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

In Anne Douglas Sedgwick's 'ÄòThe Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and the Masterpiece,'Äô readers are invited into a delicate tapestry of human emotions and existential reflections. Sedgwick employs a rich literary style characterized by nuanced characterization and intricate symbolism, weaving together a series of evocative narratives that explore themes of isolation, societal expectations, and the quest for authenticity. The interrelation of her stories...

Contact, and Other Stories by Frances Noyes Hart is a collection of short stories that showcases Hart's talent for crafting engaging and often suspenseful narratives. Known for her contributions to the mystery and detective fiction genres, Hart's stories in this collection likely explore themes of intrigue, human nature, and psychological tension.The titular story, "Contact," sets the tone for the collection with its exploration of communication, connections, and perhaps supernatural or my...

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.