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Oliver Optic was a Massachusetts politician who spent some time as a House member in Congress, but he also wrote a number of works that remain popular among kids of all ages. Views: 158
When From "The Speaker, the Liberal Review," Vol. 2 [1900]: A NOVEL OF THE FUTURE OUR readers may recollect a recent humorous picture of the probable ultimate condition of the human species. Their brains had immensely outgrown their bodies, and they were sitting all head, like great eggs, on the edge of a pool, contemplating themselves therein and needing little other nourishment. It would be an interesting speculation whether fiction also will end in some one character serenely contemplating its own brains. A tendency in that direction is traceable in such of Miss Ellen Fowler’s novels as have achieved distinction. Any advance they show is towards uniformity of cleverness; there was less power of depicting variety of character in The Double Thread than in Concerning Isabel Carnaby. In the present novel there is a frank concentration of all Miss Fowler\'s abilities on one character. The novel with her is becoming a dramatic monologue, with this advantage over a monologue—that the authoress is able to employ herself and a chorus in describing the emotions of the protagonist. What is this one character in The Farringdons? Elizabeth Farringdon\'s Methodist education only serves to sharpen her Wit at the expense of Methodists, who, for that reason, not unnaturally perhaps, somewhat dislike her. By virtue of her wit and fluency she naturally gravitates to town society, where, in spite of a remark to the effect that artists and aristocrats are separate, she is thoroughly at home. For Elizabeth, though an artist, has not an artist’s cleverness: true artists do not so readily explain their feelings; she is at heart urban. Her comments on town society show an understanding of its psychological elements, its pluck, its lightheartedness, and that individualistic tendency which, prevented by convention from showing itself in ruder forms, finds issue in a straining after epigram and effect. She understands them because she, like Isabel Carnaby, is one of them. For the artistic qualities which Miss Fowler gives this latest heroine are unimportant and, if anything, depreciate from the interest of her character. They show her in so selfish a light that we feel she deserves all she does and does not get, and we are inclined to doubt the effectiveness of a conversion to religion which left the original character so unchanged. But this one character asserting itself through the medium of epigram hampers the authoress. Firstly, it affects her style. Epigram is nowhere excluded. Beneath the conventional ungrammaticisms of the cottage flashes the wit of Lady Silverhampton and the fine sensibility of the Slade School of Art. Sometimes it is ludicrous, as when the slighted Christopher on ins sick-bed talks in as neatly rounded periods as Tremaine in the fullness of his artistic health. Sometimes it is in positive bad taste as when, speaking of the death of Elizabeth’s aunt, it is said that "Miss Maria Farringdon went to sleep one night in a land whose stones are of iron and awoke next morning in a country whose pavements are of gold." We feel that nature is continually being looked at through town eyes with a view to effect: it may have the occasional charm of Watteau; it lacks the simple truth of Gainsborough.... Views: 158
The Mask - A Story of Love and Adventure is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Arthur Hornblow is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Arthur Hornblow then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 158
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"I, Row-Boat" is a riff on the Hugo-nominated story I, Robot, and it concerns the theological wars between an Asimov-cultist AI boat and an uplifted coral-reef.
The reef made a tremendous grinding noise. "Yaah!" it said. "Get lost. Sovereign territory!"
"All those fish," the woman said. Robbie had to stop himself from thinking of her as Janet. She was whomever was riding her now.
"Parrotfish," Robbie said. "They eat coral. I don't think they taste very good."
The woman hugged herself. "Are you sentient?" she asked.
"Yes," Robbie said. "And at your service, Asimov be blessed." His cameras spotted her eyes rolling, and that stung. He tried to keep his thoughts pious, though. The point of Asimovism wasn't to inspire gratitude in humans, it was to give purpose to the long, long life. Views: 157
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Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can't tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his beautiful wife, Joey, off a cruise liner, he really should know better. An expert swimmer, Joey makes her way to a floating bale of Jamaican pot-and then to an island inhabited by an ex-cop named Mick Stranahan, whose ex-wives include five waitresses and a TV producer. Now Joey wants to get revenge on Chaz and Mick's happy to help her.But in swampy South Florida, separating lies from truths and stupidity from brilliance isn't easy. Especially when you're after a guy like Chaz-who's bad at murder, great at fraud, and just terrible at getting caught... Views: 154
Hailed as "powerful," "accomplished," and "spellbinding," Lalita Tademy's first novel Cane River was a New York Times bestseller and the 2001 Oprah Book Club Summer Selection. Now with her evocative, luminous style and painstaking research, she takes her family's story even further, back to a little-chronicled, deliberately-forgotten time...and the struggle of three extraordinary generations of African-American men to forge brutal injustice and shattered promise into a limitless future for their children... RED RIVERFor the newly-freed black residents of Colfax, Louisiana, the beginning of Reconstruction promised them the right to vote, own property-and at last control their own lives.Tademy saw a chance to start a school for his children and neighbors. His friend Israel Smith was determined to start a community business and gain economic freedom. But in the space of a day, marauding whites would "take back" Colfax in one of the deadliest cases of racial violence in the South. In the bitter aftermath, Sam and Israel's fight to recover and build their dreams will draw on the best they and their families have to give-and the worst they couldn't have foreseen. Sam's hidden resilience will make him an unexpected leader, even as it puts his conscience and life on the line. Israel finds ironic success-and the bitterest of betrayals. And their greatest challenge will be to pass on to their sons and grandsons a proud heritage never forgotten-and the strength to meet the demands of the past and future in their own unique ways. An unforgettable achievement, a history brought to vibrant life through one of the most memorable families in fiction, RED RIVER is about fathers and sons, husbands and wives-and the hopeful, heartbreaking choices we all must make to claim the legacy that is ours. Views: 154
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Views: 151
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