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The Firm of Girdlestone
The Firm of Girdlestone – Arthur Conan Doyle “The Firm of Girdlestone“ dealt in ivory, gums, ebony, gold-dust and other African products. Its two members, father and son, were cold-hearted, hard-headed scoundrels, who over-insured their ships and indulged in other fraudulent practices. The elder Girdlestone becomes guardian of a young heiress whose money reverts to […]
Micah Clarke
Micah Clarke – Arthur Conan Doyle „Micah Clarke,“ like Mr. Blackmore’s „Lorna Doone,“ is a tale of the last romantic rebellion with a base in England—the futile attempt of Monmouth. The big Porthos-like hero is, in some ways, akin to John Ridd; but he occupies, as regards politics and religion, the juste milieu that Sir […]
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle Even today, Mr. Doyle’s stories create such a sensation all over the world that he now ranks among the best English novelists. This novel marks the first appearance ever of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and shows the marvellous imagination which enables him to invent a seemingly […]
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse – Vicente Blasco Ibanez Many authors have seen the Great War through the eyes of their own country. Senor Ibanez seems to see it through eyes that are world-wide in their sweep and with a mind that is very human and pitiful in its comprehension of the suffering and […]
Jane Austen – Woman of Letters
Jane Austen – Francis W. Cornish Mr. Francis Warre Cornish has devoted most of his chapters to a running comment on the novels. His criticism of the characters is shrewd and has the pleasant flavor of talk about people with whom one is intimately acquainted. He also excels in analyzing the plots and in reproducing […]
Jane Austen
Jane Austen – Oscar W. Firkins A biography worth reading. The author has looked at Miss Austen more through his own eyes, and less through the eyes of her many illustrious eulogists, than any other writer we know of. Even when he is in harmony with the opinions of Miss Austen’s posterity one feels his […]
Twilight
Twilight – Julia Frankau Not perhaps since Henry James gave us the inimitable „Daisy Miller“ has modern fiction presented the character of a woman so sensitive, so innately innocent in her faults and weaknesses, so inevitably tragic in her fate, as the heroine of this book, Margaret Capel. The story develops in this fashion: A […]
Glinda of Oz
Glinda of Oz – L. Frank Baum This is the story of the adventures of Ozma and Dorothy when they set out to prevent a war between the Flatheads (who, for lack of a cranium, carry their brains in a can) and the Skeezers, whose island home can be submerged by their Queen. The two […]
The Magic of Oz
The Magic of Oz – L. Frank Baum This is the thirteenth book in the Oz series. Trot and Cap’n Bill set out to search for a wonderful Magic Flower in a golden pot as a birthday present for Ozma. In the meantime, the Nome King attempts to raise an army of beasts to conquer […]
The Tin Woodman of Oz
The Tin Woodman of Oz – L. Frank Baum This is the twelfth book of the Oz series. Many years ago, before he had become a tin man, Nick Chopper was engaged to a lovely Munchkin girl named Nimmie Amee. He no longer loves her because when his limbs were replaced with tin, his body […]