes it - and their son goes over incognito to look.
A body in the Vienna Stadtpark, a lamp that burned out at the wrong hour, and Joseph Muller - small, shabby, apologetic, the best detective in the police, and a man with a conviction of his own in the past.
A countess with no fortune and an unreadable face marries an English lord who dies at Venice, and the palace where it happened is now a hotel, with one room nobody sleeps in twice.
A Vermont girl of no family is taken up by a rich woman as a companion and carried to Italy - where the arrangement, and everyone's exact idea of what she is owed, comes apart.
