Johnston Mary: 63 books

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially...

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD is a bestselling historical novel set in colonial Jamestown, Virginia.  It follows the story of English soldier-turned-adventurer, Ralph Percy, whose young wife, Jocelyn Leigh, is a runaway from the court of the English king.  Mary Johnston (1870-1936) was a bestselling...

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"Mary Johnston's THE LONG ROLL and CEASE FIRING are quite possibly the best Civil War novels ever written..." The Long Roll truly captures the epic scale of the Civil War. It follows the journey of Richard Cleave, a Confederate officer, and General "Stonewall" Jackson as...

Sweet Water by Mary Johnston is about a plantation-turned-village, where people come to stay and learn about life, love, and hapiness.

The Fortunes of Garin written by Mary Johnston who  was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. This book was published in 1915. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately...

"Low Braidge!" The people on deck bent over, some until heads touched knees, others, more exactly calculating, just sufficiently to clear the beams. The canal-boat passed beneath the bridge, and all straightened themselves on their camp-stools. The gentlemen who were smoking put their cigars...

To Have and to Hold (1899) is a novel by American author Mary Johnston. It was the bestselling novel in the United States in the following year (1900). To Have and to Hold is the story of an English soldier, Ralph Percy, turned Virginian explorer in colonial Jamestown. Ralph buys a wife for himself...

"She will reach the wharf in half an hour." The speaker shaded her eyes with a great fan of carved ivory and painted silk. They were beautiful eyes; large, brown, perfect in shape and expression, and set in a lovely, imperious, laughing face. The divinity to whom they belonged was clad in...

The Wanderers written by Mary Johnston who was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. This book was published in 1917. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean...

Sweet Rocket written by Mary Johnston who was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. This book is one of many works by her. Published in 1920. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to...

Without blazed autumn sunshine, strong as summer sunshine in northern lands. Within the cathedral dusk ruled, rich and mysterious. The sanctuary light burned, a star. The candles were yet smoking, the incense yet clung, thick and pungent. Vanishing through the sacristy door went the last flutter of...

In this important new novel, Miss Johnston goes back to the field of some of her earlier successes -- the spacious Elizabethan times. The story opens in the death chamber of the great Queen, and with that uncanny power of historic resurrection of which Miss Johnston is master, the reader is made to...