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Turnbull, Ann: No Shame, No Fear
Book Number: 39188
Walker 2003 8vo. Softcover. 297pp. Very good. no marks. A young Quaker girl and the son of a wealthy merchant face intolerance and persecution in this gripping historical novel that evokes the passion and idealism of young love. Don't cry. We won't be parted. I promise. It is 1662, and England is reeling from the aftereffects of civil war, with its clashes of faith and culture. Susanna, a young Quaker girl, leaves her family to become a servant in town. Seventeen-year-old Will returns home after completing his studies to begin an apprenticeship arranged by his wealthy father. Susanna and Will meet and fall in love, but can their bond survive. no matter what? Theirs is a story that speaks across the centuries, telling of love and the fight to stay true to what is most important, in spite of parents, society, and even the law.
Keywords: novel in 1600's
Price: $15.00 |
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Brooks, Geraldine: Year of Wonders: a novel of the Plague
Book Number: 40426
Fourth Estate 2001 8vo softcover 321pp. very good. Includes Reader's Guide. A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elected to quarantine themselves to limit the contagion.
In 1666, plague scorched London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, to escape contagion. The north of England remained untouched until, in a small community of lead miners and hill farmers, a bolt of cloth arrived from the capital. The tailor who cut the cloth had no way of knowing that the damp fabric carried with it bubonic infection.
So begins the Year of Wonders, in which a Pennine village of 350 souls confronts a scourge beyond remedy or understanding. Desperate, the villagers turn to sorcery, herb lore, and murderous witch-hunting. Then, led by a young and charismatic preacher, they elect to isolate themselves in a fatal quarantine. The story is told through the eyes of Anna Frith who, at only 18, must contend with the death of her family, the disintegration of her society, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit attraction.
Keywords: Year of Wonders a novel of the Plague Brooks Geraldine
Price: $7.50 |
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Cox, J. Randolph (Compiler): Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels
Book Number: 40886
Penguin Classics June 26, 2007 8vo softcover 384pp very good. Uncorrected proof. A one-of-a-kind compendium of popular fiction from a bygone era. Dime novels —as fundamentally American as baseball and jazz—were an inexpensive and inexhaustible source of popular entertainment for millions of Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The five novels in this unique anthology are classic examples of the form, which encompassed Westerns, early science fiction, detective and mystery yarns, and Revolutionary War historicals. From the handsome gambler “Dashing Diamond Dick” and the daring inventor in “Over the Andes with Frank Reade, Jr., in His New Air-Ship” to the mythic baseball player in “Frank Merriwell’s Finish,” here are some of the most valiant heroes and notorious rogues in the pantheon. Read together, these novels are fascinating time capsules from a young nation in love with its larger-than-life characters.
Keywords: adventure stories Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels Cox J Randolph (Compiler)
Price: $12.00 |
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Freeman, Gillian: His Mistress's Voice
Book Number: 41207
Arcadia Books January 1, 1999 8vo softcover 276pp very good. In her tenth novel, Freeman vividly recreates the Victorian theatre world and counterpoises this life of frivolity and artifice with the position of Jews-both rich and poor-in the wider society. About the Author Gillian Freeman is a novelist and film script writer whose books include The Leather Boys and Confessions of Elizabeth von S.
Keywords: His Mistress's Voice Freeman Gillian
Price: $15.00 |
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Sandys, Elspeth: Riding to Jerusalem
Book Number: 41298
Hodder Moa Beckett 1996 8vo softcover 296pp very good. po inscription on half-title.
Keywords: Riding to Jerusalem Sandys Elspeth
Price: $18.00 |
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Hickey, Elizabeth: The painted kiss
Book Number: 41394
Sydney Hodder Headline Australia 2005 8vo softcover 270pp very good. In the tradition of bestsellers such as Girl with a Pearl Earring and Girl in Hyacinth Blue, this is an atmospheric and sensual fiction debut about the lifelong affair between Austrian artist Gustav Klimt and his muse, the couturier Emilie Flšge. Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafés, grand opera houses and a thriving and adventurous artistic community. It was there that twelve-year-old Emilie Flšge met the controversial libertine and painter Gustav Klimt. Hired by her father, a Viennese businessman, to give her some art lessons, Klimt provided Emilie with an education that Mr Flšge would never have dreamed of when he introduced her to the world of struggling artists, models and rich patrons.
