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Maria Legassick is the youngest of the three daughters of a Cornish vicar, and she tells here the story of what happened, in a swiftly-changing world, to herself, her sisters, and her brilliant, gifted brother—Roger whom she loved too well; Louisa whom she admired but...
The story of William Essex, who rose from humble beginnings to become a successful dramatist and novelist, and his friend Dermot O'Riordon, a fervent Irish patriot and founder of a great London furnishing house; and their sons, Oliver Essex and Rory O'Riordon. Plus some...
''Literature and Science,'' published in September 1963, was Aldous Huxley's last book - he died two months after it was published. In it, he strives to harmonize the scientific and artistic realms. He argues that language is what divides the two realms and makes...
From the pomp of Victoria’s reign to the end of World War II, a brilliant panorama of life in England and Europe is the setting of the story of an extraordinary woman. Sarah Rainborough was a little girl when she was taken away from the elegance of London society to...
The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 is a book by Aldous Huxley that compiles his lectures given at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1959, exploring human nature, society, and the modern world's challenges and potentials, synthesized with...
Beginning just before the outbreak of the First World War, this is the story of the moral values of the age. It is a story of illegitimacy and deception—where a child has to come to terms with discovering who his mother really is. It is a story in which romance is set...
This book debates a wide range of subjects reflecting Huxley's views towards the direction society is going. He puts forward a number of predictions, many of which resonate far beyond the time when it was written. A consistent theme throughout the essay is Huxley's...
"Oliver Twist" is a classic novel by Charles Dickens that tells the story of a young orphan named Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse in Victorian England. After being raised in a harsh and oppressive environment, Oliver runs away to London, where he falls in with a gang...
First published in 1929, ''The Case of Sir Adam Braid'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. The action starts on board ship when a man is found strangled. At first it is assumed that the killing is associated with the victim’s shady activities in...
First published in 1930, ''The Case of Sir Adam Braid'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. The Case of Sir Adam Braid tells of the murder of an ill-tempered old artist in his flat in the short window of time when his manservant was out of the...
This delightful set of stories about the adventures of a mischievous koala has been loved by generations of young Australians. Dorothy Wall's amusing tales and drawings, and her love of the bush and concern for its conservation, still have the power to enchant children...
''Swiss Sonata'' is the first novel by Gwethalyn Graham, written when she was just 25. The novel is set in a girls’ boarding school in Switzerland in 1936. What makes this novel extraordinary is not just the penetrating insights into the behaviour of the girls — but for...
Narrative poem, a huge success at the time of its publication, and the inspiration for the 1944 movie The White Cliffs of Dover. The White Cliffs is a novel in verse, the story of an American girl who falls in love with an Englishman in the era of World War I. The...
Professor Erwin Panofsky’s study, ''Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism,'' captured and holds an eminent place in a series that is not without distinction, the Wimmer Lectures. Erwin Panofsky, in “Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism,” indicates with grace and...
First published in 1932, ''Murder in the Dentist Chair'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. In Death in the Dentist’s Chair (1932) Thynne adopts the same crime scene as Agatha Christie used some years later in One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940). She...
A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic Passenger to Teheran - she returned to the land that had so captured her imagination. For twelve days, with her husband and three friends, she embarked on a difficult and often...
EXCERPT: The morning was warm and fine; the season was late September, the 27th to be exact; and the air gave promise that St. Martin would not be cheated of his summer. Dust, chased in spirals by a light breeze, was dancing down the street and Munich was pleasant to...
These people live in Cooper Station, U.S.A.: Anthony Cooper, nephew of the owners of Cooper's Mills Chris Pappas, the guy from the wrong side of the tracks Doris Palmer, wife of a wealthy manufacturer David Strong, the music teacher Beneath the seemingly calm surface...
After winning a lottery, Miss Haslett, a middle-aged school mistress, seeks financial advice. She is introduced to a stockbroker, John Throgmorton, and shortly thereafter is found murdered. Scotland Yard's DI Martin is called in to investigate.
First published in 1933, ''He Dies and Makes no Sign'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. The final mystery by Thynne also features Constantine and Detective Inspector Arkwright. In He Dies and Makes No Sign (1933) Constantine is summoned by the...
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