pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. I have been asked a great many times in the last dozen years if I would not write an East-side novel, and I have sometimes had much difficulty in convincing the publishers that I meant it when I said I would not. Yet the reason is plain: I cannot. I wish I could. There are some facts one can bring home much more easily than otherwise by wrapping them in fiction. But I never could invent even a small par...

It had been a magnificent afternoon, so wonderful that Leslie hated to break the spell. Reluctantly she unrolled herself from the Indian blanket, from which she emerged like a butterfly from a cocoon, draped it over her arm, picked up the book she had not once opened, and turned for a last, lingering look at the ocean. A lavender haze lay lightly along the horizon. Nearer inshore the blue of sea and sky was intense. A line of breakers raced shoreward, their white manes streaming back in the w...

WHICH SHALL IT BE? And now that I have them, how am I to decide? That is the question?

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. FATHERS AND SONS Dad, what does 'Mens sana in corpore sano' mean?

On Thursday, the 9th of July, 186-, Jean Bertaud and his son, well known at Orcival as living by poaching and marauding, rose at three o'clock in the morning, just at daybreak, to go fishing.

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Elinor GlynBeyond The RocksThe Damsel and the SageElizabeth Visits AmericaHalcyoneHis HourMan and MaidThe Man and the MomentThe Point of ViewThe Price of ThingsThe Reason WhyRed HairThe Reflections of AmbrosineThree ThingsThree WeeksThe Visits of Elizabeth

Each of these stories likely offers a unique narrative with compelling characters and engaging plots, typical of Sedgwick's writing style. Sedgwick was known for her keen observations of human nature and her exploration of social issues, and these themes might be reflected in the stories within this collection.As with many works published in the early 20th century, Sedgwick's stories may offer insights into the social, cultural, and psychological landscape of the time. Her writing often de...

Short stories of sophistication and psychological suspense, including an O. Henry Award winner.In the wake of the First World War, a young woman watches the sky for a pilot who didn't come home. A wealthy bachelor becomes increasingly obsessed with a beautiful stranger at a Manhattan restaurant. A nervous wife awaits a fateful phone call on a stormy November night.These stories and five more showcase the literary skill of Frances Noyes Hart, author of T...

Booth Tarkington was born on July 29, 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. When you look through the quality of his work it is easy to understand why. The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, Penrod, Penrod And Sam all classics. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish sense of American humor. At one time, his Penrod series was as well known andregarded ...

The Guest of Quesnay is a novel by Booth Tarkington about a landscape painter and his fellow-lodgers staying at Les Trois Pigeons in Quesnay, France and their secret idenitites and convuloted search for love. According to Wikipedia, "Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.... Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of ...

FLAXIE FRIZZLE'S PARTY. O Auntie Prim, may I have a party? I'll give you a thou-sand kisses if you'll lemme have a party!

At nine o'clock one morning Bobby Orde, following an agreement with his father, walked sedately to the Proper Place, where he kept his cap and coat and other belongings. The Proper Place was a small, dark closet under the angle of the stairs. He called it the Proper Place just as he called his friend Clifford Fuller, or the saw-mill town in which he lived Monrovia – because he had always heard it called so.