The Painted Kiss follows the developing relationship between the moody, brilliant Klimt and Emilie, who blossoms from a naïve young girl to a sanguine woman, becoming an acclaimed fashion designer and mistress to one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating artists. The Painted Kiss is a passionate love story that is as sensual and compelling as a work by Klimt himself.
Keywords: The painted kiss Hickey Elizabeth
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Jackson, Mick: The Undeground Man
Book Number: 41607
MacMillan July 1998 8vo softcover 268pp very good. remainder mark on page bottoms. The novel takes the form of journal entries interspersed with eyewitness accounts from servants and neighbors. The "Underground Man" portrayed in the novel, William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, the Duke of Portland and a resident of Nottinghamshire, England, is mightily eccentric; the man was real (1800-1879), as was his eccentricity. Historical fact: the Duke commissioned eight tunnels on his estate. Present-day fact: if you walk the estate today, you see the skylights--2' in diameter and 4" thick. But why did he build them? In the last few days of the Duke's life, eccentricity burgeons; madness follows. The reader learns that his odd view of the world was shaped by early tragedy, the full truth of which is withheld until the last few pages. The Underground Man is that most delectable blend of fact and fiction, one in which the intriguing details of a real life are richly explored through imagination. Through a fictional journal, Jackson constructs a portrait of William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, fifth Duke of Portland (d. 1879), a prodigious eccentric best known for the elaborate network of tunnels he built beneath his estate. The duke is portrayed as a repressed hypochondriac, an old man morbidly curious about the workings of his body and mind. During the months encompassed by the novel, he grows increasingly obsessed with the fleeting bits of memory that intrude upon his ruminations and hint at some horrific, long-buried secret. A prime example of the psychological bent of the contemporary British neo-Gothic novel, this first novel from a British filmmaker and teacher of creative writing explores the darker fringes of consciousness. A subdued, though peculiarly compelling, tale.
Keywords: Undeground Man the Jackson Mick
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Tannahill, Reay: The Seventh Son - A unique portait of England's king, Richard III
Book Number: 43047
Headline Book Publishing October 4, 2001 8vo softcover 480pp very good. A unique portrait about England's most enigmatic king, RIchard III. An enthralling novel of a family saga and a mystery that has exercised people's minds for more than 500 years. For centuries, Richard has been held guilty of murdering the Princes in the Tower. The author offers a less conventional solution.
Keywords: historical dimensions and perspectives richard iii war and peace women writers The Seventh Son Tannahill Reay
Price: $14.00 |
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Thoene, Bodie: A Thousand Shall Fall - Sequel to In My Father's House - The Shiloh Legacy
Book Number: 43132
Bethany House Publishers October 1992 8vo softcover 432pp very good. PO stamp on ffl. Life in America in the Twenties.
Keywords: bodie thoene bodie and brock thoene zion chronicles christian fiction zion covenant irish romance historical fiction try christian author bodie A Thousand Shall Fall Thoene Bodie
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Rebolledo, Francisco: Rasero
Book Number: 43495
Phoenix mass market p/bk 1996 8vo softcover 570pp very good. Remainder mark at page bottoms. Winner of the Mobil Pegasus Prize for Literature. At the court of Louis XV in Versailles, Don Fausto de Rasero y Oquendo is a privileged participant and withness to one of the most intellectually thrilling, sensually all-consuming periods of European life. Through his eyes we glimpse the revolutionary ferment of eighteenth-century France, the gossip of Madame de Pompadour and the first performance at court of the infant Mozart. Astonishingly rich, teeming, evocative and playful, Rasero is a dazzling recreation of mesmeric individual in an epoch-making era.
Keywords: Rasero Rebolledo Francisco
Price: $12.00 |
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