While sexual writing today is popular, it pales in comparison to the steamy and graphic, yet romantically inviting works authored during the 19th century. EROTIC TALES includes selections by such renowned authors as Emile Zola, Sir Richard Burton, Bram Stoker, Frank Harris, Charles Devereaux, and of course the inimitable Anonymous. A volume filled ......
Describes an imaginary visit to a topsy-turvy country called Erewhon, where it is a punishable offence to be physically ill, but where criminality and immorality are looked kindly upon as treatable diseases. The English church is pilloried in the system of "Musical Banks," whose currency nobody believes in but everyone pretends to value.
Theodore Wieland hears mysterious voices. Are these the result of delusions, ventriloquism, or divine forces? In this Gothic thriller, the novelist portrays a man beset by religious guilt which erupts into mania, making him an extreme danger to others.
In this novel set in antebellum America, the Garies--a white southerner, his mulatto slave-turned-wife, and their two children--have moved to Philadelphia from Georgia. ""`And how do you like your house?' asked Mrs. Stevens; `it is on the same plan as ours, and we find ours very convenient. They both formerly belonged to Walters . . . Do you ......
Esther, a young New York socialite and artist raised without religion, falls in love with Episcopal clergyman Stephen Hazard, but she cannot embrace his Christianity and remain true to herself.
Features stories focusing on the development and existence of the male, the trials and tribulations of adolescence, maturity, and old age. This book takes complicated emotional experiences and presents them clarity allowing readers to vicariously share the experience.
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) was the first American woman to deal with women's roles as wives and mothers. This book, her most famous novel, concerns a woman dissatisfied with her indifferent husband. It is an indictment of the religious and social pressures brought to bear on women who transgress restrictive Victorian codes of behaviour.
Concerns the governess of two small children who thinks that her charges are being haunted by ghosts. This book illustrates the author's theory of the horror story: to suggest rather than state horror.
The Salem witch trials, a shameful episode in early New England history, provided a salient theme for several nineteenth-century American writers, including John Greenleaf Whittier and John William De Forest. This book deals with the hysteria and scape-goating that surrounded the trials.
