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A fictionalized account of the Edith Thompson and Fred Bywaters case. Edith becomes Elsie, and Fred become Leslie. Edith/ Elsie was married to a much older man when she met Fred/Leslie and the two embark on a passionate affair. When Edith and her husband were walking home from and evening at the theatre, Fred confronted Percy Thompson and stabbed him. The two were charged with murder, and despite Fred insisting that Edith had nothing to do wit...

... "Tension" is yet another good read by Delafield. This is a plot filled with "tension" created by whispers, comments and judgments made in a small community by women on women who have different views and approach to relationships in relation to Victorian societal norms. Interesting characters with an interesting twist at the end. (Emma Louise) About the author: Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (9 June 1890 - 2 December...

This simply narrated history of Genghis Khan traces the life of the great conqueror, from being the son of a minor chieftain in Mongolia to becoming the ruler of arguably the largest empire in history. Preface The word khan is not a name, but a title. It means chieftain or king. It is a word used in various forms by the different tribes and nations that from time immemorial have inhabited Central Asia, and has been applied to a great number...

Abbott is an excellent story teller and historian. Though short, his series on history serves as an excellent primer. (Patrick Trester) About the author Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 - October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books. On November 14, 1803, Abbott was born in Hallowell, Maine to Jacob Abbott II and Betsey Chandler. He attended the Hallowell Academy. Abbott graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820. At some po...

Abbott is an excellent story teller and historian. Though short, his series on history serves as an excellent primer. (Patrick Trester) About the author: Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 - October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books. On November 14, 1803, Abbott was born in Hallowell, Maine to Jacob Abbott II and Betsey Chandler. He attended the Hallowell Academy. Abbott graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820. At some p...

CONTENTS The Woman and Her Bonds The Break in Turpentine The Tipster A Philanthropic Whisper The Man Who Won The Lost Opportunity Pike's Peak or Bust A Theological Tipster About the author: Edwin Lefèvre (1871-1943) was an American journalist, writer, and diplomat, who is most noted for his writings on Wall Street business. Of the eight books written by Edwin Lefèvre, his Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is considered a classic ...

WE" is an autobiographical account by Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) about his life and the events leading up to and including his May 1927 New York to Paris solo trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, a custom-built, single engine, single-seat Ryan monoplane (Registration: N-X-211). It was first published on July 27, 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York. Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 - August 26, 1974) was an A...

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a 1923 roman à clef by American author Edwin Lefèvre. It is told in the first person by a character inspired by the life of stock trader Jesse Livermore up to that point. The book can be divided into three parts: 1890-1910: Livermore was able to make easy money by taking advantage of the bid-ask spread on inactive stocks with leverage of 100-to-1 at bucket shops. 1910-1920: Livermore was a stock trade...

The Aran Islands is a four part collection of journal entries regarding the geography and people of the Aran Islands. It was completed by John Millington Synge in 1901 and first published in 1907. It is based on Synge's multiple travels through the Irish speaking and predominately rural set of islands off the Western coast of Ireland. The book presents many of the local specificities of the Aran Island people while simultaneously contextualizi...

Powder and Patch is a novel written by Georgette Heyer under the pen name Stella Martin. It was originally titled The Transformation of Philip Jettan when published by Mills & Boon in 1923. In 1930, the book was republished by William Heinemann minus the original last chapter as Powder and Patch. Philip Jettan, a handsome and sturdy but tongue-tied youth, is rejected by his true love, Cleone because he is not foppish enough. He resolves to i...

Another good book by Delafield. First off this was written in 1915 during WWI and is based on a group of women are working at the hospital in the day and in a canteen (serving fast food and beer or wine). The head of this operation is a woman with a very large sense of her own importance. She is the ultimate paper pusher and makes up as being a royal pain in the ass with her ideas and directions. (Tommie Nicholas) About the author: Edmée Eli...

When Owen Quentillian returns to visit Canon Morchard in the idyllic village where he spent his childhood before the First World War, he finds the Canon a self-declared optimist, clinging to the Victorian beliefs about religion, family life and moral values which the war has shattered. Is the Canon a domestic tyrant? Are his children struggling to break free? Or does this family have anything to teach Quentillian about life and how to live it?...

An extremely funny book about an underemployed bank clerk by Edwin Lefèvre. Edwin Lefèvre (1871-1943) was an American journalist, writer, and diplomat, who is most noted for his writings on Wall Street business. Of the eight books written by Edwin Lefèvre, his Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is considered a classic of American business writing. The book began as a series of twelve articles published during 1922 and 1923 in The Saturday Ev...

The Black Moth (1921) is a Georgian era romance novel by the British author Georgette Heyer, set around 1751. The Black Moth was Heyer's debut novel, published when Heyer was nineteen. It was a commercial success. The story follows Lord Jack Carstares, an English nobleman who becomes a highwayman after taking the blame during a cheating scandal years before. One day, he rescues Miss Diana Beauleigh when she is almost abducted by the Duke of ...

The story is an interesting coming of age 'of its era'. All of Lefevres stories are based in and around the Gatsby days as this was when he was living and dealing with stock brokers and traders. So its all his books are an interesting insight to that time. What this book has to offer is more a quaint story about a father and son and leaving collage to become a man. (Tim Duggan) About the author: Edwin Lefèvre (1871-1943) was an American jour...

While this isn't a page-turner, it wasn't a grind. There was a see-saw of "I knew this" and "Didn't know that" facts. I knew that Aristotle was Alexander's tutor. I didn't know that Demosthenes was a vociferous enemy of Philip of Macedon and of Alexander. Rank and file is a familiar phrase, but it wasn't until I read "The men were arranged in lines, one behind the other, and all facing the enemy - sixteen lines and a thousand in each line,...

From the brilliant author of detective novels and regency romances, here we have an early manifestation of her literary genius and versatility. G. Heyer masters the art of telling a story and she is telling hers with shocking brutal honesty. In this uncommon social novel one witness the clash of two eras, the fading Victorian one with its prim facade built on lies and deceits and the dawning postwar one with its disruptive nature of rebellions...

The Great Roxhythe is a novel written by Georgette Heyer. The book opens in 1668 and closes in 1685, and concerns the misadventures of a fictional spy loyal to Charles II. About the author: Georgette Heyer (16 August 1902 - 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother in...

Preface In selecting the subjects for the successive volumes of this series, it has been the object of the author to look for the names of those great personages whose histories constitute useful, and not merely entertaining, knowledge. There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind, and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their histor...

A Traveler at Forty ."rises completely out of the commonplace, and becomes something new, illuminating and heretical. It differs enormously from the customary travel books: it is not a mere description of places and people, but a revelation of their impingement upon an exceptional and almost eccentric personality." (H. L. Mencken) About the author: Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945) was an American novelist ...