Features a depiction of a pilgrimage to Lourdes. This book offers commentary on suffering and the belief in miracles as the last desperate refuge from pain. It contains various characters and describes the physical effects of their illnesses, their hopes, beliefs, fears, and above all endurance.
Consists of three tales focusing on country parsons in nineteenth-century England including: 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', 'Mr Gilfil's Love-Story', and 'Janet's Repentance'. In 'Mr Gilfil's Love-Story' a web of unrequited love entangles a young parson in a moral dilemma that contrasts all-too-human passion with idealistic love.
Forever Island is the story of Charlie Jumper, an old Seminole Indian who clings to the ancient ways and teaches them to his grandson. When their simple swamp existence is threatened by development, Charlie decides to fight back.
Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk may not be well-known authors today, but these women were publishing sensations in nineteenth-century America. Their lurid tales of life in two North American convents, one in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and the other in Montreal, Canada, sold more than one-half million copies. Reed escaped from the Ursuline convent in ......
San Quentin is a prison inmate Darrell Standing, a former university professor who is serving a life sentence for murdering a colleague. To escape the tortures of his confinement, he withdraws into dreams of past lives in which he experiences what he calls his "eternal recurrence on earth."
Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World: An Inkle and Yarico Reader
On March 13, 1711, an article appeared in The Spectator about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violent death by Yarico, a beautiful Indian maiden. When he and Yarico become lovers, Inkle promises to clothe her in silks and transport her in carriages when he returns with her to ......
''Beaumont's chef-d'oeuvre was, and has remained, illuminating . . . It follows that to readers of the present work the book of 1835 will seem strangely and wonderfully familiar . . . Marie will be a book of echoes.''--George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville in America Gustave de Beaumont's 1835 work, Marie, or Slavery in the United States is ......
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.
