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Standard History of Houston, Texas
Standard History of Houston, Texas – Benajah Harvey Carroll The Story of Houston has not proved an easy one to write. A city is in many respects a conglomeration of units rather than an aggregate of unities. the units are of character so varying that it is hard to reduce them to a common denominator. […]
A Thumb-Nail History of the City of Houston, Texas
A Thumb-Nail History of the City of Houston, Texas – Samuel Oliver Young This beautiful, small historical work is divided into twelve chapters, each devoted to some phase of the city’s activities and tracing its history from the inception of that interest to the year 1912. Chapter 1 gives an account of the founding of […]
G. K. Chesterton – A Criticism
G. K. Chesterton – A Criticism – Cecil Chesterton Cecil Edward Chesterton was the brother of G.K. Chesterton, a journalist and political commentator throughout his short life of only 39 years. His biography of his better-known brother was first published anonymously, but it did not take long to discover the real author. Format: Paperback. G. […]
Earlier Stories
Earlier Stories – Frances Hodgson-Burnett This volume contains two love stories which appeared long ago in Peterson’s Magazine and marked the beginning of Mrs. Burnett’s literary work. “Kathleen Mavourneen” and “Pretty Polly Pemberton” are all fascinating heroines with the world at their feet; their beauty, grace, and wit are well calculated to charm the impressionable […]
Giovanni and the other
Giovanni and the other – Frances Hodgson-Burnett A little Italian boy with a beautiful voice, who comforted Mrs. Burnett when she mourned for her son at San Remo, is the hero of the first story. It is slightly autobiographical, introducing the writer and her tender reminiscences of her lost boy. „The boy who became a […]
Surly Tim (and other stories)
Surly Tim (and other stories) – Frances Hodgson-Burnett While the eight short stories which are bound together under the title of „Surly Tim‘ and Other Stories,“ take in a wide range of subjects, while the characters are distinct and the individuals unlike, there is still a singular oneness in the artistic motive of them all, […]
Piccino (and other Child Stories)
Piccino (and other Child Stories) – Frances Hodgson-Burnett Child stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett are among the best of their kind. Those terrible „Two Days in the Life of Piccino“ are enough to make one shake—with laughter. Piccino was a „Gesu bambino,“ pretty as a Christ-child in a picture, who lived with his parents, his […]
His Grace of Osmonde
His Grace of Osmonde – Frances Hodgson-Burnett A remarkable story, which probably marked a unique experiment in fiction at the time it was first published. In it Mrs. Burnett has written the mans‘ side of the story, the woman side of which was given in her very successful „Lady of Quality“ – and she has […]
The Head of the House of Coombe
The Head of the House of Coombe – Frances Hodgson-Burnett „The Head of the House of Coombe“ deals with London before the Great War, and the best drawn character in it is Mrs. Gareth-Lawless, a beautiful but heartless woman. To read of her is to realize the wonderful power personal beauty wields, no matter what […]
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens “The Pickwick Papers” is the one novel of Dickens that abounds neither in pathetic, grewsome, nor dramatic passages. It is pure fun from beginning to end, with a laugh on every page. It attained immediate success and laid the foundations of Dickens’s fame. The types illustrated are caricatures, but […]