The first novel of Fitzgerald’s celebrated career, This Side of Paradise tells the story of Armory Blaine, a Princeton University student from the Midwest. Armory’s experiences of love, loss, and rejection introduce him and the reader to the world of post-war adolescence—a world where love is subjugated to status-seeking and social advancement. Fitzgerald’s critical and commercial success is largely due to this groundbreaking debut novel.
Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle?s guardianship until Laura?s marriage to Sir Percival Glyde, who is a man of many secrets. Could he be connected to the strange appearances of a young woman dressed all in white? And what does his charismatic friend, Count Fosco—whose white pet mice enjoy running in and out of his waistcoat—have to do with it all? Marian and the girls? drawing master, Walter, must turn detective in order to uncover the truth and to protect Laura from a fatal plot.
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Set in London before World War I, this novel explores the truth of feelings and particularly the nature of love. It is, in that sense, a love story, but in the hands of Virginia Woolf, it transcends conventional romance to pose a series of crucial questions about women, intellectual freedom, and marriage.
Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser is a tale about a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who falls in love with her. He helps her family and wishes to marry her. Jennie subsequently agrees to sleep with him.
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Originally published in 1920.
John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in The Stones of Venice.
Rural Architecture - Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.
AS in the case of “The Bases of Design,” to which this is intended to form a companion volume, the substance of the following chapters on Line and Form originally formed a series of lectures delivered to the students of the Manchester Municipal School of Art.
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The title of the present series is a sufficient indication of its purpose. Few preachers, or congregations, will face the long courses of expository lectures which characterized the preaching of the past, but there is a growing conviction on the part of some that an occasional short course, of six or eight connected studies on one definite theme, is a necessity of their mental and ministerial life. It is at this point the projected series would strike in. It would suggest to those who are mapping out a scheme of work for the future a variety of subjects which might possibly be utilized in this way.
Excerpt from The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: The Common English Version, Corrected by the Final Committee of the American Bible Union
John Ross Macduff was a Scottish divine and a prolific author of religious essays.
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For many years these chapters had no special interest to me; but I have never ceased to be thankful that I was early led to read the Word of God in regular course: it was through this habit that these chapters first became specially precious to me. I was travelling on a missionary tour in the province of Cheh-kiang, and had to pass the night in a very wicked town. All the inns were dreadful places; and the people seemed to have their consciences seared, and their hearts sealed against the Truth. My own heart was oppressed, and could find no relief; and I awoke the next morning much cast down, and feeling spiritually hungry and thirsty indeed.
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In Expositions of Holy Scripture, Christian minister Alexander Maclaren provides a detailed examination and commentary of four of the most important holy scriptures: the epistle of Ephesians, the first and second books of Saint Peter, and the book of Saint John.
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