A Husband by Proxy by Jack Steele

A Collector's Edition of 47 Storybooks About Inheritance gathers tales in which property, lineage, kinship, and heredity shape private desire and public consequence. Moving among domestic realism, sensation fiction, romance, adventure, juvenile narrative, comedy, and speculative or didactic prose, the volume places contested wills, family secrets, social rank, and biological inheritance in revealing dialogue. Its breadth makes inheritance not merely a plot device but a cultural question. T...

The Family Saga gathers six classic treatments of domestic life, tracing the household as a site of affection, inheritance, conflict, obligation, and social change. Its range encompasses sentimental domestic fiction, historical narrative, regional and frontier-inflected storytelling, and psychologically attentive accounts of kinship. Across these varied modes, family emerges not as a static refuge but as a structure shaped by class, gender, migration, moral conviction, and generational mem...

In "A Husband by Proxy," Jack Steele expertly intertwines the themes of love, duty, and personal sacrifice within a rich tapestry of modern romance. Set against the backdrop of a fast-paced corporate world, the narrative follows protagonist Claire Hartley, who navigates the complexities of an arranged marriage that is both unorthodox and profoundly intimate. Steele's prose is characterized by sharp dialogue and evocative imagery, deftly capturing the psychological landscapes of his charact...

Poor Pig is the story of a portly pig who needed some help from his friends on the farm. I suppose you have read about portly little pigs. Well, this is a story about a portly little pig who laid down for a nap but could not get up because he had eaten so much. This is a true story because pigs sometimes do this.This book is published in loving memory of the author and illustrator, Jack Steele.

EXCERPT"I intend that this autobiography shall become a model for all future autobiographies when it is published, after my death, and I also intend that it shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method—a form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel. Moreover, this autobiography of mine does no...

MURDER MYSTERY COLLECTION - 40+ Thriller Novels & Detective Stories gathers Melville Davisson Post's distinctive contributions to early twentieth-century crime fiction, ranging from intricate legal puzzles to morally charged tales of detection. Best known for the Uncle Abner stories, Post writes with a grave, almost biblical cadence, combining frontier atmosphere, courtroom logic, and metaphysical inquiry. His mysteries stand at a fascinating crossroads between the classical detective tale...

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, ...

For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain’s short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” to the richly imaginative fable “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s V...

In his autobiography Mark Twain tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence—ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: "Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true."More than the story of a literary career, this memoir is anchored in the writer’s relation to his family—what they meant to him as a husband, father, and artist. It also brims with many of Twain’s best comic anecdotes about his rambunctious boyhood in ...

For romance readers who are looking for stories that are a little tamer than the racy tomes that tend to dominate bookshelves today, Grace Livingston Hill's body of work is a welcome respite. In Dawn of the Morning, plucky heroine Dawn Rensselaer finds herself stuck in an arranged engagement that will relegate her to a life of misery. Will she ever be able to break free and find true love?

This file includes: an Old town by the Sea, Ponkapog Papers, The Queen of Sheba and My Cousin the Colonel, The Stillwater Tragedy, and The Story of a Bad Boy. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American poet, novelist, traveler and editor, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire... In 1865 he moved to Boston and was editor for ten years for Ticknor and Fields—then at the height of their prestige—of the eclectic weekly Every Saturday, discon...