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"Considered a "regionalist" writer, like Kate Chopin and fellow New Englander Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman spent almost half a century living in New England. A prolific and renowned writer, she had to deal with a new aspect of popularity: celebrity." "This collection shows Freeman's many modes - romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic - as well as her use of pathos and sentimentality, dry reserve, and humor, satire, and irony....
86) Give me tomorrow
Author
Series
Country house ; 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Two contrasting love stories entwine in the space of one simmering summer week. Police officer Mo Faithe is overcome with lust while investigating a series of violent attacks on newspaper astrologers. Meanwhile in Cornwall, the Peakes are conducting their annual music festival, the cue for their two 'children' -- Seth, a young violin prodigy, and Venetia, a highly-strung scholar -- to embark upon a voyage of self-discovery. As Seth sets out in hot...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Perdita, the widowed Duchess of Ormonde, keeps a dangerous secret--the truth of how her brutish husband died. But a mysterious avenger seems to know it, too, and when anonymous threats turn into public attacks, there's only one friend she can turn to for help--her husband's former secretary, Lord Archer Lisle. The man who witnessed her every heartache. The kind of man whose love she can only dream of ...
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Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the bar-parlor of The Angler's Rest, a bucolic English pub, Mr. Mulliner tells his amazing tales, holding the assembled company of pints of stout and whiskies and splash in the palm of his expressive hand. Here you can discover what happened to the man who gave up smoking, share a frisson when the butler delivers something squishy on a silver salver ("Your serpent, Sir," said the voice of Simmons), and experience the dreadful unpleasantness at...
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Publisher
McNally Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is 'paralyzed by triviality,' measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties--routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town; their daughter, eighteen-year-old Angela, is at Oxford; and their sons are at boarding school. Then Angela accidentally falls pregnant, and Ruth must keep her own past from repeating itself"--
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English
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Like few novels before it, The Woman in White thrilled readers across England when it debuted in 1860. It famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit road. Engaged as a drawing-master to beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his charming friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the...
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