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''Life at Happy Knoll'' is a novel by John P. Marquand published in Sports Illustrated as a collection of letters, that uses social satire to explore the issues within a fictional country club near New York. Through the letters of a club board member to the president...
"It's Loaded, Mr. Bauer" takes readers on a suspenseful journey into the heart of a psychological thriller, where the boundaries between reality and illusion blur in a pulse-pounding tale of intrigue and danger. This gripping novel delves into the complexities of the...
Frank Cowperwood, still married to his estranged wife Aileen, lives with his mistress Berenice. He decides to move to London, England, where he intends to take over and develop the underground railway system. Berenice becomes close to Earl Stane, whileFrank has an...
"Heaven Lies About Us" recounts Spring's childhood in Cardiff during the closing years of the 19th century. He grew up in an impoverished but loving family and left school at age 12 to support them after his father's death. The path of a writer: Spring's memoir...
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 author describes his experiences traveling through the Caribbean to Guatemala and southern Mexico in 1933.
When he was a schoolboy George Ledra watched the recruits of World War I marching through the Manchester streets. His account of his own life; which makes this novel, concludes with the ending of the second war. This is a stretch of time that Howard Spring has often...
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...
The theme of this particular book (set around Manchester and Cornwall, as so many of his are) is that there is no armour against fate; and the period it covers was certainly a fateful one, ranging as it does from the close of the Victorian era through two World Wars....
Contemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse. Pacifism is still an important topic today, as terrorism and dictatorial states abound. Many will find solace in Ends and Means, while others will find...
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...
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...
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