Mary Elizabeth: 329 books

A warm summer evening, with a sultry haze brooding over the level landscape, and a Sabbath stillness upon all things in the village of Lidford, Midlandshire. In the remoter corners of the old gothic church the shadows are beginning to gather, as the sermon draws near its close; but in the centre aisle...

The history of Edward Arundel, second son of Christopher Arundel Dangerfield Arundel, of Dangerfield Park, Devonshire, began on a certain dark winter's night upon which the lad, still a schoolboy, went with his cousin, Martin Mostyn, to witness a blankverse tragedy at one of the London theatres. There...

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A classic Victorian sensation novel involving intrigue and mystery, and women being forced to marry for money and not love.

The neat thing about getting old is that you can flirt outrageously with anyone you want, and they dont take you seriously. Or maybe they do! 101 Poems and Philosophies includes poems and mini-essays about growing older. Oh, what fun it is, arthritis, dementia, and enough anxiety to see you to the...

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father...

Every 14 seconds a Child Headed Household is formed The death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children, often four or five of them, who desperately want to stay together as a family. In the literature, they call them Child Headed Households. Imagine watching your mother and father...

Celie, teacher of ESL students, works with Gioi from Vietnam, Daniyel from Israel, Suk from South Korea and others, convinced she learns more from them than they from her. She persuades Chau to relate his familys escape from Vietnam, which he refuses to put into print. Celie will never look at a grain...

He shouldn't even have been born. His mother's water broke when she was only eight months along. Yet the doctor delivered a healthy boy one month later by forceps. When he babbled in his crib or coach, the neighbor lady said he made sense to her. "I declare I swear he's talking in tongues."...

Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment, despite the numerous initiatives over the past 25 years to attract and retain more women in engineering. This book demonstrates the ways in which traditional engineering education has not attracted,...

Seven-and-twenty years ago, and a bleak evening in March. There are gas-lamps flaring down in Ratcliff Highway, and the sound of squeaking fiddles and trampling feet in many public-houses tell of festivity provided for Jack-along-shore. The emporiums of slop-sellers are illuminated for the better display...

It tells the story of Lady Audley who is young beautiful wicked and manipulative. In spite of her revengeful schemes and criminal acts the author creates sympathy for the heroine as she is a victim of social injustice. Set in the Victorian period it keeps the reader guessing till the end with its surprising twits. It is one of the most widely read novels even today.

« Est-ce que personne n’est arrivé par la diligence ce soir ? demanda le forgeron de Compton-des-Bruyères au lourd et épais propriétaire de l’Ours noir, la première et la plus grande hôtellerie du pays. — Personne, excepté le capitaine Duke. — Comment !... le capitaine...