Cranford. Elizabeth Gaskell
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by
Fasciculus (1869). John Howard Marsden
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1869 года (издательство "London, Printed for private circulation only, at the Chiswick press").
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Rodney Stone. Arthur Conan Doyle
She spoke in a beautiful, rich voice, with the most heart-broken thrill in it, but I could not conceal from myself that she appeared to be one of the most robust persons that I had ever seen, and I was surprised to notice that she shot arch little
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Success. Lord Beaverbrook
1922. The articles embodied in this book were written during the pressure of many other affairs and without any idea that they could be published as a consistent whole. The author addresses himself to the young men of the new age. Those who have
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Psychical Phenomena and the War. Hereward Carrington
1918. This work discussed the psychology of the soldier in action, the psychology of German frightfulness and various phenomena of death which have been noted during the war. The author gives evidence of survival after death; recounts cases of
The Dark Forest. Hugh Walpole
1916. Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. The book begins: His was the first figure to catch my eye that evening in Petrograd; he stood under the
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To Leeward. F. Marion Crawford
1883. With frontispiece. F. Marion Crawford was one of the more famous authors in the English-speaking world at the time of his death in 1909. He wrote over forty novels, most of which were in the style of disposable romances popular at the time.
English Traits. Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Narrow And Desultory Reading Had Inspired The Wish To See The Faces Of Three Or Four Writers, -- Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, De Quincey, And The Latest And Strongest Contributor To The Critical Journals, Carlyle; And I Suppose If I Had Sifted
Why the Mind Has a Body. C. A. Strong
1903. Strong, the professor of Psychology in Columbia University writes in the preface that: The reader will find in this book (1) a sketch of an explanation of the connection of mind and body; (2) a proposal, based thereon, for a settlement of the
The Spiritual Interpretation of History. Shailer Mathews
1916. These lectures are a part of the William Belden Noble Lectures. Contains lectures entitled: limits within which the spiritual interpretation of history is possible; spiritual tendencies in history as a whole; substitution of moral for
A Woman Of Thirty. Honore De Balzac
Hither, at the close of the year 1820, came a woman, still young, well known in Paris for her charm, her fair face, and her wit; and to the immense astonishment of the little village a mile away, this woman of high rank and corresponding fortune