[Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter] ‘They met me in the day of success: and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of • Read More »
The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The title refers to Ballylee Castle, an old Norman tower in the west of Ireland which Yeats purchased in 1917 and renovated for use as a summer residence and where • Read More »
Five years before the story begins, a man convicted of murdering a powerful, corrupt financier escaped and disappeared. Now, five years later, another financier, an honest one, is murdered in Seattle. The famous lawyer who is his executor is attacked on the train stuck in the snow in the wilds of Montana. Who can be • Read More »
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate Athenians consulted the oracle at Delphi, who answered, “For thus saith Zeus, that when all else within the land of Cecrops is wasted, the wooden wall alone shall not be taken.” The British • Read More »
This is an account of the Union army’s strategies and activities in protecting a Union garrison at Allatoona in Bartow Country, Georgia during the Civil War. – Summary by Jeffery Smith Post Views: 3
This short early twentieth century biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by polymath Chesterton and journalist Nicoll is also sometimes entitled ‘The Characteristics of Robert Louis Stevenson.’ Each author wrote a section of the whole. This recording is of the third edition which differs structurally from the first edition and has some additional material. – Summary • Read More »
Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who become good friends. Another person in the pension is Mr. Chetwynd, an elderly gentleman, whose handsome son Raine comes from Oxford to visit him – and causes a stir in the company, • Read More »
T.N.T. packed in satin! Lorena Dahl had her fingers on the straps of the halter and Dane knew she was going to rip them away. “Cut it out,” he warned her. “It’s strictly business between you and me!” “I know a hotel,” the girl breathed. “Just around the corner. We can talk business there.” “I • Read More »
Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving school Billy Bray worked as a miner in Cornwall and Devon; during this time he was a drunkard and was prone to riotous behaviour. In 1823 he had a close escape from a mining • Read More »
“Being some Account of Life and Work in the Province of Canterbury, South Island.” A set fo 26 letters covering the Author’s period of service in New Zealand as an Anglican priest. They cover his parochial work in Christchurch, on the West Coast, and Timaru. This is interspersed with commentary on Diocesan matters along with • Read More »
AT that festive season, when the days are at the shortest, and the nights at the longest, and when, consequently, it is the invariable practice of all sensible people to turn night into day; when the state of the odds between business and pleasure is decidedly in favour of the latter; when high carnival is • Read More »
William Harrison AINSWORTH (1805-1882) NOVELS Auriol, or The Elixir of Life–Text—HTML Boscobel, or the Royal Oak–Text—HTML Guy Fawkes, or The Gunpowder Treason–HTML Jack Sheppard – A Romance–Text— HTML The Lancashire Witches -A Romance of Pendle Forest–Text—HTML The Leaguer of Lathom–HTML Old Saint Paul’s -A Tale of the Plague and the Fire–Text—HTML Ovingdean Grange–HTML Preston Fight, • Read More »